Hacker News: JensRantil

New comment by JensRantil in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

JensRantil — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:54:10 +0000

This reminds me of the Linux kernel scheduler bug that kicked in after 208 days: https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/247/linux-virtual-serve...

Code Freezes can have the opposite effect

JensRantil — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:39:45 +0000

Article URL: https://jensrantil.github.io/posts/code-freeze/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654143

Points: 14

# Comments: 3

New comment by JensRantil in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

JensRantil — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:02:30 +0000

I am a Swedish citizen. Lived here for almost 40 years. It is a bit unclear to be what the "the Swedish e-government platform" is. Would have been great if they at least could have published which domain name the service has.

AI is nothing new, LLMs are

JensRantil — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:05:40 +0000

Article URL: https://jensrantil.github.io/posts/ai-is-nothing-new/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094668

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The missed incident priority: The Near Miss

JensRantil — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:05:06 +0000

Article URL: https://jensrantil.github.io/posts/near-miss-incidents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884853

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Incident Priority, Severity and Impact

JensRantil — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:29:36 +0000

Article URL: https://jensrantil.github.io/posts/incident-priority-severity-impact/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868668

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

What Is an Incident, Anyway?

JensRantil — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:07:53 +0000

Article URL: https://jensrantil.github.io/posts/what-is-an-incident/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855606

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

LinkedIn and Toxic Positivity

JensRantil — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:44:40 +0000

Article URL: https://jensrantil.github.io/posts/linked-and-toxic-positivity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854531

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A shell --dry-run trick

JensRantil — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:11:54 +0000

Article URL: https://jensrantil.github.io/posts/a-shell-dry-run-trick/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849407

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by JensRantil in "Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface"

JensRantil — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:35:11 +0000

The "Accessibility support" link gives me a 404 Not Found. I guess that's too close to any kind of DEI the US government would allow these days...

New comment by JensRantil in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"

JensRantil — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:46:57 +0000

Fun fact: Many times you can also declassify numbers by simply looking at the width of the text boxes. I wrote a blog post about it many years ago: https://jensrantil.github.io/posts/how-to-partially-declassi...

New comment by JensRantil in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

JensRantil — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:21:43 +0000

All the news the comes out of SAP projects is that they cost 5x of initially estimated and take much longer than initially planned. So...no?

New comment by JensRantil in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

JensRantil — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:27:06 +0000

In Sweden, IBM makes a shit tonne of money from SAP implementation consulting.

New comment by JensRantil in "Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions"

JensRantil — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:16:48 +0000

I find it somewhat interesting that a US 30 year fixed mortgage is 5,49%, while a 10 year fixed mortgage in Sweden currently is at 3,6%[1]. Big difference!

[1] https://www.compricer.se/borantor/

New comment by JensRantil in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

JensRantil — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:16:25 +0000

This sentiment is not only in Seattle.

New comment by JensRantil in "Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers"

JensRantil — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:58:08 +0000

I struggle to find why it would be appealing to use an RPC framework which is only targetted to TypeScript (and I guess, JavaScript). The point, for me, of an RPC framework is that it should be platform agnostic to allow for reuse and modularity.

New comment by JensRantil in "Europe's EV sales surge 26% in 2025 while Tesla faces decline"

JensRantil — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:09:39 +0000

In Sweden, Tesla is also involved in a conflict with our Unions. https://www.transport.se/publicerat/info-english-tesla-confl... This has an added bad smell for Tesla, on top of the bad reputation that Musk already has associated the brand with.

New comment by JensRantil in "Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks"

JensRantil — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:41:09 +0000

It's not just time. A lot of devs simply don't have the experience of dogging into third party sourcing code or understanding how one contributed to open source.

New comment by JensRantil in "What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?"

JensRantil — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:55:28 +0000

Sending a single representative of a team to a meeting is one of favourite hacks. And then have that representative report back.

New comment by JensRantil in "How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment"

JensRantil — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:44:43 +0000

Of course the guy needs to have an end-to-end encrypted direct line to the president. It's the president that runs the show and all decisions must go through him.