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New comment by huffer in "Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service"

huffer — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:21:11 +0000

I just spilled my coffee; sorry for the trivial remark, but the name means 'pubic hairs' in Romanian. Apologies.. I thought it's better for you to know and ignore than not to (not quite a big population target for you, I imagine, anyway).

Embabled: Agentic Flow from the Creator of Spring

huffer — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:03:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/embabel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688794

Points: 1

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New comment by huffer in "iPhone Pocket"

huffer — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:08:16 +0000

Oh, it will sell! For the very reason it's $230 (remember the "I am Rich" app of olden days?).

New comment by huffer in "A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity"

huffer — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:18:25 +0000

So if only you could have kept your mouth shut, this would have never happened.. Burn the witch!

New comment by huffer in "Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses"

huffer — Wed, 14 May 2025 04:19:10 +0000

Nice work! How do you verify correctness of the generated exercises and explanations? To me this looks the biggest risk in becoming a user: what if my _teacher_ teaches me subtle nonsense that I cannot easily detect since I'm learning and unfamiliar with the material (even if it's only in the 1-2% of cases)? Human teachers make mistakes too, but an LLM cannot _understand_ that it made one... So.. how do you solve for this issue of trust?

New comment by huffer in "[dead]"

huffer — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:44:49 +0000

please, someone tell me this is satire!

New comment by huffer in "Ask HN: Hourly billers, do you bill for only focused work?"

huffer — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:46:40 +0000

Dali ;)

(or maybe they all did it)

New comment by huffer in "EU Voice"

huffer — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 18:45:33 +0000

> > Why don't they buy a considerable stake in these American social media companies

also because there's this thing with physical location of the data: europeans' private data must never leave the EU

New comment by huffer in "Ask HN: Advice that changed your life?"

huffer — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 14:34:24 +0000

fortune favors those prepared

New comment by huffer in "Solein – Protein out of thin air"

huffer — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 04:27:02 +0000

But indeed, if they had the _option_ to escape from reality from time to time, people like Cypher would be happier (I know I am when I do it :D). Indeed the irony of partaking precisely in the thing that you fight against is there; however, what they actually fight against is the enslavement by it, not the casual enjoyment of it: it's bad to be a medieval serf forced to toil the soil, it's quite another thing to play gardener to take your mind off the day..

They have an unsophisticated, binary view of the world (for plot reasons, I guess) while some nuance and tolerance would have had made a more realistic and_human_take on the situation.

New comment by huffer in "Netflix Officially Adding Commercials"

huffer — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 05:35:17 +0000

It may depend on how the whole ecosystem evolves: if the competition starts doing similar stuff, then you would have no alternative but to stick with one of them and accept the introduction of ads.

That's the funny thing about oligopoly, you know...

New comment by huffer in "I'm tired of Google's business products"

huffer — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:18:58 +0000

yeah.. these days you really can't tell; every opinion, its counter-opinion, its meta-counter, its sarcastic spin, its trolling version, its counter-trolling, meta-counter-trolling versions.. everything (in the absence of body language cues etc.) is equally likely, which if I recall correctly is the definition of maximal entropy of information, i.e. random noise

New comment by huffer in "I'm tired of Google's business products"

huffer — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:25:20 +0000

as far as I understood it, it was a tongue-in-cheek, a joke... or are you trolling too (in which case joke's on me :D)?

New comment by huffer in "I'm tired of Google's business products"

huffer — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:18:11 +0000

I guess the idea was that it's very confusing for non-technical people, and very easy to misplace..

(sorry if your message was accompanied by an "/s" -- I didn't see any)

New comment by huffer in "Ask HN: Why is visual programming so popular for game programming?"

huffer — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 04:00:16 +0000

thank you

New comment by huffer in "Object-oriented programming: Some history, and challenges for the next 50 years [pdf]"

huffer — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:22:18 +0000

.. except when manipulating proxy-ed objects, like Spring beans or ORM detached entities. The object you're calling the setter on is not the object (struct) holding the field..

I know, yet another idea thrown into the concepts cocktail.. (not saying these are correct justifications for the getter/setter pollution, just reasons why you find them everywhere in the wild)

New comment by huffer in "Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence"

huffer — Thu, 10 May 2018 18:34:19 +0000

so... what will we call a graduate holding such a degree?

New comment by huffer in "BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf]"

huffer — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 04:56:48 +0000

Byte was my first too (and later on NET and Computerworld -- great education deriving from both).

Yeah, LISP was a bit much -- but hey! it also included an article with assembly code examples for the Z-80 Spectrum; I wish I had this magazine back in the day...

A thing I noticed: so many practical examples and code excerpts; I also spotted some math, sporting a Riemann integral no less :) - today's magazines are kindergarten-level by comparison. Of course, today's magazines are not aimed to the technical hobbyist anymore, so it's understandable... Btw: who are today's magazines targeting? Second question: what magazines?!

New comment by huffer in "BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf]"

huffer — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 03:54:44 +0000

Wow, great! This magazine is precisely as old as I am. I wasn't born with a lisp, just a fondness for it (and now I know why).

New comment by huffer in "The Bandwagon – Claude Shannon (1956) [pdf]"

huffer — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 06:52:49 +0000

Upvoted!

I rarely comment here, but the similarity was so striking that I came back with the express intention to comment on this exact vein. I actually suspect this analogy was the OP's intention all along :)

Also, it is striking how the human nature never changes and the societal mores tend to remain the same; 60 years is not such a long time on that scale, but the buzz, the (less/un-informed) fever and fervour of the general public that Shannon remarked, they all sound eerily familiar.