Hacker News: tonfa

New comment by tonfa in "A History of IDEs at Google"

tonfa — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:23:32 +0000

> Windows is practically banned.

FWIW I don't think this is accurate (was kinda true in the 2010s?). I wouldn't be surprised if it's almost easier to get windows laptop than linux one now.

New comment by tonfa in "A History of IDEs at Google"

tonfa — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:38:56 +0000

Since it's mostly browser tabs, as long as you have ample memory (eg 16gb) it's good enough.

New comment by tonfa in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

tonfa — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:59:25 +0000

And the counter intuitive thing is that people in countries with lots of renewables and not so many external links (e.g. Scandinavia with hydro) might be against adding more links since it will increase electricity prices.

New comment by tonfa in "The smelly baby problem"

tonfa — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:01:45 +0000

Bloomberg has a long read about this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-01/why-uk-gu...

(pottty training strategy changes were apparently somewhat pushed by researchers close to disposable diaper industry)

New comment by tonfa in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

tonfa — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:34:20 +0000

> Why did google code end? Was it too hard for them to monetize?

My guess is that abuse (people hosting files/data that google didn't/wasn't allowed to host) made it untenable for a service that wasn't generating revenue and had limited headcount.

Something like Google drive or yt could spend a lot more energy stomping it rather than the handful of folks from the open source programs team.

New comment by tonfa in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

tonfa — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:54:46 +0000

For me, can do anything complex in terms of history rewriting without ever shooting myself in the foot (worse case just `jj undo`).

And the UI is pretty intuitive so don't really have to search for a solution, usually the command to use is obvious (tho I guess now you could delegate the UI to an LLM to ask it to give you the right incantations).

New comment by tonfa in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

tonfa — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:49:08 +0000

Do you use a mega-merge + absorb workflow on top of the faned-out changes?

New comment by tonfa in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

tonfa — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:46:04 +0000

Yeah same here, have been using jj exclusively, the only reason people notice is because my branch names default to the changeid in my setup so I've had questions about the random looking strings.

New comment by tonfa in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

tonfa — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:31:49 +0000

> And? Reduced capacity for awhile raises prices

That oil is being consumed somewhere, countries/industries will face shortage (in addition to the price increase).

New comment by tonfa in "Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security"

tonfa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:42:34 +0000

FYI this is a parody website. (in case it's not obvious)

New comment by tonfa in "France pulls last gold held in US"

tonfa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:35:00 +0000

For context, in 2025H1, 480 tons where moved from CH to the US (I assume originating from UK after being recast).

My guess is that the choice to sell rather than transport was also due to using the (at the time) price divergence between US and European markets. (arbitrage + not having to pay transport + refining)

New comment by tonfa in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

tonfa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:49:39 +0000

It's just accounting terms. They have to show it in their annual reports (afaiu they have to take into accounts unrealized losses, and realized gains, it's the case for many companies as well -- eg it came up with some Bitcoin treasury companies).

New comment by tonfa in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

tonfa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:42:40 +0000

> In their case, they did that over many decades and just finished now

They repatriated the remaining gold (5% of reserve) over 2y.

The bulk of the gold that was held in the US was moved back in 60s.

New comment by tonfa in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

tonfa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:52:16 +0000

To be fair, it's an ongoing process started in 2005 and which should finish in 2028. I doubt there was much political (tho the whole tariffs stuff probably made their job/decision easier when the gold price started diverging between NY and European markets). At this point it was cheaper than flying the gold to CH for recasting.

(1784 tons moved to standardized holding over the years, 134 tons are now left to convert -- all stored in Paris)

New comment by tonfa in "France pulls last gold held in US"

tonfa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:48:44 +0000

> In le figaro they report the profit is due to variation in price between the different transactions. Which seems to be a polite way to say they took exceptional risk.

Nah it's just regular realized gain (delta between acquisition price and selling price).

https://www.banque-france.fr/fr/actualites/resultats-2025-de...

(so it's kinda irrelevant, it's just they have to put it in their books)

New comment by tonfa in "France pulls last gold held in US"

tonfa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:28:49 +0000

On that topic, video about the underground vault: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyKenOq5Pw

New comment by tonfa in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

tonfa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:24:11 +0000

The profit is just realizing the gains (resetting the cost basis for accounting purpose).

New comment by tonfa in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

tonfa — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:23:26 +0000

From the annual report, it looks like the headline number (XXB gain) is just because it's realized capital gain (which due to their reporting requirement appears in their annual report, unlike unrealized gains).

They have ~same amount of gold between both years and it doesn't look like they took extra market risk.

New comment by tonfa in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

tonfa — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:43:57 +0000

Yeah but the argument people make is that when the music stops cost of inference goes through the roof.

I could imagine that when the music stops, advancement of new frontier models slows or stops, but that doesn't remove any curent capabilities.

(And to be fair the way we duplicate efforts on building new frontier models looks indeed wasteful. Tho maybe we reach a point later where progress is no longer started from scratch)

New comment by tonfa in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

tonfa — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:20:05 +0000

> They aren't going away but for some they may become prohibitively expensive after all the subsidies end.

Even if inference was subsidized (afaik it isn't when paying through API calls, subscription plans indeed might have losses for heavy users, but that's how any subscription model typically work, it can still be profitable overall).

Models are still improving/getting cheaper, so that seems unlikely.