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JensRantil

805 karma · joined August 21, 2012

Swedish/English; Developer (@tink), mathematician/engineer, traveller, nerd, left handed, juggler, guitarist, african drum player. Inspired Swede.

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JensRantil··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
Yeah, my sarcasm was targeting Github. I was pretty sure you actually did have a better uptime. :)
JensRantil··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
GitHub also has free private repositories, but I guess your server has a much better uptime than them.
JensRantil··on The value of not getting to the point (2015)
> This was a revelation to me. All this time, I assumed that the primary purpose of lunch was lunch.

and

> being an introvert made conversation awkward and laborious for me.

and

> And this, too, was a bit of a revelation to me, that someone would not want to get straight to the point, that someone would need a nice long conversational warmup before they’d feel comfortable enough to be ready to talk about something more uncomfortable.

and

> I never fully understood this before. I feel like everyone else understands it, though, because they act as if they do. But if they do, it must be an intuitive understanding, a grokking, not an explicit fact that people state out loud.

...are all common experiences of people with forms of Autism.

JensRantil··on Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay
Yay, congrats Navi! Thanks for contributing to international law!
JensRantil··on One Go binary, one YAML file, one SQLite database: I wrote my monitoring tool
Nice! But you made a mistake of using smallcaps-only on the repository. MacOSX file systems will complain and all sorts of weirdness can happen.
JensRantil··on Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
This type of button is very common on websites for women of domestic abuse.
JensRantil··on EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track
Thanks for clarifying this!
JensRantil··on Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap
Geez, the OP text with no paragraphs is as unreadable as the documentation... Block of texts. TLDR.

I will not bother reading anymore of this...

JensRantil··on I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
I guess one thing the article doesn't bring up is the fact that AI might enable more people with less coding expertise to contribute to software development. That _might_ speed things up.

If that's true, you might be able to increase throughout by parallelising more of the work.

JensRantil··on Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
What is Tindie?
JensRantil··on What Type of AI Usage?
"When you have AI technology, everything looks like a nail."
JensRantil··on Laws of Software Engineering
There is also https://hacker-laws.com.
JensRantil··on A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days
This reminds me of the Linux kernel scheduler bug that kicked in after 208 days: https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/247/linux-virtual-serve...
JensRantil··on Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked
I am a Swedish citizen. Lived here for almost 40 years. It is a bit unclear to be what the "the Swedish e-government platform" is. Would have been great if they at least could have published which domain name the service has.
JensRantil··on Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
The "Accessibility support" link gives me a 404 Not Found. I guess that's too close to any kind of DEI the US government would allow these days...
JensRantil··on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
Fun fact: Many times you can also declassify numbers by simply looking at the width of the text boxes. I wrote a blog post about it many years ago: https://jensrantil.github.io/posts/how-to-partially-declassi...
JensRantil··on IBM to acquire Confluent
All the news the comes out of SAP projects is that they cost 5x of initially estimated and take much longer than initially planned. So...no?
JensRantil··on IBM to acquire Confluent
In Sweden, IBM makes a shit tonne of money from SAP implementation consulting.
JensRantil··on Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions
I find it somewhat interesting that a US 30 year fixed mortgage is 5,49%, while a 10 year fixed mortgage in Sweden currently is at 3,6%[1]. Big difference!

[1] https://www.compricer.se/borantor/

JensRantil··on Everyone in Seattle hates AI
This sentiment is not only in Seattle.
JensRantil··on Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers
I struggle to find why it would be appealing to use an RPC framework which is only targetted to TypeScript (and I guess, JavaScript). The point, for me, of an RPC framework is that it should be platform agnostic to allow for reuse and modularity.
JensRantil··on Europe's EV sales surge 26% in 2025 while Tesla faces decline
In Sweden, Tesla is also involved in a conflict with our Unions. https://www.transport.se/publicerat/info-english-tesla-confl... This has an added bad smell for Tesla, on top of the bad reputation that Musk already has associated the brand with.
JensRantil··on Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks
It's not just time. A lot of devs simply don't have the experience of dogging into third party sourcing code or understanding how one contributed to open source.
JensRantil··on What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?
Sending a single representative of a team to a meeting is one of favourite hacks. And then have that representative report back.
JensRantil··on How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment
Of course the guy needs to have an end-to-end encrypted direct line to the president. It's the president that runs the show and all decisions must go through him.
JensRantil··on AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate
I always read "ML", because that's what 98% of all AI really is, but rebranded.
JensRantil··on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal
I would _love_ to understand more about how this atmospheric state impacted the vibration of power lines. Sounds exotic.
JensRantil··on US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban
One reason is the ruling by the Supreme Court on July 1st 2024 that says Agent Orange has legal immunity for most actions he does as a president.
JensRantil··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
As an example, yes.
JensRantil··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Making a POC of a data governance product.
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