Hacker News: mcosta

New comment by mcosta in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

mcosta — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:48:19 +0000

Well, the objetive right now seems to be other LLMs understand it.

New comment by mcosta in "Apple's hostile App Store rating system"

mcosta — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:51:32 +0000

How distributing an app that steals crypto for weeks is "prioritise their users"?

New comment by mcosta in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

mcosta — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:28:01 +0000

They have provided a literal mathematical proof.

New comment by mcosta in "WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter"

mcosta — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:55 +0000

> To my knowledge, this is by far the simplest such implementation

Are you taking into account the complexity of v8?

New comment by mcosta in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

mcosta — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:39:51 +0000

It is even worse, tax money is used for the military.

New comment by mcosta in "Dopamine Fracking"

mcosta — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:08:07 +0000

And these streets are always full

New comment by mcosta in "Dopamine Fracking"

mcosta — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:06:17 +0000

What is the average salary in that town?

New comment by mcosta in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

mcosta — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:45:15 +0000

privacy concious people use wayland

New comment by mcosta in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

mcosta — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:33:39 +0000

How do you know it followed the redirect and downloaded the image?

New comment by mcosta in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

mcosta — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:15:02 +0000

> more complex devices were introduced

And people buys them because they don't care

New comment by mcosta in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

mcosta — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:47:04 +0000

Europe needs its own Palatir

New comment by mcosta in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

mcosta — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:29:04 +0000

Capex vs opex?

New comment by mcosta in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

mcosta — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:49:56 +0000

what do you gain doing this?

New comment by mcosta in "KDE launches its own distribution"

mcosta — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:24:22 +0000

Neon has 2 flavors, developer and user. The user one is stable.

New comment by mcosta in "KDE launches its own distribution"

mcosta — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:23:39 +0000

I love neon, so it is a tie.

New comment by mcosta in "We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill [video]"

mcosta — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:02:53 +0000

Then talk to your local politician

New comment by mcosta in "Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people"

mcosta — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:04:22 +0000

For some people, everyone else is nazi.

New comment by mcosta in "The National Design Studio is a scam"

mcosta — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:54:53 +0000

Was 18F working?

New comment by mcosta in "Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation"

mcosta — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:00:26 +0000

Who is going to fight the revolution?

New comment by mcosta in "The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years"

mcosta — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:39:50 +0000

choco needs admin rights, something corporate minions, as me, does not always have.

scoop works always as user.