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New comment by jorisboris in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

jorisboris — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:52:41 +0000

My daughter is four.

I drew a boy who lived 11000 years ago in Mexico.

His longest travel was a half day walk carried by his family to a nearby foraging ground.

He died at 4 from a zoonotic fever. Both parents outlived him.

It’s random, it’s ai generated. Makes me appreciate life nevertheless.

Ask HN: Why is Founder Mode not working for Airbnb?

jorisboris — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:44:30 +0000

I really liked Airbnb and was rooting for them ever since they launched.

The stock never attained the peak it reached post-ipo (only this month it's gotten close), while Booking Holdings roughly doubled in the same period.

The sentiment online seems to be against them (or at least in my bubble). Poor customer service and overprotected hosts seem to be recurring issues.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506794

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New comment by jorisboris in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

jorisboris — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:35:19 +0000

The mandatory labeling is actually a big issue in Europe as well, it means German products can’t be sold in the Netherlands if they don’t have Dutch labeling and vice versa. Which creates a fragmented market.

New comment by jorisboris in "Humanoid robots surpass human records in 100M, high jump"

jorisboris — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:55:39 +0000

I was looking for this one

I was wondering why it wasn’t of the front page of hn already

Combined with ai, we’re on the threshold of a robotic revolution

New comment by jorisboris in "Don't Paste the AI, please"

jorisboris — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:36:41 +0000

You bring up a good point. Maybe it doesn't matter whether an ai or a person wrote it, as long as it is concise.

And because most ai's are not concise we blame ai's for faults we don't like in humans either: being longwinding

New comment by jorisboris in "Dutch Train Map Simulator"

jorisboris — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:03:07 +0000

Coincidentally vibe-coded a train map for North-Western Europe this morning.

It follows scheduled time, not live time, as most countries don't have live positions.

https://privatetrainplanner.ai-tigers.com/europe

New comment by jorisboris in "Dutch Train Map Simulator"

jorisboris — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:31:51 +0000

If I remember correctly the Tokaido Shinkansen goes every 3-4 minutes. I think the frequency on the Utrecht-Amsterdam stretch is on average 5 minutes?

New comment by jorisboris in "Ask HN: How are you handling production risks from AI generated code?"

jorisboris — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:01:37 +0000

A couple of things: 1. Direct the AI to look specifically into areas where I have a gut feel things might go wrong 2. An assessment by another model (eg Codex reviews Claude's work) 3. Manual testing

New comment by jorisboris in "Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works"

jorisboris — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:55:06 +0000

Great idea! I would love a tailored version based on Goodreads or Storygraph

New comment by jorisboris in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

jorisboris — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:55:41 +0000

Maybe it’s about the power to control the internet (and what is does and doesn’t serve) worldwide.

New comment by jorisboris in "Google Earth Flight Simulator"

jorisboris — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:19:16 +0000

Kinda surprised this one didn’t get more votes

New comment by jorisboris in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

jorisboris — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:28:12 +0000

Ai going the same way as crypto, before you know you have to move your hq to Panama or Dubai

Kinda ironic

New comment by jorisboris in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"

jorisboris — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:10:15 +0000

By now they have so many unique routes people with more willingness to spend have to fly Ryanair anyway (or do a layover with a “premium” airline).

New comment by jorisboris in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

jorisboris — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:30:25 +0000

It seems techies collectively try to avoid ads, but clearly other segments of people actively click and buy through ads. I would love to get a marketing expert's view on this. It differs by product obviously, but there must be some common character variables (gender, wealth level, ...)

I bought once through facebook ads, and now I actively try to avoid any ads

New comment by jorisboris in "OpenTrafficMap"

jorisboris — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:23:47 +0000

Thanks for the golden tip, I just told Claude to use OSM and it actually built an app which works!

New comment by jorisboris in "OpenTrafficMap"

jorisboris — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:41:31 +0000

For a while I tried creating traffic-light-free bicycle routes from my home in the suburbs to my office in Amsterdam center (because intersections, especially with trams, can sometimes take a long time.

Unfortunately there was no API with data on which intersections have traffic lights and I had to build these routes manually in Strava using satellite images.

I did learn in the process that some traffic light data is actually available from the government, but only for selected partners. The Flitsmeister app for example has it and shows at some traffic lights how long it will take for the light to turn green (in a car, not on a bicycle)

New comment by jorisboris in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"

jorisboris — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:44:13 +0000

Swapped my OpenClaw to Claude again. I played around with Gemini and Chinese models in past month but it didn’t work for me.

New comment by jorisboris in "Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?"

jorisboris — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:38:46 +0000

i share your sentiment, the politics venture hurt his brand, but he's still a crazy impressive entrepreneur

New comment by jorisboris in "Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?"

jorisboris — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:37:44 +0000

i know pieter levels, but i'm not aware that he's making videos?

New comment by jorisboris in "Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?"

jorisboris — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:36:51 +0000

Richard Branson, he goes against so much convention:

- everyone has so much process to "hire right", but in his books he hired kinda random it seems. And seems to delegate a lot rather than "founder mode"

- the original remote worker: bought a caribbean island for cheap and managed his businesses from there

- random collections of businesses under his brand: airline, telecom, music, ...

was he just like super lucky that everything worked out for him?