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New comment by nsvd2 in "Show HN: One More Letter"

nsvd2 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:40:46 +0000

It won't let you use the same letters in the same order again (e.g. LEASE -> LEASED). I think that's fair.

New comment by nsvd2 in "What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?"

nsvd2 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:16:44 +0000

How could race-determined discrimination be anything other than racism?

New comment by nsvd2 in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

nsvd2 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:08:43 +0000

Complexity is cost.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Mawlynnong, India, transformed by tourism, bans visitors on Sundays"

nsvd2 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:18:39 +0000

Surely a tax would be a better incentive mechanism than a hard cap.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Trump orders a halt to US trade with Spain"

nsvd2 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:26:06 +0000

All according to plan if you believe that Trump is a foreign-sponsored "useful idiot".

New comment by nsvd2 in "Trump intervention causes World Cup storm as FIFA clears US striker Balogun"

nsvd2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:57:56 +0000

And US loses 1-4 even with their striker.

New comment by nsvd2 in "World Cup fans frustrated by 'confusing and expensive' tipping culture in US"

nsvd2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:56:25 +0000

All states require tipped workers to make at least minimum wage, that's what a minimum wage is. However, usually they can make part of that wage in tips. In theory, if they make less then minimum wage in tips plus hourly wage, the employer is supposed to make up the difference. In practice, that doesn't always happen.

New comment by nsvd2 in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

nsvd2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:26:13 +0000

How does deep packet inspection work on encrypted traffic?

New comment by nsvd2 in "Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]"

nsvd2 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:22:27 +0000

I'm reading this comment as sarcastic, you don't think that the recent infrastructure build out is a positive?

New comment by nsvd2 in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"

nsvd2 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:41:37 +0000

If this is happening in software engineering it would imply that Americans are moving to other, higher paid work which doesn't seem to be the case.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

nsvd2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:13:25 +0000

If the government wanted people to take holidays off they could just legislate that people can't work on those days. I doubt there is any political will to do this, though.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)"

nsvd2 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:26:52 +0000

If at any point your counter-governmental action actually threatens to take some share of power away from the government, they will swiftly and quietly deal with you (they have about 1000 ways to track you, and AI reduces the cost of tracking greatly). If you are irrelevant you will mostly be ignored.

By the way, I'm sure that they are aware of all this privacy-first counter-tracking sentiment from certain communities, and are actively working to subvert it.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Ask HN: What is the job market like?"

nsvd2 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:48:15 +0000

Surely all of those metrics can be easily gamed by a competent software engineer.

New comment by nsvd2 in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

nsvd2 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:31:34 +0000

Well, yes, China has a large number of tarrifs imposed on it from the U.S.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Waymo Premier"

nsvd2 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:22:21 +0000

It surprises me that any municipality would make that legal, seems dangerous.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

nsvd2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:24:12 +0000

There is no difference, from the model's point of view, between code it wrote and code someone else wrote. It's all just context.

New comment by nsvd2 in ""Terrorists?": The Suffragette Arson and Bombing Campaign – Egham Museum"

nsvd2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:12:42 +0000

Analogies can provide insight without exact equivalence.

New comment by nsvd2 in "My Software North Star"

nsvd2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:06:40 +0000

While true, that doesn't distinguish between Zig and Rust, as both allow you to manually allocate memory and create custom data structures.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

nsvd2 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:26:12 +0000

Jon Gjengset has some live streams where he does agentic coding.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

nsvd2 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:21:23 +0000

Yes, but in my experience Claude is much better at diagnosing issues on Linux than any other OS because it's text-native and is the best documented OS.