Hacker News: Jolter

New comment by Jolter in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

Jolter — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:14:40 +0000

See the decline of the graph even before the spring of ’22?

New comment by Jolter in "Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning"

Jolter — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:58:28 +0000

So you’re saying that the linked article’s findings are implausible? Is the article fake, then, in your opinion?

New comment by Jolter in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

Jolter — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:18:56 +0000

Well, now… I can tell you second hand that catching chicken pox as an adult is no picnic either.

New comment by Jolter in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

Jolter — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:16:02 +0000

If you have already had shingles as an adult, aren’t you fairly well protected for the next ten years or so, at least? I’d wager that you are one of the people least at risk since your immune system is already primed and readying suppress the virus that’s latently infecting you.

New comment by Jolter in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

Jolter — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:31:40 +0000

If he lives there until he dies, bulldozing it will be Someone Else’s Problem. If the electrics catch fire and he dies, it’s his own problem. Perfect American solution.

New comment by Jolter in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

Jolter — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:30:44 +0000

I seem to recall that Doom 3 was unplayable dark on my PC, once upon a time.

New comment by Jolter in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

Jolter — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:00:36 +0000

I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to use your legal firearms against people in Denmark. Even in a home intrusion event.

New comment by Jolter in "The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone"

Jolter — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:20:01 +0000

That’s the whole selling point of this phone, though. If they had made it easy to sideload Twitter, they might as well not make a phone.

New comment by Jolter in "The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone"

Jolter — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:17:57 +0000

The reason the iPhone takes great photos is probably 95% because of the software. It’s 0% because of the number of pixels, and never was even since their early models.

I think the kind of user who gets a detox phone will also get an Instax or a second hand old Ixus.

New comment by Jolter in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

Jolter — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:08:52 +0000

It’s literally the definition of a straw man argument. You state a proposition that nobody proposed, because it’s easy for you to tear it down. While others are arguing about your straw man, nobody is looking at or following up on the proposals *actually* on offer.

Nobody in the thread has proposed turning off all nuclear, hence you were building a straw man. Please don’t do that on HN.

New comment by Jolter in "Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites"

Jolter — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:22:27 +0000

No matter how cheap per request, someone will figure out a way to DoS that endpoint, and it will be extremely pricy unless you have effective rate limiting.

New comment by Jolter in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

Jolter — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:26:13 +0000

What do you mean by 2), ”it’s not heavily subsidized”? Remember we’re talking specifically about Sweden now, so I’ll discard any arguments about Germany or elsewhere. I don’t know the background there at all.

The Swedish authorities are right now processing requests for subsidies from prospective owners of future nuclear plants. You can read their announcements here for instance. See the little summary fact box at the bottom. https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2026/06/ansokan-o...

New comment by Jolter in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

Jolter — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:44:06 +0000

I see I implied that the disposal was a major part of the the total cost. Sorry for that, I was being facetious when answering your statement that spot market prices are not total system costs. Clearly there are many other costs than disposal, which are contributing to its none-competitiveness.

Regarding cost competitiveness: if new nuclear is cost competitive in Sweden, how come it needs to be so heavily subsidized?

New comment by Jolter in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

Jolter — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:51:36 +0000

What part isn’t true? That disposal of fuel is part of the total systems cost? Or that the new nuclear can’t compete without subsidies? I think both are evident truths.

New comment by Jolter in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

Jolter — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:54:06 +0000

Straw man.

New comment by Jolter in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

Jolter — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:53:00 +0000

You’re right, the total system costs include a lot of things, including disposal of spent fuel. Which is apparently so expensive, nuclear can’t compete with renewables fairly.

New comment by Jolter in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

Jolter — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:29:39 +0000

I think the promise of SMR is that the 1/5th reactor can be built in 1/2 the time. And you build five of them in parallell. And you have your power sources gradually online over about the same time as one ”big bang” build would take.

I don’t think it’s going to work out that way, but that’s how it’s being sold.

New comment by Jolter in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

Jolter — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:27:18 +0000

Sweden recently did the same: in order for companies to agree to make new reactors, the government had to promise them a price floor for the electricity they produce. The price floor suggested is more than twice the current price on the spot market. That means that, for the lifetime of those reactors, Swedish taxpayers will be subsidizing production of nuclear power. I thought the idea was that they would be profitable? What happened to the political right’s love of the free market? When politicians go fixing prices with this kind of ”advance bailout”, it just makes it look like they are trying to get a nice retirement job in the nuclear power sector…

New comment by Jolter in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

Jolter — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:49:56 +0000

These ships seem a little too bottom-heavy though. The animations could imply more ”physics” happening by tilting the ship a little at times.

New comment by Jolter in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

Jolter — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:51:37 +0000

I’m sure they’ve gotten more than one hot wallet from out of work crypto bros. Probably a profitable venture.