Hacker News: lukashoff

New comment by lukashoff in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

lukashoff — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:27:56 +0000

One of the recent rollouts that really grind my gears was Spotify rolling out LLM explanations of songs. Which is the most useful wasteful piece of sh*t ever. Why would I want to get a theory of what is 174bpm and other random crap.

It is insane, and I hate modernity and every single modern product that just shoves random LLM crap at you and pretend they are not AI-enabled.

New comment by lukashoff in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

lukashoff — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:06:54 +0000

the fun part is that they don't even have to join the EU - perfectly positioned and enriched by natural resources to become a northern version of a Dubai

New comment by lukashoff in "Lawmakers want to ban VPNs"

lukashoff — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:26:36 +0000

> And even if it isn't, this level of stupidity is harmful.

How much more proof do we need that we're speedrunning the authoritarianism and frankly we're already somewhat authoritarian, it's just pluralism for now. Wait until the elites eat each other and only one dictator is left.

New comment by lukashoff in "The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020)"

lukashoff — Fri, 16 May 2025 13:40:33 +0000

The WFH shift also exposed the ones who have self discipline and the ones who are not. Nobody is asking you to go beyond the contracted hours. Inability to stop working is a fault of the person and not the mode of working. Agree that the managers fear kicked in so they start to pretend to do work for "visibility". However, that's a sign of a rotten culture and these people were most likely NOT productive in the first place and now they are being exposed therefore they have a need to over-compensate for it.

There are plenty of us who became extremely productive and can finally enjoy life rather than constantly play the spectacle in the office or sit in traffic for hours. And don't get me started on the ones who are neurodiverse or have any kind of disability.

New comment by lukashoff in "U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter"

lukashoff — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:44:35 +0000

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

New comment by lukashoff in "France plots tax on super-rich to rearm – and Britain could be next"

lukashoff — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:35:20 +0000

Tax the assets, make the game fair for everyone - for both workers and people living off wealth. Only then we will see wealthy people start to create new productive assets. It doesn't matter if they leave - their assets will still be in our countries. If they don't want them - we will have someone not as greedy own the assets that will benefit all of us.

New comment by lukashoff in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

lukashoff — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:24:34 +0000

> Who knows what's in their heads

Expansion, colonization, power and wealth. Classic

New comment by lukashoff in "Layoffs Don't Work"

lukashoff — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 13:16:04 +0000

Because layoffs are not done to make company great but to make sure shareholders and execs preserve their wealth. It's never about company or people or technology - it's always about money, power and wealth.

New comment by lukashoff in "U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine"

lukashoff — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:54:51 +0000

Agree. The reforms of regulations are needed as much as ever right now. Let's hope for the best that our people will wake up to this and we will be able to withstand the oncoming crisis.

New comment by lukashoff in "U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine"

lukashoff — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:36:34 +0000

I am shocked by this myself, but facts are facts.

There's also a great social net, free education + student allowances, and plenty of work. I have got no clue what the original poster of the main comment meant by broken economy.

Absolute lies and disinformation coming from the ex-allies of ours.

New comment by lukashoff in "U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine"

lukashoff — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:04:56 +0000

There's also been a population growth, albeit small, but it's happening. Thanks to migration and to the economies actually being HEALTHY people start to have more babies. The IT and innovation that comes from there as well. It's not much but it's extremely effective.

New comment by lukashoff in "U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine"

lukashoff — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:21:46 +0000

Have you ever been there? Can you emphasize on the destroyed economies?

New comment by lukashoff in "Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?"

lukashoff — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:53:44 +0000

Could this be related to the geo-politics or just a usual dump of an overheated stock? Hard to tell without a tsunami of stock dumping and portfolio re-balancing

New comment by lukashoff in "Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?"

lukashoff — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:17:25 +0000

As an European I can confirm this is partly true. I wouldn't say it's completely destroyed it's soft power, but politically we do feel betrayed so whenever possible people would be looking to switch to non-US product. However, in business we're so intertwined with the US that it's hard to tell right now if there ever will be a justified switch.

In terms of pensions - I think 99.9% of us have a huge chunk the S&P, so even though we're upset I doubt there will be any movement on that front at all. Money will win in this battle.

Personally I do feel betrayed as well and for the first time in my life I've started looking for where the product I consume come from. About a third is from the US. Stopped buying them, found a European alternative.

To all the Europeans out here - let them live how they want over the pond, let's use this opportunity to promote our industries and products as well as become as independent as we possibly can given our current financial and political constraints.

No hard feelings at all, live and let live.

New comment by lukashoff in "By the end of today, NASA's workforce will be about 10 percent smaller"

lukashoff — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:10:16 +0000

Surely it's a conflict of interest when private space man fires government space people?

New comment by lukashoff in "Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find"

lukashoff — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:21:02 +0000

A lot of energy from renewables are being wasted due to mismatch with the demand. Building storage for it is quite expensive. I wonder if it makes sense to set up carbon capture near the places which don't have the storage. For example here in the UK we're wasting between 13% and 25% of all wind electricity generated depending on the weather/time of the year.

New comment by lukashoff in "The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira"

lukashoff — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:39:27 +0000

>JIRA sucks That's what I thought until I started a job that has Asana. It's even worse.