Hacker News: jllyhill

Open Source Software Is the Pastime of the Rich

jllyhill — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:33:43 +0000

Article URL: https://humancode.us/2024/09/18/open-source-pastime-for-rich

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720635

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

New comment by jllyhill in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

jllyhill — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:43:54 +0000

Damn it, it was the longest word I've already found in plural form :/ Not sure this is good puzzle design to be honest

New comment by jllyhill in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

jllyhill — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:00:26 +0000

+1 for this. Also not a native speaker and can't for the life of find the two last words in the #5

New comment by jllyhill in "Plotnine"

jllyhill — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:03:55 +0000

What would you say are the benefits of the grammar-of-graphics approach? I've been working with plotting for more than a decade now and have never heard of it. Right now I'm looking through the gallery and can't really grasp what makes this approach better than the one in matplotlib.

PS. It took someone in the comments writing "import plotnine as p9" for me to understand it isn't plotLine.

To Gen or Not to Gen: The Ethical Use of Generative AI

jllyhill — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:03:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/04/to-gen-or-not-to-gen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520883

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Due to DMA, Siri AI delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27

jllyhill — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:10:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-delayed-in-eu-for-ios-27-and-ipados-27/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458124

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Star Citizen tops $1B crowdfunding milestone

jllyhill — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:53:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eurogamer.net/star-citizen-tops-1-billion-sells-5000-unflyable-spaceship

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264783

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by jllyhill in "Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization"

jllyhill — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:04:17 +0000

Huh, so it's not just me. Got a few crashes on android Firefox 150.0, couldn't read anything

Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding

jllyhill — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:51:35 +0000

Article URL: https://third-bit.com/2026/05/20/twelve-ways-to-be-wrong/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242146

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jllyhill in "YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability"

jllyhill — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:02:53 +0000

Does anyone know if the fix was shipped already? If it not a backdoor, of course.

New comment by jllyhill in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

jllyhill — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:51:30 +0000

This is very up to chance. Sometimes the VPN works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it's fine on the home Internet, but fails on the cell data, sometimes it's otherwise. And it is fine if you're somewhat tech savvy and okay with tinkering with settings, but a huge pain for the older relatives.

In defense of GitHub's poor uptime

jllyhill — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:34:56 +0000

Article URL: https://evanhahn.com/in-defense-of-githubs-poor-uptime/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007377

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jllyhill in "Open Slopware"

jllyhill — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:32:10 +0000

What is your opinion on this? While I think it is interesting to catalogue the use of LLMs (I still really dislike the term "AI" being used for next token prediction) in the open source projects, using even a permissive AI policy to switch projects is taking it too far. There's even `curl` on the list.

Open Slopware

jllyhill — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:32:10 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948220

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by jllyhill in "Flipdiscs"

jllyhill — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:51:53 +0000

The first thing I dig in the article was a search for "bad". Glad I'm not the only one.

Tracking in Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini Chatbots

jllyhill — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:33:28 +0000

Article URL: https://infosec.exchange/@k3ym0/116161635202253362

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767011

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

FobCam '25 – All my MFA tokens on one page

jllyhill — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:29:12 +0000

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/fobcam-25-all-my-mfa-tokens-on-one-page/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751691

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by jllyhill in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

jllyhill — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:09:21 +0000

I wouldn't recommend trying if you don't like it already. In order for the twist to have any impact the game needs to pretend to be something else and the developer have chosen it to be a visual novel with 0 substance. It would be cute anime girls yapping about nothing in the most non interesting way possible for a couple of hours before anything worth your attention happens. I'm somewhat of an anime slice of life trash enjoyer and even I couldn't force myself to watch a full let's play of this part (even with commentary adding something to latch to) and had to skip a half of it to get to the twist faster. Doesn't worth it.

What "Parse, don't validate" means in Python? (2025)

jllyhill — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:13:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bitecode.dev/p/what-parse-dont-validate-means-in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624305

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jllyhill in "Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop"

jllyhill — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:17:13 +0000

To be honest, I'm getting tired of a "laptop" in every one of these clickbait titles turning out to be $3000 Macbook. Sure, it's impressive to achieve this degree of the LLM compression, but I really don't like that the title implies local LLM becomes a viable for an average person with the actual hardware being out of reach for 99%.