Hacker News: pjdkoch

New comment by pjdkoch in "Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience"

pjdkoch — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:58:18 +0000

Kudos for such a great learning journey!

New comment by pjdkoch in "'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level"

pjdkoch — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:42:49 +0000

Finally, Ben Shapiro is going to buy that real estate for a bargain! /s

New comment by pjdkoch in "For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa"

pjdkoch — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:02:35 +0000

Notice that a lot of the graphs count people from the Americas. Not USA.

New comment by pjdkoch in "Coq theorem prover is now called Rocq"

pjdkoch — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:23:04 +0000

That's gonna be easy to confuse with Roc, no?

New comment by pjdkoch in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

pjdkoch — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:33:08 +0000

Cursor with GPT-5.4 puts me to shame, honestly.

New comment by pjdkoch in "White House administration set to be paid $10B for brokering TikTok deal"

pjdkoch — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:29:04 +0000

A bribe by any other name would smell as foul.

New comment by pjdkoch in "Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?"

pjdkoch — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:20:08 +0000

I intend to get one in Portugal!

New comment by pjdkoch in "Payment fees matter more than you think"

pjdkoch — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:19:26 +0000

/me looks around in stablecoins

This is a pretty solved problem.

New comment by pjdkoch in "Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down"

pjdkoch — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:04:22 +0000

Genuine web 1 vibes.

New comment by pjdkoch in "Ask HN: How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions?"

pjdkoch — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:04:09 +0000

Poorly, and typically by making the same mistake enough times to document the decision. Code archeology is a bitch and a half.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence

New comment by pjdkoch in "Ask HN: Is Linux Safe to Daily drive in 2026?"

pjdkoch — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:55:17 +0000

You're fine with out of the box experience in most cases.

Try something from universal blue!

New comment by pjdkoch in "23,746 Patients Died on Waitlists in Past Year"

pjdkoch — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:38:37 +0000

Tangentially related (because oversubscription): https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/10/22/hospital-crises-l...

New comment by pjdkoch in "Is 2026 Next Year?"

pjdkoch — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:01:01 +0000

Portugal. No AI on this one. It's pretty normal to get AI responses from Google search in general.

New comment by pjdkoch in "Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero"

pjdkoch — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:07:17 +0000

September 17, 2024

New comment by pjdkoch in "I let my AI agents run unsupervised and they burned $200 in 2 hours"

pjdkoch — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:57:52 +0000

If you buy senior engineering hours and give them vague requirements, this is close enough to what you'll get.

New comment by pjdkoch in "Go Is a Well-Designed Language"

pjdkoch — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:13:45 +0000

ITT: apologists and haters.

Go is a bunch of preferences and aesthetics. It clearly appeals to a bunch of folks, others have a hard time putting up with it.

Everyone is free to both love and/or hate go. The language's spirit is not going to change. I'd much rather see more realism, honesty, and acceptance. Instead, this class of discussions always seems to become incessant "no u" ping-ponging.

Certainly not what I'd consider curiosity and critical thinking.

New comment by pjdkoch in "Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes"

pjdkoch — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:26:25 +0000

Finally! No more one use batteries, please!

New comment by pjdkoch in "Getting Started with Category Theory"

pjdkoch — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:02:54 +0000

Venting: I'm so tired of this. I've countless times learned that something something monoid of endofunctors. And yet, I've never been able to make that knowlwdge more useful than "do a flatMap here".

Not looking for solutions. Ok with emotional support.

New comment by pjdkoch in "Show HN: My C compiler compiled itself"

pjdkoch — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:02:14 +0000

/me claps and cheers

New comment by pjdkoch in "Hackers use ZIP file concatenation to evade detection"

pjdkoch — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:30:56 +0000

Now?