Hacker News: jdiez17

New comment by jdiez17 in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

jdiez17 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:29:35 +0000

Thank you for saying this. It's quite frustrating to read some comments here that have obviously lost touch with the reality of the vast majority of people and businesses across the world.

New comment by jdiez17 in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

jdiez17 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:35:23 +0000

I upvoted the post because they make a valid point and 99% is indeed factually incorrect hyperbole.

New comment by jdiez17 in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

jdiez17 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:46:20 +0000

EU chip industry: best I can do is supply chips that are in 99% of industrial equipment and vehicles. Also supply the only machines in the world that enable leading edge lithography processes.

New comment by jdiez17 in "India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch"

jdiez17 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:28:38 +0000

Extremely strong performance from India’s Skyroot with their Vikram-1 rocket. I can say that many in the space industry are looking for new launch capacity to LEO.

New comment by jdiez17 in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

jdiez17 — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:55:03 +0000

You can block the web user interface and effectively block Polymarket for 99.9% of users. No ban is ever 100% effective.

New comment by jdiez17 in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

jdiez17 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:10:13 +0000

I've written about this elsewhere but I predict there will be a significant secondary market for repurposing parts of datacenter GPUs (for example, RAM chips) by desoldering them and soldering them onto new PCBs that fit PC/consumer use cases.

New comment by jdiez17 in "DARPA’s new X-76"

jdiez17 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:14:33 +0000

You're absolutely right.

New comment by jdiez17 in "DARPA's new X-76"

jdiez17 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:43:04 +0000

... who probably wrote their prepared PR statement with an LLM.

New comment by jdiez17 in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

jdiez17 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:43:39 +0000

> Git repositories were never extended to version everything developers build with in the AI era. [... more fatalistic verbiage ...] A system that cannot be retrofitted for what's ahead.

Two paragraph later:

> Entire will be based on three key components: a git-compatible database [...]

So which one is it?

New comment by jdiez17 in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

jdiez17 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:00:25 +0000

I predict there's going to be a niche opening up for companies to recycle the expensive parts of all these compute hardware that AI companies are currently buying and will probably be obsolete/depreciated/replaced in the next 2-5 years. The easiest example is RAM chips. There will be people desoldering those ICs and putting them on DDR5 sticks to resell to the general consumer market.

New comment by jdiez17 in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

jdiez17 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:55:41 +0000

> It's only a "desirable feature" to the nihilistic maniacs that run the markets as it's only beneficial to them.

... and which forces do you think are the core concept of "the American experiment"?

New comment by jdiez17 in "SpaceX lowering orbits of 4,400 Starlink satellites for safety's sake"

jdiez17 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:47:23 +0000

You would likely need at least one per orbital plane, of which there are about 24.

New comment by jdiez17 in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

jdiez17 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:24:36 +0000

This looks pretty neat, thanks!

New comment by jdiez17 in "If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app"

jdiez17 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:23:19 +0000

Being open source is technically not required to verify this. It’s possible to prove or disprove security claims by reverse engineering, and iOS specifically is already a popular target for professional/academic RE.

Of course, a hardware switch is always more secure.

New comment by jdiez17 in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

jdiez17 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:22:47 +0000

> Back when decent civilization was a thing, there were rules of engagement, conduct, the pursuit of security, and strategic goals which didn't include active genocide of civilians.

What period of human history are you referring to exactly?

New comment by jdiez17 in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

jdiez17 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:28:29 +0000

If only my country (Germany)’s pension fund was capital/stock based.

New comment by jdiez17 in "OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen"

jdiez17 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:29:55 +0000

I read some analysis about specifically this battery pack, that shows it may not be the bee's knees: https://www.lumafield.com/first-article/posts/whats-hiding-i...

New comment by jdiez17 in "German government comes out against Chat Control"

jdiez17 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:42:52 +0000

Here you go: https://www.bmi.bund.de/DE/themen/sicherheit/extremismus/lin...

Feel free to read the chapter „Linksextremismus“. It talks about various violent Antifa groups and other cases. Keep in mind that the definition of „extreme left“ refers to organizations that want to replace the basic democratic system with communism or anarchy (according to the German constitutional court).

It does not necessarily include „political craziness“ that we may disagree with. The point of these legal descriptions of organizations is not to be used as a political weapon for parties you don’t like. You have to do some significantly malicious stuff to be considered as such.

New comment by jdiez17 in "German government comes out against Chat Control"

jdiez17 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:24:06 +0000

It is the legally accurate description of the AfD [1]. Just like it is legally correct to call Björn Höcke a fascist.

[1] https://medienservice.sachsen.de/medien/news/1071656

New comment by jdiez17 in "Show HN: Lingo – A linguistic database in Rust with nanosecond-level performance"

jdiez17 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:27:09 +0000

All of the code is imported in 1 commit. The rest of the commits are deleting the specs that I guess were used to generate the code. There’s one commit adding code which explicitly says generated by Claude code. There’s basically no chance the whole codebase is not AI slop.