Hacker News: jokethrowaway

New comment by jokethrowaway in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

jokethrowaway — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:01:46 +0000

Generating media attention or protecting from Japanese regulations?

I wonder if it's related to their strict rules on realistic pictures for advertising products

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

jokethrowaway — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:27:52 +0000

Saying the Agile manifesto was void of meaning is ridiculous.

- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools - Working software over comprehensive documentation - Customer collaboration over contract negotiation - Responding to change over following a plan

The problem is that the Agile industry mostly didn't follow the Agile manifesto and ended up with monstruosity like SCRUM, which is all about processes over people.

Daily Standups, Retrospective, Backlog Grooming = PROCESS

This crap should all be replaced with async written communication (for quality of life and recording), but each team should ultimately be free to decide.

The Agile manifesto was all about freedom and it was turned into a jail.

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

jokethrowaway — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:22:18 +0000

I have a friend on anti depressants and she mentions the same hollowness and lack of wanting to do anything - despite having a good social life.

When I went through depression I refused meds, self medicated with weed (don't take it as medical advice) and got through the end of it.

I'd blame the meds and recommend gently weaning off them. Once you feel better rebuilding a social life is absolutely possible.

Best of luck with everything

New comment by jokethrowaway in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

jokethrowaway — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:09:48 +0000

The only useful use cases I've heard about are all about automating using horrible websites with horrible interfaces.

Eg. tell it to book a flight ticket for X without dealing with "modern UX" and 1GB websites

New comment by jokethrowaway in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

jokethrowaway — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:48:45 +0000

I really don't want to give Google money so the Pixel is off for me until GrapheneOS supports something else.

For now I consider smartphones as disposable toys that can't be trusted with anything sensitive and use a computer for privacy.

I also don't like the idea of running Android, I still hope for a real linux phone at some point.

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

jokethrowaway — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:39:00 +0000

My CPM is not great (not Google) and that's 25-30k impressions

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?"

jokethrowaway — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:20:06 +0000

It's been happening for about a month for me. I had to start monitoring spam because legit emails end up there. Funnily enough I started having the opposite problem too - plenty of obvious spam and phishing attempt ending up in my mailbox.

I had to make a bunch of filters on my side.

One more reason to migrate to Proton

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?"

jokethrowaway — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:41:20 +0000

Or Google

Large companies struggle to launch anything due to their staff size.

They're as inefficient as a government

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

jokethrowaway — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:56:16 +0000

Parakeet feels much more accurate in practice than whisper, it was a real "a-ha" moment for me.

Of course, English only

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

jokethrowaway — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:52:23 +0000

I invested a couple of days to setup a K3S cluster a few years ago and I still use that for any deployment (and I deployed a few more).

I don't have to worry about cloud providers ruining my life with updates, free cloudflare in front so I get caching.

It's not too bad but there is an initial investment

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

jokethrowaway — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:24:43 +0000

Why don't you just use Claude?

I don't get all these vibe coding tools when Claude is better than any of them

New comment by jokethrowaway in "European Commission issues call for evidence on open source"

jokethrowaway — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:22:30 +0000

So, as open source developers building a public good, where is our share of EU taxes?

New comment by jokethrowaway in "What happened to WebAssembly"

jokethrowaway — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:20:30 +0000

As someone who's going to write frontend in Leptos in the next 2 weeks, what stops me from recommending wasm for every frontend application is the bundle size. I don't want to ship compiled megabytes to the user to render UI.

If there was a rust frontend framework that compiles to JS, I'd use it for all my frontend code.

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU"

jokethrowaway — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:27:47 +0000

I'm sure it has its uses, but for anything with a higher requirement for quality, I think Vibe Voice is the only real OSS cloning option.

F2/E5 are also very good but have plenty of bad runs, you need to keep re-rolling until you get good outputs.

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU"

jokethrowaway — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:27:04 +0000

Sorry but the quality is too bad.

I'm sure it has its uses, but for anything practical I think Vibe Voice is the only real OSS cloning option. F2/E5 are also very good but has plenty of bad runs, you need to keep re-rolling.

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption"

jokethrowaway — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:36:58 +0000

It's easy to argue we don't really live in a democracy. Plenty of laws and regulations go against the majority to favour a few powerful entities (think about copyright laws, healthcare in the US).

That said, the alternative to democracy is not necessary the increasingly authoritarian governments we see around the world. If we gave more power and freedom to the individual and less to the state, we could have more freedom without democracy.

Democracy after all is the dictatorship of the majority on the minority. Why not just have any entity controlling the lives of others?

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"

jokethrowaway — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:30:52 +0000

I love how you provided the tax breakdown and pretty impressive for Spain (which is notoriously a tax hell)!

New comment by jokethrowaway in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

jokethrowaway — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:24:06 +0000

I agree but that's because both iOS and Android are pretty bad in several ways.

MeeGo from Nokia was pretty amazing as well and I'm sure it could have launched Linux phones into actual competitors to iOS and Android - if only Microsoft and Elop didn't manage to kill Linux at Nokia.

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Zed is our office"

jokethrowaway — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:37:15 +0000

This is insanely cool but it would be hard for non dev people to join the meetings and there is always an annoying "camera on" policy.

Moreover, this would be competing with Google Meet, Teams, Slack, Gather - way too much tech for collaboration

And I wish we were more async-first and less forced to deal with humans, especially over the network.

New comment by jokethrowaway in "Zed is our office"

jokethrowaway — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:33:45 +0000

Try the latest version, it should be better

Personally, I never registered that as a problem, but I can see the delta in screenshots between versions.