Hacker News: xkcd1963

New comment by xkcd1963 in "Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses"

xkcd1963 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:46:48 +0000

We need anonymous phone numbers

New comment by xkcd1963 in "The next two years of software engineering"

xkcd1963 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:18:27 +0000

Please dear developers be as lazy as possible and use LLMs. The amount of bugs that get shipped enable me a comfortable life as opsec.

New comment by xkcd1963 in "All Delisted Steam Games"

xkcd1963 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:10:13 +0000

I'm sure perp licences are more expensive, also nobody should be forbidden from using brands for artistic purposes. If a company licences the color "red" for their branding and it henceforth requires licencing for use they can shove that idea up their rear

New comment by xkcd1963 in "Venezuela explained in 10 maps and charts"

xkcd1963 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:57:30 +0000

EU is a puppet state of the US empire.

New comment by xkcd1963 in "PureVPN IPv6 Leak"

xkcd1963 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:11:23 +0000

What about NordVPN and ExpressVPN are those somewhat trustworthy?

New comment by xkcd1963 in "UTF-8 is a brilliant design"

xkcd1963 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 09:34:01 +0000

What I find inconvenient about emoji characters is the differential length counting in programming languages

New comment by xkcd1963 in "Next.js is infuriating"

xkcd1963 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:12:14 +0000

The slow response time on hithub is most likely due to layoffs

New comment by xkcd1963 in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

xkcd1963 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:20:16 +0000

Why are folks so worried about this. If necessary we build a new generation of phones.

New comment by xkcd1963 in "Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson"

xkcd1963 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:26:19 +0000

facebook is just a glorified blogpost website

New comment by xkcd1963 in "Pfeilstorch"

xkcd1963 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 12:06:29 +0000

Equal rights haha

New comment by xkcd1963 in "Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers"

xkcd1963 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:51:11 +0000

Idk. Anti-Cafés are popular some of them specialice in exactly that, being a coffee with coworking/studying atmosphere. It works for them

New comment by xkcd1963 in "Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers"

xkcd1963 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:42:24 +0000

In Switzerland you can rent a tent on a balcony on airbnb

New comment by xkcd1963 in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

xkcd1963 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:10:11 +0000

For years now I have a simple file where my topmost priority is always at the top, since I can focus only on one thing at the time anyway

New comment by xkcd1963 in "My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)"

xkcd1963 — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:54:50 +0000

Standalone mini projects like that are also a good way to train students. But I believe LLMs are still a far long path away from being able to solve problems that require combination solutions like different environments, software, circumstances, projects, ...

New comment by xkcd1963 in "No More Copyright Protection for Anyone [video]"

xkcd1963 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 21:14:42 +0000

During a Senate Judiciary Hearing on Wednesday, Author David Baldacci, whose books were pirated and then used by technology companies to train their artificial intelligence models, spoke about the problem of piracy.