Hacker News: jaapz

New comment by jaapz in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

jaapz — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:49:38 +0000

> Even Youtube is no longer less hassle than piracy now.

YouTube premium is hassle?

New comment by jaapz in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

jaapz — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:19:20 +0000

It's not just veterans who have PTSD.

New comment by jaapz in "Germany's spy agency picks French AI firm over Palantir"

jaapz — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:23:13 +0000

And whose fault is that exactly

New comment by jaapz in "Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal?"

jaapz — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:46:34 +0000

When future humans find your cad files they are going to wonder why you would do it like this, and then probably settle on religious reasons

New comment by jaapz in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

jaapz — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:31:33 +0000

The author was on here claiming it was an experiment just last week. Didn't look like they have been planning much of this, but they did have some trouble with zig to the tune of having to maintain their own fork that the zig maintainers didn't want to merge. So people probably could have seen this coming

If I was the bun maintainers I wouldn't want to have to maintain a language fork either, when there are viable alternatives.

Now with LLM's getting stronger and stronger a rewrite like this is getting more and more viable, and it looks like they are just approaching this like the "how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time"-method.

Not sure why people thing this is an elaborate PR campaign, we already know LLM's are increasingly powerful for coding tasks.

New comment by jaapz in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"

jaapz — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:37:34 +0000

Exactly my point

New comment by jaapz in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

jaapz — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:34:37 +0000

> So do you think UK/EU vehicle manufactures are deliberately in mass breach of data privacy law... fully knowing the cost of a consumer backlash, fines and vehicle recall costs to fix any law breach?

They were also in mass breach of vehicle emission laws. The fact that there was some backlash (although people didn't really stop buying VAG cars), people got prosecuted, the company got fined, didn't really change their decisions while they were pumping out fraudulent cars.

Yes, we should have privacy laws like this in the EU, this is a good thing! But thinking that, when these laws are in place, all companies magically will follow them is naive. To them it's still a cost/benefit analysis, and history has shown short term benefit trumps many other things for these companies.

New comment by jaapz in "AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, ice rinks"

jaapz — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:55:23 +0000

Or they just dont want to spend time figuring out how to do that because they are busy with something else

Naah, they are probably dumb as hell!

New comment by jaapz in "Googlebook"

jaapz — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:32:15 +0000

Youre looking at the past with rose tinted glasses.

New comment by jaapz in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"

jaapz — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:50:10 +0000

I like my programming language flame wars just as much as the next guy but Go is a really easy language to get started with, while also being very fast. It's not just luck

New comment by jaapz in "Claude Code weekly limits increasing 50% till July 13"

jaapz — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:42:58 +0000

I've been using opus 4.7 on xhigh effort and have been blown away by the results

New comment by jaapz in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

jaapz — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:08:24 +0000

Workaround vs fix

Also, why not?

New comment by jaapz in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

jaapz — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:01:11 +0000

Mythos was kind of hyped as the tool that would discover much more bugs than any currently available tool

New comment by jaapz in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

jaapz — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:58:05 +0000

Depends on what you follow. For example, look up The Great War.

At least where I live, basically everything that's on discovery, national geographic and the history channel now is just "experts" talking (reading a script) about "hitler's secret sex life" or some such thing, interspersed with a re-enactment shot or one of the "experts" walking around a slightly relevant building.

New comment by jaapz in "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"

jaapz — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:47:25 +0000

When a drug addict does not have an internal drive to be rid of their addiction, forced treatment will not help.

Just putting them somewhere until the withdrawal symptoms fade will not change whatever drove them to use the drugs in the first place.

New comment by jaapz in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

jaapz — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:11:17 +0000

Not really, look at what's on the same latitude in Amerika as northern europe. Then compare their climates.

New comment by jaapz in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

jaapz — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:09:20 +0000

Wheres the research that shows this has happened before at the same timescale?

New comment by jaapz in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

jaapz — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:07:58 +0000

Climate has changed over a lifetime though.

New comment by jaapz in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

jaapz — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:04:24 +0000

What? Valve basically invented making money with skins and lootboxes, it started with TF2 hats. There is an insane amount of money in the CS2 skin market.

New comment by jaapz in "Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found"

jaapz — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:00:01 +0000

You are asking why people aren't flocking to a town literally founded for white separatists to live in segregated?