Hacker News: pjjpo

New comment by pjjpo in "GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression"

pjjpo — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:17:32 +0000

Thanks for the explanation! Wow releasing regressions only for older devices, that's something.

GrapheneOS looks really good thanks for working on it. Unfortunately Google Pay is critical for me and it's unfortunate Google is gatekeeping that, but I will look on jealously.

New comment by pjjpo in "GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression"

pjjpo — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:39:50 +0000

I had assumed this was just Google effectively "ending support" for my 9a by forcing some AI thing into my lowish RAM. I can't believe even the latest Pixel users are having this problem since I thought they actually QA those.

Sorry but at this point, for me it is shame on every Googler for continuing at a company that has absolutely no interest in user experience anymore. It's on you, directly or indirectly.

New comment by pjjpo in "Sonnet 5.5"

pjjpo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:06:26 +0000

Smart people delegate to dumb people. Of course ideally dumb people get slightly smarter. From my experience sonnet is mostly for opus or fable to delegate to. So delegates getting more useful is always a good thing.

Seeing 2000 years of history being replayed by the AI startups is pretty weird right?

New comment by pjjpo in "OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns"

pjjpo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:07:30 +0000

I noticed Sol seems to get rate limited enough to get pretty annoying now. Same for me with every model release that isn't really better than the last, leaving the old model doesn't mean much when they start shifting over capacity.

New comment by pjjpo in "Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners"

pjjpo — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:28:49 +0000

This is a government that needs anything to distract from its failures indeed. But that's not changing unfortunately - given there seems to be no real direction to fix the economy that is currently in a gutter, I think it's pragmatic to restrict immigration. Crime is skyrocketing, both Japanese and immigrants - even the Yakuza are getting into scam operations on Katagi, i.e. normal people. This basically never happened before and is a turning point. It's what happens in a bad economy and will just continue to get worse.

Low wage immigrants will not be able to fix the economy (demographics related decline is still decades away, yes it is important long term but not if the fundamentals don't improve). They will increase crime though since that's just what happens when you are poor in a bad economy. There won't be culling of poor locals but restricting inpu where possible, immigration, seems ok given the overall picture.

New comment by pjjpo in "Wall Street is growing skeptical of the data center boom"

pjjpo — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:39:55 +0000

While it seems there are other examples in the article, still, leading with Wall State is skeptical of SoftBank doesn't make the point land very hard.

New comment by pjjpo in "Pandas Should Go Extinct"

pjjpo — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:13:37 +0000

Liked the title

New comment by pjjpo in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

pjjpo — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:52:52 +0000

If I were Anthropic I would sue him for slander to get the equity back. Then, he may actually return it. Or he may go to court, which would be revealing...

New comment by pjjpo in "Asahi Linux on M3"

pjjpo — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:00:29 +0000

I would like to have a great laptop running Linux but the hardware options are just not there.

So I end up with a MacBook with macOS. Some may refuse to do that but I expect that's only a tiny missed opportunity.

New comment by pjjpo in "Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited)"

pjjpo — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:54:48 +0000

The article starts by calling Kamen Rider, Power Rangers. Before that it said something about posts taking a long time due to research.

Didn't read the rest but did skim through that crab bat pic wondering what that was, didn't realize it's Ganon!

New comment by pjjpo in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

pjjpo — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:58:54 +0000

Funny how the threads are all about jj. Personally the move to a startup focused on version control, to me an obvious sinking ship, is more interesting. Not spectrum though.

New comment by pjjpo in "Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings"

pjjpo — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:41:39 +0000

Here's a link in case it's needed (I suspect most people that assume all of their problems are because of the administration don't actually read links but maybe if it's from their court?)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/us-court-rules-googl...

New comment by pjjpo in "Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird"

pjjpo — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:51:38 +0000

Relatively new, scripts can define dependency metadata now adays to achieve that to some degree. Any pip style versioning including an exact match works there.

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/inline...

New comment by pjjpo in "Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload"

pjjpo — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:32:54 +0000

I recently found a rust library that downloads and runs Bazel transparently.

Lost a lot of faith in the safety of the Rust ecosystem...

New comment by pjjpo in "Slack Code"

pjjpo — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:00:03 +0000

It's always amazing to me how everyone continues to pay a fairly ridiculous price for Slack. Sure it has it's issues but I think people would get used to it and be just as productive with the free Google Chat they already have if any executive had the guts to say they're not going to waste money on Slack anymore. But never happens.

New comment by pjjpo in "Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome"

pjjpo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:49:02 +0000

Comparing a wrapped C++ gRPC backed stack with an httpx/requests backed one is like comparing apples to elephants.

New comment by pjjpo in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"

pjjpo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:14:41 +0000

SoftBank has always managed to squeeze by after every mistake selling some early huge wins Alibaba, Nvidia, arm. Wonder if they still have any of those left in the back pocket.

New comment by pjjpo in "U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%"

pjjpo — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:14:54 +0000

And the other half thinks you can raise taxes and grow revenues while keeping the loopholes for their elites.

The only thing intentional in politics is preserving your personal status and wealth. This is bipartisan.

New comment by pjjpo in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

pjjpo — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 10:15:35 +0000

I have seen so much governance weirdness from Codeberg over the years that it isn't even on the radar to migrate to. GitHub has gotten less stable, I wouldn't mind an alternative, but Codeberg just wouldn't ever be that. To be fair I am just on the sidelines seeing net commentary so it may not be a fair take but it doesn't change that point.

Do people know Codeberg well and migrate to it anyways, or they just don't know? If the former, wondering what gets you to that point.

New comment by pjjpo in "The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin"

pjjpo — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:50:29 +0000

I think anyone grandfathered in to a lifetime license is getting a pretty good deal on this. Mine was $119 in 2017. The only other lifetime license I have bought is Adguard, also excellent. Software that gets unlimited updates for a low price is _very rare_ right? If there are other good examples, happy to hear them!

I get that things are changing with Plex, naturally given it was a steal. But somehow it feels in bad faith when the author got that great deal but puts out this hit piece.