Hacker News: bojan

New comment by bojan in "Why Does Everyone Hate AI?"

bojan — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:46:17 +0000

Wait until those prices start propagating to mass consumer products.

New comment by bojan in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

bojan — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:04:23 +0000

> and that got me thinking that there's potentially a different type of gambling app that ignores the money and is more of a social/prediction-making platform

We have that in the Netherlands and we do it massively for every World Cup and Euro. The app my friend groups are on, Scorito, has 1.5 million competitors for the current WC, in the country of 18 million, and that's not the only app.

Normally a group would make a small buy in, like €5, where the winner takes all, but this year the legal department at work forbade that, se that sort of gambling Is actual illegal.

New comment by bojan in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

bojan — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:35:27 +0000

The acknowledgement is in the PR description, section "The design, and what it's based on".

New comment by bojan in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

bojan — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:45:26 +0000

Same here. I'll be in a market soon and I had my eyes on a VW i4 or a Škoda Enyaq, but this makes me seriously reconsider. I really wanted to support local industry and buy a European product this time, but they are making it seriously difficult (no, don't get me even started on Stellantis).

New comment by bojan in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

bojan — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:39:16 +0000

People do need to eat, but over 80% of the Dutch agricultural produce is being exported.

Also, good portion of it isn't even meant for human consumption. Think flowers or cattle feed.

This is not about feeding the population or about sustainability. It's simply about profit.

New comment by bojan in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

bojan — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:08:04 +0000

As someone who's pro-EU, I'd also really like to see major reforms within the organization.

While it contributes enormously to the welfare of the continent, the EU is by design dysfunctional and toothless.

I'm a pessimist, there is so much money behind the forces that want to see the EU fall apart because small individual countries are easier to buy off, I don't see how we can defend against that.

We'll only know what we lost when it's gone, but then it'll be too late.

New comment by bojan in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

bojan — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:02:23 +0000

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New comment by bojan in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

bojan — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:59:26 +0000

A successful rejoin referendum would probably help contain Reform.

However such a referendum is basically taboo in the British public discourse.

New comment by bojan in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

bojan — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:54:07 +0000

> At the time "polls" predicted a Remain win.

This is a common trope but is simply not true. The polls were really tight[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_United...

New comment by bojan in "Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter"

bojan — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:42:49 +0000

Being Serbian, I also find equalising Cyrillic with Russian mildly annoying. Or even worse, when people call it "Russian letters".

With that being said, I do think it's harder to make a clear programming language based on is a Slavic language, due to all the case and gender forms.

New comment by bojan in "Ferrari Luce"

bojan — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:18:30 +0000

A lot of peple in this chain aren't paid to have a sense of ownership. They just do their job and their personal opinion of the work doesn't really matter.

New comment by bojan in "The User Is Visibly Frustrated"

bojan — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:13:53 +0000

Weird, I have exactly the same experience with GitHub Copilot Plugin in JetBrains vs Copilot CLI in the built-in terminal.

The plugin keeps asking for permissions, the terminal app just works.

New comment by bojan in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

bojan — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:26:17 +0000

I'm using chatbots for search, but that's only because Google became so horrible at it.

I'd rather just have results without chatbot fluff.

New comment by bojan in "Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds"

bojan — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:18:57 +0000

The public is literally being told that white collar jobs are gone. What do you expect?

New comment by bojan in "560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits"

bojan — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:16:25 +0000

20 minutes of walking is a perfect bicycle distance.

New comment by bojan in "560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits"

bojan — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:15:22 +0000

Luckily because of the AI we'll all be able to do more in less time, so those 10 hours will be easy to find.

Jokes aside, 10 hours a week is quite something. Good that they mention that 2-3 hours is also already beneficial.

New comment by bojan in "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution"

bojan — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:03:13 +0000

Generally, people don't care about "fields being impacted", and the students certainly don't. People care about the impact certain technology has on their daily lives, on their welfare and the ability to pay off their mortgage and provide a decent life for their children.

The AI as it is today isn't really doing any of those things. At most, it's a sort of reliable replacement fot Google Search. Worden ehen, it's being presented as threat to all those things the people care about.

New comment by bojan in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

bojan — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:58:28 +0000

We have voted in the most right-wing Parliament and, by extension, Commission, in the EU's history.

It only makes sense they'll prioritize big-business interests over those of the common folk.

New comment by bojan in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

bojan — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:39:21 +0000

I genuinely think it's not ok even then. Copilot is a tool, one of many I use. That tool has no business polluting commit messages without my knowledge.

The appended message isn't even adding any new information, as in this day and age a vast majority of commits is probably "co-authored" by an LLM.

New comment by bojan in "Waymo in Portland"

bojan — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:15:04 +0000

Waymo is a sort of public transit. It's just an vastly more inefficient than any other form of public transit, but an order of magnitude more efficient than private passenger cars.