<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: piokoch</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=piokoch</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:44:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=piokoch" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by piokoch in "Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why space data centers? What advantage this would have? Cooling will be a big issue, while it is easily solved on the planet earth, as we have water, air that can transfer heat away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:59:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775604</link><dc:creator>piokoch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by piokoch in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Switzerland is very liberal in terms of business-oriented regulations to the point that you could crate a new year party in a closed cellar without emergency exists, not to mention anti-fire installation and burn people alive there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:22:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763671</link><dc:creator>piokoch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by piokoch in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the other side, people who were using, say, Perforce, also thought there can't be anything better. Still, BitKeeper appeared as an innovation in the area, eaten later by Git, created by angry Linus (because of BitKeeper licencing changes).<p>So, even though Git seems to be ok (people who store large binary files or who run huge monorepos would probably disagree), maybe we can do better.<p>Altavista was kind of okeish for search, yet Google managed to figure out something that was (at that time) way better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:54:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714933</link><dc:creator>piokoch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by piokoch in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mainstream music was created for a good 20 years using the following process:<p>1. Do the survey/focus groups to figure out a hot topic for a song. For instance your exploration shows that 300K girls between 13 and 17 years old were left by their boyfriend, so there is a 300K market for a song about that.<p>2. Find someone or group who will sing the song. Something your target audience will identify. E.g. "rebellious teenager" (take Britney Spears), "we need a group that will attack larger target" - take Spice Girls - we take one black, one white, one Latino looking (doesn't have to be real Latino, obviously), one polite and nice, one impolite. You get the point.<p>3. Note: singer/group does not need to know how to sing, they need to move reasonably on the scene, the rest autotune and computers will handle easily.<p>So, given the process, AI singer is just a little bit different "music" production process, not so much different from the one used up to date except that you don't need autotune anymore.<p>Luckily there are still people who do music for the sake of doing music and it really stands out as compared to 80% of fodder for listeners that is on YT, radio, Spotify.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:32:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673062</link><dc:creator>piokoch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by piokoch in "Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, I've looked on alternatives to iPhone. The "little" problem is that if I use online banking in Europe I will not be able to use most of them as a bank required 2FA.<p>Another funny thing is that they offer as an alternatives China produced phones (most "Nokia" models that does not have anything to do with original Nokia brand), as if supporting Xi regime was somehow better than buying in USA.<p>LibeOffice as a replacement for Office365 only shows that the site authors does not know what is Office365.<p>Vivaldi is great, I am using it, but it is built on Chromium, which is definitely not an European thingy...</p>
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<p>I wonder what will happen when Jordan Bardella will be new France president and Alice Weidel will be German Chancellor. Where people are going to migrate to then...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:53:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488201</link><dc:creator>piokoch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by piokoch in "Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is very interesting, I've been using LLM to learn new things that way and it really worked. To some extent, learning with LLM is better than taking any course, even with a tutor, as I am getting something prepared for me, in terms of my experience, progress level, etc.<p>LLM is going to change schools and universities a lot, teachers, tutors will have to find themselves in the new reality, as they have a strong competitor with infinite resources and huge knowledge, patient and ready to work with every student in a distinct way, according to student's needs, level, intelligence, etc.<p>Instruction-based tutoring is dead from that perspective, why should I follow someone reciting a book or online tutorial, while there is a tool that can introduce me into subject in a better and more interesting way?<p>Sure, there are great teachers, who are inspiring people, who are able to present the topic in a great way, the point is, they are minority. Now, everyone can have a great tutor for a few dollars a month (or for free, if you don't need generating too much data quickly).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:43:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477483</link><dc:creator>piokoch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by piokoch in "Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are companies using Delphi-based products for long years (for a good reason, this is still great technology) so they prefer to pay.</p>
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<p>Knowing what kind of business Peter Thiel is engaged in, it is not a big surprise that he does not like the religion started by a guy who was crucified for telling others that it would be great if people were nice to each others.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:57:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363228</link><dc:creator>piokoch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by piokoch in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you use Renewable Energy Sources, it may happen there will be no wind or no sun. So you need some auxiliary source of energy. If you want it at hand, this must be something with fast cold start. So black/brown coal power plan will not help you, similarly nuclear. You need to burn either gas or "biomass", that is wood/turf, etc. Those power plants have about 1h cold start.<p>Hence, in order to have RES you need to emit CO2. Deal with this. The other option, and UK goes that way, is to purchase electricity when it is lacking, paying spot prices, that's why they have such a big electricity bills, economy is down, people get mad and vote psychos.<p>The solution is dead simple, as France example shows. Simply use nuclear power plants and does not bother with RES, as it does not make any sense now.<p>Maybe, when we have technology to store efficiently electricity at scale, we can start using RES. But we just do not have that.<p>The end result now is that electricity in Europe is the most expensive on the World, so all manufacturing is moved to Asia, who does not bother with climate that much, that's why, despite all Europe efforts, overall CO2 emission keeps growing.</p>
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<p>Nope, but other producers does not claim that their hardware "can run AI".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:04:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244511</link><dc:creator>piokoch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by piokoch in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You will get a usual AI slop that will be the mixture of the articles and books it was trained on. You can try it even now.</p>
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<p>"Foreigners are inferior by definition" - but USA approach says exactly the opposite. Foreigners are capable, so it is better not to share secrets and technology with them.</p>
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<p>USA does not want to train scientists from other countries, who come home and can use that knowledge against interest of US companies, as a competition, or security. There are vast areas of science that are "double use". Will it help to keep stuff out of range of unwanted foreign actors? Hard to tell. Does it hurt USA soft power, sure. So the net result is to be seen.</p>
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<p>Exactly, this is one step from selling older people overpriced pots and rugs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:10:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183548</link><dc:creator>piokoch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by piokoch in "Lawmakers say US Military used laser to take down Border Protection drone in TX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Check what is happening in Ukraine. The war moved a field of moderately cheap and moderately powerful drones forward.<p>We don't understand the consequences yet... Ukraine is actively working on hunter drones that could operate on 10 km altitude to shot down enemy targets. Now, imagine that cartel, terrorists put their hands on such technology, endangering whole civilian air transport.</p>
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<p>Whoever is that "jack", he should go back to school to learn how to use capital letters, commas, periods and all other difficult stuff. Or, just ask Chat GPT to write this kind of letters to the people. Maybe, after comparing "jack" writing with AI's writing company stakeholders would figure out, that maybe it is "jack", who should be replaced by some Open AI et. al. tools...</p>
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<p>Well, maybe people stop changing their smartphone every two years. Or every year. Imagine the positive impact on the environment!<p>I am always surprised that when the planet caring, liberal Apple boss shows up on the Big Apple Event stage, he encourages people to ruin the planet by needles purchase of the new hardware, even though the old one can do the same job easily, as now the improvements are barely incremental, if any.</p>
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<p>This is comical.<p>"Mass domestic surveillance. We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values"<p>Translating to human language: mass surveillance in USA "is incompatible with democratic values" but if we do that against, say, Germany or France this is OK.  Ah, and if we use AI for "counterintelligence missions", for instance against <put here an organization/group that current administration does not like> this is also OK, even if this happens in USA.</p>
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<p>"Tailwind didn't win because it's the best CSS solution. It won because it has the most tutorials per capita in the training set."<p>Obviously. People keep forgetting that "Artificial Intelligence" does not think and is not intelligent. It just statistically predict next token in a sequence. It is all statistics.<p>So, Django 6 has new task framework, but LLM does not care, as Celery has better stats.<p>Side note: it is not only LLM thingy. Companies for years were choosing tech stack because of fashion or popularity, regardless on technical feasibility for a given solution. So we have companies adopting Kafka, even though it sucks for their usecase, companies switch from Jenkins to Github Actions, even though Jenkins was cheaper and more performant.</p>
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