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ajoseps··on In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?
I’ve played the main game but never the DLC. Is it worth going back and running through again?
ajoseps··on [dead]
There’s been multiple threads on HN front page that have been about this for the last week as well as protests in certain US cities like LA and SF.

I don’t know if you’re being willfully dishonest or you’re genuinely oblivious.

EDIT: also Renee Good’s killing is a domestic issue and is much closer to home for most Americans than Iran. It is not surprising that there is a lot of chatter about it.

ajoseps··on US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says
what post are you referring to?
ajoseps··on US freezes visas for 75 nations
what’s the context around the website?
ajoseps··on How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission
idk man, I’ve always thought UIUC was pretty selective, especially for their EE and CS programs. I’m also 10+ years out from college applications so maybe things have changed.
ajoseps··on The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice
The No Kings protests are large and have been occurring over the last year. It’s disingenuous to imply the population is doing nothing but comment online. The US is a large country with the third largest population in the world. It’s not homogenous.

Despite all that, it’s probably still prudent to decouple from the US.

ajoseps··on Claude Code On-the-Go
this is my workflow as well
ajoseps··on FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
great write up and breakdown of the project. you can do a lot with a small VPS
ajoseps··on Reflections on AI at the End of 2025
he’s not a “random internet person”, he created Redis. Despite that, I don’t know how authoritative of a figure he is with respect to AI research. He’s definitely a prolific programmer though.
ajoseps··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
this has already happened: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/japan-ai...
ajoseps··on How well do you know C++ auto type deduction?
this sounds hilarious, please do tell. Does it relate to volatility spikes when tariffs are announced and some unexpected overflow?
ajoseps··on Ask HN: Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM?
honestly i think LLMs make it easier to write with lower level languages and you get the upside of being able to optimize better since you have more granularity of control in something like C vs something like Python.

I don’t know if LLMs will completely take over, but they’re a useful tool today. I think it’s worth learning how to use them effectively, but also know how to work without them, and when to work without them.

ajoseps··on Ask HN: Why not use AI for smart product placement in free ad-supported novels?
I wouldn’t be surprised if this gets built for visual media but I think we’re past the point for the book/novel market. I think the people who are reading novels are now a niche market and would be highly antagonistic to something like this.

Also this just seems so depressingly bleak. At least in the states we do have libraries where people can read books for free.

ajoseps··on New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
i thought the first two have had huge improvements in the last decade?
ajoseps··on Some software bloat is OK
i’m not familiar with this space but I do remember using plotly with webgl to create interactive graphs when they had too many data points (financial tick data). I imagine this is quite a step up and the project looks really cool! I hope you continue working on it.
ajoseps··on My gf thinks videogames cannot be art. What to show her?
Outer Wilds
ajoseps··on Peter Thiel's antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
why does him not being from the US imply that he is not really religious?
ajoseps··on The H-1B Visa Program and Its Impact on the U.S. Economy
I think the assumption of it being a zero-sum game is wrong. Almost half of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children [0]. The source is still the American Immigration Council, but even just looking at a specific example can illustrate that it might not be a zero sum game.

Jensen Huang, the co-founder and now CEO of NVIDIA, was an immigrant. NVIDIA is one of the most valuable companies today and has generated thousand of jobs and has helped create the AI revolution happening right now. You can argue that some other American born citizen would have created NVIDIA or found the same success, but that is difficult to prove.

I fundamentally disagree that this is a zero sum game. Many immigrants add to the American experience and many become citizens themselves. The country loses out in ignoring foreign labor, especially if it’s foreigners who are taught in our schools and want to come and work here.

[0] https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/fortune-50...

ajoseps··on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices
One difference with renewables and traditional fuel sources is that once renewable infrastructure is built you don’t need to continually import from another country. Maintenance is definitely an issue and on going expansion and upgrades as well. I do think long term renewables wouldn’t have the same issues as oil dependency on another country though.

The UK does still need to build more on shore nevertheless.

ajoseps··on Show HN: Tool shows UK properties matching group commute/time preferences
wow I’ve been looking for something like this for an upcoming move! Would be nice to also have options to do more granular filtering, like number of bathrooms.
ajoseps··on Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole
I mostly agree with you on this but JIRA tends to push the envelope in terms of unresponsiveness of its UX. As an IC I only really use it to create/update/search tickets but I find myself waiting a half to couple of seconds for certain flows, especially for finding old tickets.

Not quite the same as responsiveness but editing text fields in JIRA have a tendency of not saving in progress work if you accidentally escape out. Also hyperlinking between the visual and text mode is pretty annoying since you can easily forget which mode you’re in.

Honestly as I type these out there are more and more frustrations I can think of with JIRA. Will we ever move away? Not anytime soon. It integrates with everything and that’s hard to replace.

It’s still frustrating though.

ajoseps··on Double Is Winding Down
generally ETFs as a whole and if you want direct indexing like they offered, fidelity has something similar: https://www.fidelity.com/direct-investing/overview
ajoseps··on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?
I'm assuming this is some sort of alternative market data?
ajoseps··on Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook
thanks, placed an order through bookshop
ajoseps··on Decades of Research Misconduct Stalled an Alzheimer's Cure
thank you for mentioning this comment, it was very in depth and I agree I think it should be ranked higher
ajoseps··on Show HN: Transform Your Codebase into a Single Markdown Doc for Feeding into AI
the vscode extension cline also does this
ajoseps··on Microsoft's performance-based job cuts begin
this is from Jan 30th, 2025. Also I thought Microsoft was infamous for performance based cuts
ajoseps··on We are destroying software
was there a large breaking backwards compatibility break for C++? I was there for some of the Python2/3 transition but I’ve always thought C++ was adamantly backwards compatible (minor exceptions being stuff like auto_ptr/unique_ptr, which I don’t think was as big as a break as Python’s)
ajoseps··on Five years of Brexit reshaped Britain
Is London still a financial capital? LSE has had more delisting than listings in the last 5 years
ajoseps··on Removed content related to the January 20, 2025 "Woke Removal" Executive Order
at least it's under version control. Not completely removed. Would be a bit grim if it was forced to be erased from history
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