Hacker News: owenthejumper

New comment by owenthejumper in "Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic"

owenthejumper — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:47:31 +0000

He's a co-founder of BottleCap AI

New comment by owenthejumper in "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"

owenthejumper — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:46:16 +0000

In a normal world, this would be treason by an illegal immigrant to the US. In today's world it's a blip in news. Sad state of affairs :(

Europe will absolutely build alternatives. They'll bicker for some time, but in the end, they build. To Americans it looks like they don't but they do. Quality of life, life expectancy, and many factors have outpaced US in the last few years. The tech industry in the US is still important, but the importance will start waning soon.

New comment by owenthejumper in "OpenSSL 4.1.0"

owenthejumper — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:13:39 +0000

I think it's too little too late, people have started moving on https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks

New comment by owenthejumper in "Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits"

owenthejumper — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:47:11 +0000

The train line in California was literally the only reason Musk announced Hyperloop - to spoil it.

New comment by owenthejumper in "Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation"

owenthejumper — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:45:37 +0000

Huh what :) And that VM/microVM is running on top of...Windows? :)

New comment by owenthejumper in "Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now"

owenthejumper — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:17:35 +0000

People love hating on PHP. But Go has CVEs like every week, and people are getting tired of updating it. I don't think there is a fundamental "PHP bad" argument beyond just "hating on it". While Go/Node have grown much more than PHP, PHP is definitely alive.

New comment by owenthejumper in "Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits"

owenthejumper — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:50:21 +0000

I'll get downvoted by the Musk fans, but the NY-DC Hyperloop corridor failed because Hyperloop doesn't work, is non existent, and that corridor is already served by the only profitable train line in the US, the Amtrak DC -> Boston train. It made no financial sense to do this. Bureaucracy is just an excuse for yet another Musk pipe dream to pump stock.

New comment by owenthejumper in "Things to know when you get cancer"

owenthejumper — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:10:23 +0000

This.

The specific term is called "NCI Designated Cancer Center". If you can go there, do it.

US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from green card program

owenthejumper — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 02:10:37 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/us-bars-microsoft-adobe-and-major-it-firms-from-green-card-program-for-skilled-foreign-workers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015126

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

Automattic Wants .wordpress. It Doesn't Own WordPress

owenthejumper — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:03:25 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@kelliepeterson/automattic-wants-wordpress-it-doesnt-own-wordpress-d9e6be3f3a45

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013033

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by owenthejumper in "Aweb – Communication for AI Agents"

owenthejumper — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:10:20 +0000

I like it. Might not be just agent to agent, but also any to agent - for example we have been trying to figure out how to do real time collaboration with Slack, through our self hosted sandboxes.

New comment by owenthejumper in "Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams"

owenthejumper — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:22:17 +0000

They've always been this fast. The trick is that they release beta products a lot. Kind of classic "lean" (does anyone remember that?)

My bigger concern would be their increasing grip on a lot of the market, and eventually becoming a monopoly (or part of the big tech "duopoly")

New comment by owenthejumper in "Ember-1"

owenthejumper — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:43:33 +0000

I don't get it. Half the tokens, but triple the cost on Open Router? So I pay more? Great idea otherwise...

New comment by owenthejumper in "Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster"

owenthejumper — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:14:42 +0000

Remember he's "post-economic", he doesn't really care.

New comment by owenthejumper in "An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power"

owenthejumper — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:17:23 +0000

These people love the stable regulatory environment of the US government, but despise paying their fair share into it. You could say they are not serious, but unfortunately they are.

New comment by owenthejumper in "Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours"

owenthejumper — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:36:38 +0000

Routing belongs on the client side

New comment by owenthejumper in "Claude Opus 5"

owenthejumper — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:16:35 +0000

I am not convinced this will end up being a domain of the ‘routers’ vs the clients, as in harnesses themselves. Thoughts?

New comment by owenthejumper in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

owenthejumper — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:13:11 +0000

Now do "shape"

New comment by owenthejumper in "Precursor"

owenthejumper — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:28:07 +0000

Akamai, Fastly, HAProxy, F5, many others? Talking about bots specifically, not about "workers" etc.

New comment by owenthejumper in "USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025"

owenthejumper — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:23:25 +0000

I live around at around a 150ft elevation above the ocean, but technically within < 1 mile away from it. Despite zero risk of flodding, half of the bigger insurers in my area have exited the market, and we are now having to insure with higher risk insurers like Kingston, who's ratings are yet to be tested during a real emergency.

My car insurance is above $4k/yr for two family cars, rising annually despite no accidents.

Meanwhile, "normal" countries are solving these problems in reasonable ways. Back home in Central Europe, you get state mandated car insurance at pre-negotiated rates that are based on the car, not the driver.

US insurance is a scam.