Hacker News: flr03

New comment by flr03 in "Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen"

flr03 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:35:54 +0000

That would have been handy 20 years ago to point to that one valid 'Download' button.

New comment by flr03 in "Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl"

flr03 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:36:05 +0000

That is exactly what I had in mind for my daughter too, fantastic that you got that done

New comment by flr03 in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

flr03 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:09:42 +0000

Nobody wants to trade stability for feature, especially for a product like Github...

New comment by flr03 in "The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014)"

flr03 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:41:23 +0000

It doesn't look like it got any better since 2014.

New comment by flr03 in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

flr03 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:35:28 +0000

Different reasons though, France has nothing to do with water level or availability. It's for environment protection.

New comment by flr03 in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

flr03 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:03:16 +0000

The crazy part is that you might be denied entering the country you don't travel with a device...

New comment by flr03 in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

flr03 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:19:57 +0000

Yes in democracy we do

New comment by flr03 in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

flr03 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:15:06 +0000

Yes, in my vision on society, I'd happily work to help the survival of somebody else, next.

New comment by flr03 in "How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024)"

flr03 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:21:13 +0000

At least Spain has something, UK has something to show for it the numbers are crazy.

New comment by flr03 in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

flr03 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:00:45 +0000

Just looked for my order receipt out of curiosity, this was in Jan 23: £160 for Kingston FURY Renegade 32GB (16GB x 2) 6000MT/s DDR5 CL32 DIMM Silver

New comment by flr03 in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

flr03 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:57:59 +0000

You pay money to Palantir that money essentially escapes the economy, you develop a sovereign solution yes you pay millions even more but that goes into corporations and people actually living in the country, paying taxes and spending their coins here.

New comment by flr03 in "dBase: 1979-2026"

flr03 — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:21:43 +0000

I remember my father built its own personal accounting tool using dbase, I think it was MSDOS at the time, I was a kid. Quite the achievement I think, he was not a software engineer, just hobbyist.

New comment by flr03 in "A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination"

flr03 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:49:35 +0000

I need to learn how to construct sentences better :(

New comment by flr03 in "A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination"

flr03 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:23 +0000

I switched to xfce since, much better

New comment by flr03 in "A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination"

flr03 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:50:48 +0000

I hallucinated gnomes after I took medicine they prescribed me at the hospital, following a bike accident.

New comment by flr03 in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

flr03 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:15:53 +0000

It's quite obvious they just wanted to punish Anthropic, all this supply chain risk is a joke.

New comment by flr03 in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

flr03 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:33:03 +0000

Pair programming is basically continuous code review. You don't take the same path until you discuss and challenge the ideas first. I could argue that code reviews are also lazily done, yes pair programming can be difficult but god reviewing massive PRs, how many times does the attention drops, how many times is it done seriously? LGTM

New comment by flr03 in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"

flr03 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:47:16 +0000

I hope humans in charge are as wise now as they were then.

New comment by flr03 in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"

flr03 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:14:30 +0000

I'm not scared about AI recommending nuclear strikes, I'm scared about the human behind the keyboard delegating reasoning and responsability to something they think is always correct, something that can hide bias and flaws better than anything.

New comment by flr03 in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

flr03 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:43:16 +0000

If it's so cumbersome why don't US companies pull out the EU market? bet they make money anyway don't they