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robjan

3,449 karma · joined December 1, 2015

Hong Kong based fintech guy.

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robjan··on ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM
Feishu is Chinese Slack
robjan··on What dating apps are optimizing
Then don't hit on people. Go there with no expectations other than enjoying the activity, it makes you a better and more interesting person anyway. The people who get banned are the creepy ones who go purely for the sake of hitting on people.
robjan··on Family Mart Designed Cute Teary-Eyed Stickers to Combat Food Loss
The article misses it off but you can see the evolution of the sticker on the FamilyMart webpage: https://www.family.co.jp/content/dam/family/sustainability/t...
robjan··on The new calculus of AI-based coding
"steering rules" is a core feature baked into Kiro. It's similar to the spec files use in most agentic workflows but you can use exclusion and inclusion rules to avoid wasting context.

There's currently not an official workflow on how to manage these steering files across repos if you want to have organisation-wide standards, which is probably my main criticism.

robjan··on What if tariffs?
It's like comparing a Fiat to a Ferrari
robjan··on European Union Public Licence (EUPL)
There are many licenses with mortality clauses but they are general not popular because the ambiguity and "supply chain risk" of having such a license in a dependency tree tends to limit adoption of any projects that use them.
robjan··on DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware
They could definitely add a maker-checker process (similar to code review) for new versions and make it a requirement for public projects with x number of downloads per week.
robjan··on Code Is Debt
I'd say the software is an asset more than the code itself, much like an interstate is an asset rather than the concrete that it consists of. The quality of the concrete impacts the depreciation (reduction of value) of the asset and how much operational expenditure is required to upkeep the asset which would again impact the asset value. There's probably also a risk management angle which should be considered.
robjan··on Nobody’s buying homes, nobody’s switching jobs, America’s mobility is stalling
When I buy a stock the seller gets the money. The money doesn't "go in to the stock market".
robjan··on Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp
They do. All email providers have limits either specified or unspecified. It's usually a few hundred per hour and each recipient uses one quota.
robjan··on The magic of through running
Really depends on the region and any pre-existing constraints at the time of electrification. A better distinction is probably rapid transit (metro, subway, the Tube, MTR/MRT) vs commuter rail.
robjan··on Meta pirated books to train its AI
These donuts can be replicated an unlimited number of times for free without depriving the creator of the donuts of their donuts. The analogy doesn't work.

The real question is whether the value of these donuts is diminished by being ingested by the AI and it's still not clear.

robjan··on Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate
With diagrams, it's still worth getting the code for the same reason we ask LLMs to write software using a programming language rather than directly giving compiled output.
robjan··on The Startup CTO's Handbook
Ideally there should be some first line who deals with BAU customer support but completely separating value delivery from support bakes moral hazard into the org design.
robjan··on Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat
I'm pretty sure you would be quickly rate limited, especially if you participate in a few large group chats.
robjan··on The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
Most pensions hold mostly stocks
robjan··on The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
The hardest hit would be the middle class whose retirement depends on funds which predominantly invest in equities.
robjan··on Microsoft is killing Skype
Usually Viber
robjan··on The Sims Game Design Documents (1997)
If you work in a regulated industry there is no way around producing design documents.
robjan··on French train passenger fined €150 for using phone on speaker
Loudspeakers broadcast whereas a person physically next to you can adjust their loudness based on what's socially acceptable
robjan··on List of 200 UK companies that moved to 4-day working week
If it's the former, it's been common to have "compressed hours" as a flexitime option in many big UK companies for decades.
robjan··on Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
Only for people who went all in on NVDA. The SP500 is just back to where it was last week.
robjan··on Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN
I do the same. You can also use tags to filter out categories you aren't interested in such as politics, AI, late stage capitalism or other stuff that keeps getting posted here.
robjan··on Bitcoin is over $100k
Once again, the trade is within the context of a market and the market values the "widget", Apple Stock, Oz of gold or whatever as whatever people are willing to pay for it. That's how markets work. Individual Opinions are largely irrelevant.
robjan··on Bitcoin is over $100k
A transaction is zero sum, the market is net positive. For the market to be zero sum, the market cap would have to be constant. If I buy something from someone for $1 then sell it to you for $2, I gained a dollar and you own a share that's worth $2.
robjan··on Bitcoin is over $100k
For traditional stocks, you can use the PE ratio and other fundamentals to see how detached the market is from reality

e.g. https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio

robjan··on Bitcoin is over $100k
Markets are not a zero sum game. When the price goes up, it goes up for all holders.
robjan··on Character amnesia in China
There are other input methods such as Cangjie or Sucheng which are also popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong. They have much faster WPM since they are based on the structure of the characters. Pre-smartphone there was a Q9 input method with one stroke mapped to each of 8 numbers and a wildcard for if you forgot.
robjan··on TSMC cuts off client after discovering chips sent to Huawei
The chips go to China regardless since most US technology is assembled in China.
robjan··on Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found with steel chestnut
Wherever there is a chestnut tree you'll get conkers. I would imagine it's more of a town/village vs city thing rather than class thing.
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