Hacker News: jarym

New comment by jarym in "Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak"

jarym — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:44:22 +0000

That’s what the kasmweb images on dockerhub are - desktop apps containerised

New comment by jarym in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"

jarym — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:32:30 +0000

Low trust or not, we still have to deal with trolls.

New comment by jarym in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

jarym — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:30:29 +0000

100%. They had a place back when banks barely knew what the internet was.

But I think their time has passed.

New comment by jarym in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"

jarym — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:19:21 +0000

What are you talking about? My GH profile is not my HN name.

If you don’t have a valid point why post rubbish?

New comment by jarym in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"

jarym — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:51:49 +0000

> raised three separate PRs to correct spelling and grammar mistakes in comments.

> The changes were harmless and correct,

> I closed all three PRs without comment.

What is this article? I get real ‘AI slop PRs’ are nightmares - but I take that to mean the wave of AI generated PRs that read convincingly but are in the end bullshit.

But your example is NOT that. The unreasonable counter to your point: don’t make spelling mistakes in the first place? Or switch off PRs if you don’t want things corrected?

New comment by jarym in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

jarym — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:07:57 +0000

‘Uncontrolled’ - surely the control point was the initial application being submitted from abroad?

It was very much ‘controlled’. We lost SO many European workers due to the obsession with EU Freedom of Movement that entire sectors like nursing were about to implode without a source of new workers.

New comment by jarym in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

jarym — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:58:39 +0000

Seems like the only thing more expensive and damaging these days than being an enemy of the US is being an ally!

Wonder how long it’ll be before Trump throws his toys out the pram again. Wouldn’t be surprised if he moans his allies have abandoned him.

New comment by jarym in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

jarym — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:54:19 +0000

Next GrapheneOS feature: Travel mode, disable unlock until clear of ‘the US border’

New comment by jarym in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

jarym — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:52:02 +0000

Is the government not hacking the law with its weird interpretations and assertions?

New comment by jarym in "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"

jarym — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:41:11 +0000

From now on I swear if I launch a new product I will call it ClosedXXX

New comment by jarym in "Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5"

jarym — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:58:34 +0000

Getting to grips with each new model does require some tweaking and experimentation. So far I've found Opus 5 to repeatedly pause its work and give me some seemingly randomly invented decisions to make.

New comment by jarym in "Postmortem of a British Startup: Tract"

jarym — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:29:18 +0000

Enjoyed reading the article and I am sad as well to read about any failed startup but especially British ones.

I've tried at various points over the past 2 decades and can confirm: trying to sell startup software into the UK (and European) market is much harder than in the US.

Most businesses are not open to buying from an upstart even if the proposition seems attractive. There is a 'safety in numbers' mentality (markedly less so in the UK than in other parts of Western Europe but still much more than in the US).

It makes securing the first 10 customers ever more challenging. It is not a trope I'd say, its just a lesson that keeps being relearnt.

New comment by jarym in "Better and Cheaper Than IPTV"

jarym — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:15:08 +0000

Love it

New comment by jarym in "I built a browser-based P2P file transfer tool using WebRTC"

jarym — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:31:24 +0000

Bandwidth costs money not to mention if it was truly free it would probably be an abuse vector. Cloudflare offer 1000Gb free per month - https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turn-sfu/ and pricing beyond that isn't bad either.

New comment by jarym in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

jarym — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:07:56 +0000

2 things: a) Government plays a part in the cost of things - especially years of mis-investment around energy generation has sent British prices to the stratosphere and employment taxation levels greater than those 'cheaper' producers. b) The 'cheaper' producers are still _producers_ and thus have control - if they need to hoard their own supply they will, or if they need to leverage it for some political gain they might.

New comment by jarym in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

jarym — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:05:04 +0000

Yep, same can be said of manufacturing capability in general. If you don't have a manufacturing base then inevitably when there's a war you may find yourself unable to build defense components.

New comment by jarym in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

jarym — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:47:38 +0000

Yes, first of all its fully web-native and works over WebTransport + WebRTC plus uses hardware encoding (on host) and decoding (on client) to minimise latency and CPU usage. Plus I'm adding a lot of support for mobile/tablet/VR devices.

New comment by jarym in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

jarym — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:05:42 +0000

A Remote Desktop tool for Mac and Windows https://forge.emrul.dev/agents/portal-desktop/releases

Still a few weeks away from getting everything working but it’s functional already and I have a half dozen regular users who’re my beta testers :)

New comment by jarym in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

jarym — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:20:48 +0000

Quite amusing we have decades of human written code much of it sub standard and yet no one demanded proof till now of Open Source projects having to ‘demonstrate’ anything.

If ya don’t wanna use it, don’t. Simple.

New comment by jarym in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

jarym — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:13:19 +0000

Europe learnt nothing from the 1910-1950 era it seems. If the Stasi were around to see their dream rebuilt twice over....