Hacker News: ajoseps

New comment by ajoseps in "In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?"

ajoseps — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:53:31 +0000

I’ve played the main game but never the DLC. Is it worth going back and running through again?

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ajoseps — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:19:32 +0000

There’s been multiple threads on HN front page that have been about this for the last week as well as protests in certain US cities like LA and SF.

I don’t know if you’re being willfully dishonest or you’re genuinely oblivious.

EDIT: also Renee Good’s killing is a domestic issue and is much closer to home for most Americans than Iran. It is not surprising that there is a lot of chatter about it.

New comment by ajoseps in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

ajoseps — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:47:56 +0000

what post are you referring to?

New comment by ajoseps in "US freezes visas for 75 nations"

ajoseps — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:29:46 +0000

what’s the context around the website?

New comment by ajoseps in "How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission"

ajoseps — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:31:04 +0000

idk man, I’ve always thought UIUC was pretty selective, especially for their EE and CS programs. I’m also 10+ years out from college applications so maybe things have changed.

New comment by ajoseps in "The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice"

ajoseps — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:57:06 +0000

The No Kings protests are large and have been occurring over the last year. It’s disingenuous to imply the population is doing nothing but comment online. The US is a large country with the third largest population in the world. It’s not homogenous.

Despite all that, it’s probably still prudent to decouple from the US.

New comment by ajoseps in "Claude Code On-the-Go"

ajoseps — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:00:56 +0000

this is my workflow as well

New comment by ajoseps in "FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service"

ajoseps — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:45:40 +0000

great write up and breakdown of the project. you can do a lot with a small VPS

New comment by ajoseps in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

ajoseps — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:25:09 +0000

he’s not a “random internet person”, he created Redis. Despite that, I don’t know how authoritative of a figure he is with respect to AI research. He’s definitely a prolific programmer though.

New comment by ajoseps in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?"

ajoseps — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:39:50 +0000

this has already happened: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/japan-ai...

New comment by ajoseps in "How well do you know C++ auto type deduction?"

ajoseps — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:27:13 +0000

this sounds hilarious, please do tell. Does it relate to volatility spikes when tariffs are announced and some unexpected overflow?

New comment by ajoseps in "Ask HN: Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM?"

ajoseps — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:22:21 +0000

honestly i think LLMs make it easier to write with lower level languages and you get the upside of being able to optimize better since you have more granularity of control in something like C vs something like Python.

I don’t know if LLMs will completely take over, but they’re a useful tool today. I think it’s worth learning how to use them effectively, but also know how to work without them, and when to work without them.

New comment by ajoseps in "Ask HN: Why not use AI for smart product placement in free ad-supported novels?"

ajoseps — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:53:33 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if this gets built for visual media but I think we’re past the point for the book/novel market. I think the people who are reading novels are now a niche market and would be highly antagonistic to something like this.

Also this just seems so depressingly bleak. At least in the states we do have libraries where people can read books for free.

New comment by ajoseps in "New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair"

ajoseps — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:57:27 +0000

i thought the first two have had huge improvements in the last decade?

New comment by ajoseps in "Some software bloat is OK"

ajoseps — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:31:41 +0000

i’m not familiar with this space but I do remember using plotly with webgl to create interactive graphs when they had too many data points (financial tick data). I imagine this is quite a step up and the project looks really cool! I hope you continue working on it.

New comment by ajoseps in "My gf thinks videogames cannot be art. What to show her?"

ajoseps — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:14:24 +0000

Outer Wilds

New comment by ajoseps in "Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon"

ajoseps — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:56:47 +0000

why does him not being from the US imply that he is not really religious?

New comment by ajoseps in "The H-1B Visa Program and Its Impact on the U.S. Economy"

ajoseps — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:06:08 +0000

I think the assumption of it being a zero-sum game is wrong. Almost half of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children [0]. The source is still the American Immigration Council, but even just looking at a specific example can illustrate that it might not be a zero sum game.

Jensen Huang, the co-founder and now CEO of NVIDIA, was an immigrant. NVIDIA is one of the most valuable companies today and has generated thousand of jobs and has helped create the AI revolution happening right now. You can argue that some other American born citizen would have created NVIDIA or found the same success, but that is difficult to prove.

I fundamentally disagree that this is a zero sum game. Many immigrants add to the American experience and many become citizens themselves. The country loses out in ignoring foreign labor, especially if it’s foreigners who are taught in our schools and want to come and work here.

[0] https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/fortune-50...

New comment by ajoseps in "US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices"

ajoseps — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 17:08:54 +0000

One difference with renewables and traditional fuel sources is that once renewable infrastructure is built you don’t need to continually import from another country. Maintenance is definitely an issue and on going expansion and upgrades as well. I do think long term renewables wouldn’t have the same issues as oil dependency on another country though.

The UK does still need to build more on shore nevertheless.

New comment by ajoseps in "Show HN: Tool shows UK properties matching group commute/time preferences"

ajoseps — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:45:49 +0000

wow I’ve been looking for something like this for an upcoming move! Would be nice to also have options to do more granular filtering, like number of bathrooms.