Hacker News: janmarsal

New comment by janmarsal in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

janmarsal — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:43:07 +0000

traditionally anti-social behavior meant fighting, keying cars, spraying graffitis etc. A kid with antisocial personality disorder can be a danger to other kids due to their reckless behavior.

social alienation caused by the internet and the social media usually manifests in asocial behavior like withdrawing from the society. in the recent years people have started calling this anti-social behavior, and they often get corrected by pedantic people such as myself.

what BBC meant by "anti-social" in this article is unclear.

New comment by janmarsal in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

janmarsal — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:13:33 +0000

Still waiting for the day when I can get rid of my work laptop and replace it with a phone entirely. Technically it's already possible, but it's just not practical until I can easily run docker containers on my phone. Also the samsung desktop mode is a bit underwhelming right now.

If this is not the default in the next decade I'm gonna riot. Hotels could replace the TV with a big computer screen and the corner chair with an office chair. Even a cheap hotel room could be an office without anyone having to bring their own toys with them. Just the phone in your pocket.

New comment by janmarsal in "'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech"

janmarsal — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:58:07 +0000

does more humane mean more taxes?

New comment by janmarsal in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

janmarsal — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:20:42 +0000

You need to download the lidl+ app. great value

New comment by janmarsal in "It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths"

janmarsal — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:23:28 +0000

i'm gonna do it anyway

New comment by janmarsal in "You don't hate Python. You hate other people's Python."

janmarsal — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:05:58 +0000

I hate yaml and python because they have no brackets. When I copy/paste stuff from the internet there's always some issue with indentation and that's a non-issue for normal languages because I can just automatically prettify them but with yaml and python I need to do it manually.

New comment by janmarsal in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

janmarsal — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:35:19 +0000

Not that it matters but I just noticed certain titles on their website can be edited. For example the text "Use our /e/OS Installer" can be modified and I noticed it because I accidentally pasted my clipboard there. I suppose contenteditable should be set to "false".

fuck me i'm doing work even though i should be working right now

New comment by janmarsal in "Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not"

janmarsal — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:09:21 +0000

Postgres is amazing and ORM is your friend. Migrations alone is a good reason why using ORMs is a good idea.

New comment by janmarsal in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

janmarsal — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:08:23 +0000

I think there should be some kind of a tax or a fine for anyone who comes up or even suggests a new acronym. Regardless of the field. While I do agree with the article on some level, I still think even a randomly picked word from the dictionary is better than YAA (Yet Another Acronym).

New comment by janmarsal in "Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy"

janmarsal — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:32:55 +0000

Most ps1 games only supports the d-pad. If you have a dualshock controller but want to move your dude with the analog stick instead of the d-pad, you activate the analog mode.

New comment by janmarsal in "Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at"

janmarsal — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:36:39 +0000

My biggest issue with LLMs right now is that they're such spineless yes men. Even when you ask their opinion on if something is doable or should it be done in the first place, more often than not they just go "Absolutely!" and shit out a broken answer or an anti-pattern just to please you. Not always, but way too often. You need to frame your questions way too carefully to prevent this.

Maybe some of those character.ai models are sassy enough to have stronger opinions on code?

New comment by janmarsal in "Zuckerberg: If AI progress keeps accelerating, our investment may exceed $600B"

janmarsal — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:58:13 +0000

both if and may in a single title. that's so cool

New comment by janmarsal in "Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step"

janmarsal — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 08:17:59 +0000

with an old mistake of a language

New comment by janmarsal in "Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN"

janmarsal — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:51:30 +0000

Maybe add a search/filter to the results. I had to browse through 4 whole pages to make sure your post is actually there!

New comment by janmarsal in "Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN"

janmarsal — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:43:03 +0000

Cool, found this gem with it.

New comment by janmarsal in "Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step"

janmarsal — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:55:58 +0000

How would I be here if I didn't?

New comment by janmarsal in "Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step"

janmarsal — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:56:54 +0000

HTML was a mistake. I think banning XML would make the world a better place.

New comment by janmarsal in "'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary"

janmarsal — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:51:03 +0000

they're just competing with the urban dictionary for relevance and rizz

New comment by janmarsal in "You know more Finnish than you think"

janmarsal — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 08:31:45 +0000

The word for copper is a native uralic word and thus it's hypothesized that the uralic speakers unlocked the bronze age independently.

New comment by janmarsal in "Ask HN: Is it possible to generate usable energy from environmental heat?"

janmarsal — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:49:05 +0000

check out the Stirling engine