Hacker News: TomJansen

New comment by TomJansen in "An AI Hate Wave Is Here"

TomJansen — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:57:58 +0000

I agree partly with your comment, but I want to add this perspective:

The dot-com era treatened and killed many jobs in banking (bank tellers and such). AI is now doing the same, but now it is threatening the jobs of consultants.

New comment by TomJansen in "I accidentally discovered cross-species microbiome colonization in my dog"

TomJansen — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:13:43 +0000

So the author tried to fix a non-issue of somebody else's dog with human-grade probiotics.

I think that actually there was no issue at all and he just wanted to YOLO it.

And then he only goes to discuss if it was ethical as he didn't ask the dog? What about just not medicating a dog when there is no medical problem? What about consent from the owner? So much more issues with this than what the author discusses.

New comment by TomJansen in "Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app"

TomJansen — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:49:20 +0000

I was actually happily surprised that you can continue without making an account

New comment by TomJansen in "Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove"

TomJansen — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:03:05 +0000

"I was only pretending to be stupid!"

New comment by TomJansen in "Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System"

TomJansen — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:58:45 +0000

Aren't you afraid to get banned from Cloudflare for using their DNS for streaming media?

New comment by TomJansen in "Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System"

TomJansen — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:04:53 +0000

I though Cloudflare forbade streaming via their network? Did their ToS change?

New comment by TomJansen in "Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?"

TomJansen — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:14:48 +0000

Health insurance should be rooted in solidarity. It is supposed to be a collective mechanism designed to prevent individuals from financial ruin due to unpredictable medical crises. It is not about hedging individual risk, but about sharing it across society, because health problems can strike anyone regardless of preparation or behavior.

New comment by TomJansen in "An NFC movie library for my kids"

TomJansen — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:31:24 +0000

This is a very cool project, and I like the nostalgic feel of it! However, this project got me thinking:

We are on a forum filled with people working on these super addicting infinite scroll technologies at YouTube, Instagram, maybe even TikTok. At the same time though, this post removing all these addictive technologies has reached the #1 spot on HN (and HN is deliberately made without any of this addicting tech!!)

I think it is time for people to really realize how addicting the tech they are making is, without masking it with words like 'friction' and 'engagement'. And hopefully they will slowly work on making their tech a little bit less addictive.

Before Covid we had some kind of movement like this, but it has sadly dwindled.

New comment by TomJansen in "Google releases smart watch for kids"

TomJansen — Wed, 29 May 2024 22:30:25 +0000

I agree with this 1000%. Kids need to be free and explore things on their own.

Why are we living in a world where we think that kids do not deserve privacy? Or where we think that we cannot trust our children?

New comment by TomJansen in "Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest"

TomJansen — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:06:59 +0000

I don't want to compare life to video games and I think comparing a genocidal dictatorship that ruthlessly suppresses its citizens and occupies foreign lands (Tibet for example) a challenger is a bit of a downplay

New comment by TomJansen in "Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood"

TomJansen — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:12:37 +0000

My optometrist said that this is only proven way to stop the progression of myopia. Sadly, I cannot wear these as I have cylinder

New comment by TomJansen in "Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?"

TomJansen — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:32:54 +0000

My grandma's pretty good with her Android phone, but every month, she calls us totally lost because apps like WhatsApp keep messing with the UI. Why do they have to change the interface so often? Most times, these changes seem pointless and just confuse her.

New comment by TomJansen in "Ubuntu 24.04 (and Debian) removed libsystemd from SSH server dependencies"

TomJansen — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 16:35:05 +0000

If you requested this 5 years ago every would think you were crazy...

Same as the suckless people. They were right after all.

New comment by TomJansen in "Sweden Is a NATO Member"

TomJansen — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:19:47 +0000

The super strategic island Gotland, for one.

New comment by TomJansen in ""Dutch engineer carried out Iranian nuclear sabotage": VK"

TomJansen — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:46:45 +0000

The AIVD nor the spy did know the specifics of the operation, e.g. that the waterpumps were carrying Stuxnet. Sources in the AIVD said that they felt used by the CIA.

Better source: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/politiek-ontste...

New comment by TomJansen in "Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com"

TomJansen — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:01:45 +0000

Hey! I made project like this, but I reverse engineered the API from the Ultimate Guitar android application. I used BurpSuite and Frida to look at all the HTTPS requests that the app made and went on from there

New comment by TomJansen in "Parents are teaming up to delay their children's first cell phone"

TomJansen — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 14:27:18 +0000

I don't think denying children of phones is a good idea. First, we shield and deny them things enough as it is already (which only makes them less prepared for the real world later in life, a thing we can observe already). Secondly, I think that we should make policies that make (social) media on the internet less addictive, and implement stuff like good internet behavior into our parenting.

New comment by TomJansen in "'Counterfeit people': The danger posed by Meta’s AI celebrity lookalike chatbots"

TomJansen — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:35:19 +0000

AI safety is just a thing to keep the advertisers happy

New comment by TomJansen in "Ask HN: Do you still use a hand held/desktop calculator?"

TomJansen — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 10:25:23 +0000

I use a Casio FX82 on my desk sometimes, for my phone I use the HiPER Calc Pro and on my laptop I have the app SpeedCrunch installed

New comment by TomJansen in "Is GPT-4 Worth the Subscription? Here’s What You Should Know"

TomJansen — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:04:29 +0000

You first need to get access to the API, which is not available to everyone