Hacker News: jansan

New comment by jansan in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

jansan — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:11:37 +0000

You can try to replace women with bots, as those Chinese dating apps showed a few years ago:

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-42609353

AI CEO Interviews (2026) [video]

jansan — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:32:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlTNN0gvkLM&lc=UgwcT1Ye7kzJV9UaRAN4AaABAg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912598

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by jansan in "Wax motor"

jansan — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:40:59 +0000

> They rarely fail and do their job even in damp environments. I take care of my better half's hotel with approx 100 of these installed and we replace one of these once every couple of years.

I had to replace about half of them within the first ten years of usage in our floor heating. It may have been a bad batch, but I would definitely not claim that the rarely fail. My car did not fail once during that time.

New comment by jansan in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

jansan — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:01:29 +0000

Despite not being in the EU, Norway is European without the slightest doubt.

New comment by jansan in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

jansan — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:15:49 +0000

There is No Such Thing

New comment by jansan in "The asteroid currently hitting front end web development"

jansan — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:36:52 +0000

Since a good LLM can handle any of those 40 web frameworks, I think having 40 web frameworks is becoming less of a problem than it used to be. Actually, implementing ideas in an individual manner will become easier. Remember the Bazaar and the Cathedral? The Bazaar kind of failed on the client side, but LLMs may revive it.

New comment by jansan in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

jansan — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:14:31 +0000

>For those of you who look down on IKEA furniture, I'd like to hear about what alternatives you think need mentioning.

I do not look down at IKEA, but there are things I would buy at IKEA and things I would not. For example I would not buy a sofa from IKEA. For this in Germany I found Bolia, who offer higher quality Scandinavian furniture with a not too outrageous pricetag.

New comment by jansan in "Aptera announces a $44M to design and build a solar electric vehicle"

jansan — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:35:07 +0000

In 1991 Audi presented the Quattro Spyder, which had a detachable solar roof. The idea was to run a fan to prevent overheating of the interior.

And now they won't to power the entire car with energy from solar cells on the car? I have my doubts.

New comment by jansan in "The turbulent AI era is here"

jansan — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:47:43 +0000

It's Ford Prefect

New comment by jansan in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

jansan — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:09:58 +0000

Do you realize who Kafkaesque the discussion already has become?

New comment by jansan in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

jansan — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:42:07 +0000

I am pretty sure the reason for the ban lightbulbs was to push sales of fluorescent lamps before LEDs would finally take over. It came just when LED lamps were still too expensive to replace the light bulbs, so people were pushed into those crappy fluorescent lamps, only to have them replaced a few years later by the much better LEDs.

New comment by jansan in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

jansan — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:22:25 +0000

Germany does an extra gold plating on every single EU regulation.

New comment by jansan in "Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium"

jansan — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:26:29 +0000

Allianz Marketing Head: My son's new favorite website is "Hackernews". They do not run ads, so how can we get the attention of their audience?

New comment by jansan in "English ↔ Claudish Translator"

jansan — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:39:06 +0000

That is a very Claudish error message.

New comment by jansan in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

jansan — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:11:01 +0000

I love how the chose Verde, which means value, for their long time retired kitchen furniture. They were so good that they still sell above their original retail prices now.

New comment by jansan in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models"

jansan — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:36:57 +0000

You are right to push back on this. I should be more explicit. My honest take is that this is, in fact, my honest take. I appreciate you holding me accountable here.

"Cards as Weapons" by Ricky Jay (1977)

jansan — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:43:24 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/Cards_as_Weapons_-_Ricky_Jay_1977

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080230

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jansan in "Show HN: Full complex text shaping and rendering on ESP32 with 320KB usable RAM"

jansan — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:18:22 +0000

I built an OpenType shaper and renderer that is nearly output-compatible with HarfBuzz. The focus was memory efficiency, so for the first time ever complex scripts like Devanagari, Arabic, and even Nastaliq can be fully rendered on memory-constrained systems such as an ESP32 with 320 KB of usable RAM.

Show HN: Full complex text shaping and rendering on ESP32 with 320KB usable RAM

jansan — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:18:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/waruyama/flattype-cyd-demo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49075016

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by jansan in "Claude Opus 5"

jansan — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:22:46 +0000

I still do not understand how models can generate absolutely stunning SVG-like bitmaps of a pelican on a bicycle, but fail to do so when asked to directly create an SVG.

The image linked below was generated as a bitmap by Gemini and then manually converted to an SVG. Why can models not even remotely output something like that as SVG?

https://hyvector.com/img/app-screenshot-light.png