Hacker News: ptdorf

New comment by ptdorf in "Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage"

ptdorf — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:49:25 +0000

His mom's basement.

New comment by ptdorf in "Our position on open-weights models"

ptdorf — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:32:48 +0000

> In fact, the most dangerous model may be one that is trained in secret and handed only to the People’s Liberation Army for use in drones and the Ministry of State Security for surveillance and repression.

Welcome to bizarro world!

Fist off: "the most dangerous model may be one that is trained in secret" <-- Says the guy that not only restricts commercial use for some of their models but develops them in utter secrecy. With the pretext of guardrails. Then show us the guardrails you really use by opening the weights.

Second: "use in drones [...] for surveillance and repression" <-- writes the King of FUD, as the US is an an active campaign with the help of their models. And/or OpenAI's.

I am very appreciative of the freedoms of the west but this type of hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness is bonkers and it should be called out.

New comment by ptdorf in "Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes"

ptdorf — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:30:52 +0000

Depends. If the AI fixes don't introduce new bugs or unnecessary complexity (where bugs like to hide), then yes.

New comment by ptdorf in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

ptdorf — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:40:43 +0000

Innovation? Who cares?? Regulation is where the real value is. /s

New comment by ptdorf in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

ptdorf — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:08:07 +0000

> I truly don't get Google's move.

Because the goal is not to provide the best answers.

It's for users to train their AI.

New comment by ptdorf in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

ptdorf — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:03:38 +0000

I wouldn't worry.

The mythical Mythos can't even find Claude code bugs before releases.

New comment by ptdorf in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

ptdorf — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:19:34 +0000

So... this was a lie

New comment by ptdorf in "The vi family"

ptdorf — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:26:43 +0000

I use vim because it's addictive. And that's the highest compliment I can think of when it comes to user interfaces.

My fingers just love it. Every time I need to jump to a non-modal editor my muscle memory screams: "WTF?!"

New comment by ptdorf in "Googlebook"

ptdorf — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:45:05 +0000

I sooooo want to buy it and have every single keyboard stroke, mouse and eye movement tracked.

I don't know about you but these AIs ran out of internet data to train and I volunteer all my blood, sweat, tears and movements to improve them.

New comment by ptdorf in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

ptdorf — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:29:39 +0000

All sites? No.

IAM? Def. But how critical is IAM, anyway?

New comment by ptdorf in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

ptdorf — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:24:08 +0000

Totally unrelated:

Amazon board: institutional knowledge is the real bottleneck, guys! Let's replace these entitled seniors and staff with juniors armed with kiro. Same difference, right?

New comment by ptdorf in "Just Use Go"

ptdorf — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:05:32 +0000

Go probably wouldn't exist if Java devs went easy on overengineering design patterns.

But overall Java, like Go, IS a boring language. And that's a compliment.

New comment by ptdorf in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

ptdorf — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:13:59 +0000

First politics. Now businesses. This sounds like a wildly poorly written parody by teenagers.

"reduce Cloudflare’s workforce by more than 1,100 employees globally."

Are they 1) halting all the 1111 interns, 2) keeping the 1111 interns, now armed with AI, to replace mid-level/senior institutional knowledge or 3) a mix?

New comment by ptdorf in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

ptdorf — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:52:52 +0000

Educated AND motivated workforce will do the trick.

All the polish I know that work in IT enjoy handwork as well. They are hard workers.

New comment by ptdorf in "GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code"

ptdorf — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:06:40 +0000

You guys are all ugly and you smell.

New comment by ptdorf in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

ptdorf — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:37:31 +0000

Keeping your employees on their toes can work in the short term.

On the long term, prolonged stress kills innovation and engagement.

New comment by ptdorf in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

ptdorf — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:54:05 +0000

The firings will continue until morale improves.

Commission awards €180M tender for sovereign cloud to 4 European providers

ptdorf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:17:18 +0000

Article URL: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805094

Points: 2

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New comment by ptdorf in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

ptdorf — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:28:35 +0000

Another one bits the dust.

New comment by ptdorf in "I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit"

ptdorf — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:50:21 +0000

So SQLite is versioned in SQLite.