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mtmail

10,880 karma · joined October 29, 2013

worked for the largest internet company once, also FAANG, then startup, then freelance, now my bootstrapped SaaS
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mtmail··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005798 "I have an M3 ultra mac studio with 512 GB of memory. I want to sell it, [...] Given the high cost of the Mac studio ($20,000 or more)"
mtmail··on 'I'm not a programmer' anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now
Those looking for the two tools:

"Git and email are the two really only tools I use"

"I'm not a programmer, I'm a development lead"

mtmail··on StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
I use GoMap https://apps.apple.com/us/app/go-map/id592990211
mtmail··on Looking for part time jobs,2 yrs of experience as data analyst
Add yourself to the 'who wants to be hired' thread on https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring There's already 500 comments but that's the way to get any attention. Users don't upvote individual posts.
mtmail··on CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
CoMaps an end-user app, not an SDK.
mtmail··on Ask HN: What browser extensions or front ends do you use for reading HN, if any?
Hacker News Night Mode https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-n...

I used to run a user script to hide karma numbers. [update: thanks Bender, since I run uBlock Origin I added a filter for karma again just now]

mtmail··on Show HN: Product Hunters liked my idea - an AI journal with memory
If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers. (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) I can't find the domain on producthunt.com
mtmail··on Poll: Is there an AI bubble?
The FAQ explains how to create them. They rarely get enough traction (upvotes). I see 5 users gave an answer plus 3 comments but nobody upvoted the poll itself yet.
mtmail··on SponsorBlock Critical Security Vulnerabilities
Booo for not waiting for the developer's response. It hasn't even been 24 hours. It's not even July/4th in Europe yet.

> We have no malicious intentions. Our only goal was to identify these security issues and inform the developer so they can be fixed.

> conducted this research in good faith.

Posting it online the same day, then posting on HN to promote it isn't good faith.

   - Any user’s private profile could be retrieved, including:
     • Chosen Username
     • Total Segment Count
     • Minutes Saved for the community
     • View Count (how many times their segments helped others)
     • Reputation Score
     • VIP Status
     • Privacy Preferences
Anonymous user names and some counts.
mtmail··on The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies
VEB = Public Owner Enterprise of former East Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkseigener_Betrieb
mtmail··on Ask HN: Who here has gotten a job offer from 'Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?'
related from 2023 "Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36160198
mtmail··on Check out the new US passport
The author is a macro economy writer with a 10 years old Twitter account. Most of the article is a quote, then his personal opinion. https://mishtalk.com/about/ I'm all for calling out automated content written by AI/LLM but this one doesn't seem to be.
mtmail··on Ask HN: Which free video downloader do you trust in 2026?
I'd be easier to trust the question more if OP didn't also create a free video downloader. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531829)
mtmail··on What's your Opinion onm he recent updates on Fable 5?
2000 comments (opinions) each on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511072 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463808
mtmail··on Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B
My last customer service call was fast (connection time) and friendly. The person wasn't sure so she said "let me ask my colleague $female-first-name" and I heard her typing. "Is $female-first-name an AI chat bot?" Yes, it was, and then she read out a whole answer, an excerpt that's already on the website. In this case the person added little extra value and I guess will be replaced soon.
mtmail··on Ask HN: How do you handle browser tab overload?
OP recently posted "I built a software to reduce tab overload"
mtmail··on Show HN: How to prevent spam and disposable signups
> 50M+ Emails verified > 10K+ Developers using us

Red flag of fake numbers and immediately close the browser tab.

mtmail··on It's set up, not setup: Scraping GitHub for grammar errors
Next up: Referer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#Etymology
mtmail··on What do you NOT like about Cursor / VSCode / Claude Code desktop / Codex / etc.?
It already has too many features and the author keeps adding more. Timers, notifications, additional notifications to tell me about new features he added. It (the sandboxes in soloterm) don't work well with my virtual machines, I'm sure it's my setup, in general sandboxes are good approach. All seems geared towards coding 24/7 and multiple agents on the same code base. Meanwhile even if code in parallel it's usually separate projects, separate languages. I can imagine you don't want to hear "less features" and look for more features to add instead.
mtmail··on What do you NOT like about Cursor / VSCode / Claude Code desktop / Codex / etc.?
One step back might be to figure out of the target use has dozens worktrees. I never used worktrees for example
mtmail··on What do you NOT like about Cursor / VSCode / Claude Code desktop / Codex / etc.?
soloterm.com is based on Tauri and uses less memory. It might not be your bottleneck but memory usage adds up with many projects and virtual machine. Not everybody wants to run their virtual machines in the cloud.
mtmail··on 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping
Usual estimate is 10TB of compressed text-only. So 24x LoC would fit on the drive.
mtmail··on The $5 Drone Killer
How is the $5 calculated? It's in the title but not article text or the press release it's based on.
mtmail··on Archive.today used vistor's browsers to DDoS, and modified archive contents
related

"Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006

"Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805

"Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?" "I noticed this, like, 3 days ago) started automatically making requests to someone's personal blog on their CAPTCHA page" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740

mtmail··on Ask HN: Why am I unable to post Show HN?
It's been restricted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300329 Too many people create an account to post a 'Show HN', then never come back, often don't even reply to comments/feedback. LLM/AI use has made it worse. The community struggles with 20 Show HN submissions per hour.

> isn't able to submit this site

I haven't seen this error message before. It looks like "this site" was submitted before?

mtmail··on Freelancers Not Delivering
Not sure why it would need to be AI-powered. Escrow services already exist.
mtmail··on HappyHorse AI – AI-Powered Equestrian Training
Looks like fake testimonials (https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/women/1.jpg) and thus lost trust in the rest of the page, too.
mtmail··on Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
You followed the correct reporting instructions.

https://www.fiverr.com/.well-known/security.txt only has "Contact: security@fiverr.com" and in their help pages they say "Fiverr operates a Bug Bounty program in collaboration with BugCrowd. If you discover a vulnerability, please reach out to security@fiverr.com to receive information about how to participate in our program."

mtmail··on What About Website Form Outreach
We're on the receiving end of contact form spam (I think that's the correct term) from similar tools. They already exist and we hate every one of them.
mtmail··on Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
Fineprint says it's Stripe. My (european) credit card worked fine.
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