Hacker News: viktorcode

New comment by viktorcode in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

viktorcode — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:59:51 +0000

So, those fridges are in the supermarkets, right? Where people work, who have to empty a fridge before it can be remotely defrosted. Why can't those people just press a defrost button? What is the point of doing defrosting remotely when you cannot do it without the onsite support?

New comment by viktorcode in "What happened to the Snowden archive"

viktorcode — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:41:24 +0000

Russians had a joke about him back then: "For the crimes against the US Snowden was sentenced to the life in Russia"

New comment by viktorcode in "A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs"

viktorcode — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:13:43 +0000

Makes me wonder what constitutes a bigger danger for the society: putting up a bad taste AI-generated menu poster, or threatening people’s businesses for that action.

New comment by viktorcode in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"

viktorcode — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:21:46 +0000

This case has nothing to do with "gatekeepers". It is about the Play Store, operated by Google.

New comment by viktorcode in "PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand""

viktorcode — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:03:25 +0000

I don't find that offensive at all. People do not understand the code they make AI to generate, but that doesn't stop them from submitting. This is a real problem that has hit many open source projects, and I expect more and more of them will introduce barriers to submission.

New comment by viktorcode in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

viktorcode — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:52:07 +0000

It is now redirected to Flash v4.1

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

viktorcode — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:41:18 +0000

As someone who played this game on start I want to share that I enjoyed it. This game was and still is a chill exploration experience at the core. There’s a lot of stuff bolted on top, but it’s just a busywork. If you enjoy that kind of games you’ll love it.

Another thing to point out: technical patching is top notch. I’m talking about how fast they come around to support new console, new VR helmet etc.

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

viktorcode — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:31:19 +0000

Small studio, don't have to generate a lot of sales to keep them afloat. Updates push visibility and generate new sales. Obviously, they need new projects to keep them afloat in the future.

New comment by viktorcode in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

viktorcode — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:07:08 +0000

To me it reads as a marketing piece before the upcoming IPO. Unless this "superhuman technology" is able to resolve a puzzle of servicing OpenAI's and Anthropic's ever growing debt burden, it is them, not humanity, who'll become the first casualty.

New comment by viktorcode in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

viktorcode — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:28:56 +0000

> I'm not sure if the author is aware that GeometryReader hasn't been necessary since iOS 18 added onGeometryChange modifiers.

I think the author does not understand how and why to use GeometryReader at all. He literally said "you find yourself wrapping everything in a GeometryReader" which is a different thing from simply measuring. For measuring you could always put GeometryReader into `.background()` and use that to avoid messing with the view layout. Also, "wrapping everything" is a good sign you are doing something wrong.

Edit: by the way compiler timeouts are not a SwiftUI issue: it is a Swift issue. You can create a timeout situation in pure Swift. For SwiftUI specifically this situation is addressed in the upcoming OS27 SDK.

New comment by viktorcode in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

viktorcode — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:23:10 +0000

> Then came Swift and I loved it, but then it took literal years to catch up with everything you could do in Objective-C with the Apple APIs.

I don't get this part. You can literally rewrite Obj-C code verbatim in Swift and it will work. The only missing part is C macros.

New comment by viktorcode in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

viktorcode — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:02:47 +0000

There's no way in hell those are all exploitable bugs. I'll bet my hat that those are "insecure practices".

New comment by viktorcode in "Apple won't let me show my app"

viktorcode — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:18:02 +0000

New apps submissions review time did increase.

New comment by viktorcode in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

viktorcode — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:55:26 +0000

I was fully expecting that was about Trump administration, and was a bit disappointed that my prediction turned out to be wrong. I do not support this; I expected the first federal court and then all the appeals to serve a verdict cementing the right of encrypted communication to exist in the US.

New comment by viktorcode in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

viktorcode — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:47:08 +0000

Blocking communications is basically sweeping the issue under the rug in the hopes that it dissolves on its own. This is closer to avoiding of "taking action"

New comment by viktorcode in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

viktorcode — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:43:30 +0000

> the app enables communication even during network restrictions and creates a substantial risk of misuse by anti-national elements, terrorist organisations, organised criminal groups and cyber criminals seeking to evade lawful detection and continue communication despite legally imposed restrictions.

This mouthful boils down to exactly this: a form of communication not controlled by the government creates a risk for the country.

Sorry for pointing out the obvious, but if your country's safety depends on ability to block all forms of private person to person messages, your government has failed in one of its primary goals: providing safety for its citizens. They can blame Dorsey, Telegram, WhatsApp and what not, but it is their failure. Things will not change until people notice the obvious and vote out incompetent persons in power.

New comment by viktorcode in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

viktorcode — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:14:19 +0000

I think their use of terms like AI and "agent" will make people think "Oh! it's what I use for code generation!"

New comment by viktorcode in "Odin 1.0 Announcement"

viktorcode — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:52:56 +0000

What it does better than Rust? C++? Swift? And other language? Terms like "sane" and "joy" indicate highly subjective points, which does not help.

Yes, I do not see value in knowing someone likes this language. I see value in technical features and examples showing how those features address common pain points in programming.

New comment by viktorcode in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

viktorcode — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:29:16 +0000

This is misleading; the chat is censored, the model is not.

You can download the model, run locally and ask the same questions to see the difference.

New comment by viktorcode in "Kimi Work"

viktorcode — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:14:05 +0000

For all intents and purposes this is legal. As is distillation. No justification is needed.