Hacker News: utilize1808

New comment by utilize1808 in "Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger"

utilize1808 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:37:12 +0000

So, browser = Java Runtime; uber HTML = applet?

New comment by utilize1808 in "Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care"

utilize1808 — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:30:09 +0000

If there are no young people to produce resources and care, your money is just numbers.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care"

utilize1808 — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:14:02 +0000

The fact that birth rate is so low in countries with good social security safe net suggests that the society isn't paying enough.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Claude Code to be removed from Pro Tier?"

utilize1808 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:57:07 +0000

They will eventually converge --- it's only a matter of time.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

utilize1808 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:51:43 +0000

Obviously going to depend on your definition of "decent". My impression so far is that you will need between 90GB to 100GB of memory to run medium sized (31B dense or ~110B MoE) models with some quantization enabled.

New comment by utilize1808 in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

utilize1808 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:22:39 +0000

You sweat because you are working with the CLI. Git is intrinsically "graphical". Use a good GUI client or higher level interface (maybe jj) to manipulate git graphs --- stop worrying about "how" (i.e. wrangling with CLI to achieve what you want) and focus more on "what".

New comment by utilize1808 in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

utilize1808 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:41:27 +0000

Nowadays I just ask my LLM butler to "organize outstanding changes into coherent commits". No new software needed.

New comment by utilize1808 in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

utilize1808 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:25:03 +0000

I think skills are just a marketing ploy. There is nothing preventing a MCP from serving skills.

New comment by utilize1808 in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

utilize1808 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:22:20 +0000

The right question is how many of those "human" responses from Rapidata are actually provided by some AI in disguise?

New comment by utilize1808 in "Building a TUI is easy now"

utilize1808 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 02:12:10 +0000

How many developers are using VSCode? How does that number compare with Emacs/Vim?

In many ways, GUI was developed as the natural evolution of TUI. X server, with its client-server architecture, is meant to allow you to interact with remote sessions via "casted" GUI rather than a terminal.

Countless engineers spent many man-hours to develop theories and frameworks for creating GUI for a reason.

TUI just got the nostalgia "coolness".

New comment by utilize1808 in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

utilize1808 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:12:35 +0000

I think it's the opposite. Especially considering Codex started out as a web app that offers very little interactivity: you are supposed to drop a request and let it run automatously in a containerized environment; you can then follow up on it via chat --- no interactive code editing.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Prism"

utilize1808 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:21:24 +0000

Not if submissions require some small mandatory bet.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Prism"

utilize1808 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:59:08 +0000

Better yet, make a "polymarket" for papers where people can bet on which paper can make it, and rely on "expertise arbitrage" to punish spams.

New comment by utilize1808 in "EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'"

utilize1808 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:14:09 +0000

I don't understand. Are you implying that Greenland can decide to sell itself then?

New comment by utilize1808 in "US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief"

utilize1808 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:25:55 +0000

Sure, you can argue that "justice is expected" doesn't align with how the real world actually operates, but in the modern interpretation, national law enforcers are supposed to be subject to the same law they are enforcing (whether that is actually the case is another issue); they may break the law some times, but being a law enforcer does not exempt them from the obligation of obeying the law. In other words, law and its enforcement apply universally.

In the international case, it is understood that the "law enforcers" are not obliged to play by the same rule. The "enforcement" therefore only applies selectively. Then the law cannot really be said to have been being enforced, because they don't apply to the "enforcer".

New comment by utilize1808 in "US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief"

utilize1808 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:53:10 +0000

The difference is that in the national case, justice is expected; whereas in the international case, it must be understood that there is not supposed to be a "enforcement mechanism" that delivers justice.

New comment by utilize1808 in "US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief"

utilize1808 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:23:17 +0000

I did. It's simply that it's not clear how the "difference" you described makes any difference here.

Was it you who wrote the lines for Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister?

New comment by utilize1808 in "US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief"

utilize1808 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:13:26 +0000

Didn't see that one coming.

Not sure what your agenda is but that's just the law *enforcement* doing the enforcing part. You can argue that it is unjust, that's a separate issue.

New comment by utilize1808 in "US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief"

utilize1808 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:54:56 +0000

> International law has a number of enforcement mechanisms.

That's rather naïve.

How do you propose to enforce the law when the offender possesses the greatest military/economic/technological might, even compared to the rest of the (law-biding) world combined?

US, for quite some time, is the international law.

New comment by utilize1808 in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

utilize1808 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:13:54 +0000

I remember seeing some tech vlogger discovering that the lag was due to a bug where the fade-in animation of the menu not being played properly, and the menu just "appear" after the missing animation, leading to the feeling of sluggish interaction.