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New comment by jdlyga in "Country that put backdoors in Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers"

jdlyga — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:03:15 +0000

This is just geopolitics. You should've seen what the US and Europe did during the Cold War.

New comment by jdlyga in "What is agentic engineering?"

jdlyga — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:41:44 +0000

Sure, you could argue it's like writing code that gets optimized by the compiler for whatever CPU architecture you're using. But the main difference between layers of abstraction and agentic development is the "fuzzyness" of it. It's not deterministic. It's a lot more like managing a person.

New comment by jdlyga in "Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year"

jdlyga — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:39:58 +0000

Excel is so embedded into our world that we renamed part of the human genome to prevent excel from incorrectly reading them as dates

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...

New comment by jdlyga in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

jdlyga — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:38:40 +0000

The endgame is clear. Mass surveillance combined with AI agents. Would almost be like having a personal government spy watching each individual person.

New comment by jdlyga in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

jdlyga — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:58:53 +0000

Just give it 2 years and this will exist for real.

New comment by jdlyga in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

jdlyga — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:15:41 +0000

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New comment by jdlyga in "Put the zip code first"

jdlyga — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:03:38 +0000

Zip codes do not have a one to one relationship to cities in the US. It's a common misconception. It's true about 90% of the time, but there are a lot of outliers. I used to work with GIS data and there are a ton of exceptions.

New comment by jdlyga in "Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command"

jdlyga — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:31:51 +0000

Rookie move. Why is Claude Code able to run terraform?

New comment by jdlyga in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

jdlyga — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:08:26 +0000

I'll do you one better, imagine a CPU that runs entirely in an LLM.

You’re absolutely right! I made an arithmetic mistake there — 3 * 3 is 9, not 8. Let’s correct that: Before: EAX = 3 After imul eax, eax: EAX = 9 Thanks for catching that — the correct return value is 9.

New comment by jdlyga in "MacBook Neo"

jdlyga — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:59:18 +0000

Even if apple is losing money on these devices, they shouldn't care. Low cost laptops are the main reason why people buy Windows laptops instead of Macs. They need to get people into the Mac ecosystem.

New comment by jdlyga in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

jdlyga — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:33:44 +0000

To be honest, if both Android and iOS were walled gardens, I'd choose iOS every time. I choose Android specifically because of its openness. But if that weren't the case, I'd prefer the smoother UX and stronger Apple ecosystem.

New comment by jdlyga in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

jdlyga — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:03:19 +0000

A very, very good point

New comment by jdlyga in "Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds"

jdlyga — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:28:47 +0000

What made the most difference for me was strength training a few times per week. I do circuit training classes where you spend 6 minutes per station. I didn't change my diet that much, and I really didn't lose much weight. But the muscle displaced the fat and I'm slimmer and look better.

New comment by jdlyga in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

jdlyga — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:48:20 +0000

Besides payment kiosks having tipping on by default, I wonder how much of this is an indicator of inflation over the past 5 years. Businesses have dramatically broadened tipping on payment kiosks to avoid having to increase wages. "We'll still pay you 12 dollars an hour, but now you get tips!"

New comment by jdlyga in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

jdlyga — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:04:40 +0000

This is obviously a death march project. Just delay it indefinitely until the Google Gemini based Siri chatbot is ready. Why ship something half-assed?

New comment by jdlyga in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

jdlyga — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:47:19 +0000

It's turned from SimCity into SimSimCity. It's like playing a simulation where you manage a person who's playing SimCity.

New comment by jdlyga in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

jdlyga — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:52:38 +0000

Once you have a kid, it's obvious why even besides the costs involved. There's not much sense of community, particularly in the white middle class. People are very individualistic and distrusting of others. There's a good reason for some of this, but to have a community you need to be a community member. And that means letting people in, trusting others and being trustworthy, and being out for the group instead of just yourself.

New comment by jdlyga in "Kiki – Accountability monster for people who are easily distracted"

jdlyga — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:13:31 +0000

That's my daughter's nickname. She is distraction personified.

New comment by jdlyga in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

jdlyga — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:13:57 +0000

It's tough convincing people that Google AI overviews are often very wrong. People think that if it's displayed so prominently on Google, it must be factually accurate right?

"AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more"

It's not mistakes, half the time it's completely wrong and total bullshit information. Even comparing it to other AI, if you put the same question into GPT 5.2 or Gemini, you get much more accurate answers.

New comment by jdlyga in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

jdlyga — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:11:42 +0000

I've gone through this cycle too, and what I realized is that as a developer a large part of your job is making sure the code you write works, is maintainable, and you can explain how it works.