Hacker News: justinhj

New comment by justinhj in "EFF is leaving X"

justinhj — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:56:44 +0000

I guess the downvote means yes but we don't like Elon

New comment by justinhj in "EFF is leaving X"

justinhj — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:40:05 +0000

Doesn't X have the things they asked for? end to end message encryption community notes open source algorithm

What about the marginalized people organizing on X? They don't deserve EFF

New comment by justinhj in "Sopwith – 1984 Game (2000)"

justinhj — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:57:53 +0000

This game was so fun. I think there's a lot of unexplored game design in this style of 2d aviation.

The multiplayer game Altitude was a good modern example.

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable

justinhj — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:41:19 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-live/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545017

Points: 2

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New comment by justinhj in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

justinhj — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:57:48 +0000

People store that data in databases in the same data centre so it's really the same level of trust needed that your provider adheres to the no training on your data. Trust and lawyers.

New comment by justinhj in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

justinhj — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:47:16 +0000

What? OpenClaw and the like are almost the polar opposite of IFTTT.

New comment by justinhj in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

justinhj — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:56:38 +0000

Epic was very lucky with Fortnite. Originally they showed the game at GDC as more of a mining, resource collection and building game. Frankly it looked boring.

Changing that to a shooter with the Battle Royale mechanic was a $10 billion win. They have managed it pretty well, but it seems they just over extended without innovating to attract and retain players.

New comment by justinhj in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

justinhj — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:54:43 +0000

I think the problem is also that there are many FPS multiplayer CTF games even if they are not all great, they all compete for attention in a crowded market. Destiny, Call of Duty and all their variants.

New comment by justinhj in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

justinhj — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:56:18 +0000

As a site for people curious about technology, where is the sense of adventure?

People are inventing the future of human/ai interaction themselves because big tech could not do it within their own constraints.

Don't get me wrong, those constraints are there for a reason, but the hacker mentality seems muted lately.

New comment by justinhj in "Canada slips in World Happiness rankings, due in part to social media use"

justinhj — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:02:39 +0000

I don't click that garbage I've read enough of their work to know. They are the enemy of Canadians.

New comment by justinhj in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

justinhj — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:10:53 +0000

These are MIT/Apache 2. Sure they can buy and influence the direction but they can't prevent forks if they stray from what users want.

New comment by justinhj in "Canada slips in World Happiness rankings, due in part to social media use"

justinhj — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:07:00 +0000

CBC which gets $1b of tax payer money to promote only the sitting government, which they do none stop, thinks people are unhappy because of social media.

Terrible.

New comment by justinhj in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

justinhj — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:56:30 +0000

for what it's worth I have been building a game with godot and using gemini flash and pro to help. it has no trouble editing gd script and scenes. so far it hasn't failed in anything i asked it to do

New comment by justinhj in "SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads"

justinhj — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:33:32 +0000

They should be called Anthony Green Threads. Seriously though, great to see.

New comment by justinhj in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

justinhj — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:18:00 +0000

Intuitively I expect this. Go is a language designed by Rob Pike to keep legions of high IQ Google engineers constrained down a simple path. There's generally one way to do it in Go.

As a human programmer with creative and aesthetic urges as well as being lazy and having an ego, I love expressive languages that let me describe what I want in a parsimonious fashion. ie As few lines of code as possible and no boilerplate.

With the advances in agent coding none of these concerns matter any more.

What matters most is can easily look at the code and understand the intent clearly. That the agent doesn't get distracted by formatting. That the code is relatively memory safe, type safe and avoids null issues and cannot ignore errors.

I dislike Go but I am a lot more likely to use it in this new world.

New comment by justinhj in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

justinhj — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:11:57 +0000

100%. I have been learning so much faster as the models get better at both understanding the world and how to explain it me at whatever level I am ready for.

Using AI as just a generator is really missing out on a lot.

New comment by justinhj in "Microgpt"

justinhj — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:04:45 +0000

What's missing from Zig and its std lib for this?

New comment by justinhj in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

justinhj — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:56:54 +0000

This is why I never use a calculator. Since my school days I have the skill to do long division. Why hit the sin button when I have the skill to write out a Taylor series expansion? For many other purposes I have the skill to use Newton Raphson methods to calculate values that mostly work.

Those who use a calculator simply don't have these skills.

New comment by justinhj in "Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM"

justinhj — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:55:28 +0000

It's fun to explore how we will communicate and work with our new AI colleagues. We discover with play and play is not always safe.

New comment by justinhj in "Extending C with Prolog (1994)"

justinhj — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:03:04 +0000

This sounds really cool and I am glad that Prolog has outlived CORBA