Hacker News: bberrry

New comment by bberrry in "OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor"

bberrry — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:09:09 +0000

Neither open source nor free however.

New comment by bberrry in "GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday"

bberrry — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:23:47 +0000

5.6 Sol is extremely good, definitely Fable level from my experience. With 5.6 Sol being half the price and noticeably faster I think Anthropic will find the coming months unpleasant.

New comment by bberrry in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

bberrry — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 06:45:48 +0000

If you want your company's code to be used in training, then yes.

New comment by bberrry in "Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase"

bberrry — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:10:28 +0000

My favorite stack, Kotlin with Spring Boot. A real delight to work with

New comment by bberrry in "Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3"

bberrry — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:19:34 +0000

They are definitely cheating, they have crafted prompts[1] that explain the game rules rather than have the model explore and learn.

1. https://github.com/symbolica-ai/ARC-AGI-3-Agents/blob/symbol...

New comment by bberrry in "State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?"

bberrry — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:31:24 +0000

The old stuff still being accessible is the only way I find the stuff I'm looking for

New comment by bberrry in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

bberrry — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:30:04 +0000

Do share examples and evidence, by all means.

New comment by bberrry in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

bberrry — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:29:10 +0000

75 minutes to diagnose what's failing is not.

New comment by bberrry in "'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app"

bberrry — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:54:12 +0000

Tidal is using a revenue share model, just like Spotify. A higher per-steam payout just means users on Tidal are listening to less music than Spotify users.

New comment by bberrry in "Top Programming Languages 2025"

bberrry — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:20:23 +0000

So is Netflix. Silly take

New comment by bberrry in "Top Programming Languages 2025"

bberrry — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:02:40 +0000

Those of you surprised to see Java so prominent, where have you been all your careers? 10 people startups with nodejs backends? You must have been entirely shielded from enterprise software companies.

New comment by bberrry in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

bberrry — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:06:08 +0000

Have you had any significant issues with scams? In my home country we have a huge problem of scammers calling and tricking elderly people to transfer their savings with a similar instant payment app.

New comment by bberrry in "Java 24 Released"

bberrry — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:23:12 +0000

Finally I can recommend virtual threads without significant caveats.

New comment by bberrry in "Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks"

bberrry — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:21:23 +0000

Mine had iteration count 1. I was livid when I found out. Fucking amateurs taking on the responsibility to safeguard everyone's passwords

New comment by bberrry in "Why is the American diet so deadly?"

bberrry — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:02:24 +0000

What evidence is there of preservatives having detrimental effects on humans (in the doses we actually receive)?

New comment by bberrry in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

bberrry — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:36:25 +0000

Kotlin does improve on the primitives/boxed situation. For example in Kotlin there is just "Int", not both "int" and "Integer". The language will use stack-allocated primitives wherever possible and boxed objects when necessary (in Collection generics or when you've explicitly opted into nullability). The distinction is abstracted away from you as a programmer. Sounds like the consistency you want.

New comment by bberrry in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

bberrry — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:30:52 +0000

This is the biggest issue with investing in Kotlin IMHO. The stewards of the language have a conflict of interest in democratizing the tools.

New comment by bberrry in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

bberrry — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:28:45 +0000

try statements being expressions is also especially lovely

New comment by bberrry in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

bberrry — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:23:14 +0000

Can't blame Kotlin for that. And it's a very minor sin frankly.. set-and-forget.

New comment by bberrry in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

bberrry — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:18:13 +0000

Depends on what you're writing I guess (as always). I write backend services and if there is an exception thrown, generally the whole request is forfeit. So a top-level exception handler is all that's needed.. no checked exceptions ruining my lambdas or streams like in Java.