Hacker News: TomJansen

New comment by TomJansen in "South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones"

TomJansen — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:29:04 +0000

>substantially cheaper price

why substantially cheaper? Break-even would be fine too, no? And as a plus, lab-grown meat is much more ethical.

I also think that replacing 'cheap' meat like ground beef would already be sufficient and would make a huge impact, there is really no need make it difficult for ourselves and try to replace rib-eye.

New comment by TomJansen in "Servus München: Waymo Is Coming to Germany"

TomJansen — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:58:52 +0000

Iets first try to get inter-European train tickets shall we?

New comment by TomJansen in "OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users"

TomJansen — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:02:34 +0000

Do you have any examples of this? I am not sure if I understand what you mean

New comment by TomJansen in "DeepSeek aims to make its own AI chip"

TomJansen — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:52:00 +0000

Source?

New comment by TomJansen in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

TomJansen — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:52:23 +0000

I work in Bioengineering, and I have never ever had a prompt go through Fable's safety filters. So I have never had the pleasure of using it.

Why release a model with such strict filters? It would be more sensible from a buisness perspective if they had sensible filters in place right away.

New comment by TomJansen in "US and Iran reach cease fire agreement"

TomJansen — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:18:10 +0000

Your really put the shill in shilliard

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.