Hacker News: JKolios

New comment by JKolios in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

JKolios — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:16:54 +0000

"A rogue AI led to a serious security incident" is certainly a way to write "Someone vibe coded too hard and leaked data".

New comment by JKolios in "Chrome DevTools MCP"

JKolios — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:57:00 +0000

Now that there's widespread direct connectivity between agents and browser sessions, are CAPTCHAs even relevant anymore?

New comment by JKolios in "Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US"

JKolios — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:54:25 +0000

Casual threats of invasion don't build solid and lasting partnerships? Who knew.

New comment by JKolios in "Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs"

JKolios — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:06:38 +0000

More diversity in the LLM space is always good. In my experience though, speaking as a native speaker of one of the less-used European languages, Mistral's models already use it pretty well.

New comment by JKolios in "The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate"

JKolios — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:47:16 +0000

>(the water is thoroughly irradiated from a war that happened 200 years ago)

This is what I always found grating about the writing in Bethesda Fallout games. Their writers think that the war happened last Tuesday and there are parts of the old world behind every other door. In universe, the war happened more than two centuries ago and humanity has moved on, in several strange ways.

New comment by JKolios in "Restoring Faith: Crete's Ancient Minoan Civilisation (2009)"

JKolios — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:50:18 +0000

For some reason it was very hard for the Victorians who pioneered archaeology to understand that ancient humans were actual human beings and not storytelling archetypes or moral exemplars. This kind of archaeology is just inverted science fiction: Commenting on the present through the lens of the imaginary past, instead of the imaginary future.

New comment by JKolios in "Sid Meier's Civilization VII"

JKolios — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:45:36 +0000

The release day of Civilization n is always the best time to buy and play Civilization n-1.

New comment by JKolios in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

JKolios — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 10:16:10 +0000

> Perhaps one reason startups work so well is they are one of the few places that still let young people exert agency.

So, who's the VC that will fund the 4-9 failed governments we'll have to go through until we get a unicorn?

New comment by JKolios in "Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance"

JKolios — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:17:38 +0000

Even if you absolutely have to use an LLM for some reason, there are already perfectly good LLMs for code generation that you can comfortably run on commodity hardware.

New comment by JKolios in "The Internet in Greece"

JKolios — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 09:03:14 +0000

Please elaborate on how "maybe they don't need good infrastructure" can be taken positively. It is, at best, deeply patronizing.

New comment by JKolios in "The Internet in Greece"

JKolios — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 08:49:43 +0000

Nice sentiments, but the problem with the Internet in Greece is a runaway oligopoly of three telco carriers and a "business-friendly"(one set of sarcasm quotes doesn't feel enough in this case) government that won't bring down the hammer of regulation on it. No lofty ideals here.

New comment by JKolios in "PyPy has been working for me for several years now"

JKolios — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:16:04 +0000

Cheese was, and to a degree still is, stored and distributed in wheels. As a retail buyer you rarely encounter an entire wheel, but it's definitely a common sight in wholesale.

New comment by JKolios in "Visual calculus"

JKolios — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:58:32 +0000

"Many problems that would otherwise seem quite difficult yield to the method with hardly a line of calculation."

This is the furthest from encyclopedic language you can possibly get. Vague, unsourced, flowery and subjective.

New comment by JKolios in "There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)"

JKolios — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:03:38 +0000

Which textbook is that? 1492 is Late Renaissance at the cusp of the Early Modern age.

New comment by JKolios in "How to drill your own water well"

JKolios — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:00:13 +0000

Or, you know, people understand that their actions have consequences on others and living in an organized society is far better than the alternative. We're not endlessly settling an untapped frontier that exists solely in our heads.

New comment by JKolios in "Ask HN: Is Slack having some trouble?"

JKolios — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:12:14 +0000

My workspace in Europe is also in some kind of (unannounced) Read-Only mode.

New comment by JKolios in "Istanbul's blue tile paradise"

JKolios — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:47:56 +0000

And it's also perfectly fine to point out the rest of the building's entirely true and factual history, without having to accept snide remarks like "byzantine fake news".

New comment by JKolios in "Istanbul's blue tile paradise"

JKolios — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:42:31 +0000

That is not even a good example of lying by omission. You directly altered the facts as I presented them by joining sentence fragments. In this case, the grandparent comment is replying to an article that mentions the Hagia Sophia in the same breath as buildings that were built as mosques and have gone through their entire lifetimes as mosques. The comment does not have to restate the article point by point. If anyone is guilty of lying by omission it's the article's writer. They've erased most of the building's history.

New comment by JKolios in "Istanbul's blue tile paradise"

JKolios — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:00:43 +0000

What exactly is "false" or "fake news" about the parent comment? All three sentences look entirely factual to me:

The Hagia Sophia was indeed a church. The Hagia Sophia was also indeed a museum. The reconversion into a Mosque was also widely criticized.

New comment by JKolios in "Homebrew's analytics have moved to the EU and away from Google"

JKolios — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 08:28:39 +0000

Which useful service have you been locked out of? We're several years into full GDPR enforcement. I've only been locked out of some US newspapers, which is trivially by-passable, and some of the worst attention economy addiction boxes, which I'm, if anything, thankful for.