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New comment by justaj in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

justaj — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:40:16 +0000

What if you do integer downscaling to 1080p on those 4k displays?

Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses

justaj — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:58:54 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/pokemon-go-players-unwittingly-contributed-to-tech-with-military-drone-uses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515077

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by justaj in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

justaj — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:27:46 +0000

Perhaps, but lots of (older) Thinkpads are supported by Libreboot, so that cuts down on the binary blobs significantly.

New comment by justaj in "Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI"

justaj — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:43:43 +0000

When I went to the main article link [0] (which for some reason was linked from a Twitter comment), it said "Page is not supported"

It's also not on archive.org Wayback Machine it seems.

So can anyone please copy and paste the article contents here? Thanks.

0: http://x.com/i/article/2024235288512569344

New comment by justaj in "30 Years Defending Linux – Until I Called It Quits"

justaj — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:53:14 +0000

Is there a central place where known hardware compatibility issues are documented?

30 Years Defending Linux – Until I Called It Quits

justaj — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:43:50 +0000

Article URL: https://ludditus.com/2025/09/21/too-much-is-too-much-and-i-cant-stand-this-shit-anymore/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45353764

Points: 5

# Comments: 5

New comment by justaj in "Learning basic electronics by building fireflies"

justaj — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 05:42:25 +0000

I still can't get over the fact that all electronics schematics is actually in reverse and everyone is still fine with that.

New comment by justaj in "Show HN: TheProtector – Linux Bash script for the paranoid admin on a budget"

justaj — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:19:51 +0000

> bash is everywhere

...except on systems like Alpine Linux and other such minimal distributions.

New comment by justaj in "It's rude to show AI output to people"

justaj — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 21:18:19 +0000

And what if you let a human expert fact-check the output of an LLM? Provided you're transparent about the output (and its preceding prompt(s)) ?

Because I'd much rather ask an LLM about a topic I don't know much about and let a human expert verify its contents than waste the time of a human expert in explaining the concept to me.

Once it's verified, I add it to my own documentation library so that I can refer to it later on.

New comment by justaj in "The new literalism plaguing today’s movies"

justaj — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:41:42 +0000

PSA: Beginning of the article contains spoilers.

New comment by justaj in "The new literalism plaguing today’s movies"

justaj — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:41:13 +0000

> ...but the final twist (I'm not going to spoil it)...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FS7MH5oeW74

New comment by justaj in "I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years"

justaj — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:04:05 +0000

...because running applications from untrusted sources is a _really_ bad idea?

New comment by justaj in "CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app"

justaj — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:26:02 +0000

Oh man, if automatic dark mode (dependent on whether dark theme is engaged on phone) is added, I would switch immediately.

New comment by justaj in "Pixel 6a gets a mandatory Android update next week with battery reduction"

justaj — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 08:39:45 +0000

Speaking of, will GrapheneOS push this particular update?

New comment by justaj in "Matrix v1.15"

justaj — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:22:03 +0000

Thank you for your extensive reply.

> a flakey feature for new users was (correctly) considered worse than not having a feature at all.

Would you say that implementing a flakey feature in the first place was a bad idea? I'd think that once users get dependant on a certain feature (no matter how lacking in its usefulness), it's going to be tougher for them taking it away than not shipping it in the first place.

> On one server (matrix.org) the room directory is currently locked down to stop it filling up with spam

Yes, that's what I was initially talking about since I'm (mostly) on the matrix.org homeserver. I'm glad this is a temporary situation.

> However, good news is that we've finally moved to Element X Web (codenamed as Aurora: https://github.com/element-hq/aurora),

Oh I wasn't aware of this. This is excellent news! I hope it gets lots of attention in the (near) future. I'm guessing that the enshittification of Discord is about 2 to 3 years away at this point, so I believe having a proper alternative would do wonders for the open ecosystem.

> To improve the UX with clients, we had to improve the protocol.

While I believe this to be the best way forward, was it also the fastest way to acquire a userbase? If we look at Bluesky for instance, they pretty much did the reverse of what Matrix.org did, and (I think) thus was in a position to garner hefty growth as a result.

New comment by justaj in "Matrix v1.15"

justaj — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 08:00:52 +0000

Yes, however it is also the most feature-complete UX.

New comment by justaj in "Matrix v1.15"

justaj — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 08:00:09 +0000

While that would perhaps be the best solution in the long run, wouldn't you agree that gains in userbase necessary for growth (or at least sustainability) are predicated upon how good the UX is _currently_ ?

New comment by justaj in "Matrix v1.15"

justaj — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:28:51 +0000

> Matrix isn’t perfect but it has only improved in the 5 years I’ve been using it.

I'd very much like to disagree.

From the top of my head, in the past few years of using Element Web:

- Notification center is now gone.

- Room search is now only limited to official Matrix rooms.

- At peak it consumes ~2.2 GB of RAM.

- UI feels more sluggish by the day.

- Loading it now takes ~10 minutes.

- Using it as an IRC bouncer (to Libera) is now gone, which was what initially attracted me in the first place.

And I don't even use the voice / call functionality of Element Web.

I somewhat understand the reasoning behind the decisions, but I feel like they should have improved the UX first before working on the protocol itself.

New comment by justaj in "I started with a SQL question. He said "that's a dumb question.""

justaj — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 21:34:52 +0000

As long as they don't insult people personally then they're not an asshole in my book.

Attacking ideas is one, attacking people behind those ideas is another.

New comment by justaj in "Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out"

justaj — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:29:37 +0000

Isn't it a bit different in the field of software? Weren't most of the top senior devs actually self-taught?