Hacker News: jefurii

New comment by jefurii in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

jefurii — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:43:50 +0000

Yep Linus certainly jumped the shark at the 2026 maintainers summit the other week.

New comment by jefurii in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

jefurii — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:34:52 +0000

That factory produced chair is way more likely to end up as landfill than a hand-made one. The AI-generated slopware generates the landfill (ie pollution and the jobkilling) before it's delivered to you.

New comment by jefurii in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

jefurii — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:32:39 +0000

Transcription is one legitimate use for LLMs that archivists are excited about. It's a case of a tedious task that frees them up to do the more interesting parts of the jobs, and the product is something that can be easily compared to the original and verified. This is very different from something like writing prose or code.

New comment by jefurii in "Trump says anyone who uses the phrase "artificial intelligence" is "the enemy""

jefurii — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:06:25 +0000

He makes his people lie or do stupid and demeaning things as a way of testing their loyalty to him.

New comment by jefurii in "An operating system that belongs to Europe"

jefurii — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:17:55 +0000

Project started in June 2026 and has 681 commits, only two contributors, and one of them is Claude. Hosted on Github. "EU only" and "sovereign"?

New comment by jefurii in "Using multiple Git remotes for true distributed version control"

jefurii — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:04:28 +0000

It's good to remind the community about this periodically

New comment by jefurii in "Vibecoding isn't a crime How Distribute Your App on Linux after Flathub refusal"

jefurii — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:39:13 +0000

Sure it's not a crime but I don't want your vibe-coded shit mingling with my actual code written by actual humans.

New comment by jefurii in "ZSA Backpack"

jefurii — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:34:11 +0000

"Introducing the world’s first backpack built for split keyboard users."

New comment by jefurii in "Rethinking Space Opera"

jefurii — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:59:46 +0000

A post by Charles Stross with thoughts on a new book that gets 6 points and no comments. Hacker News has really changed.

New comment by jefurii in "Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI"

jefurii — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:52:55 +0000

I think it's useful, and maybe an indication of something positive.

New comment by jefurii in "The reasons you procrastinate, and how to stop"

jefurii — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:56:45 +0000

Looks interesting, will read later.

AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

jefurii — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:06:11 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336050

Points: 131

# Comments: 6

New comment by jefurii in "Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe"

jefurii — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:14:30 +0000

What's so surprising? The AI CEOs hate them and are trying to destroy the world they live in along with their job prospects.

New comment by jefurii in "Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations"

jefurii — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:14:25 +0000

https://youtu.be/qwXtS0-r1uQ

New comment by jefurii in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

jefurii — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:36:58 +0000

Agreed except for the "immense value" part.

New comment by jefurii in "A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return"

jefurii — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:50:17 +0000

I took an agricultural ecology class in college in the early 90s and the professor predicted this would happen. I'd talk to farmer relatives and they'd get all angry and tell me nobody can tell me what to do on my land. More recently I'd talk to people about this and they'd tell me no way they'd eat less beef or stop drinking almond milk. Humans are idiots.

New comment by jefurii in "An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan"

jefurii — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:13:57 +0000

> Nothing is in focus

IIRC there was a lot of bokeh which seemed to me like an artistic choice.

New comment by jefurii in "Forestiere Underground Gardens"

jefurii — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:58:41 +0000

"Well, if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from."

New comment by jefurii in "Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

jefurii — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:06:05 +0000

The elves are leaving Middle Earth..

New comment by jefurii in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

jefurii — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:27:50 +0000

This would be a different game but I'd enjoy just sailing around semi-realistic maps with realistic wind. I pixellated Hundred Rabbits simulator would be pretty cool.