Hacker News: jangxx

New comment by jangxx in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

jangxx — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:33:10 +0000

We might be getting something soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_euro

New comment by jangxx in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

jangxx — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:47:02 +0000

Thank you for reminding us all that you AI bros are still the most obnoxious people there are.

New comment by jangxx in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

jangxx — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:30:29 +0000

It's the browser that annoys me the least. Almost everything just works.

New comment by jangxx in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

jangxx — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:54:12 +0000

I actually like Fitness+, it got me working out for the first time in my life.

New comment by jangxx in "The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns"

jangxx — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:32:52 +0000

Don't say "we" when talking about yourself.

New comment by jangxx in "Laptops with Stickers"

jangxx — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:59:09 +0000

Damn, you must be so incredibly miserable. I hope you find some happiness in your life at some point.

New comment by jangxx in "Simulating a Planet on the GPU: Part 1 (2022)"

jangxx — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:25:00 +0000

Nothing like outputting specific colors to see what branch the current pixel is currently running through. It's like printf debugging but colorful and with only three floats of output.

New comment by jangxx in "Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty"

jangxx — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:39:03 +0000

Why are you so mad at me, I'm not even the OP you should ask these questions. I'm also not convinced we need regulation like this in the first place, so I can't tell you where this boundary should be, but a boundary could certainly be found and it would be beyond simple spellchecking autocorrect.

I also don't understand why you think this would be so impossible to define. There are regulations for all kinds of areas where specific things are targeted like chemicals or drugs and just because some of these have incentivized people to slightly change a regulated thing into an unregulated thing does not mean we don't regulate these areas at all. So how are AI systems so different that you think it'd be impossible to find an adequate definition?

New comment by jangxx in "Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty"

jangxx — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:04:21 +0000

A law like this would obviously need some sort of sensible definition of what "AI" means in this context. Online translation tools also use ML models and even systems to unlock your device with your face do, so classifying all of that as "AI contributions" would make the definition completely useless.

I assume the OP was talking about things like LLMs and diffusion models which one could definitely single out for regulatory purposes. At the end of the day I don't think it would ever be realistically possible to have a law like this anyway, at least not one that wouldn't come with a bunch of ambiguity that would need to be resolved in court.

New comment by jangxx in "Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty"

jangxx — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:39:52 +0000

You don't seem to understand what people mean when they say "AI is just fancy autocorrect". People talk about the little word suggestions over the keyboard, not about correcting spelling. And yes, of course those suggestions are going to be provided by some sort of ML model, and yes if you actually write a whole article just using them, it should be marked as AI generated, but literally no one is doing that. Maybe because it's not fancy enough autocorrect. Either way, this is not the gotcha you think.

New comment by jangxx in "Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty"

jangxx — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:23:23 +0000

Autocorrect is not generative AI in the way that anyone is using that word. Also autocorrect doesn't even need to use any sort of ML model.

New comment by jangxx in "Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan"

jangxx — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:49:05 +0000

ollama can't connect to MCP servers, it can merely run models which output instructions back to a connected system to connect to an MCP server (e.g mcphost using ollama to run a prompt and then itself connecting to an MCP server if the response requires it).

New comment by jangxx in "Tools: Code Is All You Need"

jangxx — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:07:44 +0000

This makes no sense, just because something didn't become as big as the hypemen said it would doesn't make the inventions or users of those inventions disappear.

New comment by jangxx in "Tools: Code Is All You Need"

jangxx — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:14:54 +0000

I mean both of these things are actually happening (drone deliveries and people spending a lot of time in VR), just at a much much smaller scale than it was hyped up to be.

New comment by jangxx in "Open source and self hostable/private file converter"

jangxx — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 11:44:30 +0000

It does though? I you click on the (i) button, there's a "Libraries" section.

New comment by jangxx in "Pushing the frontiers of audio generation"

jangxx — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:17:23 +0000

There's also the built-in "Speak Selection" feature you can enable in the accessibility settings.

New comment by jangxx in "Gross Apple Marketing"

jangxx — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:26:27 +0000

The article has links to all the mentioned videos.

New comment by jangxx in "'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain"

jangxx — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:01:05 +0000

Back in high school a teacher told us this "fact" as well and I remember being very surprised because it did not match my experience at all. Many times have I tested this theory since, e.g. when waiting at a pedestrian traffic light, looking off to the side so that the light is on the very edge of my peripheral vision, seeing if I can perceive it turn green and always being able to. Of course this is not proof that there are no people who can't do this, but I definitely know that I can see color at the edge of my peripheral vision and I've come to assume that this just varies from person to person.

New comment by jangxx in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

jangxx — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:29:01 +0000

I haven't heard anything about him in a while, I assume he's still living in exile in Russia? In which case, yes, he might have evaded the US, but he still gave up a lot of his freedom in return.

New comment by jangxx in "Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the world"

jangxx — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:56:03 +0000

Then you clearly don't work in healthcare or law.