Hacker News: tanepiper

New comment by tanepiper in "Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy"

tanepiper — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:33:46 +0000

Reading this, it sounds very like what Ingvar Kamprad did with IKEA - although the structure is slightly different, the intent feels the same.

I work at Inter IKEA, which is actually a franchisor - the structure is a family run foundation sitting at the top, below the group that owns the concept and value chain, then the retailer licence to hold a franchise (https://www.inter.ikea.com/en/this-is-inter-ikea-group/the-i...)

New comment by tanepiper in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

tanepiper — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:35:06 +0000

Basically medical science too. My wife was able to diagnose her own anemia that the doctors kept missing, and has since been able to have iron infusions.

The human doctors kept ignoring the signals, kept putting it down to 'diet' and 'exercise' (even though she does plenty of both)

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

tanepiper — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:59:45 +0000

7 years ago we got a Polish Hunting Spaniel, and did our first trip to Poland. Since then we've been back several times, and each time you really see the different - new and upgraded road, city buildings being renovated into new housing and commercial areas - also noticed the costs going up too.

But also you start to notice that definitely a lot of people who left Poland are coming back, and with that skills and new economic opportunities.

New comment by tanepiper in "I won a championship that doesn't exist"

tanepiper — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:32:33 +0000

I think this is something we'll start to see which is something like a Mandela-Effect, but from LLM results. When we had deterministic search - everyone could see the same result, but now using LLMs knowledge becomes a training and seeding issue. Two people can confidently be given completely different information, so in both cases perceived as true.

New comment by tanepiper in "Alarms Sound over 'Technofascist' Palantir Manifesto"

tanepiper — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:05:26 +0000

If this wasn't a tech CEO, we'd probably be looking at an active shooter/bomber situation

Trial by Fire Onboarding

tanepiper — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:24:38 +0000

Article URL: https://yusufaytas.com/trial-by-fire/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625876

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by tanepiper in "Rick Dangerous"

tanepiper — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:06:09 +0000

Played this and Rick Dangerous 2 a lot on the Amiga 500, fun game.

New comment by tanepiper in "The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive"

tanepiper — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:26:29 +0000

I think the risk is this; when non-technical users who've never shipped software in their life can dictate to a machine and get "instant results" it going to bring back managers not understanding that you don't just ship code. Especially these days where one bad dependency can mean downtime or worse.

New comment by tanepiper in "Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro"

tanepiper — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:12:09 +0000

We travelled Peru by bus for the majority of our trip (only at the end taking the plane from Cusco to Lima at the end). Amazing way to see the country

New comment by tanepiper in "TypeScript 6.0 RC"

tanepiper — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:18:46 +0000

FWIW I tried it with the VSCode preview in two monorepos we have - one frontend and one backend GraphQL servers with complex types - absolutely no issues (except one breaking change in tsconfig with baseUrl being removed) and fast compile times.

New comment by tanepiper in "Show HN: Million Dollar Deeds – Own permanent digital land"

tanepiper — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:47:29 +0000

1M Pixel was at least art

Second Life - at least you can play around virtually in that 'real estate'

This? Just seems like you get a jpeg.

New comment by tanepiper in "Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'"

tanepiper — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:26:38 +0000

Stop giving this man air to talk absolute bullshit

New comment by tanepiper in "The Man with No Brains"

tanepiper — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:37:17 +0000

Yesterday I had a pivotal moment where I realised - I've allowed myself to become lobotomised by relying too much on AI agents. I wrote about it - maybe others are feeling like this too?

The Man with No Brains

tanepiper — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:37:17 +0000

Article URL: https://tane.dev/2026/02/the-man-with-no-brains/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46898569

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by tanepiper in "Trump Filter Chrome Extension"

tanepiper — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:39:54 +0000

Reminds me of the extension I released 16 years ago to remove James Corden from the web https://thenextweb.com/news/shaved-bieber-becomes-a-meme-rem...

New comment by tanepiper in "The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)"

tanepiper — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:41:21 +0000

In 1999/2000 I worked on my own Thief levels using the dromed editor - it was both really fun to work with, and utterly frustrating - in a time before open source engines - there were so many small annoying bugs in the editor that would cause it to crash, so you SAVED often and even learned to version files as it was easy to screw up.

But the geometry that could be created was stunning - from courtyards to cathedrals, levels allowed clever use of light and shadow.

New comment by tanepiper in "Scott Adams has died"

tanepiper — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:42:07 +0000

Well... Scott Adams was on Art Bell Coast to Coast AM a few times, so that tracks.

New comment by tanepiper in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

tanepiper — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:19:38 +0000

I'm still on Sequoia, almost 100% of the reason is how bad OSX26 looks. There's absolutely nothing compelling me to update right now

New comment by tanepiper in "Ask HN: What open-source side projects are you working on in 2025?"

tanepiper — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:22:25 +0000

https://teskooano.space - mostly it's just a learning exercise in building a 3D engine and simulation, but also has a lot of work around custom UI - the source is available on GitHub.

New comment by tanepiper in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

tanepiper — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:16:02 +0000

His one technical skill is building PowerPoint decks...