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akoculu··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
yes?
akoculu··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
at least you managed to sign up to MS. Many people can't even get that done in MS websites.
akoculu··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
Just last week, I was trying to sign up to Microsoft.com and got stuck in the captcha step. They have famously dysfunctional captcha system, people can't sign up to Microsoft and complain a lot about it online, and yet, it's not fixed.

Microsoft always built dysfunctional software. They were never good at this. Hotmail was an unusable product, it was so painful to use it and Gmail took over the entire market in a year. Nobody ever said: "oh, I miss X about Hotmail"

Windows products were also same. They were so easy to break, you'd need to format the disk and re-install once a month, otherwise it'd keep breaking all the time.

akoculu··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
Mitte (mitte.ai) | Berlin | ONSITE, REMOTE | Full-Time

Mitte is an AI creative suite — the agentic OS for creative teams.

Engineering (Berlin, on-site):

  - Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Go, React): https://mitte.ai/careers/role/GZHn1_O6
  - Senior Frontend Engineer (React, TS, Redux): https://mitte.ai/careers/role/5qi8KR4D
  - Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir, Go): https://mitte.ai/careers/role/oaFnPm0A
  - Founding Engineer (Go, React): https://mitte.ai/careers/role/7VTbvOae
akoculu··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
Mitte (mitte.ai) | Berlin | ONSITE, REMOTE | Full-Time

Mitte is an AI creative suite — the agentic OS for creative teams.

Engineering (Berlin, on-site):

  - Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Go, React): https://mitte.ai/careers/role/GZHn1_O6
  - Senior Frontend Engineer (React, TS, Redux): https://mitte.ai/careers/role/5qi8KR4D
  - Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir, Go): https://mitte.ai/careers/role/oaFnPm0A
  - Founding Engineer (Go, React): https://mitte.ai/careers/role/7VTbvOae
Growth & People:

  - AI Educator (Remote): https://mitte.ai/careers/role/ZxfzRYO0
  - Founder's Associate: https://mitte.ai/careers/role/0dSWgqG1
Apply at: https://mitte.ai/careers

Thank you.

akoculu··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
Mitte (https://mitte.ai) | Berlin | ONSITE | Full-Time

Mitte is an AI creative suite. We've built our own media agent and we're hiring engineers who want this to be the best work of their career.

Founded by an ex-Superhuman lead engineer. Lean startup and unix philosophy run deep at Mitte. We ship every day and like to design systems, be thoughtful about patterns and primitives before scaling the codebase, especially with AI.

We're hiring:

- Backend Engineer (Elixir, Go) — own services end-to-end, from agent orchestration to the systems that move media at scale.

- Full-Stack Engineer (Go, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit) — build the surfaces creators actually use. Strong design taste and obsession with detail expected.

Berlin, on-site. We work in the same room because the product is moving too fast for anything else.

Reach out: careers@mitte.ai — tell us something you've built that you're proud of, and why it was hard. Berlin based applications only.

akoculu··on Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
this is incredible.
akoculu··on Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
We had severe issues with Bunny and recently migrated off it.

Some of our users were unable to reach our CDN altogether. They couldn't load any assets at all. Bunny's customer service was far too slow to respond and mostly gave unhelpful answers. They couldn't even identify the issue.

In less than 45 minutes, I moved our CDN entirely from Bunny to Cloudflare Workers. Now our CDN just actually works, I don't have to debug our CDN for the Bunny customer service team.

Also, this is obviously a marketing post.

akoculu··on Show HN: I built a tool to sync localStorage between devices
cool idea, would be awesome to see a demo link
akoculu··on Show HN: HN v0.2.1 – Native macOS app for reading HN
congrats!
akoculu··on Show HN: Pagy 2.0, a free drag-and-drop website builder
congrats! I like the design
akoculu··on Show HN: DataRamen, a Fast SQL Explorer with Automatic Joins and Data Navigation
nice work + cool name, congrats!
akoculu··on Web Numbers
I can't wait to buy my first hard copy IP-address book and look up numbers of friends & businesses in yellow pages with small letters
akoculu··on Left-Pad (2024)
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akoculu··on Left-Pad (2024)
> Many people lean more on reason and logic.

Yes, when theres's no impulse strong enough to outweigh reasoning. You don't need Ghazali for this, Kant also explains it. Before suggesting that I rephrase things, I think you should explore the domain first.

akoculu··on Left-Pad (2024)
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akoculu··on Left-Pad (2024)
so happy to hear this! I hope you enjoy the reading. Also, feel free to check out the 4 hours long audio lecture on the book. It's really good!
akoculu··on Left-Pad (2024)
And surely you read Ghazali and know what you’re talking about.
akoculu··on Left-Pad (2024)
When was the last time you were threatened (“we’ll will bang on your door and take down your accounts”) by a company like Kik and you defended the principles and values you believed until the end?

I’m quite familiar with both western and eastern traditions, don’t know any better source than Ghazali’s “the alchemy of happiness” about how people make decisions.

It’s kind of ironic to see people being triggered by just the mention of it though — just reflects what your heart tends to reject impulsively. I wish you curiosity.

P.S Here’s the full quote, it entertainingly describes the ignorance here:

“first, they didn't look at the dates of the emails. They don't understand the timeline.

second, they can't relate to standing your ground in a high pressure situation involving threats.

and third, they haven't read Al-Ghazali yet, don't quite understand how (free) people make decisions”

akoculu··on Left-Pad (2024)
Let me explain myself on this;

When this happened, people started making assumptions. A few of them:

1. I’m irrational 2. I’m angry 3. I’m greedy

They came to one of these conclusions, based on how they see themselves in the same position.

I can be of course one of these three in some other situations, but in the left pad incident, I done all purely with my heart, to stick to my values and principles which was behind my motivation to do open source for such a long time.

Ghazali is the best source I’m aware of about how to put heart in the driver seat of life, and without fighting but using logic, greed, anger etc as tools.

If my reference made curious about him, I couldn’t be more happy. Here’s a great lecture about his book, The Alchemy of Happiness: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zBwWc0DflRQ

akoculu··on Tldx – CLI tool for fast domain name discovery
installation fails for me

λ brew tap brandonyoungdev/tldx λ brew install tldx

==> Fetching brandonyoungdev/tldx/tldx ==> Downloading https://github.com/brandonyoungdev/tldx/releases/download/ curl: (56) The requested URL returned error: 404

Error: tldx: Failed to download resource "tldx" Download failed: https://github.com/brandonyoungdev/tldx/releases/download/v1...

akoculu··on Tldx – CLI tool for fast domain name discovery
I just got some good domains like mitte.ai and told.so a few months ago
akoculu··on Bagel: Open-source unified multimodal model
Good summary of the paper: https://x.com/build__ship/status/1926930191185580176
akoculu··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Sorry, I don’t want to serve this group of users. Please download the image models and run them in your own hardware. Perfect for privacy and all that stuff
akoculu··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
You can sign in with Google.

I had to close the sign up because there was so many abuse coming from regular sign ups.

'Sign in Google' is great because it eliminates low quality traffic who never pays and tends to be there for abusing the system.

akoculu··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
https://mitte.ai — an AI image generator with focus on quality and details

so you can get logos / icons that doesn’t look AI generated.

it comes with Photoshop-like editor (https://mitte.ai/editor) so you can zoom into details and change / remove anything, or upscale, etc.

I built it for myself but now there’s good amount of paying users as well.

akoculu··on Rippling sues Deel over spying
Incredible. So they're openly supporting genocide of Palestinians?
akoculu··on Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
This is probably coming from the safety instructions of the model. It tends to treat the user like a child and don't miss any chance to moralize. And the company seems to believe that it's a feature, not a bug.
akoculu··on We were wrong about GPUs
Yeah but the quality on Runpod is not reliable enough for productionizing it. Do you know a product that works reliably and it's built with Runpod serverless?
akoculu··on We were wrong about GPUs
thanks, I'll reach out!
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