Hacker News: tjpnz

New comment by tjpnz in "Tesla Roadster"

tjpnz — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:34:57 +0000

That sounds like a surefire way to make a bad situation worse.

New comment by tjpnz in "Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter"

tjpnz — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:20:27 +0000

>But the determinism isn't the real distinction. LLM inference can be made deterministic (temparaute zero, etc.).

You'll still be exposed to non-deterministic behaviour through floating point errors, GPU batching and a myriad of other factors.

New comment by tjpnz in "Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF"

tjpnz — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:14:28 +0000

Might be referring to infrastructure.

New comment by tjpnz in "Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF"

tjpnz — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:03:59 +0000

Wouldn't be so bad if shitty companies were allowed to fail.

New comment by tjpnz in "Making big downloads resumable in Firefox"

tjpnz — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:30:33 +0000

You sound threatened by this.

New comment by tjpnz in "GLM-Legal"

tjpnz — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:07:55 +0000

Wouldn't trust them any less than a US frontier lab.

New comment by tjpnz in "Dear Software Makers"

tjpnz — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:29:41 +0000

If I'm gathering participants for a similar study at a psychology lab I would be required to get their consent first.

New comment by tjpnz in "US withdraws from Europe anti-corruption panel, latest shift from global groups"

tjpnz — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:00:58 +0000

Europe should stop enforcing anything relating to OFAC in response.

New comment by tjpnz in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

tjpnz — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:50:31 +0000

They don't have to censor the internet. They just have to make it illegal for their citizens to do business with Meta.

New comment by tjpnz in "Uncle's frozen Mac says it's infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?"

tjpnz — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:29:29 +0000

In the old days newspapers used to be fined for allowing fraudsters to take out ads in the classified section. Jail time wasn't out of the question either.

New comment by tjpnz in "Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS"

tjpnz — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:28:09 +0000

If you're not able to write your own fucking README (the title page if we're making book analogies) why would I bother with your project. Stop being lazy.

New comment by tjpnz in "Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta"

tjpnz — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:09:50 +0000

Epstein Glasses by Meta. For people who don't do consent.

New comment by tjpnz in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

tjpnz — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:58:15 +0000

The Play Store landing page is packed full of them - mostly scams.

New comment by tjpnz in "Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain"

tjpnz — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:11:30 +0000

If your business requires the use of one of these platforms in order to exist I would question its viability. Willingly giving a single company that much power over you is a horrible position to be in. Maybe it does put food on the table this month, great! But what happens if Zuck (or a piece of dumb automation) decides next month to boot you?

New comment by tjpnz in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

tjpnz — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:38:24 +0000

Too much potential for revealing the identities of others there.

New comment by tjpnz in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

tjpnz — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:39:48 +0000

So security through obscurity.

New comment by tjpnz in "Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

tjpnz — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:22:52 +0000

M4 Pro but there are still builds for Intel based macs.

New comment by tjpnz in "Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

tjpnz — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:06:10 +0000

I'm mostly down to one. It's called Daddyflix (Jellyfin, actually) and runs on a Mac Mini in my home office. Costs close to zero, is accessible everywhere and there's no ads or other bullshit.

New comment by tjpnz in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

tjpnz — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:06:11 +0000

It should be said that being on a US sanctions list doesn't appear to carry the same weight it once did. A Japanese citizen was added to one this month and her bank was able to effectively ignore it, not sure about options where credit cards are concerned, but there are local alternatives which don't rely on US payment networks.

New comment by tjpnz in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

tjpnz — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:33:15 +0000

Also no layoffs, ever. Who would've thought that providing your people stability would lead to a better product.