Hacker News: jamesnorden

New comment by jamesnorden in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

jamesnorden — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:56:57 +0000

Least delusional AI "coder".

New comment by jamesnorden in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

jamesnorden — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:21:32 +0000

Found the shareholder.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

jamesnorden — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:00:21 +0000

Did you also think "treatment for cancer" caused cancer where there was none?

New comment by jamesnorden in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

jamesnorden — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:54:58 +0000

I've been bitten by an HP printer auto updating and my aftermarket ink suddenly not being acceptable. Never buying HP again after that.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

jamesnorden — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:17:43 +0000

>Not using AI at this point is a lot like not using CAD as an architect.

You should have asked AI to come up with a better analogy.

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

jamesnorden — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:02:17 +0000

I remember the early days of the Epic Store, there was no "shopping cart" feature, you could only buy one game at a time.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

jamesnorden — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:07:34 +0000

>Unfortunately it is from 2022, meaning no OS upgrades.

I like how you didn't even bother checking if that was true.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Framework's new Linux laptop is selling faster than its Windows one"

jamesnorden — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:18:36 +0000

If you buy a $20 key you're both pirating and giving money to a criminal, so it is, in fact, worse.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce"

jamesnorden — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:07:16 +0000

Said no one ever.

New comment by jamesnorden in "South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf"

jamesnorden — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:06:24 +0000

The one time the headline isn't misleading, you want it changed?

New comment by jamesnorden in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

jamesnorden — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:44:15 +0000

Yeah we need 20 more LLM submissions instead, that's the hard hitting content. /s

New comment by jamesnorden in "How to make Firefox builds 17% faster"

jamesnorden — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:14:49 +0000

I mean, if you could donate directly to Firefox development and not for "anything Mozilla wants to waste it on that day", maybe the donations would go up.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Veracrypt project update"

jamesnorden — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:06:41 +0000

How would more than one account help in this scenario, exactly?

New comment by jamesnorden in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

jamesnorden — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:52:02 +0000

>but I do recognize the great value the adtech industry provides to society

Ok, so you're trolling then.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool"

jamesnorden — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:06:00 +0000

People swear btrfs is "safe" now, but I've personally been bitten by data corruption more than once, so I stay away from it now.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

jamesnorden — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:14:57 +0000

I wouldn't want my start menu to load the entire Java runtime before opening, that's the issue at hand.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

jamesnorden — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:02:58 +0000

Thanks for adding nothing at all to the conversation.

New comment by jamesnorden in "FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic"

jamesnorden — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:49:01 +0000

The FSF seems toothless when it comes to actually enforcing anything regarding license violations.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" for Agentic AI Code Review of the Linux Kernel"

jamesnorden — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:46:07 +0000

Well, if it doesn't find anything it's just a waste of time at best.

New comment by jamesnorden in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

jamesnorden — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:44:15 +0000

Better stop locking your doors, then.