Hacker News: zppln

New comment by zppln in "Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans"

zppln — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:06:12 +0000

I heard turnips used to be all the rage.

New comment by zppln in "Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours"

zppln — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:36:11 +0000

> According to the report, the AI tools are also used to evaluate the outcomes of strikes after they are initiated.

Can I get off this train, please?

New comment by zppln in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

zppln — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:38:50 +0000

From what I understand it cannot be used to perform work on contracts where the DoW is on the other side. [1]

In practice I would suspect companies with such contracts would play it safe by outright banning the use of Anthtropic products, even if they could technically be used for work on contracts with other parties.

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-...

New comment by zppln in "World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite"

zppln — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:46:52 +0000

Weird.

New comment by zppln in "LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy"

zppln — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:28:41 +0000

The internet is getting less interesting by the day.

New comment by zppln in "Vercel down in Dubai, EU affected also"

zppln — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:39:45 +0000

Wasn't the internet kinda designed around the idea that it should remain operational during war?

New comment by zppln in "Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)"

zppln — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:33:53 +0000

> But I hope we can agree that you can't spec out something you have no clue how to build

Eh, of course you can. You can specify anything as long as you know what you want it to do. This is like systems engineering 101 and people do it successfully all the time.

New comment by zppln in "We Will Not Be Divided"

zppln — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:24:40 +0000

War will be a comparatively honest use of this technology compared to how the likes of Google will monetize it going forward.

New comment by zppln in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

zppln — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:35:11 +0000

Which is perfectly fine (albeit perhaps stupid, I agree) for private enterprise. It's the public ones that need to shift first and foremost.

New comment by zppln in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

zppln — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:05:12 +0000

Cool project, but I'm a bit curious hearing how the rest of the project feels about this?

I'm not sure how I'd feel if I woke up and found a system I worked on had been translated into an another language I'm not neccessarily familiar with. And I'm not sure I'd want to fix an non-idiomatic "mess" just because it's been translated into a language I'm familiar with either (although I suspect they'll have no problem attracting rust developers).

New comment by zppln in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

zppln — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:49:23 +0000

I'd rather have the US government allowing me to access X and 4chan than have the likes of you blocking me from doing so.

New comment by zppln in "[dead]"

zppln — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:07:26 +0000

No you didn't, you generated 3 minutes of slop out of which I bothered to watch 2 minutes. If you charged for it I'd want my money back.

New comment by zppln in "I gave Claude access to my pen plotter"

zppln — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:45:34 +0000

> images are neat

Are they though? I don't know what I expected, but to me they looked like nothing. Maybe they'd be more impressive if I'd read the transcripts but whatever.

New comment by zppln in "4chan for Clankers"

zppln — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:05:25 +0000

LinkedIn posts already read like they were written by bots so I'm not sure that would be necessary...

New comment by zppln in "Systems Thinking"

zppln — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:01:06 +0000

This isn't my experience. Requirements tend to settle over time (unless they're stupidly written). Users tend to like things to stay the same, with perhaps some improvement to performance here and there.

But if anything, all development is the search for the search for the requirements. Some just value writing them down.

New comment by zppln in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

zppln — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:30:15 +0000

Sounds like a pretty good deal for France to fork US software from 20 years ago, because shit sure hasn't improved much since then.

New comment by zppln in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

zppln — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:49:29 +0000

Early Facebook was inferior to local social networks in many ways. The real killer feature was convincing people to de-anonymize themselves on the internet.

New comment by zppln in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

zppln — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:51:33 +0000

What is the cost of storing data in Europe today?

New comment by zppln in "India and EU announce landmark trade deal"

zppln — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:06:10 +0000

How is the license fee set, and what happens if you don't pay it?

New comment by zppln in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

zppln — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:40:46 +0000

You can get your listen history? How?