Hacker News: jcarrano

New comment by jcarrano in "Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees"

jcarrano — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:02:18 +0000

Regarding (1), are they not already able to offer discounts for cash or debit purchases?

New comment by jcarrano in "Chat Control: EU states want to legalize comprehensive mass scans indirectly"

jcarrano — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:36:50 +0000

The only way out would be to either pass a law that makes chat control illegal (which is not going to happen) or for chat control to pass and be struck down by the courts.

New comment by jcarrano in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

jcarrano — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:40:23 +0000

BYD trucks haven't won a war yet, so at least in that segment Toyota is safe for now.

New comment by jcarrano in "Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?"

jcarrano — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:32:23 +0000

Nature's solution for all these problems so far has been to die, as harsh as it sounds. You try to get the important stuff (whatever that is to you) done before that happens, and then you are supposed to pass on the torch to whoever comes after.

New comment by jcarrano in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

jcarrano — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:12:22 +0000

I'm guessing they could, in theory, attack open source projects, but it would not be very effective as those could be infinitely forked. That's the reason why governments will actually support an encourage an oligopoly of proprietary platforms via regulations (e.g. mandatory automated scanning) which only companies can practically comply with.

New comment by jcarrano in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

jcarrano — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:39:52 +0000

Debian packages are ancient, unless you use "testing", which will be broken. That being said, Ubuntu is horrible too. The problem comes when you have to use proprietary software made by incompetent vendors, and that only works in Ubuntu.

New comment by jcarrano in "Leak: EU Commission to pitch social media restrictions for under-15s"

jcarrano — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:19:35 +0000

I feel society is going in a direction where there is no longer any individual responsibility. Instead everything is delegated to the state. Can't limit your kids screen time? Not your fault, it is the evil algorithm and it is up to your government to discipline your children. Being a parent will be reduced to providing your gametes.

New comment by jcarrano in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

jcarrano — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:38:12 +0000

My impression was that the major argument against static site generators is the unfriendly UX for non-technical contributors to the site, and with LLMs that problem is completely solved.

New comment by jcarrano in "All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it"

jcarrano — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:59:41 +0000

Destroying things is part of human experience. Kids got to have that.

New comment by jcarrano in "Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022)"

jcarrano — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:25:36 +0000

AI is trained with an overwhelming amount of web-related code that is open source. For embedded, not only is the training set smaller, but much of what's publicly visible is not of great quality.

New comment by jcarrano in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

jcarrano — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:53:57 +0000

It is called "Reggaeton be Gone"[1]. I think the author had too many problems with his neighbor.

[1] https://github.com/ronibandini/reggaetonBeGone

New comment by jcarrano in "Fastpotify"

jcarrano — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:48:16 +0000

If it can transform into Winamp I don't care if the code is LLM generated, typed by infinite monkeys or found in some ancient scrolls.

Jokes aside, how can you be sure that the official Spotify app (or any app, or Windows) was not written by a LLM without supervision?

New comment by jcarrano in "C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality"

jcarrano — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:58:58 +0000

If this could be made to work reliably, it would imply that cameras would have the ability to doxx users.

New comment by jcarrano in "And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway"

jcarrano — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:35:47 +0000

Regarding the Egyptian messages, if you care about these things you simply avoid doing business (especially in regulated industries) in the third world. The fact is that, even before the incident with the messages, cell providers had to sit down with the "men with guns" to even be able to operate in the country.

New comment by jcarrano in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

jcarrano — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:14:14 +0000

According to the article, the scanning facility has been there for a while, so it may well be that they have been destructively scanning books for a while, even before AI. It makes sense for the major book retailer to have digital copies of every book so that it can begin selling those as soon as it can negotiate the rights (if there are any).

In any case, all the indignation about destructive digitization misses the point that rare books takings space in a warehouse for years without being bought will eventually be destroyed anyway.

New comment by jcarrano in "GIMP Development Update"

jcarrano — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:48:08 +0000

Plus, it almost does not change between releases, so you need to learn it only once.

The few times when I tried to use a recent version of Photoshop, however, I could not figure out even basic stuff like layer masks,

New comment by jcarrano in "I was accused of using AI in my dissertation but I wrote it all myself"

jcarrano — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:49:09 +0000

18 years ago I was accused of plagiarizing an unnamed online monograph (I was never told which one) on an English literature exam that I wrote with pen and paper inside a classroom. It was a very weird experience.

New comment by jcarrano in "The German Mittelstand"

jcarrano — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:34:37 +0000

What I don't get in these cases is why they do this if they are not looking for a bribe? Just for sport?

New comment by jcarrano in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

jcarrano — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:03:24 +0000

What if they had usb drives with Linux installers in blister packs at electronics stores?

New comment by jcarrano in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

jcarrano — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:25:49 +0000

The same "fair use" as when Google trained its model on everyone else's photos.