Hacker News: occz

New comment by occz in "GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo"

occz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:02:13 +0000

I think the reason behind using React and JavaScript is simpler - these tools are heavily vibecoded, and React/JavaScript is what was most present in the training data and as such is what the models excels the most at generating.

The crappy laggy UIs have the same root cause - heavy use of vibecoding with lackluster quality processes

New comment by occz in "GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo"

occz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:40:47 +0000

Books3 is public data on the internet in the same way that the Claude code source code is public data on the internet.

Except Anthropic published the Claude code source code themselves, while Books3 was not published by their original authors.

New comment by occz in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

occz — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:18:33 +0000

Electric assist helps with the wind.

Or just building some fitness, which in my experience comes automatically when you bike

New comment by occz in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

occz — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:19:14 +0000

The 24 hour wait period is the largest of the annoyances in this list, but given that adb installs still work, I think this is a list of things I can ultimately live with.

New comment by occz in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

occz — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:17:47 +0000

That's not correct - the flow described in the post outlines the requirements to install any apps that haven't had their signature registered with Google.

That means those apps still keep on existing, they are just more of a hassle to install.

New comment by occz in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

occz — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:48:29 +0000

>E-bike makers aren't going to volunteer for that it'd destroy their business.

Arguably, complete bans will be even worse for business.

New comment by occz in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

occz — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:32:59 +0000

And I just finished The Rise of Endymion a few days ago. Uncanny indeed.

New comment by occz in "Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering"

occz — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:52:18 +0000

This can be solved well enough by having the model invoke `--help`

New comment by occz in "A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs"

occz — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:05:52 +0000

I'm a bit jealous of those prices, there are no caps on Stockholm transit if paid for on single tickets, and the price of a single ticket is 43 SEK (£3.45). The best deal available for period tickets is the unlimited monthly pass for 1060 SEK (£85).

New comment by occz in "A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs"

occz — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:20:59 +0000

Public transit in Stockholm has in the last ten years done two things that make for a godlike ride payment UX:

1. Removed the concept of zones - everything is now covered by one single ticket 2. Introduced tap-to-pay support for debit/credit cards

This means that you as a user can always just show up with the overwhelmingly most common way to pay for things in Sweden - by card - tap once, and then you're done. No more actions required. Need to transfer? No problem, the virtual ticket you bought by tapping your card is valid for 75 minutes, no more money will be charged if you tap again within this window.

No fumbling with an app, no awkward QR code scanning, just one tap and go. Peak UX.

New comment by occz in "Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?"

occz — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:48:34 +0000

Easy, you reject it.

New comment by occz in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

occz — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:07:48 +0000

As it turns out, you regularly get a COP of >3 from heat pumps, as they don't need to generate the heat, they steal it from somewhere else (outside)

New comment by occz in "AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025"

occz — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:31:17 +0000

You'll be waiting for a long time then, probably. Making codecs is actually a hard problem, the type of thing that AI completely falls over when tasked with.

New comment by occz in "AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025"

occz — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:29:29 +0000

While funny, that's not really what I would call accurate. Users get reduced data consumption, potentially higher quality selection if the bandwidth now allows for a higher resolution to be streamed, and possibly lower disk usage should they decide to offline the videos.

Better codecs are an overall win for everyone involved.

New comment by occz in "Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads"

occz — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:00:16 +0000

It's not really a matter of just turning it on when it comes to the kind of scale that YouTube has on their catalogue. It's practically impossible to retranscode the whole catalogue, so you're more or less stuck with only doing it for newly ingested content, and even there the tradeoffs are quite large when it comes to actually having DRM.

I think we can safely assume that the only content under DRM at YouTube today is the content where it's absolutely legally necessary.

New comment by occz in "About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5"

occz — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:19:03 +0000

This doesn't really mean much on account of the iOS ecosystem only supporting the latest two OS versions in their apps as a general rule. Once you are behind 2 versions, your device becomes quite useless at that point

New comment by occz in "Public static void main(String[] args) is dead"

occz — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:35:50 +0000

It's insignificant for day-to-day programming for experienced developers, but has importance for learners.

New comment by occz in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

occz — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:24:36 +0000

That's not a good move at all.

New comment by occz in "What is going on right now?"

occz — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:27:03 +0000

I guess that depends on how you get that ARR-figure. If more than all of it goes to paying your AI bills, then you can't really afford that much engineering investment.

New comment by occz in "Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year"

occz — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 08:08:41 +0000

>One way to reduce deaths is just get everyone into cars.

A patently absurd claim that holds up to no scrutiny whatsoever. The whole nation of the U.S disproves it, for one.