Hacker News: z3t4

New comment by z3t4 in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

z3t4 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:30:12 +0000

Giving away your phone would be one thing, but they also force you to give away your passwords and unlock at gunpoint.

New comment by z3t4 in "Reverse Jevons Paradox"

z3t4 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:09:40 +0000

In micro economics theory they call this price elasticity where you try lowering the price to see how much more customers buy and you plot that to a graph calculator to get a curve and the bend on the curve is the price elasticity. Then you can calculate the optimal price to maximize sales.

New comment by z3t4 in "Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer"

z3t4 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:58:23 +0000

If you are visiting Sweden in the summer look for the sign "Loppis" where ppl are selling used goods.

New comment by z3t4 in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

z3t4 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:15:30 +0000

In Sweden where I live you need to use the digital national ID whenever you make a credit card transaction via some app, for example when buying a bus ticket, so you need to have it with you at all times. But with the ID you can also take a quick loan and transfer all the money to a foreign bank basically ruining your life as the bank take no responsibility if the ID is used during the transaction.

New comment by z3t4 in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

z3t4 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:19:31 +0000

The thing with programming a computer is that the computer does exactly what you tell it to, so in order to implement something well you need to have a very deep understanding of the problem. And it's that understanding that is valuable.

New comment by z3t4 in "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs"

z3t4 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:51:39 +0000

You should use a user directory (AD) and then use single sign on (SSO) or or the like. It feels kinda stupid at first, but when you have many users and many apps the AD will make life easier and with SSO users can sign in with one click of a button.

New comment by z3t4 in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

z3t4 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:40:03 +0000

Using Claude Code is like asking questions in online forums, if anyone remember that, we still have sites like Stack overflow. The difference now is that those asking the questions are actually paying for the answers.

New comment by z3t4 in "Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot"

z3t4 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:11:17 +0000

People will complain about 2MB ram usage and then gladly spend 4k on a mac pc

New comment by z3t4 in "GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization"

z3t4 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:00:38 +0000

When machines are doing all the work - we no longer have to.

New comment by z3t4 in "GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims"

z3t4 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:00:01 +0000

This sucks. The solution is to buy the cheepest iPhone and use it just for the goverment services.

New comment by z3t4 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

z3t4 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:46:49 +0000

What hardware are they using to run the benchmarks?

New comment by z3t4 in "If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe"

z3t4 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:32:35 +0000

most web elements are actually native components. The advantage to letting the device/OS decide how the components work is that say a handheld device will handle the drop-down select-box in their own way, allowing for new devices to improve the user experience.

New comment by z3t4 in "Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important"

z3t4 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:09:19 +0000

I would suggest building something on your own, choose your own processes, work however you want, with something that gives you motivation, and see if you are able to ship and release the things you build, attract users and lifetime management of the products. Now if that works great the problem is not with you.

New comment by z3t4 in "Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best"

z3t4 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:06:00 +0000

You also need to trust the root certificates that they don't give key access to the VPN or ISP

New comment by z3t4 in "Stealing Is a Skill"

z3t4 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:07:10 +0000

What do you do if your version becomes immensely more popular and successful then the thing you copied? When people start calling you a genius.

New comment by z3t4 in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

z3t4 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:30:43 +0000

Importantly it only prevents clients that actually cares about the cors headers. Like ohh I'm from hacker.org and the http headers says it only allows zoom.us ohh nooooo. Like it's just a http header! Now if you use a mainstream browsers and you accidentally visits hacker.org in a iframe at some shady site - then the cors header will prevent your browser from accessing it.

New comment by z3t4 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

z3t4 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:59:36 +0000

It works great in dynamic languages as well. Static typing is mostly to aid the IDE. In dynamic languages you can infer the type by looking at the code, and LLM are good at that.

New comment by z3t4 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

z3t4 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:56:07 +0000

Have you ever heard "I can do that in a weekend" and they usually can. The difficult part is not building the product, it's selling and marketing, the buisness part. It's quite common buisness tactic to outright copy someone else's product or buisness.

New comment by z3t4 in "RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8"

z3t4 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:14:50 +0000

opencode is like Claude code, but you can use any model.

New comment by z3t4 in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

z3t4 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:06:42 +0000

Make the team size one person. Thats the fastest you can work. Zero means no work, and not doing anything is the quickest solution.