Hacker News: jitbit

New comment by jitbit in "Maybe you should learn something"

jitbit — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:44:46 +0000

I live in Europe, had to get my permanent residence permit and for that - you have to pass the language exam. Boy, that was some experience!

I'm in my 40's so learning a new language has activated the brain muscles that were last active when I was... 4?

They were so rusty, slow and amost physically refused to cooperate at first. This was tough. Now looking back it was absolutely worth it, best brain workout ever. Best.

New comment by jitbit in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

jitbit — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:49:51 +0000

Anthropic: lets embed super secret invisible undetectable unicode telemetry into our prompts

Also Anthropic: lets do this in JS

New comment by jitbit in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

jitbit — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:59:21 +0000

> world can't deal with something that requires global concentrated efforts

Saddest part is that it used to

The Ozone layer problem was exactly this: coordinated global concentrated effort.

I doubt we can do that again though.

New comment by jitbit in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

jitbit — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:35:47 +0000

I speak Russian and that version sounds way more natural. But you’re right, just being nitpicky

New comment by jitbit in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

jitbit — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:43:12 +0000

Funny enough the post is machine-translated by AI - from the Russian original at https://orchidfiles.com/ru/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers-...

New comment by jitbit in "Another Microsoft Copilot AD injected into 4M GitHub commits"

jitbit — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:48:14 +0000

This is is different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269 - that was the copilot agent at github - this one is injected by VSCode

Another Microsoft Copilot AD injected into 4M GitHub commits

jitbit — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:48:14 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jitbit/status/2047990043688464443

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900403

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by jitbit in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

jitbit — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:37:48 +0000

Exactly brother, mind if I hug you.

I can play with my 7yo, or help the 11yo with his homework, or go for a run!! - while LLM is cooking a well-spec'ed agentic task. This sounds embarrassing, but LLMs have made our lives healthier, unbelievable.

PS. Not to mention all the "boring" sh*t that I used to postpone/stretch indefinitely, like writng docs or polishing copy for my website... No more stress, no procrastination, just let the LLM do it.

New comment by jitbit in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

jitbit — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:44:35 +0000

Turning 50 this year.

Coding has never _stopped_ being a passion for me, but my increasingly limited time becomes an issue.

And Claude code (and cursor) saves me So. Much. Time.

I only have 10-20 active years ahead of me, so this is really, really important. Young ppl don’t get it.

New comment by jitbit in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

jitbit — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:03:25 +0000

Anyone else paused at this line “we do not support mass DOMESTIC surveillance”

As a European I’m kinda... concerned now.

New comment by jitbit in "Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library"

jitbit — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:52:45 +0000

I tried doing something like that in my app, and quickly discovered that some modern semantic/functional tags are STILL not supported in some browsers. Or work badly.

For example, in Safari showModal for a dialog tag causes recalculating layout for EVERY element on a page, it’s up to 59x slower than chromium…. :(

But I love the idea

New comment by jitbit in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

jitbit — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:18:34 +0000

Can't upvote this comment enough.

"You're not imagining it."

"But my days got harder. Not easier. Harder."

"Now?" as the paragraph opener

"Why? No reason." as the paragraph opener

Nice try OP, submitting your own post to HN.

New comment by jitbit in "STFU"

jitbit — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:03:38 +0000

Sometimes when college kids in a hotel room next to mine are being too loud, I go out, check their room number , go back to my room and give them a call (usually just dialing the room number works).

I pretend to be “Jason from reception” and that “other guests are complaining about the noise”. Works every time.

New comment by jitbit in "Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests"

jitbit — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:08:57 +0000

The title is misleading. It says “dominating” however no sources or percentages are provided. And later in the article it only says “increasingly applying”, with just two examples.

I do have a friend (very popular drummer-YouTuber who makes covers, has millions of subs) who did get an O visa because he actually is a, kinda, celebrity, so I guess this is indeed happening occasionally. But nothing is being “dominated” here.

New comment by jitbit in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

jitbit — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:15:55 +0000

I don’t work at Microsoft and I have (almost) no friends there, but—

My team has relied on the Microsoft stack for over a decade (dotnet, GitHub Actions, VS Code, MS extensions), and I can say that the overall quality and “polish” of their releases has declined.

I try to help where I can—filing issues for outdated docs, contributing to dotnet/core, joining discussions about .NET 10 still not being available in Ubuntu APT feeds, reporting and helping resolve issues with MSSQL drivers and SqlClient on GitHub, etc.

But every time I interact with someone at Microsoft, I can’t help but read between the lines: they seem slightly demotivated by the company's shift toward an AI-first focus.

It's sad.

3D Neural Network Visualization for Handwritten Digit Recognition

jitbit — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:56:38 +0000

Article URL: https://nn-vis.noelith.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927345

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jitbit in "FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs"

jitbit — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:38:27 +0000

True - if we're talking about actual security bugs, not the "CVE slop"

P.S. I'm an open source maintainer myself, and I used to think, "oh, OSS developers should just stop whining and fix stuff." Fast forward a few years, and now I'm buried under false-positive "reports" and overwhelmed by non-coding work (deleting issue spam, triage, etc.)

P.P.S. What's worse, when your library is a security component the pressure’s even higher - one misplaced loc could break thousands of apps (we literally have a million downloads at nuget [1] )

[1]: https://www.nuget.org/packages/AspNetSaml

New comment by jitbit in ".NET 10"

jitbit — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:35:19 +0000

I'm founder of a 100% .NET based company (15 years, 1mil LOC), all development happens on Macs, production servers run linux. No issues so far.

No, really, I'm facing more issues from Cursor based based on a year-old upstream version of VSCode than from this, heh...

New comment by jitbit in ".NET 10"

jitbit — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:48:41 +0000

For us, every .NET upgrade since .NET 5 has gone surprisingly smoothly and reduced CPU/RAM usage by 10–15%.

We were even able to downgrade our cloud servers to smaller instances, literally.

I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.

New comment by jitbit in "OpenAI updates terms to forbid usage for medical and legal advice"

jitbit — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:00:18 +0000

Why is this flagged? This is pretty significant actually.

So stories like this are no longer possible? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734582