Hacker News: tpxl

New comment by tpxl in "Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system"

tpxl — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:10:31 +0000

This is how all real time payment systems work if the recipient institution != sender institution. Credit cards, iDeal, Bancontact, SEPA instant... In the end it's reconciled within the next few days with a pinky promise between institutions the money will actually arrive.

New comment by tpxl in "Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory"

tpxl — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 16:51:20 +0000

> Rent controls, are just obviously awful things, and the data supports this. You [...] disincentivize capital creating more supply causing a supply constraint raising prices in the long term.

So I live in a country with no rent controls with very high rents and housing costs. The capital is disincentivized from creating more supply by the fact that creating more supply devalues existing supply.

Rent controls would 1. lower the rent (obviously), 2. lower the price of existing apartments since the profit you make on them is lower, 3. like a sibling comment points out, hammer the profits of capital.

> Taxing the rich lowers the velocity of money, disincentivizes capital to search for more profit seeking enterprises.

Wow... Taxing the rich means less taxes for the poor means more people with money/time to start their own companies.

New comment by tpxl in "Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory"

tpxl — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:14:28 +0000

> the fact they make less money than the other guy might be entirely rational.

I'd like the boss to do his work and write down the rationalization. Then, when we have an objective measure of the rationalization of the wage, I can work towards getting a higher wage myself.

The biggest opponents of wage transparency (and many other things) are incompetent managers refusing to do their work.

Signed, a high earner.

New comment by tpxl in "Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half"

tpxl — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:26:23 +0000

> you can't build solar panels from solar panel energy

... Why?

New comment by tpxl in "Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow to find devices on local networks?""

tpxl — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:28:37 +0000

If they took the privacy concerns seriously it wouldn't take anti-trust pressure for this to happen.

New comment by tpxl in "Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching"

tpxl — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:32:41 +0000

This already happens though without sealed classes in existing code. If you have an interface A with implementing classes B and C, you'll eventually run into an error if the library starts emitting class D.

New comment by tpxl in "Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland"

tpxl — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:50:35 +0000

> Because foreign corporations operating in the Balkans pay taxes in the balkans

Ahaha, as if.

Foreign corporations with presence but no local entity pay no taxes. Foreign corporations with local entities somehow manage pay zero taxes because all profits are transferred to their Ireland parent entities.

Domestic corporations have far less options to not pay taxes, so they mostly do.

New comment by tpxl in "F-Droid 2.0"

tpxl — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:12:31 +0000

> And they used an actually secure OTP dongle, eventually ditched by most banks because, yeah SMS codes and apps are safer............

The EU mandates the 2FA method shows information about the purchase you're authenticating (timestamp, amount and cc used in my case), making unconnected dongles impossible to use. This makes me sad, but it does have merit.

FWIW I still use the website to do all my payments. I find banking apps to be madness - you're entrusting all your money to what is essentially a toy.

New comment by tpxl in "F-Droid 2.0"

tpxl — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:07:40 +0000

Google is the one peddling the malware. Any changes to 'security' that don't start with them removing the oodles of malware from their store are not security but profit driven.

New comment by tpxl in "My business partner sent a 5K vibe-coded PR that he didn't even test"

tpxl — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:38:01 +0000

I disagree. There is a lot of boilerplate to write and mundane things to check, which AI can speed up a lot. I'm not talking about 'software engineering' here, but about 'programming', which consists of a lot of write DTO->write rest interface->write interface->write simple select query->map response. The good taste here comes from the architectural design and the UI design.

The amount of 'software engineers' who couldn't design a table to be readable or a flow to be intuitive is off the charts. AI neither helps nor harms here, it just makes implementing good and bad decisions faster.

New comment by tpxl in "My business partner sent a 5K vibe-coded PR that he didn't even test"

tpxl — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:16:54 +0000

The differentiator right now is taste. Most people have none (like the business partner in the OP), and some people have plenty (like you seem to have). These two sets of people will produce wildly different results with the same tools.

Two things you can do regarding programming here.

1. Be a consultant for a high wage, use AI, produce good results quickly - little to negative intellectual joy here. You still have the edge here due to good taste.

2. Produce 'artisanal' code in your spare time. Work 3 months for pay, then 9 months on whatever projects scratch your itch.

I still want to program and I don't think it's time to let go. Hit me up (email in bio) if you wanna chat, you sound like a really interesting bloke.

New comment by tpxl in "New EU-wide product repair rules come into force"

tpxl — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:05:40 +0000

The manufacturer/seller already employs people who deal with this, and it's not expensive. Getting my washing machine fixed for 10€ parts + labor instead of 300€ parts + labor sounds mighty nice to me.

> Manufacturers must also provide [...] access to spare parts at a reasonable price.

This is the important part. Stupid shit like 0.3€ soldering buttons to 200€ motherboards so the repair is expensive has got to go.

New comment by tpxl in "Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware"

tpxl — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:22:19 +0000

What, exactly, are the consequences of these companies doing cyberattacks against random people?

One person does it, they get bullied by the government into suicide, a company worth trillions does it and they get government contracts?

New comment by tpxl in "RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues"

tpxl — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:36:51 +0000

What options are those? Anything they do that makes ARM better/cheaper for consumers makes RISC-V a win, even if it never reaches mainstream adoption.

New comment by tpxl in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

tpxl — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:12:56 +0000

Anti-union propaganda is where it comes from.

New comment by tpxl in "Resetting Xbox"

tpxl — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:55:51 +0000

For games like Starfield, the problem is the game is bad, it has nothing to do with politics or ESG.

New comment by tpxl in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

tpxl — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:08:51 +0000

Well companies can issue stock, which is more or less spawning resources, but that's not what I meant. When people with more money than they need want more of it, things get done, including fucking over the customers, the partners and the workers. When wageslaves want more money they get dragged through the media for their greed (as is happening now).

New comment by tpxl in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

tpxl — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:11:22 +0000

Resources have a way of spawning for CEOs, why not for minimum wage workers?

New comment by tpxl in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

tpxl — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:03:29 +0000

I don't know; you can bit shift an output stream by a string (or char array) in C++ (std::cout << "Hello, world!"). That seems pretty mad to me.

New comment by tpxl in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

tpxl — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:57:36 +0000

Slay the Spire 1 (Java) and 2 (Godot). Ironically, StS1 ran better under wine than natively.

Anyhow, there are plenty of native games, we just don't notice, because running them tends to not be any harder than running Windows games these days.