Hacker News: joks

New comment by joks in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

joks — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:24:08 +0000

In fairness it's more than the em dash with this article. Read the first 3 bullet points.

New comment by joks in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

joks — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:55:03 +0000

This is a mind boggling argument to make about creative work.

New comment by joks in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

joks — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:39:52 +0000

It's generating a raster image and then using a tracing algorithm to turn it into an SVG, rather than generating an SVG via coding from the ground-up. If you put a raster image into Adobe Illustrator and use its image tracing you'll get a similar result.

New comment by joks in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

joks — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:38:32 +0000

"Login via email code" is also a nightmare on Android. Android regularly kills any processes that are not in the foreground, so I recently went through a whole ordeal trying to login to the MLB app: it requires me to type in an email code, I switch to my email client, get the code, go back to the MLB app, and the page reloads (because it was killed in the background) requiring me to request a NEW email code. I tried this literally five times, going as fast as I could; it seems like it was just deciding to kill the browser process as soon as I switched to the email client, no matter what. This is mostly Android's fault but it's insane and I don't get why I don't hear people complain about this more often

New comment by joks in "25 Years of Eggs"

joks — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:17:07 +0000

The more recent eggs being from Whole Foods definitely points toward this. I'm in a different part of the country but eggs are currently ~15¢/egg at grocery stores around here.

New comment by joks in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

joks — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:00:28 +0000

It was only a few years ago that sports betting was significantly more heavily regulated and limited, and stuff like Polymarket didn't exist (just non-monetary forecasting sites like Metaculus.) Even if there was more demand for "underground gambling" before these changes, the net negative to society was still significantly less.

New comment by joks in "The return-to-the-office trend backfires"

joks — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:50:32 +0000

Optional hybrid work is kind of the optimal setup for me IMO. I go in to the office (often carpooling) once a week (skipping occasionally) with a few folks I work with who live locally, and I work remotely the rest of the time. It keeps me from feeling too isolated and makes the work I do feel more tangible while still being flexible and allowing me to work from home when I want to.

RTO would still be a dealbreaker for me.

New comment by joks in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

joks — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:01:13 +0000

I think there's a little bit of the Goomba fallacy at play here to be fair

New comment by joks in "What Claude Code chooses"

joks — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:34:25 +0000

Which is a shame because modern Angular is awesome

New comment by joks in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

joks — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:29:50 +0000

My workplace at least values work/life balance and buys into the idea that workers who aren't burnt out are more likely to stick around long-term and do good work (which I've found to be true in my own experience so far.) If we can't get done what we need to get done in a 40h workweek, then that's a failure of higher-level planning (or that we're simply understaffed), not that ICs need to be working overtime.

New comment by joks in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

joks — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:25:38 +0000

I don't see how disallowing viewing "age-restricted" content through Discord without giving them your ID would have any impact on the spread of disinformation, outside of like, disinfo in the form or pornographic or gory images.

New comment by joks in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

joks — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:23:08 +0000

IRC does not support group voice & video calls, which is one of the primary features of Discord (and previously Skype, from which everyone migrated to Discord in the first place)

New comment by joks in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

joks — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:21:39 +0000

Stoat has screen sharing / video calling in the pipeline at least: https://github.com/stoatchat/stoatchat/issues/313

New comment by joks in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

joks — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:19:20 +0000

Yeah Stoat is the closest, but no video calling still. But that's in the pipeline at least

New comment by joks in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

joks — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:16:24 +0000

XMPP and IRC are great and all but a massive part of what people use Discord for is group voice calls with screen-sharing. I'm not sure what the alternative is for that. TeamSpeak is the closest I can think of but it's not a 1:1 replacement for a number of reasons.

New comment by joks in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

joks — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:17:50 +0000

It sounds more like you want to have bigger, cooler things, not build them? The joy of building is what the person you're replying to is talking about AI abstracting away

New comment by joks in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

joks — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:15:49 +0000

Are you saying you were forced to go into management because you felt like you couldn't be an effective engineer without working overtime? I'm confused. That sounds more like your work environment was terrible

New comment by joks in "Vibe coding kills open source"

joks — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:48:40 +0000

> "The same thing that happened to illustration and art is happening here"

What are you talking about? Illustrators and artists are not being replaced by AI or required to use AI to "keep up" in the vast majority of environments.

> "I don't get the sour opinions."

The reasoning for folks' "sour opinions" has been very well-documented, especially here on HN. This comment reads like people don't like AI because they think it's slow or something, which is not the case.

New comment by joks in "Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]"

joks — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:23:05 +0000

mullvad is not a torrent client

New comment by joks in "RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung"

joks — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:59:37 +0000

Congrats on being part of the 0.001% I guess?