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New comment by y42 in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

y42 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:54:09 +0000

the threshold is not low, I would argue, it's just companies like to exploit it.

(I just wrote an extensive analysis about that https://nickyreinert.de/2026/2026-05-28-google-maps-reviews/

New comment by y42 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

y42 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:48:24 +0000

Security by Obviousness.

Why Google Accounts Should Be Treated as Critical Infrastructure

y42 — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:07:10 +0000

Article URL: https://nickyreinert.de/en/2026/2026-05-26-digital-dilemma/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283432

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by y42 in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

y42 — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:02:39 +0000

shameless plug, it's part of the Nerd Encyclopedia: it's also called "nasal demons".

https://nickyreinert.de/2023/2023-05-16-nerd-enzyklop%C3%A4d...

New comment by y42 in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

y42 — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:57:26 +0000

Having an M3 with 36 GByte I was under the assumption, that I can utilize like Qwen and similar models. It's quite easy to set up, you can use pi or hermes for CLI access, or "Continue" to use it in VS Code. You can choose between omlx, Ollama and even more to run the model itself. It's no rocket science, but the results are also not satisfying.

I use it occassionally for very easy tasks, fix typos or update meta data in blog posts. So yeah, it improves productivity. But coding-wise it's far away from Codex, Claude et al.

New comment by y42 in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

y42 — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:49:54 +0000

Shameless plug: It's not that fancy but follows the same principle:

https://institut-fdh.de/?2026-aya

There's also this well known page which does the exact same thing in a more ordered way:

https://browserleaks.com/

New comment by y42 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

y42 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:34:27 +0000

First: if you compare rates (salary, wages,...) you also always must consider rents, cost of living etc.

Second: You can't just pick Berlin for comparison.

Third: Take away foreign owend companies from Berlin, you get a cheap, dirty poor capital.

New comment by y42 in "Ask HN: The death of software development as a job?"

y42 — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:03:05 +0000

Most comments already explained it, however:

No! It's a common misunderstanding (imho) that software development is about "writing code" or knowing a programming language's syntax. It never was, it never will be. I experienced this misunderstanding:

I never studied CS or IT or anything related. All my skills are self taught, starting when I was a litle boy. When I was young, I had problems getting into this busines, because HR and recruiters where tasking me with "Write this using this ". They wanted to see A grades from 6 years of a master in CS.

Well. I am not that guy that memorizes syntax or coding rules. My approach is very different - and so are many, I assume. And this is what software development is about: You get a problem and you find a way to solve it. At many stations in my professional career I was able to proof that. I "mastered" Pascal from the scratch, on the job. Same goes for VBA, Shell scripting, Python, PHP, JavaScript... you name it.

It may sound arrogant - but then you misunderstood what I am trying to say: The language, the syntax, the coding rules are just "tools" for me. I don't care what I use. I focus on the problem.

Isn't it the same as "Write this using this " you may ask? No. Because this expects a specific solution. Not saying this will not lead to a result. It just a very narrow view on the solution.

There are good software developers that can answer those questions "Write this using this ". That's not the point. The point is: There are also great software developers who can't.

With AI you don't have to worry to memorize syntax or rules. You can focus on the problem solving process.

So, AI is changing how software will be created. It make it more efficient. And it changes how HR and recruites hopefully will look at this profession. It's not about A grades in a CS class.

New comment by y42 in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

y42 — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:59:55 +0000

I want to believe. A couple of weeks ago I fell into this "trap", they offered a similar thing. I subscribed to the Pro Plan. Had fun for a couple of weeks and then I entered frustration phase. I love the product, but I hate those up and downs. My rant made it to HN front page - which I am not happy of. I want the stuff I build to be seen on the front page.

New comment by y42 in "Train Your Own LLM from Scratch"

y42 — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:37:57 +0000

shameless plug:

A series of Jupyter notebooks explaining the whole machine learning mechanism, from the beginning

https://github.com/nickyreinert/DeepLearning-with-PyTorch-fr...

and of course also how to build an llm from scratch

https://github.com/nickyreinert/basic-llm-with-pytorch/blob/...

Show HN: Pictero.com – mostly browser based image toolbox

y42 — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:58:00 +0000

I am holding this domain for many years now, switching from one pet-projec to another. Latest idea is this: A toolbox for common image-related tasks:

- resizing, cropping and color adjustments - pattern generation with a couple of different algorithms - adding annotations like text or shapes - showing common social media formats - OCR extraction with tesseract, in the browser - simple animations like Ken Burns - ASCII-converter - steganography

and of course EXIF data viewer, reverse image search, etc.

It's free to use, most features are browser-based, except AI-image-identifying and fetching images from external sources (need a server-side proxy for that).

Tell me what you think. Hope the UI is not too messy.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006556

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by y42 in "Do_not_track"

y42 — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:51:38 +0000

> The internet only took off because the primary business model which ran on ads and derivative information that servers do to their users.

quite the opposite I would argue:

https://nickyreinert.de/2020/2020-10-24-marketing-killed-the...

New comment by y42 in "Show HN: I remade my blog into a Windows 3.1 environment"

y42 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:32:07 +0000

That was the goal, yes (⌐■_■)

New comment by y42 in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

y42 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:22:04 +0000

I can't believe that domain trading is still a thing.. I am sitting on a bunch of "nice" domains; I could never imagine someone actually bought for not even vor 100 bucks... and here we are, 30k?

OK.

New comment by y42 in "Show HN: I remade my blog into a Windows 3.1 environment"

y42 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:44:12 +0000

reminds me of that:

https://institut-fdh.de/

but your's is way better implemented it seems - very nice!

(disclaimer: it's my site, shameless-plug)

New comment by y42 in "Show HN: Sig – personal & team knowledge base built from your work conversations"

y42 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:17:57 +0000

I like the clean style, I was working on something similar, but never reached that readines-level.

However, the first screen seems a little contra productive. User entered a paragraph and in return gets a "summary" - but it feels so long. It's probably okay... it just triggered me very first impulse.

And what remains unclear is the meaning of "Team Sync". What's happening there? Is it a "group chat" or does it sends messages?

Speaking of... what about integrations with like Teams, Slack, Discord? I know that Teams offers a Meeting Summary which would be great if you could directly store it in _sig_.

New comment by y42 in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

y42 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:33:45 +0000

I like your blog and I can totally relate to this article - it's like something I wanted to write about for a couple of weeks now. :D

https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/adhd-ai-agent-personal-experience...

New comment by y42 in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

y42 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:59:37 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894155

(I am just learning that "a couple of weeks" apparently means "2 weeks"...)

New comment by y42 in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

y42 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:15:52 +0000

I am trying Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6 since a couple of days now locally coming from OMLX. Either via Hermes or Continue in VS Code. It's oka'ish, even performance-wise.

[1] https://huggingface.co/Jackrong/Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-Opus-R...

New comment by y42 in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

y42 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:59:20 +0000

I dare to call meself a senior dev, so I don't need a replacement, I need a tool.