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10,879 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 Ask HN: MS Outlook login without an extra email address
Here's an example where somebody can no longer login because they haven't set a secondary email address. I'd set a secondary email address just to be safe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037004
mtmail··on I am so tired of startups doing worse than me
The Show HN didn't go well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712720 I'm also unable to open the website (timeout).
mtmail··on Ask HN: How to measure the energy impact of a website in Linux
In Firefox type "about:processes" into the address bar and it will show the CPU and memory usage of each tab. Does ChatGPT constantly consume CPU?
mtmail··on [dead]
It did but the comment was automatically flagged (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49788135)
mtmail··on AI Poster Prompts Improved
I'd argue nobody in Great Britain would have a Mexican Calavera themed event at a cricket field, never mind the clearly USA-style building in the image.
mtmail··on Should I Do This?

   cat files.txt
   YOUR MOM

   cat PROOFOFHAPPEN.txt
   True
Set this to False and the world's internet will be safe.
mtmail··on Punish me hard. Show HN: credit against tokenised stocks for your agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638 has some tips how to write a Show HN post.
mtmail··on Ask HN: How do HN domain filters work?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning is common across social media platforms. HN has some automatic and some manual flagging. I reported some, both false positives and negatives. The "normal way to recover" is established users clicking the "vouch" button on flagged posts. I think the threshold is 500 karma, can't remember. I'm happy for every 'vouch'worthy item I discover. With 50 submissions per hour there's not enough users on the /new page to review everything and tastes are different.
mtmail··on DSCI goes pre beta testing – need early feedback
clickable link: https://dsci.sparrowhub.io/
mtmail··on How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
Bing Maps allows the OpenStreetMap community to trace from aerial_imagery https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing_Maps#Aerial_imagery Google doesn't. How much a tool helps somebody to draw the actual roads varies by editor software used, some have plugins. Using AI in bulk isn't allowed afaik.
mtmail··on Research on Outbound B2B Prospecting with AI
I gave up. Page 4 alone asks for 33 selections.
mtmail··on [dead]
Add this as comment to the https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522896)
mtmail··on One Thing Worth Thinging
related "Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444272
mtmail··on Why the AfD Wins
The guesses are overwhelmingly wrong.
mtmail··on Is Chasing Stripe Invoices a real issue?
All the time. But by then the customer already ignored at least 3 reminders from Stripe's automated system and ending more email rarely has an effect, automating it would just replace one automation with another.
mtmail··on Ask HN: Does HN block mobile browsers?
I'd say it's an IP or subnet block, unrelated to the type of browser. Maybe automatic block of crawler (too many page requests in short time). If you know your IP address (e.g. https://ipinfo.io/ip) email the moderators. hn@ycombinator.com
mtmail··on Ask HN: How do you get banned from HN?
I emailed the moderators now. They probably didn't see your "I no longer want to be on orange reddit. Permaban me." post yesterday. Usually they're responsive, might take a couple of days.
mtmail··on Is there room for an AI-powered webmail service built on a single-letter domain?
"AI powered" isn't explained. The homepage doesn't tell me what's special about the service. If the service was AI-built then that's a negative argument.

"W combines a highly optimized interface with built-in AI capabilities like Spam Scanning, Smart Reply and Text Summaries." - add that to the homepage. It's entirely unclear to the reader.

Personally I wouldn't need any of the features, the big players already have them.

Website is hard to read. The font size, the colors. What's the fascination with dark gray text on black background?

Short domain name is only as helpful as I don't need to spell it out over the phone. hey-dot-com vs double-u-dot-ex-why-zed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xyz "It was estimated in 2022 that 6.62% of extant domains in the .xyz TLD were malicious. Due to these instances of malware, scams and phishing, multiple anti-malware vendors have blacklisted many or all .xyz domains."

Using Mailgun is too risky. You're responsible for your user actions and they can suspend the service when they see over 0.08% spam reports. One user doing a spam campaign can risk the whole project.

mtmail··on Ask HN: I created a web browser using Claude, everybody hates it
That's an exaggeration. 2 minute search and I found positive feedback but I didn't see nobody calling with AI slop. e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188235
mtmail··on Namecheap outage caused by cooling system failure at Phoenix data center
The status page isn't sorted well. The message is at https://www.namecheap.com/status-updates/namecheap-com-and-h...
mtmail··on Indie projects exploded after GPT/Claude Code, but traction stayed flat
For years I visited the Show HN daily, often gave the first upvote in /new. The number of submissions, especially vibe coded ones, was wearing me down. 35 submissions in the last hour (https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew). Some ideas are really bad and I don't want to get into the habit of only giving negative feedback on ideas, even if justified (example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286876)
mtmail··on We tracked 800 European design engineer job ads. The role has no agreed title
The article is written by somebody named "Rocío Galiano" and "rogaliano" asks the question? Please don't use friends or second accounts to fake engagement.
mtmail··on Ask HN: Reading and watching suggestions for future scenarios for AI?
I meant to rewatch Her (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709 because it shows an office worker who does work at a computer but the computer is all AI (with voice). It organizes his files, gives suggestions, kind of also does his work. Then he falls in love. We're close to having these capabilities. Good/interesting ending.
mtmail··on Ask HN: Show your micro-SaaS / MRR updates (August 2026)
Asking people to share their project with revenue numbers rarely gets replies. Risk is too high the project gets copied.
mtmail··on Stripe more than tripled the price of Stripe Radar
The announcement https://support.stripe.com/questions/updates-to-radar-for-lp...
mtmail··on Alternative ways to say you are unemployed (from a laid-off Quizlet worker)
video as text

- between opportunities

- you are in your growth phase

- in hibernation

mtmail··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
Is that calculated locally or send to the cloud? I got fed up how many Garmin features required an account.
mtmail··on Ask HN: What livestream do you keep open in a tab?
Namibia water hole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8
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"

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