Hacker News: looperhacks

New comment by looperhacks in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

looperhacks — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:50:57 +0000

And what brings you to this very wrong impression?

New comment by looperhacks in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

looperhacks — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:50:14 +0000

Not that I agree with the comment you're replying to - but I find this response funny, when just today there was a link on the front page about the US military bombing a school because of AI output

New comment by looperhacks in "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"

looperhacks — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:51:40 +0000

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't a sizeable part of the article about how Air can be used with any agent (section "The future is multi-vendor")

New comment by looperhacks in "How do traffic signals work? (2019)"

looperhacks — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:35:22 +0000

What's your issue with traffic in Germany? I know it depends on the city/state, but it always seemed pretty okay to me (though I haven't been driving much in other countries, so I don't have that much experience with "better" systems)

From what I've seen about US traffic, there doesn't seem to be much to be envy of.

New comment by looperhacks in "Why building a Rust LSP is hard"

looperhacks — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:24:24 +0000

That would require the editor to be able to build an AST - defeating the point of LSP, because now the editor needs to know every possible language again

New comment by looperhacks in "CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3"

looperhacks — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:37:33 +0000

Smoking areas are more a requirement of the location than anything else

New comment by looperhacks in "CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3"

looperhacks — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:32:43 +0000

Google Streetview isn't opt-in, it's opt-out. But it was used so much that Google simply gave up for a while.

Blurring faces (and I assume license plates) was a thing before they started serving imagery for Germany

New comment by looperhacks in "Restroom Archive"

looperhacks — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:49:08 +0000

You will usually see these in public places that have no other access controls - think in a park, rather than in a restaurant. It's for places that have a high risk of people sleeping in them.

New comment by looperhacks in "Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need"

looperhacks — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:10:32 +0000

A misfeature is specifically a feature that's just bad, while verschlimmbessern can happen with everything that nobody would call a feature (insert something about xkcd 1172). But yeah, it's pretty close

New comment by looperhacks in "Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need"

looperhacks — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:06:34 +0000

It's certainly used - not in the top 100, but if the situation calls for it, it's not unexpected.

There's a big difference between enshitification and "Verschlimmbesserung". The latter has the intent of actually improving things, while the first is making things knowingly worse for profit.

New comment by looperhacks in "FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels"

looperhacks — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:19:34 +0000

This has nothing to do with continuous ketone measurements

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

looperhacks — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:18 +0000

> You'd rather the banal corporate beige in every other handbook? At least this reads like someone means it.

It reads like someone wants to sound cool but fails to do so.

New comment by looperhacks in "Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug"

looperhacks — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:58:19 +0000

At least mention that it's your own project ...

New comment by looperhacks in "The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded"

looperhacks — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:09:21 +0000

Sorry guys, it's my fault. Every time I try to get into nix, there's a new community meltdown. I just installed NixOS yesterday ...

New comment by looperhacks in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"

looperhacks — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:09:49 +0000

While yes, the opening and title cards are very good, I can't get over the (imho) pretty "meh" layout of the crawling text. The right margin is very jagged (especially the "Replicant"), even when it doesn't appear to be necessary (notice that in "Replicants were used Off-world as\n slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and\n colonization of other planets.", the "slave" could've fit into the first line and "colonization" could've been hyphenated). If necessary, they also could've changed some of the wording for better typography. Also, the last two sentences weirdly seem to have different left margins.

New comment by looperhacks in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

looperhacks — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:48:09 +0000

I agree with everything you say, but the initial "Atomausstieg" was decided in 2000/put into law in 2002, when the Greens were in office. The exit was delayed in 2010 (and then accelerated again in 2011) by the CDU/CSU/FDP, but the initial decision for the exit was very with involvement of the Green party

New comment by looperhacks in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

looperhacks — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:02:30 +0000

"You can't change the past" really isn't fatalism

New comment by looperhacks in "More German than many Germans"

looperhacks — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:49:58 +0000

Not an immigrant, but I still have to get appointments :D

It really depends on where you are. In some parts you can do a lot online, in other places you have to do everything in person. Sometimes you can book an appointment online and something will be available today; sometimes no appointments are available at all. Sometimes you just show up. I'm from Berlin and it was absolutely awful for years - nowadays you can usually book an appointment within the same week.

New comment by looperhacks in "Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers"

looperhacks — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:11:00 +0000

I don't know Solid Queue or the rails environment, but I expect that not every worker will create it's own connection, there should be a connection pool in-between

New comment by looperhacks in "Europe's fires are just the start"

looperhacks — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:41:30 +0000

Jevons paradox is often claimed, but largely irrelevant in this case, imo. If the demand rises, the price rises again, as well. It doesn't force anybody to keep using fossil energy