mclightning
Re:Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:57PM (#48439501)
It is a lot more complicated than that. Your content is not simply used, copied, or even just simply distributed. The very terrain that you produce, distribute, represent your content has shifted due to the mechanics of it. Anything you produce is grabbed into AI summaries. They're grabbed into the training data. Humans produce free/open materials for many reasons. A lot of them don't have room to breathe and gain structure due to AI siphoning the entire atmosphere of web; eg communities
Re:Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Ap...
on Sunday April 12, 2026 @05:46PM (#47744897)
Another reason to buy a Chinese android phone.
Re:PGLite Evangelism
on Saturday April 11, 2026 @07:34AM (#47729688)
This is why I built https://db4.app. You can quickly grab a standard postgres path that you can use from anywhere with it. Your data/queries are encrypted end-to-end.
I also built a MacOS-app if you want to locally host the relay yourself.
Happy to answer any questions.
Re:App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:21AM (#47701689)
That is not a real account.
Re:Thank HN: You helped save 33,241 lives
on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:50PM (#47055595)
I made the biggest donations in my life via Watsi. Thank you for building this site. I love you guys have an API as well. I thought of building an app on top of your API but never got round to complete it. If you are curious, I can share; I think there may be an opportunity to capture value in free giveaways and turn it into charity. Many people try to give away their things quickly on fb marketplace or letgo, ...what if they could ask for a donation to a charity? I know there are challenges like, what if they want to return. But there has to be a way to solve this with an escrow service or something. A similar model already works in used, 2nd stores that work for charities.
Re:'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in provocative spee...
on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @06:15AM (#46704001)
Demographics and political complexity of Cyprus is not compareable to Greenland
Re:Palantir Could Be the Most Overvalued Company That Ever Existed
on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @02:55PM (#46209772)
based on what their CEO is saying...he repeats like a broken record; "we do what other companies won't because of ethics and morals"
Re:Palantir Could Be the Most Overvalued Company That Ever Existed
on Monday December 08, 2025 @06:43AM (#46191172)
Magic sauce is absolute lack of moral values.
Re:Like Vercel, but open source and for all language
on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @08:12AM (#45502164)
Vercel has been outdated for sometime and it is refreshing to see alternatives coming up. This one seems like superior to Vercel already, definitely worth the switch.
It is very underwhelming. It seems like a step backward. Scam altman should be replaced before he runs the company to bankruptcy.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg: This Man Is a Coward
on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:45PM (#42835554)
I came here to write this will get flagged, and I was already too late. We need a new "HackerNews"
Re:Mark Zuckerberg: This Man Is a Coward
on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:45PM (#42835549)
Oh I was too late to predict this would be flagged. We need a new "HackerNews" soon.
Re:Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
on Saturday November 16, 2024 @06:03PM (#42160273)
how do I join? :D are you guys hiring at cloudflare per chance?
Re:Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200
on Friday November 15, 2024 @10:07AM (#42147564)
built something like this around 10 years ago, went viral for a while, it didn't last long.
Re:Sam Altman: Long con was "child's play for me"
on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:46PM (#41663820)
definition is not the dangerous part, nor surpassing any predefined definition.
California Governor Vetoes Requiring Global Privacy Opt-Out in Browsers and OS
Re:Nvidia's Blackwell Reworked – Shipment Delays and GB200A Reworked P...
on Monday August 05, 2024 @07:53AM (#41160388)
not great news in light of USTech100 & SP500 downturn
Re:Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
on Monday July 01, 2024 @01:07PM (#40847820)
you follow HN, and some guy posts a video editing js library, another guy builds an app taking that library further, you get inspired and build something even bigger.
Re:Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up fa...
on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @05:15PM (#40732456)
everything is literal in programming communities, lmao.
Re:Low Cost Robot Arm
on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:26PM (#39911522)
this is why servo-powered robotic arms are not interesting to me at all. I want one with brushless motors and harmonic or planetary drive gearbox. unfortunately you cant build those under $750 as far as I have seen so far. that's putting aside the added complexity. but I will definitely build one some day. there are quite few opensource projects with that setup.
I believe it offers higher torque, better precision and ability to just stick to a position with relatively low/or no power due to gearing-side resistance.
Re:Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
on Thursday March 28, 2024 @02:42PM (#39855749)
I am sure folks at /r/selfhosted would love it.
Re:Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @10:55PM (#39847272)
can this be self-hosted?
Re:Rabbit R1, Designed by Teenage Engineering
on Friday January 12, 2024 @06:52AM (#38967033)
This comment hit the nail in the head. Content marketing at its best.
Re:StreamDiffusion: A pipeline-level solution for real-time interactiv...
on Sunday December 24, 2023 @05:51AM (#38752619)
as a frontend developer, you understood how folks complain about the changing frontend landscape, through....changes in ML, a completely different landscape to that of your own?
Are you an LLM?
Re:Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth
on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:05PM (#38676943)
nice to see the maker culture is alive and well. I need to get back to building some hardware projects in spare time.
Re:Mozilla "MemoryCache" Local AI
on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @06:07PM (#38620060)
you will be shocked when you try Rewind then...
Re:The pro-Israel information war
on Saturday December 09, 2023 @05:25AM (#38580554)
What a load of BS.
Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users
on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @07:57AM (#38530131)
dumpster fire for who?
Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users
on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @07:52AM (#38530083)
imagine the next hitler... as an immigrant with his data on 23andme, I am pretty scared. I am sure 1 out of the 10 ethnicities that I am affiliated with, will be eventually hated by some group.