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New comment by tdrz in "Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?"

tdrz — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:56:20 +0000

> But we have no test suites that answer "is this code maintainable" or "does this feature make sense in the context of our business", so AI still fails those tests.

I've been struggling with this because I do believe maintainability of code is important. But the way it is going, if AI is writing all the code and no human needs to read it anymore, does it really need to be maintainable? Does it matter if it looks like alien code since we can throw it away when using the next AI model? I have no answers of my own to these questions...

New comment by tdrz in "It's still ok to enjoy programming"

tdrz — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:54:58 +0000

Are there any other job openings there?

PGlite reaches 20M weekly downloads

tdrz — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:51:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@electric-sql/pglite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932450

Points: 2

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New comment by tdrz in "People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes"

tdrz — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:31:35 +0000

One thing we need to do is gradually increase the legal age at which one can buy cigarettes, vapes etc. I'd say until it gets to about 26-28 yo, when you're ripe enough to know that it is better not to start at all.

New comment by tdrz in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

tdrz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:34:32 +0000

For security reasons, obviously! That way they wouldn't leak selfies because they wouldn't have any.

New comment by tdrz in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

tdrz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:02:35 +0000

The issue is that there is no alternative to the "selfie" auth in case of Revolut.

New comment by tdrz in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

tdrz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:01:50 +0000

This can happen with modern fintech because of greed. There's a reason they can offer such cheap services. The customer takes a risk in return. Now that risk has materialized.

New comment by tdrz in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

tdrz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:59:28 +0000

> But they are verifying customers in person with account creation, this is an online bank

Revolut could do the same as they do with ATMs: make a partnership with local banks for the verification step.

New comment by tdrz in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

tdrz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:58:34 +0000

I have accounts with 2 other banks. They never asked for a selfie.

New comment by tdrz in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

tdrz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:46:50 +0000

Here is one of the replies I got during my conversation with their agent (unsure if human or automated):

"Your personal data must be held until it is permissible to erase it in accordance with the law. Rest assured, it is totally secure and only held for this purpose."

This was in the same conversation where I sent them the article.

New comment by tdrz in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

tdrz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:38:39 +0000

I asked if my data was compromised, they said no, but how can I trust/verify this?

New comment by tdrz in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

tdrz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:35:52 +0000

Other banks do not require selfies, so there are other options

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

tdrz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:59:58 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/revolut-confirms-customer-data-breach-through-fake-government-requests/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682087

Points: 189

# Comments: 132

New comment by tdrz in "Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters"

tdrz — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:47:41 +0000

Can I use it to embed PGlite in an app and distribute it like that? ie not to dependend on the host JIT/interpreter

New comment by tdrz in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

tdrz — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:05:10 +0000

This! I live in Western Europe and have never owned a car. I mostly travel by public transport or bike. I rent a car about once a year, but could do without that as well. Before people tell me that I am an exception: I know other people like me in various other places in Europe! It is possible and actually good for your body to have to move, at least to the train station, carrying groceries etc.

New comment by tdrz in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

tdrz — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:59:32 +0000

I'm an OSS maintainer and to me it's not just about the review itself. Being greeted by a wall of text for every little small thing is counter-productive. I hate going through 2 pages of text for each PR. It usually shouldn't take more than a couple of sentences if you understand the issue and the solution.

But most important for me: lots of time the PR just adds even more code, although other options do exist (ie sometimes REMOVING some code). You have to know the codebase well in order to find those objectively better solutions.

New comment by tdrz in "Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects"

tdrz — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:54:30 +0000

> Next up, at some point, ideally we get some v8-like runtimes where we can share libraries across multiple isolates!

I'm probably missing your point, but aren't wasm memories achieving exactly this? Just an example from wasmtime: https://docs.wasmtime.dev/examples-multimemory.html

New comment by tdrz in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

tdrz — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:37:07 +0000

To me, investing is NOT just getting the best outcome possible. I simply don't agree with some companies practices and therefore I don't want to invest in them. I believe I am better off if I live in a better society overall than if I have more money in a worse overall society.

New comment by tdrz in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

tdrz — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:50:57 +0000

> 2. Buy inexpensive, well-diversified mutual funds such as Vanguard Target 20xx funds.

I wouldn't recommend this after seeing how SpaceX was literally shoved down lots of people's throats.

New comment by tdrz in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

tdrz — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:06:34 +0000

PGlite - Postgres in wasm

Loads of useful things in the pipeline: multi connection support, native library, extensions and many more ideas.