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New comment by tdiff in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

tdiff — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:06:39 +0000

I don't get why people capable of making complex bas-relief could not make the coin more or less round

New comment by tdiff in "America tells private firms to “hack back”"

tdiff — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:10:32 +0000

> more about authorizing private to your army to find and capture pirate vessels

I think important detail is that it authorised attacks on any foreign vessel (of a specific nation), not only on pirate ships.

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

tdiff — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:40:22 +0000

I just wonder if there are comments in this thread from anthropic bots, marketing itself

New comment by tdiff in "Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal"

tdiff — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:05:27 +0000

> more than 1.5 million people have taken action, either by cancelling subscriptions, sharing boycott messages on social media, or signing up via quitgpt.org

That's just silly compared to their user base and wont have any effect

New comment by tdiff in "What Is OAuth?"

tdiff — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:21:57 +0000

> What I need is to understand why it is designed this way, and to see concrete examples of use cases that motivate the design

Author managed to simultaneously praise the question and avoid answering it at all.

New comment by tdiff in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

tdiff — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:33:05 +0000

Is not that model-dependant? Skimmed through, but did not find which model the tests were run with.

New comment by tdiff in "Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals"

tdiff — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:05:26 +0000

> That suggests that Russia was for 20+ years fine with whatever financial crimes this guy had been committing as long as he played ball ... and is really using these crimes to get him now for political motives.

Even if so, it does not contradict the idea that his actions may have been unlawful and thus can be punished according to crimial law.

New comment by tdiff in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

tdiff — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:02:19 +0000

It just destroys the "eco" image of deutsche railways.

Well, I'm all pro public transport, but please make it work first.

New comment by tdiff in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

tdiff — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:14:59 +0000

Im jealous of people able to write multi-paragraph text for such a simple thought.

New comment by tdiff in "Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto"

tdiff — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:48:05 +0000

Hard part is keeping the feature branches orthogonal and maintaing all the -base branches. Every fixup commit would invalidate them.

New comment by tdiff in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

tdiff — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:41:17 +0000

For the last decades being born in the western world has been an advantage. There is an irony in it beeing gradually reversed.

New comment by tdiff in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

tdiff — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:50:19 +0000

> Here is a secret: most people want to help you succeed.

Most people dont care.

New comment by tdiff in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

tdiff — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:02:36 +0000

That strange feeling of the world getting cleaner for a while without all these dependant services.

New comment by tdiff in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

tdiff — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:38:39 +0000

Beginning with

> “Even if we attached panels to all suitable balconies across the country, we’d still only manage to meet 1 percent or less of our overall energy needs,”

the article concludes that the most prominent effect of balcony panels is of psychological nature.

At best it pays out in 5 years. Our landlord, for example, requires the panel to be installed by certified professionals, hence it will take even longer to break even, even assuming the device will not malfunction during the time, which I am sceptical about, especially when talking about the cheapest sets from amazon/kaufland.

New comment by tdiff in "How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator"

tdiff — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:20:00 +0000

One should aim to be in the food chain at a level, where there is no bossware above you.

New comment by tdiff in "ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps"

tdiff — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:18:49 +0000

I have a theory that everything that happens in regards of governmental control in China and Russia will eventually be copied in some form in western countries.

New comment by tdiff in "AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder"

tdiff — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:48:58 +0000

Unfortunately, most devs are not working on “high-leverage, strategic, needle-moving, synergistic core” things not because they don't have time to.

New comment by tdiff in "You know what: Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT"

tdiff — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 07:19:05 +0000

I am still waiting for cases of ms locking people out of their windows accounts (which are now required to use windows, you know) for violation of some policy.

New comment by tdiff in "When We Get Komooted"

tdiff — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:12:42 +0000

I agree, but I also see how even a regular employee in, say, space travel corp (or in pharma and so on) can consider their work to be more impactful than running a local community (even in reallity their impact is minimal).

New comment by tdiff in "When we get Komooted"

tdiff — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 11:09:25 +0000

> For dreams and craft, I have my side projects.

In very infrequent cases can you achieve any noticeable (for society) results without being part of a large org.