<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: __jochen__</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=__jochen__</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:17:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=__jochen__" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jochen__ in "How Markdown took over the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry, I'm going to be a downer. I've been around for a long time too, saw many formats come and go (even contributed to some myself). I think Markdown is super neat and handy, but this statement "The trillion-dollar AI industry's system for controlling their most advanced platforms is a plain text format... Their achievement is every bit as impressive as yours." ..is way off. NN math & engineering has been refined for ~50 years (give or take) and scaled to mindboggling levels. For better or worse, it is in the process of transforming how society functions (just like the internet and mobile phones did).
Building modern advanced NN/AI requires extremely sophisticated and advanced science, hardware & algorithms; the format of the prompts conventionally used by some are a handy but fairly trivial part of the endeavor.</p>
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<p>Do you trust the seller on AliExpress selling the OpenWRT One router? OpenWRT links directly to it (from <a href="https://openwrt.org/start" rel="nofollow">https://openwrt.org/start</a>):
<a href="https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007795779282.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007795779282.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:54:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898652</link><dc:creator>__jochen__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jochen__ in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From a technical perspective there is so much you can do to secure things, including against theft. While it's hard to lock things down past 99.9% usage, it is not too hard to make token issuance secure enough for practical, wide-spread use (there are a plethora of crypto protocols out there to prove the point).<p>There's no guarantee that the government will pick the best standard, but one can hold out hope (e.g. when the US govt adopted Rijndael as the AES encryption standard).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 03:23:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44752721</link><dc:creator>__jochen__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44752721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44752721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jochen__ in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Amazing! Do you have some spare time? Can you quickly mint me a BTC token please. kthxbai ;)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:05:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744377</link><dc:creator>__jochen__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744377</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jochen__ in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The proposal is for SIGNED tokens i.e. only the govt can issue them, and you need a govt issued ID to generate them. The latter mechanism allows rate limiting. This fixes the problem you outline.</p>
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<p>I agree the naming is a mess. 
There is the Australian Digital ID system (<a href="https://www.digitalidsystem.gov.au/how-the-system-works" rel="nofollow">https://www.digitalidsystem.gov.au/how-the-system-works</a>) which allows third party providers.<p>Whatever the capabilities of the Australian government ID services, there is a way to issue privacy-preserving tokens that could do all the things you'd need without being trackable the system was properly designed. (I have not studied the protocols of the Digital ID spec to say whether that's the case).</p>
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<p>That's the problem. The new norm will be 10x of pre-AI productivity, nobody will be able justify hand-writing code. And until the quality bar of LLM's/their successors get much better (see e.g. comments above looking at the details in the examples given), you'll get accumulation of errors that are higher than what decent programmers get. With higher LOC and more uninspected complexity, you'll get significantly lower quality overall. The coming wave of AI-coded bugs will be fun for all. 
GOTO FAIL;</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:06:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43576040</link><dc:creator>__jochen__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43576040</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43576040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jochen__ in "AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is also likely to be increased pressure in a SE job to produce more code. You'll find that if others use AI, it'll be hard to be a hold-out and hit fewer delivery milestones, and quality is hard to measure. People are rewarded for shipping, primarily (unless you're explicitly working on high reliability/assurance products).</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jochen.earth/post/3lbiw2bjcu22n">https://bsky.app/profile/jochen.earth/post/3lbiw2bjcu22n</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42210609">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42210609</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:22:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://bsky.app/profile/jochen.earth/post/3lbiw2bjcu22n</link><dc:creator>__jochen__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42210609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42210609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jochen__ in "AlphaFold Predictions Driven by Memorization"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed, that this is a limited scope for what AF does. Nevertheless, it seems interesting to confirm that its primary strengths are memorization, which is not surprising.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51801-z">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51801-z</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358650">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358650</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:10:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51801-z</link><dc:creator>__jochen__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How novel is “AI” 'Search Algorithm for Ligands' used in flu vaccine design?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It made Media blitz today. It was developed by Flinders University team /w Prof. Petrovsky. Past paper used "Modeler (homology modeling) program..with receptor binding analysis using Scripps' "Vina". old paper: https://twitter.com/__jochen__/status/1146268684899495937</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341533">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341533</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2019 04:12:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341533</link><dc:creator>__jochen__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jochen__ in "Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to steal vehicles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the relay is of the radio signal, there is no inspection or tampering of the relayed messages. basically, the extender tricks the car into thinking the fob is closer than it is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:02:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18616004</link><dc:creator>__jochen__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18616004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18616004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jochen__ in "H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think one angle the parent may have intended is that immigration increases labour supply and thus depresses wages. This argument ignores the fact that immigration generally grows an economy and in many countries it's a critical driver. This goes doubly for highly skilled immigration - particularly in the tech industry. I've worked with extremely talented folks who'd come to the US from all over the world, raising the bar at the world's top tech companies. Anyone who's worked in these companies will tell you that it's the quality bar that's the biggest constraint on hiring. SV is a concentrator of technical talent - one of the reasons the ecosystem works so well (the other is access to capital).<p>Beyond that, I'd find it surprising that progressive policy should depress wages - conservative economic stance typically weighs in favour of Capital.<p>The ultimate irony of the parent post is that the values he strongly identifies with are those that thwart his dearest wish. Emblematic of the human condition?</p>
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<p>I imagine people are vaguely aware of the degree of difficulty for different countries, but your point stands that most people with a reasonable standard of living prefer to avoid the upheaval of emigrating.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2018 00:41:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18190174</link><dc:creator>__jochen__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18190174</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18190174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jochen__ in "H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately for you, your conservative peers in the US don't want foreigners like you to immigrate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 23:55:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18172303</link><dc:creator>__jochen__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18172303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18172303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jochen__ in "Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me the main benefit is tasty consumption of vegetables that I would otherwise probably not eat in their raw state, or in the quantity I'd like e.g. a fave is carrot, apple, ginger, spinach and broccoli.<p>If you believe the numerous health claims that vegetables in their raw state are good for you, this is a much easier way to consume them. If you don't believe it, then yeah, you could spend the time to cook it up - you're not in the target demo...<p>Criticisms such at TFA linked to above, speak of sweetened smoothies, mostly fruit drinks (who would buy a cold press to squeeze oranges? what a strawman). While the arguments are valid, they typically miss the main use-cases of core cold-press-juicer demo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 02:57:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14190407</link><dc:creator>__jochen__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14190407</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14190407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __jochen__ in "Alibaba begins drone delivery trials in China"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's already happening. Imagine delivery of high-value, light goods to remote locations, e.g. medicines in the Australian Outback, or island off the German coast. These are examples of what has already been done.</p>
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<p>I welcome our robot overlords. I do wonder, however, who's going to do quality assurance on these cars. The first startup launching MVP driverless cars with a horrible accident record will set back the industry for years.</p>
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<p>I have a fair degree of trust in Google's solution. Somewhere out there is a stealth startup hacking a solution running with an Arduino, webcam and cheap servo motor that can control your car for a fraction of the cost. I feel safer already.</p>
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