Hacker News: karpatic

New comment by karpatic in "'End of an era': The last RadioShack in Maryland is closing its doors"

karpatic — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:59:26 +0000

I remember fondly the talks I had with strangers about their hobbies and learning about technology while I was employed there. I remember seeing this specific stores sales numbers and thinking to myself that their daily sales were close to our monthly. Our store closed shortly after.

New comment by karpatic in "Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta"

karpatic — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 19:12:04 +0000

So, I think, the courts ruled just 2 days ago that people can get sent abroad so long as they get to 'petition' it in... Texas. Right? So like, if their was an investigation, it closed one day prior to the interview; which is why she didnt say what you think she did. Trump said Would do it, and supposedly now he Can do it. All this is 'fact'in her eyes prior to the interview. An important distinction, no?

New comment by karpatic in "Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta"

karpatic — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 15:20:41 +0000

Mhmm! Thanks for adding context.

New comment by karpatic in "Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta"

karpatic — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 15:10:33 +0000

So.. the very post you share prooves it's not happening. Incredulously, I gotta wounder: Did/ do you really believe your link supports your claim that it's been happening?

New comment by karpatic in "Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta"

karpatic — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:52:39 +0000

A judge gave the green light on deportationn just yesterday.

New comment by karpatic in "The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer"

karpatic — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:52:53 +0000

I've met (maybe) 3 other developers, in my life, who have used all the listed technologies. Most will either use ssh or use react; seldom ever work w both.

New comment by karpatic in "Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?"

karpatic — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 23:31:27 +0000

My friend whos loves word games said she liked it. Asked for the link so I sent it along. Critique was that proper nouns should be removed as it caused a great deal of uncertainy about weather the remaining words would be known.

New comment by karpatic in "Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]"

karpatic — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:51:50 +0000

For real. The US trades our services for other countries goods. What happens to our trade when our services become ubiquitous through AI.

New comment by karpatic in "French Court bans far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office"

karpatic — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:42:42 +0000

At the presidential level I would say the law should follow the (will of the) people and not the other way around. After all, those irrational voters are the ones who created the law in the first place, in so many ways. As an aside, the more I think about someone being able to truly be impartial, the more I giggle. Myself included, of course.

New comment by karpatic in "French Court bans far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office"

karpatic — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:01:54 +0000

If a jury can rule against the law, why shouldnt the voters.

New comment by karpatic in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

karpatic — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:34:33 +0000

Bundless.dev - A non-intrusive 35kb client side react compiler

Easyjobapps.com - autofill job forms with tailored resumes and replies.

New comment by karpatic in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts"

karpatic — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 14:44:10 +0000

To get back to the point.

Just because UK law allows compelled disclosure doesn’t make it right—it makes it a bad law. It creates a self-incrimination loophole, shifting the burden of proof onto individuals instead of the state. Leading to erosion of due process and a presumption of guilt, forcing people to either comply or face punishment, even when no crime has been proven. Civil rights advocates have lambasted this law.

So I ask: Do you believe it to be balanced?

Using flawed laws to justify more erosion of privacy only deepens the problem.

New comment by karpatic in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts"

karpatic — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:39:25 +0000

Indefinitely jailing people to get a confession sounds like a midevil torture tactic. Is that a good balance of the Average Joe's right to privacy and privacy restrictions for fighting crime you speak of?

New comment by karpatic in "Stimulation Clicker"

karpatic — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 02:48:00 +0000

I did the same exact thing and then wanted to post it into the groupchat then see this.

1000 iterations too!

Why are we like this XD

New comment by karpatic in "Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites"

karpatic — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 04:33:12 +0000

What model are you using for this? I can't help buy imagine this gets expensive

New comment by karpatic in "Show HN: Countless.dev – A website to compare every AI model: LLMs, TTSs, STTs"

karpatic — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 15:37:36 +0000

Great! I wish there was a "bang to buck" value. Some way to know the cheapest model I could use for creating structured data from unstructured text, reliably. Using gpt4o-mini which is cheap but wouldn't know if anything cheaper could do the job too.

New comment by karpatic in "Fisker EVs Hired an IT Spy Who Funneled Millions to N. Korea's Missile Program"

karpatic — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 21:20:45 +0000

Fisker continues to widen my eyes. Unfortunately.

New comment by karpatic in "Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy"

karpatic — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 04:02:55 +0000

Any clue if Latex or html works better?

New comment by karpatic in "Ask HN: How's LangGraph for Prod?"

karpatic — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:20:42 +0000

The langchain docs are God awful, impossible to navigate with every page half baked. It was made even worse by their trying to push lg to the point you can barely find their lc docs. And, It's like they just shove jsdoc output into docusaurus pages for the api and call it a day. The api works well but thr api makes excessive calls imo and the output is still harder to grok then setting some of this stuff up manually.

New comment by karpatic in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"

karpatic — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:45:55 +0000

This needs to be brought up. Was looking for the demo and ended up on the contact form