Hacker News: DHolzer

New comment by DHolzer in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

DHolzer — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:41:38 +0000

1.putting the "mostly" before "incompetent and arrogant asshole" really does nothing. you still called some undefined group of people assholes... i think that's generally uncalled for here on HN. 2.computer that lies might very well be a better programmer. I assume by better you mean it profuces correct and maintainable code, but there are a million ways to cut that cake in particular and i assume you are ignoring most other dimensions. 3. i tought myself coding for 10 years and then switched to professional work 5 years ago. it feels as if this was stolen from us. But its not - we never had any right to own and control this. times are changing, and while you might think you and all other devs have a moral high ground and can pop a can of beer and cheer anytime one of these supposed assholes messes up and would have been better off with a real programmer like yourself, you can do so from whatever new position you will find yourself in. Some part of what we call intelligence is "solved" and that leaves you with percieved morals and broken expectations - nothing more if you don't try to make something out of it. and i write thisw as much for you as i write it for myself to realize.

New comment by DHolzer in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"

DHolzer — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:53:11 +0000

Just wanted to let you know that I think your posting on the page is great. Communicating so clearly what the application process will look like and what your expectations are of the applicant is really appreciated. I haven't seen that done a lot in Vienna.

New comment by DHolzer in "Show HN: Cerno – CAPTCHA that targets LLM reasoning, not human biology"

DHolzer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:53:23 +0000

like the idea, but i cant see what i'm doing when my finger coveres the screen

New comment by DHolzer in "Why I love NixOS"

DHolzer — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:50:35 +0000

I switched over to Nix about a year ago. I was a Windows user before that for 30 years and tried Linux a couple of times, but it never stuck. Now I know I will never touch Windows again. With NixOS I've finally found a system that actually works for me — and the full OS configuration is in a repo. My god, I love it so much. Sometimes I even prefer nix-shells over uv for quick one-off Python scripts. I cannot sufficiently convey how absolutely barbaric everything else feels in comparison. Not having Nix would be like having to work on code without Git — absolutely unacceptable. And it really isn't that much work — you do it once. The next time you set up a new system, without Nix, you'll have to do the full configuration all over again.

New comment by DHolzer in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

DHolzer — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:36:09 +0000

i don't like the framing of $96 that pops up with this topic. There are so many reasons why the pricing point is completely irrelevant. Yet it frames it as if it were a similarly helpful option to fpv drones for the underdog nation - It's not, nor would it be if it were $9.60 or $0.96. This launcher has not even hit a PoC state - to mention the production cost of the prototype at this point is an extremely weak talking point - it means nothing.

New comment by DHolzer in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

DHolzer — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:22:56 +0000

another adhd guy here. I haven't tried it, so i can't vouch for it to any degree of certainty, but maybe it's an option to have your main payment card in a sleeve inside your phone case? Even if it works, it's only a drop in the bucket, but maybe that's enough if you consider the lack of NFC payment a major issue. thank you for pushing for an alternative to android and apple

New comment by DHolzer in "Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons"

DHolzer — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:47:19 +0000

I have to say, the brass arrangement is pretty good - would have loved to be there when they recorded that staccato part.

New comment by DHolzer in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

DHolzer — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:17:39 +0000

I did not mean to imply that you did not face any consequences. Sorry if that came across that way. But my point stands. While I heavily disagree with almost everything Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, etc. stand for, I cannot hold the developers in these companies to the same level of judgment as I would politicians, lobbyists, and managers. You may compare selling heroin on the street to whatever stuff is going on at these companies, and I might agree or disagree. But the fact is — selling heroin on the street is illegal, while training a recommendation model is not. Quite the opposite. And the complacency and failure to put reins on this situation 15 years ago is a deep failure of our civilization. As long as we train people at university for these positions and pull them in with such incredibly high salaries, I can't not forgive them to a large degree. I do not forgive the policymakers that enable this madness, however. I understand that's just moving the blame to a higher level — that's not the intention. It's a systemic failure, and it needs systemic change.

New comment by DHolzer in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

DHolzer — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:37:51 +0000

look, i dont want to work at any of those companies anyway. I am with you - i was trying to say that money can break most of us. I appreciate you being so farsighted by leaving such a position, but for many other people that would be unthinkable - And that does not make them monsters.

At this point I would be more worried about working for a US company, than which one exactly - (not totally serious of course, but also not entirely inaccurate)

New comment by DHolzer in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

DHolzer — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:28:33 +0000

I would feel embarrassed, yes. But that's 5 times my current salary for a 'similar' position. I am not sure it'd be 5 times worse in terms of societal effect. And even if it were, I am not sure I would be 5 times as embarrassed, if we are considering a linear conversion rate.

What I am trying to say is that I am on your side - as of this moment it is incredibly unlikely that I would ever see this kind of money. That makes it an easy position to take in a online conversation. But I have seen decent people throw out morals for a 100th of what we are talking about.

New comment by DHolzer in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

DHolzer — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:03:56 +0000

250k per year would make me reconfigure my internal right/wrong classifier real fast...

New comment by DHolzer in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

DHolzer — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:53:08 +0000

The user had more arguments than just "it's all politics". What level of scrutiny does his statement have to hold up to? Because as far as I am concerned this is not here to find scientific truths.

New comment by DHolzer in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

DHolzer — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:03:31 +0000

Please provide any proof or references to what you are claiming.

New comment by DHolzer in "Helium Browser"

DHolzer — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:50:53 +0000

I would hate to have a 40px title bar doing nothing except wasting space on my screen. I've been using this layout for years, and I didn't even consider that anyone could have an issue with this until I read your statement.

I'm not saying that you are wrong to disregard it due to your personal preferences, but please consider that this might not be such a horrible design as you make it out to be. Also, you can be certain that you are not the only sane person left - I think it's just that most of them don't show up on boards and forums.

New comment by DHolzer in "A chip 10,000x more energy efficient than GPU – Trevor McCourt, Extropic [video]"

DHolzer — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:05:13 +0000

An interesting and short talk about what Extropic is currently working on.

A chip 10,000x more energy efficient than GPU – Trevor McCourt, Extropic [video]

DHolzer — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:05:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzxTDzvZy1o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209763

Points: 3

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New comment by DHolzer in "Chatterbox TTS"

DHolzer — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:00:31 +0000

I love chatterbox, it's my favourite. While the generation speed is quick, i wonder what performance optimization i could try on my 3090 to improve throughput. It's not quite enough for realtime.

New comment by DHolzer in "Is "The Phoenician Scheme" Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film?"

DHolzer — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 06:42:31 +0000

somewhere

New comment by DHolzer in "Getting AI to write good SQL"

DHolzer — Sat, 17 May 2025 17:39:44 +0000

how is that technological progress not fueling resource scarcity?

New comment by DHolzer in "Getting AI to write good SQL"

DHolzer — Sat, 17 May 2025 10:20:31 +0000

without wanting to sound overly sceptical, what exactly makes you think it performs so much better compared to claude and chatgpt?

Is there any concrete example that makes it really obvious? I had no such success with it so far and i would really like to see the clear cut between the gemini and the others.