Hacker News: JackSlateur

New comment by JackSlateur in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"

JackSlateur — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:12:00 +0000

Switched to Qwant because of that .. (corporate laptop does not allow changing the search engine urls, only changing the engine itself)

Honestly ? Not a stressy move, the major things that changes is that the IA bullshit is gone

New comment by JackSlateur in "What garbage collection actually costs"

JackSlateur — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:23:33 +0000

GC, zero instructions: that's funny; JVM used to "stop to world" to process that zero instructions;

New comment by JackSlateur in "Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's MSRP to a staggering $16,000"

JackSlateur — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:16:40 +0000

  LLMs can re-write and cross-translate software really well.

Is that was true, claude would be written in Rust;

New comment by JackSlateur in "Python string literals are kinda funny"

JackSlateur — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:00:53 +0000

t-string main use case is SQL (for instance, in psycopg¹)

You can write things like that without SQL injection:

  t"INSERT INTO mytable (first_name, last_name) VALUES ({first_name}, {last_name})"

This is a very pleasant feature, very useful

[1] https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3/docs/basic/tstrings.html

New comment by JackSlateur in ""Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers"

JackSlateur — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:52:18 +0000

Tech is not the issue, people are

"If figuring out what to build is the hard part, why do so many product managers seem clueless" - because people

"LLMs may be good at coding" - they are not;

New comment by JackSlateur in "Proxmox VE now available for ARM64"

JackSlateur — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:55:14 +0000

  "Python still does not address the issue of dynamic typing and the inability to test correctly"

This is wrong, you can enforce typing on Python (pypi: typeguard)

The only issue with Python is performance, which is only an issue if you need performance.

New comment by JackSlateur in "Stop sending me your errors"

JackSlateur — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:38:36 +0000

You are not alone

New comment by JackSlateur in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

JackSlateur — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:14:53 +0000

Have you considered the theory that, perhaps, you are the one with skill issue ?

New comment by JackSlateur in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

JackSlateur — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:07:37 +0000

   You don't need that meeting if you're not writing the code.

I am responsible for a software that carries a multi billions company.

My mates are not, their code editor are not either : I am.

Yes, I could be a clown and be accountable for something I know nothing about. I choose not to.

Not everybody is a cruft-engineer .

New comment by JackSlateur in "RFC 9851: TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze"

JackSlateur — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:38:54 +0000

Well, for those of you who want to decrypt exchanges, plain-HTTP is best suited for you.

Assume your stance :)

New comment by JackSlateur in "Ruling Is a Skill. Voting for It Is a Joke"

JackSlateur — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:50:19 +0000

"when you are raped, just say that you consent ! Consensual sex is better than rape!"

Congrats, you solved the situation (irony)

New comment by JackSlateur in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

JackSlateur — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:13:28 +0000

Pretty sure rust can run on browsers;

New comment by JackSlateur in "Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It"

JackSlateur — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:23:30 +0000

To give more details

Uber is not a saas, it sell the ability to match drivers with people. You can code an uber-like software easily and you will find that it leads to nowhere: no network => no driver + no consumer = you have nothing

Another kind of business is online bank: are they just software ? Yes, obviously. Are they software-as-a-service ? Obviously not: they sell regulation, integration with financial stuff, government approbation and what-not

Just because a company is used via software-only does not mean that it has a saas

On the other hand, you have companies like tesla, which are far more "software-as-a-service" than online banks

What a funny world

New comment by JackSlateur in "Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It"

JackSlateur — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:00:03 +0000

Bad example: uber is not a saas at all

It's a network.

New comment by JackSlateur in "Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story"

JackSlateur — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:28:50 +0000

Never trust somebody who has so much to gain to be entrusted by you. Best lies are not 100% wrong, they have just the right amount of "right" to fool you.

New comment by JackSlateur in "Claude Opus 5"

JackSlateur — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:41:51 +0000

How many compagnies can manage a mostly stateless workload at "whatever-the-scale-because-it-does-not-matter-because-stateless" ? Lots of people can do that. Massive amount of people can do that.

New comment by JackSlateur in "Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds"

JackSlateur — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:35:34 +0000

(without having the answer from GP): your two questions are fully unrelated: first is about long term, second is about only "now".

To try a metaphor: "Why would you grow crops ? Do you lack food on your table ?"

New comment by JackSlateur in "Anthropic runs large-scale code migrations with Claude Code"

JackSlateur — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:01:58 +0000

I guess even anthropic fails to not get slop from ai ..

New comment by JackSlateur in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

JackSlateur — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:52:30 +0000

Last month, there has been a billing-related incident at work: it has been detected that the GCP bill had increased vastly since early 2026

The related team investigated, found nothing; They escalated to other teams, found nothing; Gemini, claude and whatnot were involved, found nothing;

Somebody raised to topic to me, solution has been found

See my point ? Like GP, I do not use AI. If there is only one person thinking left, being that person does not looks like a bad idea;

Mixing code and "productivity" is trying to remake coder as bluecollars, and most of them probably are (not thinking, replaceable cogs that are overpaid and shall be decommissionned), they will not be missing. The only coder's output is its idea, everything else is a mean to that end.

New comment by JackSlateur in "The human-in-the-loop is tired"

JackSlateur — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:18:39 +0000

[..] that the wealthy business owners and investors and all the AI users are building for us.