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New comment by jkubicek in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

jkubicek — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:01:17 +0000

OK sure, but back when old heads were complaining about the kids not knowing assembly, those same kids knew C or Fortran or something.

In 2026, if you call yourself a developer and can't solve FizzBuzz without help, it's hard to argue that you know anything useful at all.

New comment by jkubicek in "Learn Python the Hard Way Was Right About One Thing"

jkubicek — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:30:43 +0000

100% agree. I always type the sample code when I’m trying to learn something. Debugging my own stupid transcription errors is half of what I’m learning.

New comment by jkubicek in "Nextpad++"

jkubicek — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:58:07 +0000

It’s a quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

New comment by jkubicek in "Nextpad++"

jkubicek — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:28:40 +0000

Original discussion on Nextpad++ release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019486

Nextpad++

jkubicek — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:26:20 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/nextpad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122373

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by jkubicek in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

jkubicek — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:55:28 +0000

https://www.readtangle.com/the-everything-everywhere-all-at-...

This article doesn’t even remotely itemize all of Trumps corruption, but it’s long and extremely damning.

I would hope that anyone still supporting this administration reads this article and does some introspection on why. I’m guessing that ship probably sailed 6 years ago, though.

New comment by jkubicek in "Ti-84 Evo"

jkubicek — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:11:27 +0000

This is why you always mount outlets with the grounding pin facing up!

New comment by jkubicek in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

jkubicek — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:12:54 +0000

I’m not a vegetarian and have no plans on becoming one but.. just because eating meat is normal doesn’t mean it needs to stay that way.

There’s an endless list of atrocities committed by our ancestors or our peers in the animal kingdom that we no longer tolerate. There’s no reason why eating another animal can’t someday become as abhorrent as cannibalism or slavery or whatever.

New comment by jkubicek in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

jkubicek — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:21:39 +0000

I’m learning the opposite lesson. The US is surprisingly fragile and a single president with no morals or ethics can do far more damage than anyone could have imagined.

New comment by jkubicek in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

jkubicek — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:27:23 +0000

Or if decision makers start using the gambling markets to drive their decisions, the value of these things will go extremely negative.

The headline bet in Polymarket right now is on when US troops will invade Iran. If some unscrupulous official can pull some strings to get boots in the ground in the next few days, they stand to win a significant amount of money.

New comment by jkubicek in "Can the world get its supply of oil by bypassing the Strait of Hormuz?"

jkubicek — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:04:16 +0000

I think you’re responding to the wrong comment

New comment by jkubicek in "Can the world get its supply of oil by bypassing the Strait of Hormuz?"

jkubicek — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:03:05 +0000

America needs a Snow Leopard. No new features, just bug fixes.

New comment by jkubicek in "No AI in Node.js Core"

jkubicek — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:34:08 +0000

If a person writes 100 lines of code there’s a (valid) assumption that someone thinks this 100 lines of code is worth writing. With AI it takes no effort to write 10,000 loc. Asking someone else to figure out if that code is worth merging just offloads the effort to someone else who didn’t ask for it.

New comment by jkubicek in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

jkubicek — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:36:25 +0000

> It’s pretty clear from the text that they have debunked the idea that modern synthetic materials have outstripped older materials in performance... That single coat is also effective over a much larger temperature range than the older clothes.

It feels like these two statements are in contradiction.

FWIW, I do a lot of hiking / backpacking / snowboarding in various conditions and "effective over a much larger temperature" is the #1 thing I shop for. If I can have 1 jacket that I wear from the time I get up in the morning until lunch, that's worth more than any other feature. I hate having to stop a hike to strip off a layer and I hate having to find a way to carry my jacket while snowboarding.

New comment by jkubicek in "Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm"

jkubicek — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:15:43 +0000

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

New comment by jkubicek in "Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware"

jkubicek — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:53:38 +0000

It’s not possible to make the AI smart enough to avoid being tricked. If the AI can run curl it will run curl.

New comment by jkubicek in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

jkubicek — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:51:15 +0000

Have you read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual?

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...

New comment by jkubicek in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

jkubicek — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:09:28 +0000

Jira takes a measurable amount of time to make bulk-changes to a single ticket, which is insane. If they’re going to fix anything, fix that.

New comment by jkubicek in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

jkubicek — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:00:08 +0000

I’m learning Godot and writing a basic game for my kids.

Coding agents are amazing and make me (feel) productive, but they really suck the fun out of programming.

I’m sure it’s possible to create a Godot-based game with an LLM, but I’m not sure how, so I’m forced to do everything the old-fashioned way – reading the docs.

New comment by jkubicek in "Ghostmd: Ghostty but for Markdown Notes"

jkubicek — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:24:59 +0000

I have the same thing; it's a TUI app written in python; all it does is create files with the proper format and has some mild browsing capabilities. It's super nice.