Hacker News: cocoto

New comment by cocoto in "The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern"

cocoto — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:54:00 +0000

You can edit single files in most git forges and it will open a pull request for you, the workflow is not that bad.

New comment by cocoto in "Measuring the sloppiness of code"

cocoto — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:00:44 +0000

This doesn’t scale at all for some problems where a specific algorithm is needed (graph problems for instance).

New comment by cocoto in "Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished"

cocoto — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:06:46 +0000

“do” imply “can”, but “can” do not imply “do”.

New comment by cocoto in "De-Brainrot Vacations"

cocoto — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:27:15 +0000

I recognize myself in the first paragraph (except being totally exhausted to the point having to sleep). And I started working as a SWE 4 years ago (so full dopamine brainrot access). Maybe it is because I have a reasonable usage of LLMs?

New comment by cocoto in "Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI"

cocoto — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:09:47 +0000

You forgot the “autonomous” part of the definition.

New comment by cocoto in "The death of San Francisco's Market Street"

cocoto — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:53:44 +0000

I have a near total opposite view as a cyclist in France. Buses are extremely dangerous in cities, and are way louder than cars.

New comment by cocoto in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

cocoto — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:53:39 +0000

If AI coding agents follow the same path then any software engineer over 25yo can peacefully continue working for 30 years until the tech is capable. The comparison is futile…

New comment by cocoto in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

cocoto — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:38:02 +0000

N = 1. The company I’m working for, (a hundred employees, EU), we basically build projects on data science, ML, optimization, operational research and such for many industries (transportation, manufacturing, finance, engineering, etc). We are basically the first to know about the latest advances in AI and we have internal optional workshops on LLM assisted development. And yet nobody is pressured to use these tools. At most we are incentivized to at least try these tools.

New comment by cocoto in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

cocoto — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:23:40 +0000

I’m almost sure that you need some password or biometrics to reset Apple ID, change Find My or change biometrics. Moreover if you don’t trust FaceID you can easily lock it (to ask for password instead of biometrics) when needed.

New comment by cocoto in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

cocoto — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:17:42 +0000

Not possible on modern iPhones.

New comment by cocoto in "Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women"

cocoto — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:15:48 +0000

The whole point of the debate is that the fetus has no choice during an absorption, not some “moral” ground that you are imposing to someone else.

New comment by cocoto in "Maybe you should learn something"

cocoto — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:28:20 +0000

Maybe because these is an obvious benefit of physical exercises and that there are no health benefits to learn a new topic after having already exhausted your brain sitting +7 hours at work?

New comment by cocoto in "My Mathematical Regression"

cocoto — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:38:46 +0000

Even if you don’t know or remember the basics of combinatorics you can solve the problem with basic dynamic programming : start with the unit grid and then expend it.

New comment by cocoto in "The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends"

cocoto — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:19:08 +0000

I'm responsible for hiring junior C++ developers in a small company (first role). Let met tell you that almost all candidates are stating "medium" level in C++ in their resume but don't even know how to work with pointers or references, they don't even have the level of someone studying the language for half a day. And I don't even think it's related to AI. Whatever the reason, it's very easy to assert a candidate competency with a 30 minutes to an hour interview in person.

New comment by cocoto in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

cocoto — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:51:03 +0000

Today I have simply given up trying not to share my personal information. What I do instead is simply blocking all ads and don’t use apps/websites that can’t be used without ad blocking. They may have many personal details like my favorite ice cream flavor but I get zero ads so I don’t care that much (I would prefer no one having this information but I’m pragmatic in such terrible society).

New comment by cocoto in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

cocoto — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:55:24 +0000

There is no lie or misleading information about rust in the title so it’s clearly not clickbait.

New comment by cocoto in "Siri AI"

cocoto — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:41:38 +0000

There is a uBlock Origin Lite extension for Safari available in the App Store. Technically not as powerful (hence the “lite” in the name) but it’s perfectly blocking all ads for my usage.

New comment by cocoto in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

cocoto — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:43:28 +0000

Do not forget the new recents ads in Apple Maps.

New comment by cocoto in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

cocoto — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:40:20 +0000

I’m pretty confident that at least 95% of HN users use adblocking so clearly the users are not worth much to the ad companies. Today I have absolutely zero ads on my devices.

New comment by cocoto in "Please Use AI"

cocoto — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:06:31 +0000

Not everyone live in a big city.