Hacker News: cocoto

New comment by cocoto in "Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust"

cocoto — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:02:42 +0000

How does it compare with diffstatic?

New comment by cocoto in "No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]"

cocoto — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 11:40:14 +0000

Personally I let Claude handle most code while I do some coding challenges by hand on the side to keep the brain sharp.

New comment by cocoto in "Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable"

cocoto — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:28:07 +0000

I’m pretty sure it’s for security reasons, it allows the app to ensure the code comes from a correct Signal phone number and not from a third party actor. It’s hand holding yes but it’s a trade off in favor of non-technical users.

New comment by cocoto in "Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel"

cocoto — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:50:39 +0000

Yes the default behavior of working around the bug is good, that’s what everyone was doing anyway pre-LLMs. The good practice is to report the bug. Simply add instructions to your agents to report you the bugs it found in the summary, so you can check the bug and report it correctly upstream.

New comment by cocoto in "We still use paper"

cocoto — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:35:55 +0000

Except for doing maths, which is painful to input on screens (but beautiful).

New comment by cocoto in "Things to know when you get cancer"

cocoto — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:07:58 +0000

It also helps that your history with the doctor will help you build trust. If you have the same doctor for years and you only went twice for symptoms (that was treated by specialists), then your doctor might redirect you to a specialist in no time as soon as you have any new symptoms.

New comment by cocoto in "Passkeys are not a trap"

cocoto — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:42:21 +0000

Backup codes, sms backup, trusted user backup. Most of these are quite insecure but better than loosing access to your digital life.

New comment by cocoto in "How big is a Git commit?"

cocoto — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:33:22 +0000

> The du options are: s to summarize and b to display bytes.

Small nitpick: Use long options and your code samples become self explanatory!

New comment by cocoto in "Barcodes are about to go extinct"

cocoto — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:14:03 +0000

Too pricey for food, it’s cheaper to print.

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.