Hacker News: hkon

New comment by hkon in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording" (2024)"

hkon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:18:11 +0000

Factually wrong. People actually take pride in recording their wrongdoings.

New comment by hkon in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

hkon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:45:57 +0000

It's going to come soon. Very soon. I mean they have started in the physical world by regulating 3d printers and cnc machines to submit what they are making to an AI to make sure they are not making gun parts.

New comment by hkon in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

hkon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:59:13 +0000

hey claude build me a small social media site i can use with my friends...

the beginning of the freedom of every person to become a developer

New comment by hkon in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

hkon — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:38:41 +0000

Github Copilot has for the last week been an absolute shitshow. Clearly something has happened behind the scenes.

AI itself clearly weaker / dumber. Prices increased manyfold.

New comment by hkon in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

hkon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:07:28 +0000

ofc, they only need to get it approved once. they will try until they succeed

New comment by hkon in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

hkon — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:20:10 +0000

I hear about people in my extended circle moving to linux every week now. Windows users of 10-25 years++ have had enough.

New comment by hkon in "The programmers who live in Flatland"

hkon — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:06:43 +0000

I liked this post. But I was a bit disappointed when it ended so soon.

New comment by hkon in ""Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore"

hkon — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:35:38 +0000

I don't think it matters for developers. They compete in the short term.

New comment by hkon in "How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer"

hkon — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:48:25 +0000

Where is the influence?

New comment by hkon in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

hkon — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:48:07 +0000

Smooth, I enjoyed it a lot.

New comment by hkon in "Just let me select text"

hkon — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:37:23 +0000

I disagree. Selection takes priority.

New comment by hkon in "Denmark wants to push through Chat Control"

hkon — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:51:35 +0000

Does anyone really think it won't pass?

New comment by hkon in "AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time"

hkon — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:56:40 +0000

Which you of course already have done.

New comment by hkon in "AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time"

hkon — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:07:31 +0000

For me, what is most scary about ai-chatbot is the interface to an exploiter.

They can just prompt "given all your chats with this person, how can we manipulate him to do x"

Not really any expertise needed at all, let the AI to all the lifting.

New comment by hkon in "Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons"

hkon — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:30:17 +0000

Did not know Tanzania was in the Nordics and thus relevant to the topic, but hey, you learn something new everyday.

New comment by hkon in "Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons"

hkon — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:11:28 +0000

Can't afford it.

New comment by hkon in "Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons"

hkon — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:03:14 +0000

If you want cheap developers, come to Norway.

New comment by hkon in "If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward"

hkon — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:16:24 +0000

With the amount of times Claude is visiting my websites I'd say they are very desperate for data.

New comment by hkon in "Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward"

hkon — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:23:12 +0000

Same

New comment by hkon in "Good EU regulations"

hkon — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 23:24:41 +0000

Is it a joke?