Hacker News: dgan

New comment by dgan in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

dgan — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:37:22 +0000

i am in Paris, and I don't see much variety. Obviously there is so much more choice in big hypermarkets, but I don't go there daily, unlike my local, 30sqm store next my apartment

New comment by dgan in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

dgan — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:17:09 +0000

se here. i enjoy beer but annoyes me that they all have the same 5% alcohol content. its too much, I just like the taste, I don't want to be sleepy. non alcoholic beers taste terrible

New comment by dgan in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

dgan — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:59:29 +0000

I don't use my car daily (thanks subway), only for rare monthly trips, 400km one way. How does hybrid helps here? it just adds weight for no reason

New comment by dgan in "One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days"

dgan — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:44:40 +0000

"using facebook", unironically presented as evidence of "technologically literate" is so funny

New comment by dgan in "Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row"

dgan — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:31:09 +0000

Need 7 more paragraphes telling us that the stones, weren't in fact, chosen from the nearest location, but were chosen from a distant location.

Without ever telling *how" they were moved of course, that would give out too much

Ask HN: Can't input "double quotes" in Gmail web?

dgan — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:57:26 +0000

It's been a while now, I can't input double quotes "" into email's body? This only happens on my laptop (Framework/Fedora) with Firefox. The Android app is fine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49693882

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dgan in "Canonical backs new project to translate large C codebases into safe Rust"

dgan — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:47:48 +0000

can it be done? C codebase are obviously missing the lifetime information, type-generic arguments are just void*, in/out arguments aren't explicit... or at least, the information is scattered across the codebase, and might be inconsistent. a "safe rust" might not be even possible

New comment by dgan in "An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power"

dgan — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:34:08 +0000

nope, still not buying it. i understand we must live in different jurisdictions, and hère (France) it is explicitly stated that Employer must provide all tools necessary to the work. moreover, the Employee has the explicit right to refuse any request to use his own tools for the job. And finally, any costs for the employee must be reimbursed by the Employer.

New comment by dgan in "An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power"

dgan — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:13:08 +0000

for one, because that's like requiring a particular brand of a tool to be used. That's even ignoring the "required" because usually I can't require that my hide uses a tool unless I, as employer, provide it to him/her

New comment by dgan in "NetBSD 11.0"

dgan — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:58:26 +0000

i really want to use one on my Linode, wondering if is it possible

New comment by dgan in "The human-in-the-loop is tired"

dgan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:17:58 +0000

The whole premise of Anthropic and openai is to replace developers. I don't understand what mental gymnastics people are going thru to justify their 5 open claude sessions and tokenmaxxing

Like, they want to professionnaly, kill you. Theh are as much as a tool as is a cord pending from the ceiling

New comment by dgan in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

dgan — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:08:05 +0000

You and the parent are arguing over different, orthogonal things. I believe the parent argues over "efficiency"(=being able to achieve a goal for given amount of ressources) while you are replying over "efficacy" (=being able to achieve a goal). Both could be called 'maintainability' and nobody explicitely tells what definition they use, so all the long pointless discussions could be avoided if people agreed on terms

New comment by dgan in "Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects"

dgan — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:18:39 +0000

Just finance the project for god sake, why introducing another "gift card" that they sell at cashiers? Let the maintainer spend the money, maybe he/she needs bread, not tokens

New comment by dgan in "Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)"

dgan — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:27:13 +0000

But somehow "force all adults to sort their thrash" instead of "let's standardize the packaging and materials" is fine? Oh I see

Not addressing to you specifically, just figure of speech

New comment by dgan in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

dgan — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:14:08 +0000

At least he has a reputational/commercial risk. LLM has none

New comment by dgan in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

dgan — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:30:08 +0000

Lol thats brave on your part, given that a mistake can cost thousands and you have no accountability (punch!) from an LLM

New comment by dgan in "Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform"

dgan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:37:46 +0000

I ve had exactly same idea for many years now, but apparently that's not as obvisous to others

Developing new software? Universities! Maintaining/migrating old software? Universities! IT counseling and advise? You won't believe it ... Unive okey i stop here you got the point

New comment by dgan in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

dgan — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:06:07 +0000

So they are buying another 32GB RAM stick, interesting

New comment by dgan in "Can You Stop a Hypersonic Missile?"

dgan — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:59:19 +0000

What could I read in order to understand different tradeoffs between types of missiles and the interceptors? It's just curiosity, i dont need hard math, but let's say i d like to implement a somewhat realistic system for real time strategy game

New comment by dgan in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

dgan — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:33:04 +0000

I practically never watch any movies because they are almost always trash, but decided to go watch Obsession after seeing a youtuber (penguinZ) talking positively about it

Yeah it's pretty good. I am in my late 30. Excited for Backrooms which isnt yet available