Hacker News: jpalomaki

New comment by jpalomaki in "Open source AI must win"

jpalomaki — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:19:41 +0000

Isn't training material the biggest problem for truly open source LLMs (such that could compete with top tier models)? The computation part can be solved with money, but compiling a comprehensive training set that could be freely shared and free of copyright issues is pretty much impossible.

New comment by jpalomaki in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

jpalomaki — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:56:25 +0000

Do we need to bring Keybase[1] "back"? The original idea, mapping your social media presence to certain encryption keys.

In the future it will be increasingly difficult to prove in online context that you are not a bot. Being able to show that your social media (HN, GitHub, etc) presence goes way back would be an option.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keybase

New comment by jpalomaki in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

jpalomaki — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:39:46 +0000

"yes, there were regressions in some use cases of rsync in the 3.4.3 release. I quite deliberately tried to err on the side of fixing security issues for that release, and there were some valid (but unusual) use cases that got caught up in the changes"

New comment by jpalomaki in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

jpalomaki — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:30:31 +0000

It’s sometimes convenient if database is the only ”stateful” component in architecture.

Also if all the "state" is in one database, then you have better chance of getting consistent backups.

New comment by jpalomaki in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

jpalomaki — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:21:41 +0000

Not sure if this is the future I want, but I've always thought the main idea of smart glasses is to automatically bring up information that is relevant in your current context. One part of this is to recognize who you are staring at.

New comment by jpalomaki in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

jpalomaki — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:27:23 +0000

"By integrating Ookla’s data products, including Speedtest®, Downdetector®, Ekahau®, and RootMetrics®, Accenture will help Communications Service Providers (CSPs), hyperscalers, and enterprises optimize the mission-critical Wi-Fi and 5G networks that power their digital core. [...] Ookla’s data platform is anchored by more than 250 million consumer-initiated tests per month, complemented by controlled drive, walk, and embedded testing options"[1]

[1] https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2026/accenture-to-acquir...

New comment by jpalomaki in "Selling SaaS in Germany"

jpalomaki — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:43:42 +0000

How about the payments, what is the easiest way from corporate customer perspective in DACH? Let's say for smaller subscriptions, <1000€/month?

New comment by jpalomaki in "UniFi 5G Backup"

jpalomaki — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:50:15 +0000

"Only $99 to add 5G Backup to any UniFI network" and "Fully unlocked for any compatible carrier with SIM and eSIM support". Wonder if there's some catch?

UniFi 5G Backup

jpalomaki — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:46:35 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-unifi-5g-backup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233144

Points: 1

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New comment by jpalomaki in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

jpalomaki — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:09:42 +0000

Tell it to create html summaries with diagrams and sidebar for navigation.

Or ask Codex to create image that explains xyz.

New comment by jpalomaki in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

jpalomaki — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:24:09 +0000

It’s likely because the quick thought is that auth is just user table with hashed password.

Then when you really start thinking about it, the list of requirements grows.

Of course it’s still totally doable for an average developer, but takes time and mistakes can be catastrophic. And maybe the time is better spent developing stuff that differentiates you from others.

New comment by jpalomaki in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

jpalomaki — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:54:54 +0000

Kubernetes sounds like overkill, but I've been running microk8s for few standalone servers. This feels a pretty good match when working with agents. Codex can manage the cluster also over ssh, schedule new pods, check statuses, logs etc.

New comment by jpalomaki in "Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall"

jpalomaki — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:50:31 +0000

”Engineers were actively encouraged to use tools like Claude Code and Cursor, even ranking them on internal leaderboards based on usage”

Token maxxing? Might explain high costs if you are actively encouraging developers to spend as much tokens as possible.

New comment by jpalomaki in "Codex for Almost Everything"

jpalomaki — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:33:27 +0000

I don’t think people want that, but they are willing to accept that in order to get stuff done.

New comment by jpalomaki in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

jpalomaki — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:22:32 +0000

Why not replace the SMTP with an API and explicit permissions. When registering for a newsletter, I would explicitly grant the sender right to push stuff to my inbox. At any point I could revoke this right and the sender would get clear error message when pushing.

Old fashioned person-to-person email would work as it does. This would only apply to the app-to-user stuff, which in my case makes up >99% of my emails.

New comment by jpalomaki in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

jpalomaki — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:14:23 +0000

Put proper LLM into Siri. Encourage developers to expose the functionality of their apps as functions, allow Siri LLM to access those (and sprinkle some magic security dust over it).

Boom, you have an agent in the phone capable of doing all the stuff you can do with the apps. Which means pretty much everything in our life.

New comment by jpalomaki in "Good CTE, Bad CTE"

jpalomaki — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:21:23 +0000

Sometimes easy performance trick is to split the CTE to separate queries, put the results to unlogged temporary tables and add whatever indexes the next step needs.

Obviously makes only sense for stuff like analytical queries that are not running constantly.

New comment by jpalomaki in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

jpalomaki — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:46:14 +0000

Somebody took a deeper look at Claude Code and claims to find evidence of Anthropic's PaaS offering [1]. There's certainly money to be made by offering a nice platform where "citizen developers" can push their code.

From Astral the (fast) linter and type checker are pretty useful companions for agentic development.

[1] https://x.com/AprilNEA/status/2034209430158619084

New comment by jpalomaki in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

jpalomaki — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:57:19 +0000

Home scale example with strawberries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LIhx0yoM7s

The Terminal Built for Multitasking

jpalomaki — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:54:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cmux.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208393

Points: 3

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