Hacker News: TJTorola

New comment by TJTorola in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

TJTorola — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:38:05 +0000

Eerily close to Roman decimation.

New comment by TJTorola in "Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting"

TJTorola — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:40:50 +0000

Came here to say this, difftastic is great as long as you are working in a language where it understands the language tree (most languages). Getting away from diffs being focused on line changes to diffs that understand the actual language makes so much sense once you start to use it.

New comment by TJTorola in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

TJTorola — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:55:12 +0000

Ideological is carrying a lot of weight there. Perhaps you can be more specific about the ideological arguments you are hearing that are not worth it?

New comment by TJTorola in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

TJTorola — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:59:41 +0000

Yes as of about a week ago, last I checked.

New comment by TJTorola in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

TJTorola — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:58:05 +0000

Anthropic is actively blocking calls from anything but claude code for it's claude plans. At this point you either need to be taking part in the cat and mouse game to make that plan work with opencode or you need to be paying the much more expensive API prices.

New comment by TJTorola in "We mourn our craft"

TJTorola — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:07:09 +0000

I'm not particularly against AI programming but I don't think these two things are equivilent. A compiler translates code to specifications in a deterministic way, the same compiler produces the same output from the same code, it is all completely controlled. AI is not at all deterministic, temperature is built into LLMs and furthermore the lack of specificity in prompts and our spoken languages. The difference in control is significant enough to me not to put compilers and AI coding agents into the same catagory even though they are both taking some text and producing some other text/machine code.

New comment by TJTorola in "Nostr"

TJTorola — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:42:16 +0000

Existing social platforms are built for profit, which modulates emotion for engagement (something kind of like entertainment, but I wouldn't say I'm entertained exactly by the rage bait I'm often fed by algorithms). Users of an open protocol might select for the same experience, or they might not, I think that's yet to be seen. This also assumes that this fantasy open protocol could also escape the pressures of maximizing profit.

New comment by TJTorola in "This map is not upside down"

TJTorola — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:56:05 +0000

Butterfly for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterman_butterfly_projection

New comment by TJTorola in "We shouldn't have needed lockfiles"

TJTorola — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:38:20 +0000

I generally agree, pinning versions and then having some script to automatically update to capture security updates makes sense, except that it also assumes that every package is just using standard symver, which in my experience is something like 99% true.

But it's also missing the value of hashes, even if every package used symver, then you had a script that could easily update to get recent security updates, we would still gain value from a lockfile hashes to protect against source code changing underneath the same version code.

New comment by TJTorola in "Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down"

TJTorola — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:00:31 +0000

Some other cryptocurrency fixes this, maybe (big maybe). But as long as _Bitcoin_ is seen primarily as an investment opportunity it can't really function as a means of exchange. For the same reason that we expect and need USD to lose value over time, people need to be encouraged to exchange their currency, not sit on it forever.

New comment by TJTorola in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

TJTorola — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:15:59 +0000

Not sure what this says about me, but I ran into youtube putting a 3 video limit on me because I was using adblocking and when I hit that limit I just ended up going outside to have a lovely day. Honestly wish video limits was just a feature I could turn on.

Funny enough, awhile back they made it so that if you turned off watch history, they would disable the front page feed. Not sure if that was seen as a punishment to try to encourage people to turn back on watch history but that also ended up being a welcome change.

New comment by TJTorola in "Servo vs. Ladybird"

TJTorola — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:45:34 +0000

The engine approach seems like a solid advantage to me given that at least one decent browser has been built around it. Servo can ultimately support end users who just want a browser built off of it, and developers who want to build a browser with it. Ladybird can only support the former.

New comment by TJTorola in "Show HN: Mixlist"

TJTorola — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:12:29 +0000

You got a back trap. When I try to navigate back from the playlist screen it goes to the processing screen, and then repeats the processing request every time I navigate back after that. Maybe a bit gnarly if that is kicking off the spotify fetch each time.

Aside from that, nice, I'm listening to one of the playlists right now.

New comment by TJTorola in "Ask HN: How do you think LLMs will affect society medium/long term?"

TJTorola — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:03:58 +0000

Why do we need to keep replacing these jobs (or working hours perhaps)? If as a society we produce more for less work why is that bad? Why don’t we spend more time questioning the underlying system that makes efficiency improvements a bad thing?

New comment by TJTorola in "Show HN: Krabby – A keyboard interface to the web, inspired by Kakoune"

TJTorola — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 16:38:30 +0000

I definitely appreciate the confirmation step when browsing around sensitive UIs like my company's AWS dashboard.

New comment by TJTorola in "‘Zork’ Source Code, Presumed Lost, Has Been Uploaded to GitHub"

TJTorola — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 04:21:09 +0000

Here is the link to the repo itself. https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1

New comment by TJTorola in "You probably don't need that hip web framework"

TJTorola — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:21:50 +0000

You probably need the right tool for the job. I'd argue that react, Vue, and company are only best for true web _applications_, that is highly stateful projects that are more akin to standard desktop apps than web pages, ex: google docs.

If you need server side rendering that could be a sign that what you have is a lot of public indexable information and that most often describes a traditional web site instead. In that case your "old school" rails or laravel solutions are almost definitely a better choice.

New comment by TJTorola in "Ask HN: I would pay X for Y"

TJTorola — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:30:34 +0000

The built in weather widget gets the job done

New comment by TJTorola in "Show HN: Lambdacult, a low-cost alternative to API Gateway for Lambda functions"

TJTorola — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:11:33 +0000

Out of curiosity, if this were to solve problems with endpoint pricing and cold-starts, then what other problems do you see that would still force you to move over to EC2? Just wondering, I've used Lambda a bit but never at scale and these are the only two problems that I can foresee.

New comment by TJTorola in "Epic Games chief pays $15M to protect 7,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness"

TJTorola — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 04:09:34 +0000

Here is a rough idea of what 7,000 acres looks like. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2t4y1KUdvnlbUV1aW9CdHR1dF...