Hacker News: robjan

New comment by robjan in "What dating apps are optimizing"

robjan — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:02:54 +0000

Then don't hit on people. Go there with no expectations other than enjoying the activity, it makes you a better and more interesting person anyway. The people who get banned are the creepy ones who go purely for the sake of hitting on people.

New comment by robjan in "Family Mart Designed Cute Teary-Eyed Stickers to Combat Food Loss"

robjan — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 03:53:55 +0000

The article misses it off but you can see the evolution of the sticker on the FamilyMart webpage: https://www.family.co.jp/content/dam/family/sustainability/t...

New comment by robjan in "The new calculus of AI-based coding"

robjan — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:48:03 +0000

"steering rules" is a core feature baked into Kiro. It's similar to the spec files use in most agentic workflows but you can use exclusion and inclusion rules to avoid wasting context.

There's currently not an official workflow on how to manage these steering files across repos if you want to have organisation-wide standards, which is probably my main criticism.

New comment by robjan in "What if tariffs?"

robjan — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 09:31:00 +0000

It's like comparing a Fiat to a Ferrari

New comment by robjan in "European Union Public Licence (EUPL)"

robjan — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:06:41 +0000

There are many licenses with mortality clauses but they are general not popular because the ambiguity and "supply chain risk" of having such a license in a dependency tree tends to limit adoption of any projects that use them.

New comment by robjan in "DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware"

robjan — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:12:48 +0000

They could definitely add a maker-checker process (similar to code review) for new versions and make it a requirement for public projects with x number of downloads per week.

New comment by robjan in "Code Is Debt"

robjan — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:22:48 +0000

I'd say the software is an asset more than the code itself, much like an interstate is an asset rather than the concrete that it consists of. The quality of the concrete impacts the depreciation (reduction of value) of the asset and how much operational expenditure is required to upkeep the asset which would again impact the asset value. There's probably also a risk management angle which should be considered.

New comment by robjan in "Nobody’s buying homes, nobody’s switching jobs, America’s mobility is stalling"

robjan — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:40:27 +0000

When I buy a stock the seller gets the money. The money doesn't "go in to the stock market".

New comment by robjan in "Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp"

robjan — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:22:45 +0000

They do. All email providers have limits either specified or unspecified. It's usually a few hundred per hour and each recipient uses one quota.

New comment by robjan in "The magic of through running"

robjan — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:22:12 +0000

Really depends on the region and any pre-existing constraints at the time of electrification. A better distinction is probably rapid transit (metro, subway, the Tube, MTR/MRT) vs commuter rail.

New comment by robjan in "Meta pirated books to train its AI"

robjan — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:54:10 +0000

These donuts can be replicated an unlimited number of times for free without depriving the creator of the donuts of their donuts. The analogy doesn't work.

The real question is whether the value of these donuts is diminished by being ingested by the AI and it's still not clear.

New comment by robjan in "Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate"

robjan — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:05:46 +0000

With diagrams, it's still worth getting the code for the same reason we ask LLMs to write software using a programming language rather than directly giving compiled output.

New comment by robjan in "The Startup CTO's Handbook"

robjan — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 11:54:25 +0000

Ideally there should be some first line who deals with BAU customer support but completely separating value delivery from support bakes moral hazard into the org design.

New comment by robjan in "Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat"

robjan — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:55:08 +0000

I'm pretty sure you would be quickly rate limited, especially if you participate in a few large group chats.

New comment by robjan in "The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks"

robjan — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:02:41 +0000

Most pensions hold mostly stocks

New comment by robjan in "The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks"

robjan — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:03:02 +0000

The hardest hit would be the middle class whose retirement depends on funds which predominantly invest in equities.

New comment by robjan in "Microsoft is killing Skype"

robjan — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:36:47 +0000

Usually Viber

New comment by robjan in "The Sims Game Design Documents (1997)"

robjan — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:37:45 +0000

If you work in a regulated industry there is no way around producing design documents.

New comment by robjan in "French train passenger fined €150 for using phone on speaker"

robjan — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:23:58 +0000

Loudspeakers broadcast whereas a person physically next to you can adjust their loudness based on what's socially acceptable

New comment by robjan in "List of 200 UK companies that moved to 4-day working week"

robjan — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 14:18:38 +0000

If it's the former, it's been common to have "compressed hours" as a flexitime option in many big UK companies for decades.