Hacker News: nme01

New comment by nme01 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

nme01 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:22:20 +0000

Isn't it that Anthropic some time ago had a disagreement with the government and now government is just retaliating to cut down Anthropic's profit?

New comment by nme01 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

nme01 — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:06:49 +0000

There are other countries in the world or even in the EU where salaries are lower than in Poland. Why don't they see the similar growth? I guess this is more nuanced than just lowered salaries can explain it. Surely, that's part of the equation but to develop highly innovative economy, one needs to start with something. That's how China started, how Korea started etc.

New comment by nme01 in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

nme01 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:42:03 +0000

If they go after AI, they’ll for sure need power

New comment by nme01 in "If all the world were a monorepo"

nme01 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:29:35 +0000

I think the way to go is that you do such big backwards incompatible refactors gradually. Eg you want to make all the callers specify some additional parameter. So first you create a version of your API which populates this parameter with some reasonable default. Then old API is marked deprecated and is just calling new API with that default value, and then you inline everywhere the old api. After a while it’s possible to remove the old API.

That said you need of course some tooling to somehow discover all the callers reliably and do those migrations on a large scale.

Easier to do if all the code is owned by one org but harder if you can’t reliably tell who’s using your APIs.

However having centralized migrations is really saving a lot of work for the org.

New comment by nme01 in "Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube"

nme01 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:39:53 +0000

Weren’t only the platforms that failed to register with the government banned? As I understand it, if they comply with the new regulations, they should be unblocked.

New comment by nme01 in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

nme01 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:41:41 +0000

I also work for a FAANG company and so far most employees agree that while LLMs are good for writing docs, presentations or emails, they still lack a lot when it comes to writing a maintainable code (especially in Java, they supposedly do better in Go, don’t know why, not my opinion). Even simple refactorings need to be carefully checked. I really like them for doing stuff that I know nothing about though (eg write a script using a certain tool, tell me how to rewrite my code to use certain library etc) or for reviewing changes

New comment by nme01 in "Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest"

nme01 — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:56:03 +0000

Totally for it. Now it’s time for EU to ban TikTok but also Instagram, Facebook and other socials for the very same reasons US bans TikTok

New comment by nme01 in "Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest"

nme01 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:34:34 +0000

This shows that values such as “freedom of speech” are only key words used to enforce US policy in other countries. For such a long time it was advocated that free speech is an important thing and good in and on itself. Now it turns out the free speech is good only as long as it’s US who dominates the information market.

New comment by nme01 in "The Fire This Time: Aaron Bushnell and the Rage That Burns Within All of US"

nme01 — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:01:36 +0000

Most of European citizens support Palestine yet European elites not so much.

New comment by nme01 in "Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out"

nme01 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 02:37:59 +0000

I thought that only authoritarian regimes are blocking foreign medias and that’s a bad thing. At least that’s sth US was preaching. It seems freedom of press or free market is only good when it serves you.

Not really discovering anything new here. Just showing that countries only use values at their convenience.

New comment by nme01 in "A cheap radio hack disrupted Poland's railway system"

nme01 — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 20:19:53 +0000

I imagine that as with any covert operation it’s hard to prove who’s behind it. Blowing up a bridge is also not something that will cause a war easily.

New comment by nme01 in "How to Pick a Mate (1946)"

nme01 — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:18:17 +0000

There’s nothing controversial about it. Usually people get to know other people at university or at work. To meet someone outside of your everyday environment requires extra effort. I know it from my own experience as well (trying to find a girlfriend while studying CS).

New comment by nme01 in "FF4J – Feature Flags for Java"

nme01 — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 13:51:45 +0000

Possible that I was using Spring in a wrong fashion but for me (project size around 300 KLOC) Spring dependency injection model with so much magic happening (all the auto configurations, guessing which classes to load etc.) was extremely hard to maintain and understand. I think I prefer Guice/Dagger style of defining dependencies which is much more explicit.

New comment by nme01 in "Far-right MP forces abandonment of Holocaust scholar’s lecture"

nme01 — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:35:24 +0000

If you’re interested in what those who criticize people like the scholar mentioned in the article have to say, I can provide some background (I live in Poland).

Basically many Poles feel like they’re being framed as perpetrators (as a whole nation) instead of victims (6 million Poles were killed during WW2). There were many people who helped Jews during war. Among Righteous Among Nations Poles are the majority. Also some historians, like the one from the article, are considered to be biased by neglecting the majority of sacrifices of Poles while showing only wrong doings of some minor groups, which were never supported by Poland as a country.

At the same time they fail to mention the scale of collaboration among Polish Jews during WW2 and after, which very often was punished by death by the Polish Underground Government.

New comment by nme01 in "Far-right MP forces abandonment of Holocaust scholar’s lecture"

nme01 — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 11:45:13 +0000

I’m quite disappointed that HN gets more and more political news here (which are not objective truths but are portrayed as such). Could we please keep it free of politics and more technology focused?

New comment by nme01 in "Far-right MP forces abandonment of Holocaust scholar’s lecture"

nme01 — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 11:39:02 +0000

The problem with the scholar mentioned here is that a lot of his research is considered biased. This case is not so black and white.

The MP mentioned in the article is considered by most Poles a freak at best (and a foreign agent by many).

New comment by nme01 in "Facebook claims people showing art, electronics, wheelchair mods is hate speech"

nme01 — Sun, 14 May 2023 07:07:49 +0000

There was always some concept like this to shut people’s mouth (both for good and bad reasons). Throughout the ages it was called many names: taboo, blasphemy etc.

New comment by nme01 in "Ask HN: Anyone else having issues with GCP right now?"

nme01 — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 10:52:12 +0000

It’s now advised to failover to different region (vs zone in the same region).

New comment by nme01 in "Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant"

nme01 — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:30:48 +0000

> You are pathetic.

That was unnecessary

New comment by nme01 in "Ban on Tenure for New Faculty Hires Passes Texas Senate"

nme01 — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 20:04:47 +0000

I’m not from US but I’m curious what is the situation in other states? Are there situations like that occurring elsewhere (even if the bias is in the opposite political direction e.g. in California or somewhere) or is Florida a “lonely island” here with regard to free speech limitations on universities?