Hacker News: jsiepkes

New comment by jsiepkes in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

jsiepkes — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:36:12 +0000

It's in the article; They sold gold in NYC and with that money bought gold in London.

New comment by jsiepkes in "Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users"

jsiepkes — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:59:14 +0000

There are apps I cannot install via the Play Store in GrapheneOS, only via Aurora store.

New comment by jsiepkes in "AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link"

jsiepkes — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:35:24 +0000

> fear-mongering is not helping your cause

So we started with an OS (when Google still needed to gain market share and goodwill) which was opensource. Now Google is no longer developing Android source code in the open and decreasing the "opensourcing" to a couple of source drops each year (the interval has been decreased multiple times). Google Play was introduced (basically clamping down the app store ecosystem) and from there Google has only made it harder to get around Google Play. Introducing things like phone attestation. Supposedly a security measure, yet for some reason a Samsung phone which hasn't had an update in 4 years still passes basic level attestation. And now Google is yet again making it harder to get around the Play store.

And for some reason you seem to think it is reasonable to assume it is going to stop here?

New comment by jsiepkes in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

jsiepkes — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:58:35 +0000

Well, ask yourself: "Why am I on Hacker News?". You could just "as easy" use free / opensource alternatives like Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.

New comment by jsiepkes in "The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?"

jsiepkes — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:03:11 +0000

> and yet America voted for him a second time.

Well, a lot of them didn't vote for him. Roughly a third of eligible voters stayed home (actually the largest group) while Trump and Harris each got a bit under a third, with Trump narrowly ahead.

But yeah, I guess its still baffling about 31% voted for him.

New comment by jsiepkes in "Show HN: EchoVault, an app that interviews you and answers as you after death"

jsiepkes — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:47:52 +0000

There is literally a "Black Mirror" episode about this kind of thing.

New comment by jsiepkes in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

jsiepkes — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:23:47 +0000

> Everything else is essentially all the work of Google and (to some extent) Samsung.

There is plenty in Android which isn't the work of Google. For starters the Kotlin implementation and the Java implementation (OpenJDK).

New comment by jsiepkes in "The 37signals Manager Playbook"

jsiepkes — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:16:10 +0000

I assume we are talking about DHH here? You're giving him too much credit. He is not a founder of 37 signals.

New comment by jsiepkes in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

jsiepkes — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:49:23 +0000

If an agent fires up NPM, takes a boatload of memory, is that memory released back to the OS after NPM shuts down in the VM?

New comment by jsiepkes in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

jsiepkes — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:14:29 +0000

Same here. I use this utility to make it easier on Linux to run Claude in Podman: https://github.com/mismosmi/ai-pod

New comment by jsiepkes in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

jsiepkes — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:22:35 +0000

Since this is about energy; Power companies don't pay taxes on gas and diesel used in power plants.

New comment by jsiepkes in "RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2"

jsiepkes — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:22:45 +0000

> so backwards compatibility is neccessary.

True, but from a technical perspective "necessity" might be a bit of a strong term. For example as far as I know there aren't any Windows versions left that don't have support for TLS 1.2 but are still supported (i.e. not EOL). iirc Windows Server 2012 has support, but it's not enabled by default. So that's the closest to "unsupported" you get with Windows.

I think this is mostly because people are some what hesitant of enabling TLS 1.3. Because merely enabling TLS 1.3 along side TLS 1.2 can trigger latent bugs in clients.

New comment by jsiepkes in "Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data"

jsiepkes — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:06:33 +0000

As the parent comment explains, the US can't produce all the oil it needs, because it's refinery capacity isn't aligned with the type of oil it pumps from the ground.

New comment by jsiepkes in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

jsiepkes — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:37:49 +0000

Depends how you look at it. iOS is loosing ground to Android. They might just eventually lose.

New comment by jsiepkes in "Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt"

jsiepkes — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:02:33 +0000

Don't forget about the soldiers who died at Waterloo who were turned in to fertilizer [1].

[1] https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/were-the-bones-of-soldiers...

New comment by jsiepkes in "France, Germany vow to develop Palantir rival"

jsiepkes — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:58:15 +0000

France and Germany have a pretty good track record for developing things they want. Nuclear technology (including a weapon), GPS alternative, Airbus (arguably better then Boeing now), etc. So your statement is kind of a weird one to make.

New comment by jsiepkes in "Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states"

jsiepkes — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:50:34 +0000

Maybe, maybe not. But there are apparently plenty people who want to participate in it. Which says something.

New comment by jsiepkes in "Java 27: What's New?"

jsiepkes — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:55:38 +0000

I think you are reading way too much in those things. I made the JEP 533 joke in this thread, and I am definitely not implying progress is slow, nor am I frustrated.

I think it's a good thing the developers take their time to flesh out new features. Once it goes in, it stays like that forever. Besides, since 27 isn't an LTS release it doesn't really matter if it goes out of preview. Looking at mailingslists, etc. I can see plenty of progress being made.

New comment by jsiepkes in "Java 27: What's New?"

jsiepkes — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:12:30 +0000

Dear diary, the year is 2094, 10 years since society collapsed. The neighbors went scavenging for food and I haven't seen them in 4 days. I fear the worst. Meanwhile, JEP 533 – Structured Concurrency still hasn't been declared stable, and it has entered its five-hundredth preview release in OpenJDK 136.

New comment by jsiepkes in "OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root"

jsiepkes — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:06:39 +0000

If this is a local privilege escalation to root, why can't I find anything on https://www.openbsd.org/security.html ?