Hacker News: janice1999

New comment by janice1999 in "Where is all the new, good software?"

janice1999 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:07:00 +0000

Agreed. The recent Epic Games story (mass layoffs followed by the remaining staff being forced to use AI to crunch) is more in line with reality as I see it. I've been told by management to 'use AI' when I really need to hire.

New comment by janice1999 in "Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight"

janice1999 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:26:59 +0000

It's the narrow end of the wedge.

New comment by janice1999 in "Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight"

janice1999 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:25:56 +0000

Prescribing medication for acne, some of which can have serious side affects like depression, is general medicine.

New comment by janice1999 in "EventMaxxer – Automatically apply to events to get you in the right room"

janice1999 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:49:41 +0000

I'm not sure whether the people developing these spam tools simply lack the imagination or empathy to see the world through the eyes of other people or can but don't care. Or maybe the "grindset" / "maxxing" mentality demands callousness by its very nature.

New comment by janice1999 in "AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons"

janice1999 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:24:08 +0000

... if you can afford the ever increasing cost of hardware, a rise directly caused by the same AI companies.

New comment by janice1999 in "The Secret Life of Circuits"

janice1999 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:14:24 +0000

Just ordered. Love these kinds of books. Any others like this one people are aware of?

New comment by janice1999 in "Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message"

janice1999 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:40:41 +0000

Google automated that years ago: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-reported-dad-police-p...

New comment by janice1999 in "Returning to Zig after losing trust in Rust's governance"

janice1999 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:18:51 +0000

An "open" healthy organisation does not stack the cards during major policy discussions by forbidding major arguments against the adoption of a position its backers clearly want. The author is right to call that out. It was an extremely disappointing move for Rust to make.

New comment by janice1999 in "[dead]"

janice1999 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:28:45 +0000

There is also Seraph (prevents common attacks, remote software etc) from the team behind the KitBoga scam-baiting streamer.

"Powerful anti-scam software that proactively detects, blocks, and alerts you to online threats before they cause harm. " https://www.seraphsecure.com/

New comment by janice1999 in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

janice1999 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:57:39 +0000

Well, one did suddenly develop the need to tell users continuously about apparent white genocide in South Africa.

New comment by janice1999 in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

janice1999 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:32:03 +0000

Many of the UK's post-Brexit trade deals have been the previous EU one with a slight tweak. Even the much touted US beef deal was built on an EU scheme and was rather minimal at that. It's not surprising then that the EU and UK are similar. The lack of UK growth over the EU is a big indictment of Brexit from an economic perspective.

New comment by janice1999 in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

janice1999 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:10:32 +0000

A huge thank you to the KDE team. Plasma is good (finally) on Wayland for me (AMD graphics, single hi-dpi screen). I finally switched over from GNOME and I am happy with the experience.

New comment by janice1999 in "Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant"

janice1999 — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:25:57 +0000

Related: "You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop."

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-ba...

New comment by janice1999 in "AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year"

janice1999 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:31:56 +0000

I'm sure the AI is not biased and has a diverse training data set accurately representing the war-torn and impoverished countries these asylum seekers are coming from.

New comment by janice1999 in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

janice1999 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:26:05 +0000

... and also share those images with dozens of companies and potentially have those images leak online. Example: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photos-robot-roomba-vacuum...

New comment by janice1999 in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

janice1999 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:24:36 +0000

Just a reminder: "Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/1066500/roomba-i...

New comment by janice1999 in "The AI water issue is fake"

janice1999 — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:43:27 +0000

Because water access is constrained geographically. You have to pipe it in if you use it all up. The US is seeing the worst spring drought on record: https://time.com/article/2026/05/10/drought-US-farmers-crops...

New comment by janice1999 in "Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'"

janice1999 — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:45:54 +0000

Americans are just as regulated and with even more egregious regulatory capture (see the American broadband/mobile provider cartel). At least Europeans get a little consumer protection.

New comment by janice1999 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

janice1999 — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:15:00 +0000

It's going to work for the most part. Most people know that. It's a file by file, mostly function by function, conversion from one low level language to another with a very large test suite (with lots of Rust unsafe to work around differences). I've done that for C tools and it's fine, with some obscure edge cases here and there. The challenges are going to be making the new, very ugly, alien codebase idiomatic Rust in future and adding features or debugging the complex issues. I wish the developers luck. They're in for a slog.

New comment by janice1999 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

janice1999 — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:55:24 +0000

I'm curious how much this would cost a paying customer. Can you please give us an estimate?