Hacker News: Hendrikto

New comment by Hendrikto in "Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator"

Hendrikto — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:13:37 +0000

The annual reports are public. You can look up yourself how much money they are squandering each year. Mozilla is actually incredibly well funded. They are just extremely mismanged.

New comment by Hendrikto in "Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator"

Hendrikto — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:03:31 +0000

I and a lot of other people would be more than willing to donate to Firefox. But not to Mozilla, who keep throwing money out of the window. Also, the executives kept raising their own salary while market share declined, and while firing developers doing the actual work.

Mozilla is extremely mismanaged.

New comment by Hendrikto in "Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator"

Hendrikto — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:43:10 +0000

Another unasked for and fruitless side-project from Mozilla that did nothing but burn money and distract from their core product. Who could have seen it coming?

New comment by Hendrikto in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

Hendrikto — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:34:44 +0000

And for what benefit? 9/10 ”problems“ HR ”solves“ were created by them in the first place. HR is a net negative to society.

New comment by Hendrikto in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

Hendrikto — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:17:09 +0000

It is not at all about race. It is about the lifestyle. And you definitely choose that yourself.

New comment by Hendrikto in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

Hendrikto — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:13:29 +0000

Paid content moderation teams are also biased and partial.

New comment by Hendrikto in "How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments"

Hendrikto — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:26:43 +0000

If you do not want to learn, and take every shortcut available to avoid it, university might not be the path for you.

New comment by Hendrikto in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

Hendrikto — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:24:23 +0000

> I don't see how it's worth having any emotions or opinions about it.

Ironic, seeing as that is an opinion about it. Also weird telling people in an online discussion forum not to have opinions.

New comment by Hendrikto in "The case against JPEG XL"

Hendrikto — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:30:01 +0000

> This rules out JPEG XL's lossless advantage, which in practice is only roughly 11.9% smaller than lossless WebP anyway

> It cannot be worth bringing a new image codec to browsers to save 12%

What? 12% is huge.

New comment by Hendrikto in "Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down"

Hendrikto — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:51:40 +0000

> Nearly everyone building these systems is outspokenly concerned about grave consequences. Existential.

That is what they are claiming. I do not believe them.

New comment by Hendrikto in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

Hendrikto — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:59:08 +0000

> The url parameter uses a custom, Google-specific encoding.

So that will be figured out, making the whole exercise void. Google knows this. What is the real goal here?

New comment by Hendrikto in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

Hendrikto — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:53:57 +0000

The website, desktop app, and mobile apps all have different feature sets, for one. There are things that you can only do in one of them, but it is a different one of them for each thing. There is no one feature set. It feels so cobbled together, with each platform doing their own thing.

Also, the website is slow and buggy, and the Electron “desktop” app is even worse. Both gobble up way too many resources and soft-crash constantly. The app does not lock up, but simply stops working. Often it even shows an error like “Spotify cannot play this song right now.”.

New comment by Hendrikto in "SQLite as a Document Database (2020)"

Hendrikto — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:42:50 +0000

https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html

It is not a bad idea. It is a very flexible and stable format.

New comment by Hendrikto in "SQLite as a Document Database (2020)"

Hendrikto — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:39:13 +0000

It almost always does. People put so much effort into building layers of abstractions to avoid using SQL, while just writing it directly would be much faster, easier, more readable, easier to maintain, modify, and debug. I do not get it.

New comment by Hendrikto in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

Hendrikto — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:49:26 +0000

> the fact that person A can't send $ to person B via normal bank infrastructure is interesting.

I would call that outrageous. It is my money. I earned it. I paid taxes on it. Let me fucking use it.

That is what I like about crypto. What I have is actually mine. I can send it to whomever I want at any time.

New comment by Hendrikto in "New EU-wide product repair rules come into force"

Hendrikto — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:14:32 +0000

Vendors do not have to support their product indefinitely. They have to design their products in a way that they do not become useless after support ends. E.g. by opening up the bootloader and letting users install custom software.

New comment by Hendrikto in "New EU-wide product repair rules come into force"

Hendrikto — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:12:43 +0000

I recently had to throw out a first gen iPad that was physically still in mint condition (even including the battery, somehow), simply for the lack of support essentially turning it into a useless brick.

New comment by Hendrikto in "Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency"

Hendrikto — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:38:10 +0000

He has the most basic misunderstandings on the very foundations of crypto. He is not trying to understand. He is trying to make headlines to sell his movie.

New comment by Hendrikto in "Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed"

Hendrikto — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:34:22 +0000

I think the point is that these numbers are theoretical, and only reachable in a lab. So in practice you do not really benefit.

New comment by Hendrikto in "OpenLogi"

Hendrikto — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:28:39 +0000

> I'd rather read some well written LLM text over some poorly written human effort

I could not disagree more.