Hacker News: jpnc

New comment by jpnc in "Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed"

jpnc — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:03:12 +0000

You're right that zig is vaporware - not because of other languages - but because programming is going away entirely.

New comment by jpnc in "Automatic Programming"

jpnc — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:33:08 +0000

How does it feel to see all your programming heroes turn into Linkedin-style influencers?

New comment by jpnc in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

jpnc — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:39:37 +0000

tenacity == while loop

New comment by jpnc in "Fifty Shades of OOP"

jpnc — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:55:49 +0000

> People use it for legacy reasons

This is so incredibly wrong it must be a troll.

New comment by jpnc in "The Case That A.I. Is Thinking"

jpnc — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:07:04 +0000

There is principle of the matter and then there are exceptions. We say that women can give birth. That holds true in principle even if there are those who can't due to biological failings.

New comment by jpnc in "ANTML: Anthropic’s Markup Language"

jpnc — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 05:46:38 +0000

I had an idea for a new markup language. I'm thinking of being cheeky and calling 'Yet Another Markup Language'. Hope it catches on!

New comment by jpnc in "SQL Anti-Patterns"

jpnc — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:14:33 +0000

Are we on bizarro HN?

No, you ask the DB to EXPLAIN itself to you.

New comment by jpnc in "New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros"

jpnc — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:01:24 +0000

That goes for all (active) software really. Otherwise people call it obsolete or abandoned.

New comment by jpnc in "Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator"

jpnc — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 11:43:43 +0000

>the man The man, right. Not the father.

New comment by jpnc in "AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms"

jpnc — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:44:08 +0000

Check his profile.

> about: I believe in the creation of a machine god

Sounds about right.

New comment by jpnc in "Daily driving a Linux phone, but why?"

jpnc — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:15:19 +0000

>fur iphone

Science has gone too far!

Seriously, thanks for pointing this one out. I haven't heard of it before.

New comment by jpnc in "FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies"

jpnc — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:56:51 +0000

No it doesn't. Think invites to private torrent sites.

New comment by jpnc in "SQL style guide by Simon Holywell"

jpnc — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:53:03 +0000

> Also when doing joins its cleaner to use the table_name.id or alias.id then table_name.table_name_id or alias.table_name_id or whatever else besides id is used However, using 'table_name.table_name_id' and then having another table with an FK that references it with the same name i.e. 'table_2.table_name_id' allows you to use a shorthand 'USING' clause instead of 'ON' in databases that support it.

New comment by jpnc in "Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now"

jpnc — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 07:54:03 +0000

There's a reason Windows went from 'MyComputer' to 'This PC'.

New comment by jpnc in "Ruby-SAML pwned by XML signature wrapping attacks"

jpnc — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:30:54 +0000

That's essentially true for all of EU. If you've ever done integration with EU central services you know what I'm talking about.

New comment by jpnc in "What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care"

jpnc — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:57:30 +0000

>tweak QEMU for performance and passthrough Any guide you could link to that covers all of this? I would like to setup a very performant windows VM.

New comment by jpnc in "Versioned finite-state machines with Postgres (2019)"

jpnc — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:20:04 +0000

One thing I'm missing when modeling FSM like this is different states having different set of constraints, even if only being concerned with nullity. It's a shame having to make the field optional just because you do not have the appropriate value in the initial state of the entity.

New comment by jpnc in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

jpnc — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:20:36 +0000

One thing I'm missing is pkcs11 API in browsers. This seems to not make sense to US devs from what I could see but if you're in EU you can probably commiserate.

New comment by jpnc in "Creativity has left the chat: The price of debiasing language models"

jpnc — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 06:48:11 +0000

Was just thinking the same. It's also nicely ironic. Also, given the replication crisis I wonder how many of these LLM research papers are actually worth a damn and how many are research paper equivalent of AI software grift.

New comment by jpnc in "Claude's Character"

jpnc — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:11:58 +0000

Hammer makes no attempt to appear human