Hacker News: janc_

New comment by janc_ in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

janc_ — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:23:35 +0000

It seems like this was implemented as a way to insert tips, and then abused to insert ads, so the developers involved might not have been aware of that part until later?

New comment by janc_ in "Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers"

janc_ — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:01:22 +0000

They reduce accidents in general, but bring us some “entertaining” new ones where a (usually) drunk driver crashes into the statue/fountain/whatever in the middle or uses the little “hill” in the middle as a jump ramp…

New comment by janc_ in "Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers"

janc_ — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:50:00 +0000

Before people believe the Tesla robot hype they should probably consider that Toyota has been making cars AND robots for longer than Tesla exists.

New comment by janc_ in "Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers"

janc_ — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:43:45 +0000

More importantly: it seems like Austin is mostly a typical US city grid of wide streets. Nothing comparable with an average old inner city, or narrow countryside roads with a ditch or cliff or quay on one or both sides. Probably not many pedestrians & cyclists roaming the streets either?

New comment by janc_ in "Software Pump and Dump"

janc_ — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:28:24 +0000

“Pump & Dump” has a very specific meaning here, something that is essentially a scam to cheat people out of their money, and not an actual honest attempt to create something new…

New comment by janc_ in "We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers"

janc_ — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:57:17 +0000

These AI crawlers already steal residential user connections to do their scraping. They'll happily steal your trust tokens too…

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:41:01 +0000

I know where the nuclear waste is stored here. Its storage is funded by the government for now (not included in electricity prices) and nobody can actually prove it will be safe for the centuries it will be dangerous.

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:19:06 +0000

There is a Belgian company that can use temperarure & other fluctuations in underseas power & cimmunication cables to detect nearby objects etc. I'm sure they are willing to help the US navy if they can convince them the US is a solid NATO partner… ( oh, wait, that might have become difficult…)

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:03:49 +0000

They are not (necessarily) invisible, that depends on size & many other variables.

Also, hypersonic missiles are perfectly vusible on radar.

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:57:25 +0000

Economic sense depends on individual/local circumstances also.

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:54:15 +0000

The weirdest part was that it increased share value, when realistically it should have decreased it…

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:48:48 +0000

Venezuelan oil is more about US refineries that can only use very heavy oil, and US wells for such oil running out. Those refineries decided it is cheaper to bribe Trump than to invest into converting their factories. They are using US tax payer dolars (in a war with Venezuela) to avoid having to invest into their own conpanies.

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:35:33 +0000

There is also a significant cost to moving electricity production from a relatively small number of centralised plants to almost everywhere. Once the infrastructure is adapted to that, costs should normalise again.

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:28:06 +0000

Doctors should never deny patients.

They can take precautions & insist on proper treatments, of course.

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:03:28 +0000

Should be easy enough to use some form of active noise cancelling for that.

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:57:31 +0000

That's nonsense. Many countries have been using drones before. (Starting with Nazi Germany during WW 2.)

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:35:54 +0000

And don't forget the cost of storing nuclear waste for the next 10000 years, which is never included in the "cost of nuclear".

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:27:24 +0000

Many countries shut down all their coal plants over a decade ago. Why didn't yours?

New comment by janc_ in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

janc_ — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:22:57 +0000

Arguing the EU has less regulation than the USA on anything is 99.9999% always wrong.

New comment by janc_ in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

janc_ — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:37:29 +0000

There are several services I know who offer this for free for open source software, and I really doubt any commercial offerings of that software would charge you extra for what is basic API usage.