Hacker News: lta

New comment by lta in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection"

lta — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:26:33 +0000

We don't have a lot of choices right now, especially regarding banking apps :'(

New comment by lta in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection"

lta — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:24:51 +0000

Fwiw it's also linked in the article, so it's not exactly a surprise :)

New comment by lta in "Google changes its search box"

lta — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:08:54 +0000

I started switching to DDG on some devices, this will motivate me to finish the transition ! Thanks

New comment by lta in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

lta — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:10:38 +0000

I'm sorely disappointed by gitlab, I was hoping they would be a safe harbor against this whole AI bullshit typhoon.

New comment by lta in "Canonical Releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon"

lta — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:29:44 +0000

The announcement contains way too much marketing stuff for my own taste. Just tell us what you've done, we don't really care about how you're trying to surf the AI bubble

New comment by lta in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

lta — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:59:01 +0000

Not as much as "Open" AI

New comment by lta in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

lta — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:56:44 +0000

As long as they're not releasing 32bit .pt :)

New comment by lta in "Claude Opus 4.7"

lta — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:13:20 +0000

Every night praying for tomorrow

New comment by lta in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

lta — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:31:02 +0000

I wanted to try it recently and went to their doc website. Ar first glance it looked surprisingly detailed for such a young project but why not.

I didn't wanted to run a random, possibility vibe coded tool on my computer right away so I decided to run it in a container. That's an option, great ! Tu run it with docker they recommended an install script.

Out of habit I downloaded the script and started skimming through it to figure roughly what it would do to my machine.

The stuff was a mess. Most of it seemed overcomplicated code to do simple thing. Then I ran into inline python code in the shell script. That's not super elegant but there are some valid use cases, why not. Then there was inline JS code... WTF? Then we're back in inline python.

Seriously, that's just a script to run a docker compose file ! We're not yet at setting up providers or anything.

I was not to run that script on my computer, and was happy I decided to go the container way.

I got back to the website to see if they have manual instructions... They did, maybe there's hope after all ? Those instructions ended up being incomplete or broken, even for someone who does devops-y stuff on a daily basis.

I decided to drop the experiment there and it left me with the impression of a pile of code thrown together by an army of monkeys.

New comment by lta in "EFF is leaving X"

lta — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:00:05 +0000

I hear what you're saying and it's very insightful. But I'm under the impression the libertarians have moved a lot closer to fascism I'm the recent years so it's hard to keep them in any tent. The "society has become more polarized" is an euphemism to describe an important rise of fascism across the world and in the US (that I'm not a citizen of). Yes it's polarized, because there's a side that's trying to create a political police and camps to deport everyone they disagree with as "illegal immigrants".

Circling back to EFF, I have seen many important legal issue related to digital freedom that I thought was important where they were involved. I think they're serving their mission. This decision makes sense, it's just a little bit late

New comment by lta in "EFF is leaving X"

lta — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:50:33 +0000

I've been scrolling for a while and this is the first contact that makes sense to me. Ok, zuck has gone dark, yes tiktok governance and objectives are unclear. None of those companies are clean.

But Musk is actively *evil* and using this company specifically to serve his dark narrative and agenda. Thank EFF for quitting, was about time

New comment by lta in "EFF is leaving X"

lta — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:43:56 +0000

That's just a drop compared to the ocean compared to this one time when he performed multiple nazi salute in front of an entire country, or when he single handedly decided to intervene in a foreign war via Star link control or when he messed with entire branches of the American government

New comment by lta in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

lta — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:42:29 +0000

That sounds like a very smart move at the time where Europe realize the US isn't such a gray partner and it's trying to reduce it's critical dependencies on foreign nations tech and infra. Good job. I'm actually very surprised to see this from the germans who have this reputation of great engineering culture

New comment by lta in "Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai"

lta — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:17:08 +0000

I don't think it is. There are many many cases where you do want to own them. The people you rent yours from are making a shit load of money so it doesn't sound that bad of an idea

New comment by lta in "DeployTarot.com – Tarot card reading for deployments"

lta — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:24:44 +0000

Sounds like the code of OpenClaw haha

New comment by lta in "Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell"

lta — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:03:31 +0000

Why does every tool on the face of earth try to add AI features ? Good tools are simple and orthogonal. If you want AI, there's already plenty of other tools doing it probably better.

I'm overall fairly disappointed by this announcement. This IMHO doesn't bode well

New comment by lta in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

lta — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:15:12 +0000

If you had to commit to Windows quality you'd have done so a few decades ago.

Also, Linux (via Android, micro computers everywhere and the vast internet) touches way more lives then Microsoft.

At this point in the article I realized I didn't care one bit and stopped reading

New comment by lta in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

lta — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:19:35 +0000

Yeah that's still very far away from FAANG repos

New comment by lta in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

lta — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:18:20 +0000

It checks out if you take into account most developers are actually rather mediocre outside of places where they spend an insane amount of time and money to get good devs (including but not limited to FANG)

New comment by lta in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

lta — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:14:46 +0000

I repeatedly tried to use LLMs for code but god they suck. I've tried most tools and models and for me it's still way faster to write things by hand.

I'm a magical tool, it's almost like if I knew what I wanted to do ! Don't have to spend time explaining and correcting.

Also, a good part of the value of me writing code is that I know the code well and can fix things quickly. In addition, I've come to realize that while I'm coding, I'm mostly thinking about the project's code architecture and technical future. It's not something I'll ever want to delegate I think.