Hacker News: jkubicek

New comment by jkubicek in "The Beauty of Roundabouts"

jkubicek — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:34:18 +0000

Two lane roundabouts are fantastic if you’re familiar with the intersection. If you’re not it’s too easy to get shunted out of the roundabout early

New comment by jkubicek in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

jkubicek — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:49:36 +0000

A React Native app would have all the same access to your personal data that a native app would

New comment by jkubicek in "Splash-free urinals (2025)"

jkubicek — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:07:08 +0000

I was on a work trip to Indianapolis last week and encountered two separate urinals with plastic screens branded by the same supplier. One screen was branded so that the plastic fingers point towards the user, one was branded so that the plastic fingers pointed towards the drain (i.e. the wrong way).

Makes me wonder why. Was that a misprint? Did someone get confused about the correct direction for the fingers?

New comment by jkubicek in "Fences, Not Sandboxes"

jkubicek — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:11:15 +0000

If I had $122k/month to spend on tokens I would simply.... not.

$1.5mm/year buys more of everything I want out of life than I could possibly consume.

New comment by jkubicek in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

jkubicek — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:06:47 +0000

> We got here by putting two of the most hated people in the country on the ballot against him, twice.

I hate this victim-blaming. Democrats deserve heaps of criticism for how they handled the last few elections, but Clinton was the most qualified presidential candidate we've had since maybe McCain in 2008? (I didn't vote for McCain, but it would be hard to argue he wasn't qualified).

You said yourself where the blame should lie:

> These are especially doomed against a completely amoral propaganda machine... Earning legitimate democratic victory against people who are quite literally and explicitly bad-faith actors is very hard.

New comment by jkubicek in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

jkubicek — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:56:20 +0000

If a human hacked into HuggingFace in the same way OpenAI’s model did, what would the penalty be? Civil suit? Jail?

If some human at OpenAI doesn’t face the same penalty for this incident we’re only going to see the rate of accidents like this accelerate.

New comment by jkubicek in "Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate"

jkubicek — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:45:22 +0000

I wish the entire world could just ignore Elon Musk. What an absolute waste of our global attention.

New comment by jkubicek in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

jkubicek — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:41:53 +0000

> I suspect the gray area would be around terrorists

Maybe this is a gray area in theory, but practically speaking I don't think it matters. The child has nothing to do with the parent's choices in life, do they deserve to be treated any differently than any other child born in the US?

New comment by jkubicek in "DuckDB Internals Part 1"

jkubicek — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:44:42 +0000

What do you use it for? I’m perpetually interested in using DuckDB, but it doesn’t seem to do anything I need.

New comment by jkubicek in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

jkubicek — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:47:04 +0000

Do you wear glasses and do you have the prescription inserts for the AVP? I have a very mild prescription, no inserts, and I find text in the AVP to be distractingly blurry. Enough so that I’ve never been able to use the virtual monitor for more than a few minutes at a time.

For context, I have no problem using external monitors without my glasses. The only downside is very tired eyes at the end of a workday, but I can read text just fine.

New comment by jkubicek in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

jkubicek — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:36:02 +0000

URL-opener, bookmark opener, URL expander (type JIRA-1234 and it’ll automatically open the correct ticket), basic text replacement stuff.

New comment by jkubicek in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

jkubicek — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:41:25 +0000

I started a new job that requires a much more locked-down laptop than I'm used to. No macOS App Store, no random 3rd party apps. I miss a lot of the convince apps I used to use HOWEVER we have unlimited access to Claude CLI. I've been able to mostly one-shot working replacements for Alfred and a meeting reminder app called `In Your Face`.

My own Alfred replacement is actually better for me, it's tailored to exactly how I want to use an app launcher / shortcut tool.

New comment by jkubicek in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

jkubicek — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:25:40 +0000

> There are 2 potential outcomes: either the sky really does fall, and there's a meaningful uptick in bad things happening to iPhone users, in which Apple can easily point the finger at the EC and say "they made us do this". Apple looks like the good guys who put up a good fight for their users, but ultimately their hands were tied, and they'll probably get the revisions to EU law they're so desperately fighting for. > > The other possibility is that the sky does not fall, and Apple looks both silly and malicious at the same time for ever having suggested that it would, which was clearly in bad faith.

I think the most likely outcome is between these two extremes. My personal data ends up sold to shady companies who use it to target ever more invasive advertising at me in places I wouldn't expect/. Like a boiling frog, I won't really notice the difference and my life will gradually become a little shittier.

New comment by jkubicek in "My Students Can't Read"

jkubicek — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:35:19 +0000

> The problem is: what are you going to do with these 35%? where should the people who shouldn't be there be?

Doing the exact same thing they’re doing now, just without wasting 4 years in college and being $100k in debt

New comment by jkubicek in "More than 6 out of 10 people turn to AI for psychological support"

jkubicek — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:39:04 +0000

I’m surprised that 6 out of 10 people even use AI, let alone that many people use it as a therapist.

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

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