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New comment by tukantje in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

tukantje — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:54:51 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_pyramid

New comment by tukantje in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

tukantje — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:02:57 +0000

I think his experience in the crypto space is part of the reason why he is against it.

New comment by tukantje in "Becoming a dad changes men's brains"

tukantje — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:23:19 +0000

Same on my side; I was constantly working and studying with 2-3 hours sleep max for years.

Life was harder. Then again nothing breaks my brain like the cry of my daughter so probably not one to one.

New comment by tukantje in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

tukantje — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:35:23 +0000

Cursor still has the advantage UX wise. The biggest reason I avoid using them though is their pricing structure being abysmal.

I can't randomly throw credits into a pit and say "oh 2000$ spent this month whatever". For larger businesses I suspect it is even worse.

If they had a 200$ subscription with proper unlimited usage (within some limits obviously) I would have jumped up and down though.

New comment by tukantje in "An engineer's perspective on hiring"

tukantje — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 10:27:17 +0000

At the very least understanding of the specific domain comes to mind.

New comment by tukantje in "An engineer's perspective on hiring"

tukantje — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 10:22:59 +0000

We have this idea that gatekeeping in all its forms is bad; and like all absolutes it is not true.

New comment by tukantje in "I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me"

tukantje — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 21:04:37 +0000

"GPL or pay" could very well be an option as well.

New comment by tukantje in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

tukantje — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 20:43:42 +0000

Small nit pick: this only works if the perpetually licensed product does not have running costs for you.

New comment by tukantje in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

tukantje — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 20:35:31 +0000

> That brings us to what training actually is, Reading. There is no requirement for attribution to read something.

> My concern is that people appear to be extending their claims to suggest that they control the right to be learned from.

Some would claim that training actually is not reading / learning but embedding / encoding. This take creates arguments like the following;

If I were to take his work and gzip it; does that mean I should be able to use it?

Why? Because this is an automated system. You are anthropomorphizing it unwarrantedly.

Not to mention usual copyright arguments like "If I memorize his code and write it on my computer by hand; can I do it now? What if I only remember 90%? 80%? What if I just change variable names?"

This isn't as cut and dry as you make it out to be, in my humble opinion.

New comment by tukantje in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

tukantje — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:46:52 +0000

I think it is these ones - especially since I can see that they turned to 404 pages later down the line - in order of parts 1 through 5;

- https://web.archive.org/web/20220823113634/https://ewanvalen...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20220823104052/https://ewanvalen...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20220820044449/https://ewanvalen...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20220811080027/https://ewanvalen...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20220820045729/https://ewanvalen...

New comment by tukantje in "12ft.io Taken Down"

tukantje — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:53:22 +0000

> No more unlimited anything on the paid web, but the trade off would be that there are no more ads.

The assumption that publishers wouldn't double, or triple dip is absurd. If you've read any recent magazine you'll notice half of it is advertisement. You'd essentially end up with a paid web _and_ ads.

New comment by tukantje in "12ft.io Taken Down"

tukantje — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:50:08 +0000

This is essentially a variant of tragedy of commons by this point.

New comment by tukantje in "12ft.io Taken Down"

tukantje — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:31:16 +0000

Most likely reason why it'd be discontinued is that it makes rest of the ads less valuable; so to speak.

People who can afford to & are willing to pay for something like this; tend to also be the type of people advertisers want to actually target: disposable income, willing to spend etc.

New comment by tukantje in "People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020)"

tukantje — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:08:45 +0000

You are underestimating the human desire to be useful.

New comment by tukantje in "People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020)"

tukantje — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:05:51 +0000

Elderly population not working is _hardly_ the equivalent of UBI. Besides; in most developed countries you are actually _penalized_ for working while retired; and furthermore most elderly people on pension tend to still do work such as handling childcare for grand kids.

New comment by tukantje in "LLM Inevitabilism"

tukantje — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:35:10 +0000

There is a balance to be struck.

If people valued reliability and determinism at its absolute maximum, we would still use formal proof methods as Dijkstra was advocating at the time.

New comment by tukantje in "LLM Inevitabilism"

tukantje — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:35:45 +0000

Even then he has a fiduciary duty - provided he acts in bad faith (and it is egregious enough); I think it would still be possible to oust him due to that.

New comment by tukantje in "Why is the Rust compiler so slow?"

tukantje — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 23:36:41 +0000

Will the real FORTRAN please stand up?

New comment by tukantje in "Why is the Rust compiler so slow?"

tukantje — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 23:31:32 +0000

Unironically why typescript is a perfect fit for graphql

New comment by tukantje in "Ask HN: Startup shutting down, should we open source?"

tukantje — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 23:23:19 +0000

This really depends on what field the product is in.

In my opinion; if you can't sell it you could also try to hand it over to another company / third party. Finding someone to take over a project takes a bit of time but it'd allow for it to survive.

However you need legal advice, fast. First talk to a lawyer who understands this.