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mv4 commented on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' finalroundai.com/blog/aws... · Posted by u/birdculture

rsanek · 8 hours ago

"without losing face"? What culture are you referring to? The Western companies I have worked at do not discourage such questions -- in fact, it's often the sign of someone very senior when they ask a seemingly 'dumb' question that others have taken for granted.

mv4 · 4 hours ago

I found this varies.

Meta? Ask questions anytime.

Amazon? Not so much.

mv4 commented on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA alpranalysis.com... · Posted by u/sodality2

joecool1029 · 7 days ago

The county lists are wrong, at least they are for my state of New Jersey. We have 21 counties, not 27. Is it picking up the bordering counties that might have overlapping contracts or something?

mv4 · 7 days ago

yeah we have 8 counties in CT, not 14. The names are also wrong.

mv4 commented on Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it nytimes.com/2025/12/08/he... · Posted by u/brandonb

mv4 · 9 days ago

https://archive.ph/NIptp

mv4 commented on Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products windowscentral.com/artifi... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari

mv4 · 9 days ago

What fascinates me is how someone at MSFT managed to get their own button (the Copilot) button approved. Having your own button or tab is a big deal (I remember we debated having our own shopping tab on the Instagram app while I was at Meta - and we had to abandon it when it didn't get the traction we were hoping for).

These people have a UI button AND a hardware button on actual consumer devices, and it doesn't do anything. How?

mv4 commented on Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s... · Posted by u/vxvxvx

maddmann · a month ago

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mv4 · a month ago

I used to work at RL so I instantly knew what he was referring to.

mv4 commented on IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability' leetarxiv.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/busymom0

mv4 · a month ago

I remember reading that IBM holds a staggering number of patents - over 150,000 in the US alone.

mv4 commented on We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner prosopo.io/blog/we-cut-ou... · Posted by u/arbol

csunoser · a month ago

Even after reading the source, it doesn’t seem like they were hacked? Or if they were, they were not accused of such.

I do think hand rolling your own thing is fraught. But it is very confusing to equate one mother’s complaint to “they have been hacked”.

PS: The people who made their own s3 rans a baby monitor company. News article is about a mother reporting hearing a weird voice from the baby monitour.

mv4 · a month ago

Multiple reports on reddit suggest people making this baby cam do not understand security.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewParents/comments/1ocgmoi/nanit_c...https://www.reddit.com/r/Nanit/comments/1ffc051/nanit_hacked...https://www.reddit.com/r/Nanit/comments/1dyaph6/heard_a_voic...

mv4 commented on We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner prosopo.io/blog/we-cut-ou... · Posted by u/arbol

mv4 · a month ago

"I cut my healthcare costs by 90% by canceling insurance and doctor visits."

In all seriousness, this is a recurring pattern on HN and it sends the wrong message. It's almost as bad as vibecoding a paid service and losing private customer data.

There was a thread here awhile ago, 'How We Saved $500,000 Per Year by Rolling Our Own “S3' [1]. Then they promptly got hacked. [2]

[1] https://engineering.nanit.com/how-we-saved-500-000-per-year-...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-mom-stranger-...

mv4 commented on Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams sherwood.news/tech/meta-p... · Posted by u/donohoe

mv4 · a month ago

As a former Meta employee (also dealt with Shopping and Ads), I am quite shocked at the percentage of "commerce" scams in my Instagram feed now. Easily 9 out of 10 promoted "buy" posts use AI videos of non-existent products leading to scammy sites. Any current employees willing to chime in?

mv4 commented on The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful arnon.dk/the-trust-collap... · Posted by u/arnon

bgwalter · a month ago

It is becoming unbearable. YouTube now has "AI" slop ads for Freenow (Lyft brand in the EU) with fake cars that move without the wheels turning and "AI" "actors" that look like plastic.

This of course means that Freenow is now on the personal blacklist. People should not engage with companies who advertise with "AI" slop.

mv4 · a month ago

I was just looking at Instagram's promoted shopping ads, and 9 out of 10 are AI slop, pretending to be actual physical products. It is quite shocking.

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