Hacker News: devcpp

New comment by devcpp in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

devcpp — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:15:50 +0000

The lost jobs and the decrease in the demand for software engineers doesn't seem like an illusion. It might come back eventually but I wouldn't bet on it.

New comment by devcpp in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

devcpp — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:24:22 +0000

Might as well add The Talos Principle then

New comment by devcpp in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

devcpp — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:49:26 +0000

They were putting together advanced parts towards a nuclear weapon and IAEA says they weren't cooperating. Everyone knew what this meant. Even themselves, why did they need JCPOA otherwise? Just explain why you have 60% enriched uranium.

New comment by devcpp in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

devcpp — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:46:59 +0000

Why bring him up? No one cares about him. He's been lying about it all those years until it became true, that doesn't mean it's still false. I can say the universe will be destroyed in a year, I'll eventually be right.

New comment by devcpp in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

devcpp — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:45:03 +0000

Everyone will agree with that. It's pretty obvious NK got nukes because they had an ally strong enough to shield them. "Unauthorized" referred to precisely the lack of credible support from a strong ally.

New comment by devcpp in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

devcpp — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 05:00:17 +0000

Saying "Khomeini" on current day Iran casts a large doubt on how much you know on the topic.

New comment by devcpp in "Pope Francis has died"

devcpp — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 09:28:18 +0000

I am familiar with IDF headquarters, they are located in a clearly marked base, you can see it on Google Maps. This is similar to French army's Hexagone Balard in Paris or the Italian and Dutch armies HQ for example, from a cursory search, ask your local LLM for more.

Can you say the same about Hamas?

New comment by devcpp in "Pope Francis has died"

devcpp — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 09:27:18 +0000

The word massacre is loaded and does not represent the typical reality in Gaza. Most estimates place the ratio of combatant to civilian casualties within the range for armed conflicts, nevermind guerilla warfare settings.

New comment by devcpp in "Pope Francis has died"

devcpp — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 09:21:21 +0000

You used the word indistinguishable, the other person used "deep". You are factually wrong since the ratio of Hamas to Gazan casualties does not represent random targeting even by the worst estimates. You also ignore the possibility of Hamas eventually giving up or some other diplomatic solution being reached.

We are a highly technical community, we should be able to debug the situation and find edge cases rather than trivialize it.

New comment by devcpp in "Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence"

devcpp — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:58:31 +0000

This implies that inequality is bad. I would rather argue that poverty is bad, and it is at an all-time low [1], consistently raising the HDI everywhere technology is introduced. Inequality in itself is only bad with regards to jealousy, which should be addressed through economics education.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty

New comment by devcpp in "US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp"

devcpp — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 23:42:42 +0000

What was the point of the parent comment?

New comment by devcpp in "Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira"

devcpp — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:28:01 +0000

Unless the company has a very negative outlook with outstanding debts (which Squarespace is not AFAIK), the price they have to pay to take over is much lower than the value of their assets.

And even with a negative outlook and debts (i.e. liquidation), extracting value without making bigger issues is not at all simple.

New comment by devcpp in "The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper"

devcpp — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 05:25:55 +0000

Note he's not a cybersecurity researcher, he's mostly a database engineer (a great one, making significant PGSQL contributions), so I'm not sure he's familiar with statistics and variety of backdoor attempts.

New comment by devcpp in "North Korean science fiction"

devcpp — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 04:13:17 +0000

Not anymore. I can't imagine what media doesn't have a free type of publisher (Youtube for videos, Amazon or Lulu for text, itch.io for games, Github for software, play store for apps, etc), and getting traction is as easy as a Reddit/HN post.

If your content is good, it takes 5 minutes to get it to the entire world for free.

New comment by devcpp in "North Korean science fiction"

devcpp — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 03:57:11 +0000

Not really. These days, if you have talent, spreading your work is as easy as making a Reddit or HN post and get traction in no time at all. What sinks probably isn't worth much attention. Of course, works are also made and not published anywhere, but people are free to stay a hermit and not publish their work.

New comment by devcpp in "Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation"

devcpp — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 07:40:44 +0000

I'm the last person to defend welfare for the wealthy. I'm saying you're blaming the player rather than the game, which is an understandable feeling but is not productive to your goals.

New comment by devcpp in "Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation"

devcpp — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 06:20:28 +0000

Not exactly something unions will solve, and not enough to destroy those gains on average.

New comment by devcpp in "Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation"

devcpp — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 06:18:34 +0000

That's all from the government, and by extension from the population at large, not from any set of rich people.

New comment by devcpp in "All sound recordings prior to 1923 will enter the US public domain in 2022"

devcpp — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 23:24:47 +0000

And also to not die, since they earn money for their children. It's the reverse of the usual inheritance situation, where the state and the kids both want the person to die.

New comment by devcpp in "Is The World Deglobalising?"

devcpp — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:57:53 +0000

One problem is that globalization comes hand in hand with centralization. All industries have a tendency to cluster around a specific place with the most talent or existing resources.

While this gives disproportional power to some states, this also means no state gets all the cards since none has all the industries. China without its partners is nothing. This is a form of mutually assured destruction, which isn't ideal but better than most alternatives.