Hacker News: jazzypants

Reddit's home screen now forces a "for you" feed that cannot be turned off

jazzypants — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:25:19 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1u26ydd/comment/oqvhjvc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479622

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by jazzypants in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

jazzypants — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:55:14 +0000

Fair enough. Thank you for sating my curiosity. I'm not quite as optimistic as you, but I'm excited at the potential to be proven wrong. :)

New comment by jazzypants in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

jazzypants — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:16:56 +0000

Are you ever reading the code? What do you do when the LLM can't fix a bug? Do you not wish you had a more intimate first-hand knowledge of the code when fixing things yourself?

Please don't tell me that never happens-- I've had one just in the last week and I use both OpenAI and Anthropic foundation models.

New comment by jazzypants in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

jazzypants — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:52:18 +0000

How would you detect the presence of bugs in this scenario? How would you make sure the LLM isn't adding yet another useless, redundant function to the code base? Even if there isn't a bug in this PR, do you not want to be familiar with the actual shape of the code in case you need to dig through it while bug hunting later?

Every time I try to take a hands-off approach to the code like this, I come to regret it later. The code ends up bloated and labyrinthine. When I let it grow unabated, it becomes gradually more difficult for the LLM to understand the intended structure as the project becomes too big for the model to keep the whole thing in its context.

New comment by jazzypants in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

jazzypants — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:43:14 +0000

Literally, every single person I know is against the Iran War except for two. They're also the only Trump supporters left in my social circle. The cult of personality is getting pretty sad.

New comment by jazzypants in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

jazzypants — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:35:40 +0000

> Yes, it finished. It changed chart.py and styles.css. Do you want me to tell you what specific changes it made to the files?"

A verbal diff sounds practically useless. Does it first read out the entire left-hand base, and then read out the entire right-hand target? Does it say loudly "REMOVING ... ADDING ... "? How would it read out something like Struct->Field? This seems lower fidelity than a visual confirmation, and I just don't think that voice commands make sense with this kind of work.

New comment by jazzypants in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

jazzypants — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:13:22 +0000

The Qataris didn't force us to do stupid shit like invade Iraq and Afghanistan. Our feckless leaders did that. It's nice that you've invented this excuse for our terrible leadership, but it doesn't actually explain away any of our terrible foreign policy decisions of the last century.

New comment by jazzypants in "They’re made out of weights"

jazzypants — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:21:28 +0000

You're confused about the etymology. Homo Sapiens was coined in the 1800s. People have been saying "sapient" since the 1300s, and it is rooted from the Latin word "sapientem" which simply means "sensible; shrewd, knowing, discrete". Homo Sapiens just means "wise human", and we humbly bestowed the name upon ourselves.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/sapient

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human#Etymology_and_definition

New comment by jazzypants in "They’re made out of weights"

jazzypants — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:58:58 +0000

Why do you think that parrots do not have sapience? How would one even measure such a thing?

New comment by jazzypants in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

jazzypants — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:55:37 +0000

First Astro, now this? Cloudflare is getting all the good JS talent.

The monetization story never really made sense to me. It seems really hard to carve out a space in the managed hosting world. Are the Vercel and Laravel teams the only ones to make Private Equity work?

New comment by jazzypants in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

jazzypants — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:38:36 +0000

If we have military hegemony, then why can't we open the strait of Hormuz?

New comment by jazzypants in "Poll: How often do you check "newest"?"

jazzypants — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:25:43 +0000

I don't use the native apps. They are bloated, disgusting messes. I just messed around with old.reddit and compared it to new reddit for around thirty minutes. I noticed no performance differences, and I noticed no discrepancy in comments. I don't know what to tell you. The only time I see fewer comments is when I use an incognito window, but that's just because it's not logged in.

New comment by jazzypants in "Poll: How often do you check "newest"?"

jazzypants — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:06:47 +0000

I agree, and I previously used a 3rd party app myself (Reddit Is Fun). The sad thing is that I actually completely understand why they shut down the free API access. The AI bot scrapers are absurdly aggressive, and bandwidth isn't free.

New comment by jazzypants in "Poll: How often do you check "newest"?"

jazzypants — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:03:03 +0000

I prefer the new design because the text is readable on my phone, and it has a native dark mode. I don't see any of the ads because I use an ad blocker.

Also, I have no idea what you mean about the comments thing. I can immediately see all comments other than the ones that have been collapsed due to having negative karma.

New comment by jazzypants in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

jazzypants — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:40:51 +0000

A piece of paper signed by your boss isn't the same as a real warrant signed by a judge.

No real lawyer will ever tell you that an "administrative warrant" is a real thing that lets jackbooted thugs enter your home and detain you. It's absurd and disgusting, and you should feel dirty for defending it.

https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-...

https://ij.org/issues/ijs-project-on-the-4th-amendment/admin...

New comment by jazzypants in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

jazzypants — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:30:13 +0000

No, the people who can't afford their insurance wouldn't be able to work as policemen. Ideally, they would also eventually lose a license of some sort-- just like the doctors who commit malpractice.

We are already paying increased taxes to deal with all the lawsuits we already incur because these people know they are above the law and they think it isn't their problem.

New comment by jazzypants in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

jazzypants — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:48:53 +0000

They could just buy insurance. You know, like doctors, lawyers, and a wide variety of other professionals that deal with liabilities in their field.

Regardless, the police get sued all the time anyways. It's just that the burden currently falls on the taxpayers.

New comment by jazzypants in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

jazzypants — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:37:46 +0000

I think you would find that they would make far fewer illegal mistakes if they actually had to deal with the consequences of those mistakes.

Qualified Immunity didn't exist as a concept until the 1960s, and it was put in place to shield policemen enacting racist policies and corrupt cronies of Nixon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity

New comment by jazzypants in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

jazzypants — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:33:10 +0000

Maybe they saw the roving bands of masked militants roaming the streets and grabbing people without warrants with their own eyes like I did.

New comment by jazzypants in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

jazzypants — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:25:11 +0000

Qualified Immunity should not apply ever. Period. No one should be above the law for any reason ever.