Hacker News: kungito

New comment by kungito in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

kungito — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:25:07 +0000

the internet is not the same as it was 20 years ago. the average person is now online, but they werent before. they dont understand where they are and need protection. there is still space on the internet, or whatever the next place will be, for the enthusiasts and other minorities. if we lose internet, something new will pop up. also, 20 years ago i didnt care so much about privacy on the internet, i just needed a cultural filter for the community im engaging with. privacy has always been a game of cat and mouse. 0 chance things stay the same for long

New comment by kungito in "The future of version control"

kungito — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:41:25 +0000

After 15 years i still cant remember which is which. I get annoyed every time. Maybe I should invest 15 minutes finally to remember properly

New comment by kungito in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

kungito — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:44:15 +0000

one reason why i started enjoying programming less and less was because i felt i was spending 95% of the time on the problems you described which i felt were more or less the same over the years and werent complicated but annoying. unfortunately or fortunately, after coding for over 15 years for the past 4 months ive only been prompting and reading the outputted code. it never really feels like writing something would be faster than just prompting, so now i prompt 2-3 projects at the same time and play a game on the side to fill in the time while waiting for the prompts to finish. its nice since im still judged as if its taking the time to do it manually but if this ever becomes the norm and expectations rise it would become horribly draining. mentally managing the increased speed in adding complexity if very taxing for me. i no longer have periods where i deep dive into a problem for hours or do some nice refactoring which feels like its massaging my brain. now all i do is make big decisions

New comment by kungito in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"

kungito — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:14:00 +0000

They failed to redact data. That's it. People just read the files afterwards, only formatting was wierd.

New comment by kungito in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

kungito — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:26:46 +0000

What if the person promising the first thing is not the person doing the second thing?

New comment by kungito in "Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025"

kungito — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:33:47 +0000

You have to log into w11 anyways as a must, no avoiding it. Sure you wouldnt call this free from purist perspective but from consumer perspective it is

New comment by kungito in "Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025"

kungito — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:49:01 +0000

But they litterally are doing this. And also EU made them make it free for EU citizens so its free in EU and 30$ in the rest of the world afaik. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-up...

New comment by kungito in "Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately"

kungito — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:52:35 +0000

eastern europe (EU) is absolute best

New comment by kungito in "Three-Minute Take-Home Test May Identify Symptoms Linked to Alzheimer's Disease"

kungito — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:27:20 +0000

arent paid public restrooms commonplace in eu?

New comment by kungito in "Stellantis declares bankruptcy in China, with $1B in debts"

kungito — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:02:14 +0000

I just hope they sell off Alfa Romeo who knows what to do with the brand. Who the hell wants Alfa Romeo at BMW prices? The whole history has been selling affordable sport cars. They cancelled Giulietta and don't even plan on having a car in that segment. Tonale and Junior look horrible. The brand DNA all but died

New comment by kungito in "Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode"

kungito — Thu, 15 May 2025 01:11:45 +0000

you position it vertically against something in bed and keep it close enough (half a meter) so that its practically same size as tv which is 4-5 meters away and you enjoy the pixels. i love doing this few times a week when im going to sleep or just chilling

New comment by kungito in "How America's universities became debt factories"

kungito — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 20:33:03 +0000

Because at that time an engineering degree still had some weight because not everyone can get it. This inflation 9f degrees caused the degrees to have way less value only for the next generation

New comment by kungito in "The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script"

kungito — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:32:51 +0000

From what I read he doesn't ask whether someone is busy but only acknowledges they know they are busy and moves on with the pitch

New comment by kungito in "Tomato nostalgia as I relive my Croatian island childhood"

kungito — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 08:03:07 +0000

Croatia is having its "bully" tourism phase. They have been historically super cheap and undiscovered location up until 5-10 years ago and now that they are in EU and Schengen and it's actually nicer than some bigger mediterranean countries everyone started piling in. The locals which aren't really business savvy started doubling/tripling prices to see how far it can go without providing additional services or raising the quality to another level. From business perspective it does make actual sense since last few seasons after corona have been breaking records every year. Until there are actual consequences for raising per night booking prices from 100€ to 200€ from year to year nothing will change. I think that the reality is that people "in the know" like polish/chech families are being priced out because traditionally they didn't have as many western european tourists like Dutch or French and now it's on their radar

New comment by kungito in "Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco"

kungito — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:27:52 +0000

They can definitely have more beat up cars which over time I can observe in my city. As for prices, luckily they have a lot stronger competition with bolt and local taxi apps as creating a local taxi app is really not that hard

New comment by kungito in "Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco"

kungito — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:49:18 +0000

Uber has partner drivers which have their own companies, their own rating, and can be punished for their behaviour. Once a company completely vertically integrates (like Google would like), meaning they have their own cars, they no longer want to punish themselves for bad behaviour/cars. Since they have to choose between short term cost of higher maintenance fee or long term cost of loss of quality of service their managers will start to optimize for quarterly results: cutting short term costs. What they want is to first entrench the market, push out competitors, introduce complex regulation and fees which prevents new competitors into the market and then start cutting costs everywhere they can and increase prices.

Since you mention Uber, I can definitely see in my city how the quality of cars decreased and they started using almost inclusively cheap immigrants who realistically couldn't pass a drivers exam in my country and have on multiple occasions driven into wrong directions/ran red lights etc.

New comment by kungito in "Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco"

kungito — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:41:18 +0000

I have no doubt that Google is waiting for more adoption before starting to cut costs everywhere and before you know it your puked out ride will direct you to www.waymo.hr/help to find an article which resolves your issue

New comment by kungito in "Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores"

kungito — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 21:50:09 +0000

Decathlon has the same

New comment by kungito in "Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom"

kungito — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:41:04 +0000

I'm one of those people. To me those things only sounded like a different prompt. Priorities set for the llm

New comment by kungito in "Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right"

kungito — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 03:56:04 +0000

Didn't oculus have pinch to click before Vision Pro came out?