Hacker News: jhack

New comment by jhack in "Kobo can run apps now"

jhack — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:00:30 +0000

This is incredible and super useful. More reasons to use my e-reader around the house instead of my phone.

New comment by jhack in "GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix"

jhack — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:51:39 +0000

This sounds like data they've already been collecting, they're just using it in a different way.

New comment by jhack in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

jhack — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:09:52 +0000

Rolling out data centers all over the place and they're paying billions for LESS energy supply.

Geniuses.

New comment by jhack in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

jhack — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:46:15 +0000

“People who disagree with me must be bots” is always a fun take.

Recursive Self Improvement for Coding Agents

jhack — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:55:57 +0000

Article URL: https://cline.ghost.io/recursive-self-improvement-for-coding-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105970

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jhack in "Our position on open-weights models"

jhack — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:03:16 +0000

"My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use them to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people."

Look in the mirror.

New comment by jhack in "Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds"

jhack — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:31:58 +0000

> Bun is the quintessential AI slop project at this point.

To call the Bun rewrite "quintessential slop" is all I need to know to not take this person or their project seriously.

New comment by jhack in "The console wars have been lost"

jhack — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:44:09 +0000

Lower up-front cost and hardware longevity are the two major ones. Whenever GTA VI launches on PC, good luck running it on your $500 PC from 2020.

New comment by jhack in "The console wars have been lost"

jhack — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:30:28 +0000

“If I can't give people physical games as gifts anymore, why should I bother buying the new console?”

“Man, Valve really does win by doing absolutely nothing while the rest of the industry shoots itself in the head.”

Good luck buying physical games on PC?

Odin 1.0 Announcement

jhack — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:06:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLPAqXi9In0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813850

Points: 109

# Comments: 56

New comment by jhack in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

jhack — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:42:54 +0000

This is going to happen more and more. AI is a tool that should make your employees more efficient not replace them outright. And if it doesn't make your employees better? I guess AI isn't applicable to your business then.

I can see a lot of companies coming to this realization over the coming months and years.

New comment by jhack in "Steam Machine launches today"

jhack — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:09:50 +0000

The pricing is all out of sorts. Close to $500 more expensive than a PS5 for worse performance. I understand this is a PC and you can do other things with it, but if you're buying a gaming device to play games this is a horrible value.

New comment by jhack in "David Ahl's Basic Computer Games Ported to C"

jhack — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:26:29 +0000

Which then gets tossed into a compiler and who knows what kind of code that thing spits out. That's why I only support projects written in assembly by real programmers.

New comment by jhack in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

jhack — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:44:33 +0000

"Even it that'd be the best code and design in the world, I won't use it. I don't trust it."

Nothing about this sentence makes sense. What don't you trust about code you can see and audit yourself? What's untrustworthy about "the best code and design in the world"?

Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later

jhack — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:14:55 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@stassaf.uae/windows-1-0-and-the-winapi-40-years-later-abaf64832918

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492366

Points: 51

# Comments: 53

New comment by jhack in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

jhack — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:18:01 +0000

Sometimes I wonder if any of this will even matter in a few years. How many of us compile code and then have to clean up the assembly, or even worry about what a compiler generates as long as it's correct?

New comment by jhack in "Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF"

jhack — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:07:15 +0000

You should post the results of your source code audit.

New comment by jhack in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

jhack — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:41:13 +0000

"Disabling attribution of LLM-generated code is fraud, because you’re saying you wrote the code."

Should there by attribution for Google or Stack Overflow copy/paste? Who should we bully about this?

New comment by jhack in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

jhack — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:01:47 +0000

Bluesky is insufferable. Literally any issue in any program is labelled "#vibecoded" by these clearly genius-level engineers who've never shipped a bug.

New comment by jhack in "Shantell Sans (2023)"

jhack — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:54:58 +0000

Is it weird that I want a mono version if this? Looks really great, really well designed.