Hacker News: jaapz

New comment by jaapz in "Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year"

jaapz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:46:31 +0000

Build up a war fighting apparatus? They already have the strongest military in the world

New comment by jaapz in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

jaapz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:09:50 +0000

There are many open source projects out there that accomplished many things on an insane scale that are driven by single developers

Or do you mean scale of organization?

New comment by jaapz in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

jaapz — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:23:30 +0000

I used to be vehemently opposed to shorts, but with recommendations disabled it is tolerable, because only shorts from people I subscribe to are in there.

The only reason I really watch shorts is because Vsauce started using them a lot, and his content is definitely worth a watch every time in any format.

New comment by jaapz in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

jaapz — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:21:27 +0000

Disabled recommendations. Disabled comments (firefox plugin). Use subscriptions page as the homepage (firefox plugin). Only subscribe to channels that interest me (and aren't annoying like that).

New comment by jaapz in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

jaapz — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:57:02 +0000

You can say what you want about anthropic but they sure as hell are dogfooding the crap out of claude code lmao

New comment by jaapz in "Goodbye to Sora"

jaapz — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:39:45 +0000

> Personally, I've stopped subscribing to Spotify, YT music, etc because the slop from Suno is good enough to replace mainstream music or whatever lofi playlist.

The musician in me just shed a tear

New comment by jaapz in "You are not your job"

jaapz — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:52:12 +0000

Assuming that disabled people are worthless when they are not able to contribute to the group is even worse.

New comment by jaapz in "You are not your job"

jaapz — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:50:45 +0000

> The cold reality, in my opinion, is that the things we value about ourselves are generally not that valuable to others. I love my own personality and humanity, my soul if you will, but nobody's paying me for it, and so I have to value it accordingly.

This is only true if by "value" you mean monetary value. Your personality and humanity may not be valuable to the person paying you to do your job, it still has value for the people around you.

New comment by jaapz in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

jaapz — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:23:01 +0000

Wow, that's amazing

New comment by jaapz in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

jaapz — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:06:09 +0000

Why would you build on a plot of land when the plot of land itself is already appreciating in value with you doing nothing to it

Building is risky and costly

Having an asset that appreciates on its own regardless of what you do with it is not

New comment by jaapz in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

jaapz — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:42:50 +0000

That's a pretty long blog post for someone who's illiterate

New comment by jaapz in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

jaapz — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:02:50 +0000

Yeah but that doesn't mean that you should give money to people where you know for sure they suck?

For all other cases, you can still try to not give money to people who suck by going for fair trade products and stuff like that.

New comment by jaapz in "Runners who churn butter on their runs"

jaapz — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:24:22 +0000

When unrefrigerated, they used copious amounts of salt to keep butter from spoiling. So much so that you'd have to first wash the butter (wash the salt away) before using it.

New comment by jaapz in "The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Tariffs. Now It Says It Can't"

jaapz — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:18:23 +0000

You're a bit naive if you think China is a peace loving country that wouldn't bomb the living shit out of any opposing nation if they could do so without recourse

Even now they are posturing in their "South-Chinese Sea", or as the Filipino's like to call it, the "West-Phillipine Sea". Also, Taiwan, Hong Kong...

And then we haven't even talked about how nice they are to their own citizens.

China is growing in strength and moving towards a new global world order, and the way Trump is fucking up US supremacy at the moment, China might well succeed.

New comment by jaapz in "A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way"

jaapz — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:59:18 +0000

Another reason I think is that not all of these varieties thrive as small trees, and most factory farmed trees are kept small because it makes picking them easier.

New comment by jaapz in "I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine"

jaapz — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:56:03 +0000

Have you heard of this thing called the internet?

New comment by jaapz in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

jaapz — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:33:36 +0000

I'm really happy they added the extra information about this specific case, as I did not previously knew it existed and it is a fascinating read

New comment by jaapz in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

jaapz — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:32:45 +0000

> Near the end of his life, Molaison regularly filled in crossword puzzles.[16] He was able to fill in answers to clues that referred to pre-1953 knowledge. As for post-1953 information, he was able to modify old memories with new informations. For instance, he could add a memory about Jonas Salk by modifying his memory of polio.[2]

That's fascinating!

New comment by jaapz in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

jaapz — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:01:36 +0000

Parents are also allowed to restrict their children access to alcohol and cigarettes, but it seems a government ban on them buying those things works better

New comment by jaapz in "Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)"

jaapz — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:16:03 +0000

I'm not entirely sure how much "horrible UX" is correlated with companies going bankrupt. Amazon (the shop), AWS, Windows...