Hacker News: jameslars

New comment by jameslars in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

jameslars — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:37:18 +0000

I boot into a video games only interface. To update I click a single button. This is exactly a console interface and user experience

New comment by jameslars in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

jameslars — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:29:05 +0000

You kind of undermine your own argument here. The Steam Deck is more a console than a PC, with lots of "just works" baked in either directly or through community support that makes it simple.

In 2026 I still have to mess with game settings, driver issues, and DRM garbage behavior as a primarily PC gamer. PC gaming is still a long way from "just works" and I think you probably just take for granted a lot of things you have to do to make it work vs a typical console experience.

New comment by jameslars in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

jameslars — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:50:02 +0000

> Provenance is hard to track - you would hope OpenAI has very good tools for this, but a full data trail of all inputs is difficult to trace through.

What would OpenAIs incentive for this be? They've gotten away with scraping everything and getting it ruled fair use. It seems like willful ignorance is an affirmative defense today. Why would they want to have some sort of audit trail that could prove otherwise?

New comment by jameslars in "An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet"

jameslars — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:35:47 +0000

Definitely agree. I don't understand how "thinking harder" about what the word MIGHT be solves any problem. I might just be part of this older generation who is hard trained on reading and not skimming, I don't know. I've never found anyone who appreciates this sort of censorship to ask them to help me understand.

New comment by jameslars in "An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet"

jameslars — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:26:19 +0000

Did you look at the original? I assumed it was censoring "killer" which also meshes with my perception that "trigger words" get censored in certain social media circles now.

New comment by jameslars in "Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse"

jameslars — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:05:52 +0000

The estimated travel times displayed in major cities along highways are calculated by license plate sampling from what I understand

New comment by jameslars in "JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master"

jameslars — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:55:32 +0000

You are definitely not alone. I love Java and I will always defend it. Java's perception is tainted by baggage from decades ago.

New comment by jameslars in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

jameslars — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:27:12 +0000

I like this argument/reasoning more than any I've encountered so far. Thank you! Enabling the disabled is definitely a positive and this is a strong argument for the "pro AI" column.

New comment by jameslars in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

jameslars — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:39:59 +0000

Is the hard evidence of AI being a net improvement for society in the room with us now?

New comment by jameslars in "Colossus: The Forbin Project"

jameslars — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:43:13 +0000

Back in the late 90s the Michigan Tech CS labs had 2 preferred machines for students to remote into, Colossus and Guardian.

I always enjoyed the reference as well as this movie’s a kid!

New comment by jameslars in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

jameslars — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:01:20 +0000

And your life might be very privileged to so flippantly disregard anyone’s reality that is just that difficult.

New comment by jameslars in "Discord Delays Global Age Assurance"

jameslars — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:56:26 +0000

I can appreciate that Discord is dealing with a lot of sides on this issue, and this response seems well measured with meaningful changes to the roll-out. As someone who has been fretting about replacing Discord communities with an alternative, this makes me feel better over all.

Discord Delays Global Age Assurance

jameslars — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:53:20 +0000

Article URL: https://discord.com/blog/getting-global-age-assurance-right-what-we-got-wrong-and-whats-changing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146694

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

New comment by jameslars in "Banned C++ features in Chromium"

jameslars — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:13:35 +0000

I think Java has plenty of features that end up implicitly banned at least. e.g. you will really never see a `java.util.Vector` in any modern code base. No one `implements Serializable` anymore in practice. `Objects.equals()` and `Objects.hashCode()` get you through 99% of equals/hash code implementations. The list goes on.

I guess the difference is it's rarely "dangerous" or "hard to reason about" using the old features unlike what I see in the C++ list. Java replaces things with better things and momentum shifts behind them kind of naturally because the better things are objectively better.

New comment by jameslars in "Show HN: DebtBomb – Make TODOs expire and automatically create Jira tickets"

jameslars — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:50:46 +0000

I always advocate that TODO comments include a link to a ticket tracking the TODO during code review.

It’s easy to get a team to make this 2nd nature and gets immediate debt in the backlog. It can of course still be ignored and unfinished for a long time still but no amount of automated nagging will change that in my experience

New comment by jameslars in "Elixir 1.19"

jameslars — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:53:00 +0000

Java 8 -> anything 11+ wasn't great at scale. It's been smooth sailing for a long time again though.

New comment by jameslars in "White House loyalty rating for companies"

jameslars — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:45:35 +0000

Who is characterizing the other evidence as "equally specious" besides you in this new strawman argument?

Is your position that there are zero reliable indicators that fascism is on the rise in the United States

New comment by jameslars in "White House loyalty rating for companies"

jameslars — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:25:21 +0000

Looking at this in a vacuum, sure maybe it's time to touch grass.

Looking at this in the context of everything else going on in the country, maybe there are a lot of warning signs that are pretty hard to ignore?

New comment by jameslars in "We shouldn't have needed lockfiles"

jameslars — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:10:10 +0000

Notably, a lockfile does not solve this problem either.

New comment by jameslars in "AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services"

jameslars — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:06:57 +0000

I think you misread my response. I think assuming Amazon did this to hurt “s3 compatible” services is cynical. Amazon implemented a feature, well within their rights. Writing a blog post saying they “broke backwards compatibility” is cynical and disingenuous. Amazon never committed to supporting any random use of their SDK.