Hacker News: jamesrr39

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

jamesrr39 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:32:23 +0000

For me Deno has a really nice security posture, the permissions model is just something I haven't seen in from other runtimes (JS or otherwise). There were other nice features (native typescript support, compilation to a standalone binary), but the permissions model was just unique.

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/fundamentals/security/

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

jamesrr39 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:02:47 +0000

> he's trying to commoditize his closed rivals, it's not out of principle

To be fair Meta/Facebook does have quite a strong open source history; React (Native), PyTorch, Btrfs, zstd, etc. It didn't just start here with AI models.

New comment by jamesrr39 in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

jamesrr39 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:30:15 +0000

Why only one app, and not several and choose the right one for the occasion? Mapy.com and OsmAnd are much better for trail use than Google Maps. Mapy has public transit info (depending on where you live, of course).

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

jamesrr39 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:19:07 +0000

I think Anthropic/OpenAI do have a moat in the (western) enterprise market. Chinese hosted models are a no-go, and my experience with enterprise IT departments is that they will not self-host. So far signing up with a known product (e.g. Claude) seems to be the way they will go and this is the moat that the AI companies have. Alternatively there is Copilot, but that for now seems to mostly be backed by Anthropic/OpenAI models[1].

Will this continue? The field is moving too fast to tell. Kimi, Qwen, Deepseek also produce very capable models but that doesn't automatically translate into trillion dollar valuations.

However, trillion dollar valuations on Anthropic and OpenAI, such new companies, never publicly traded and such huge valuations decided just by investors. This is just asking for trouble.

1. https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/suppo...

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states"

jamesrr39 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:45:22 +0000

> Who cares?

Someone cares enough to offer $111B...

New comment by jamesrr39 in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

jamesrr39 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:53:06 +0000

yes, there are questions like that (steps, ramp, etc). Also questions about road surfaces, pavement/sidewalk, etc

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Does anybody like React?"

jamesrr39 — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:16:04 +0000

Subjective depending on who you ask, but for me RSC is not really representative of React usage. (I believe) the vast majority of React apps (and the vast majority of dev experience in React) are front end only. I have been writing React in some form for 8+ years, but never touched RSC.

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Does anybody like React?"

jamesrr39 — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:12:41 +0000

I tried Angular 2+ back in the day. I found it frustrating to learn as the API had changed between versions, and when searching for help you would come across a blog post/stackoverflow answer, start implementing it and realise it didn't work in the version of Angular your project was in. Frustrating.

Tried React afterwards, this frustration didn't really exist and it was much easier to pick up.

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

jamesrr39 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:28:53 +0000

Just knowing the personal number is not enough to do much with. To get access to services, verify who you are on when talking to companies there is a verification step, most commonly with the BankID app.

Visual example: https://images.ctfassets.net/b2dmfxhmyqno/1cD0YDHjd9DGZnWfjH...

Identity theft and spam still happens, just not through knowing the personal number.

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

jamesrr39 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:16:05 +0000

> modify roborock vacuums and load up other software even.

Can you provide more info/got any links? I would love to try some open source software on it

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

jamesrr39 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:12:39 +0000

Ironically we bought a Roborock (Chinese brand with close links to Xiaomi) and didn't connect it to the internet (checked this would work before we bought it).

If you don't want the scheduling and other app features, and are happy switching it on when you need it, it works fine.

Motivation for an offline one was more than just cameras, also that it wouldn't be bricked by an update one day, but still...

New comment by jamesrr39 in "EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act"

jamesrr39 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:01:42 +0000

The blue check symbolised (symbolises) being verified, i.e. this account belongs to who it says it does. But it doesn't carry out any/sufficient checks to actually verify that.

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy"

jamesrr39 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:30:27 +0000

Sounds like a Samsung phone... no end of dark patterns and pushing Bixby AI and whatever else. And then once you have the phone set up you get to spend the next 10 minutes uninstalling a load of pre-loadded apps that you didn't want.

Fortunately Android is a pretty diverse range and Samsung is just one player. I had much more user-friendly experiences with Fairphone and Motorola.

New comment by jamesrr39 in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

jamesrr39 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:01:16 +0000

I live in the EU and can see value in live translation for me personally.

However, I'm happy with the decision. Sure, they are not available right now. But it's worth it for the long term picture. Imagine if this would be yet another Apple/Google-only market.

The tradeoff is right IMO.

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?"

jamesrr39 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:14:41 +0000

Most likely not in it's current state as it uses the `chrome.bookmarks.getTree()` API.

However the Chrome-specific stuff is in this file: https://github.com/jamesrr39/chrome-bookmark-search/blob/mas... , and creating an equivalent for this should be enough to support firefox.

I am open to pull requests!

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?"

jamesrr39 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 18:46:30 +0000

I still bookmark websites. Just in the standard browser, not in Pocket, etc.

I found searching for and finding bookmarks a pain, so made a Chrome extension to natural language search with lunr.js. It works nicely and I open-sourced it.

Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bookmark-search/fcj...

Code: https://github.com/jamesrr39/chrome-bookmark-search

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down"

jamesrr39 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:56:19 +0000

0.2%

> Payment service providers shall not offer or request a per transaction interchange fee of more than 0,2 % of the value of the transaction for any debit card transaction.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2015/751/oj/eng

New comment by jamesrr39 in "Structured Errors in Go (2022)"

jamesrr39 — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 18:35:23 +0000

Hmm, many people writing Java without a PhD...

New comment by jamesrr39 in "A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code"

jamesrr39 — Fri, 09 May 2025 20:55:48 +0000

> Developers (often juniors) use LLM code without taking time to verify it. This leads to bugs and they can't fix it because they don't understand the code

Well... is this something new? Previously the trend was to copy and paste Stackoverflow answers, without understanding what it did. Perhaps with LLM code it's an incremental change but the concept is fairly familiar.

New comment by jamesrr39 in "MongoDB acquires Voyage AI"

jamesrr39 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:49:37 +0000

Thanks for these comments, I appreciate it.

Although I would point out:

> scalability [...] no company would even bother with PostgreSQL at all

In my experience, you can get pretty far with Postgresql on a beefy server, and when combined with monitoring, pg_stat_statements and application level caching (e.g. the user for this given request, instead of fetching that data on every layer of the request handling), certainly enough most businesses/organisations out there.