Hacker News: jjk7

New comment by jjk7 in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

jjk7 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:48:05 +0000

No, but accessing and searching the database is.

New comment by jjk7 in "The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed"

jjk7 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:00:58 +0000

If you read the article, he admits he used AI for this.

New comment by jjk7 in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

jjk7 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:55:11 +0000

No, unfortunately P2P's glory days are behind us. Shame, because it was a really cool technology.

New comment by jjk7 in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

jjk7 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:50:34 +0000

Nobody has time anymore to read a textbook.

New comment by jjk7 in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

jjk7 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:49:03 +0000

(in recent memory). Surely the industrial revolution was a much larger disruption.

New comment by jjk7 in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

jjk7 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:45:47 +0000

Yes, they taught that too.

New comment by jjk7 in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

jjk7 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:36:51 +0000

It's interesting how distrust for big pharma used to be left wing, but is now right wing. How did that happen?

New comment by jjk7 in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

jjk7 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:26:43 +0000

usgov

New comment by jjk7 in "Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis"

jjk7 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:00:18 +0000

It probably had a snake in it's belly, and they thought it was it's neck

New comment by jjk7 in "Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews"

jjk7 — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:42:04 +0000

It went beyond duping, you could construct your own completely unique weapon stats with gameshark codes at the bank.

Prototypal item crafting

New comment by jjk7 in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

jjk7 — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:39:52 +0000

Assuming you're serious? Store passwords with salted one-way hashes.

New comment by jjk7 in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

jjk7 — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:23:27 +0000

Before SYSCALL there was INT

New comment by jjk7 in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

jjk7 — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:21:30 +0000

I had a similar experience but with MSSQL, was invited to join some meetings with MS Sales folks. I quickly learned the project was never meant to succeed, but was simply leverage to negotiate a better contract.

New comment by jjk7 in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

jjk7 — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:17:04 +0000

A tool so good, the workers need to be forced to use it.

New comment by jjk7 in "How Monero's proof of work works"

jjk7 — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:42:59 +0000

Once you buy gold, you don't have to rely on other people continuing to burn resources indefinitely. You pay upfront for the cost of mining, and that's it.

New comment by jjk7 in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

jjk7 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:09:34 +0000

They'll resent you insofar as it was confrontational vs. collaborative. If you can incept your conclusion into others they will not resent you. It's the whole raison d'etre of the Socratic method.

I had someone tell me, earnestly, that they hated me because it turned out that I was alright right. Not in the stubborn sense either.

New comment by jjk7 in "U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers"

jjk7 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:25:06 +0000

>Reporting Mechanism: In countries with Intergovernmental Agreements (IGAs), such as Canada, financial institutions report to local tax authorities, which then share the information with the IRS.

New comment by jjk7 in "Codex for almost everything"

jjk7 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:45:57 +0000

Probably accessibility APIs

New comment by jjk7 in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"

jjk7 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:29:58 +0000

Allbirds ran on Shopify... was the CTO a shoe engineer?

New comment by jjk7 in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

jjk7 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:25:54 +0000

At least tokens are equivalent to measuring 'thinking'... I wouldn't mind if it burned 100k tokens to output a one line change to fix a bug.

The problem is maximizing code generated per token spent. This model of "efficiency" is fundamentally broken.