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javier123454321on Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)

Nice

javier123454321on Cryptocurrency lawsuit: Ethereum Foundation required "suicide pledge"

My falling out of love with crypto was due to the realization that these 'foundations' were effectively governing bodies participating in the minimum level of decentralized theater to grant them plausible deniability in a court of law. Bitcoin is still extremely interesting, as it has no such body, only a bunch of anarchy minded anti-social but very smart group of volunteers fighting each other. At least they practice their anarcho libertarian experiment in the mailing list, to its huge detriment.

javier123454321on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair

This is not people changing. This is discovering someone that you had an intimate connection with and who helped shape your worldview actually has some major flaws in character. Presumably and at some level, you probably followed their advice and made choices that lead you to where you are in connection with their wishes and it should be at the very least a great cause for self-reflection given they are not the person you thought they were.

javier123454321on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

Found the optimist

javier123454321on The Agent SDK

But but you can get incremental benefit, possibly even higher than the switching cost!

javier123454321on Anthropic S-1

Funny that they don't mention their publicly stated fear that AI has ~10% of wiping out humanity in their AI risks section.

javier123454321on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

My claim is never about lack of brainpower in the EU. Clearly theres talent. Its a bit cultural, yes, but mostly its part of a framework that does not reward innovation. For a place with the best car manufacturing in the world and such a drive towards renewables, youd think Tesla should have come from EU. Or even should be replicated there. Why wont it?

javier123454321on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/4bbc8dde-531f-4178-a3b1-c60...

javier123454321on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

Production of innovative technology pushing the frontier of whats possible is the measure. Cost of laying off is one possible non exhaustive diagnosis as to why it might not exist in Europe.

javier123454321on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

As a software developer in an at will arrangement, i dont quite see the comparison with sweatshops. Look, the US isnt perfect by any means, and Europe has the brainpower. Were waiting for a European Tesla, that should have been your domain. Yet here we are, Skype and Angry Birds being the last big hits. Maybe Lovable is a current exception. Your Nordic countries really doing heavy lifting.

javier123454321on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

Yes regulatory burden is my best bet as to why Europe has produced almost nothing of worth aside copying uber and doordash. Skype was cool for a moment there.

javier123454321on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

Stopping the stiffling of innovation does not mean trampling over people. Europe has outsourced defense to the US, and in return theyve gotten nothing but a slowly crumbling relevance in the world stage. As a person that believes in Europe and is incredibly thankful for the historic contribution to the western intellectual canon, it saddens me.

javier123454321on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-europe-doesnt-have-a-te...

Reminds me of this article. Everyone knows that Europeans could compete, and the world stage would welcome it, but they have put themselves into a bind where taking back any social service or loosening regulation and allowing markets to operate would take their air of superiority over stupid Americans and they would rather kill off any chance at becoming world technology players than that. Also it is just political and cultural suicide, ask Paris right now.

javier123454321on It's still ok to enjoy programming

At the end of the day it is probable that we are jockeys after the invention of the motorcycle you can still ride for fun but don't expect it to be the fastest way to go long distances

javier123454321on Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

You're not the first time that someone in this site tries to argue with me that I should not look for beauty and wonder. I'll do it anyway and am not interested in arguing with strangers about what deserves being open about to wonder and interest.

I do find it interesting the fact that there's some kind of order that happens to make the world the way it is and not some other way. That's enough.

javier123454321on Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

I shouldn't use the word magic in a forum like this, last time I did something similar, it also got caught up with the semantics. I mean awe inducing. I've been doing the exercise of writing poetry and one thing that I love about the process is that you can absolutely find inspiration in the banal everyday things.

By the way, this mode of being makes me happier so I invite everyone to take a second and actually consider the question "how is this magical?" for everything. It can be a beautiful experience.

I've met amazing buddhist masters who have meditated for decades that describe the world in these terms. They are also the happiest and the people most oriented towards helping others that I've met.

javier123454321on Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

Dont know how old you are or what age has to do with it. But i find that as I get older simple factoids about the world are even more amazing. There are 4 forces we know of. Strong, weak,electromagnetic and gravitational. Thats magic and that gets more interesting the more you meditate on it.

It means all matter is acting on each other at all times. It means your existence, acting through your will changes the universe, because something as simple as moving tweaks this balance.

Its the same with so many things like the water cycle or other seemingly boring elementary concepts of our reality.

javier123454321on Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

This text feels like it was written by 14 year olds. Im having a hard time following in text form. I assume because its a transcript?

javier123454321on Plan mode is dead

I guess that You dont need plan mode any more is ambiguous. I took it to mean you dont need to plan because the models are so good at infering intent. You are taking it as "you dont need a dedicated modality to create a plan".

javier123454321on Plan mode is dead

Hey, well first off, congrats on making the greatest product ever probably.

I absolutely see fable and opus 5.5 misunderstanding intent, but that just seems to be a feature of necessarily underspecifying in a written prompt. Just today, I gave opus 5.5 a simple task to spin up a new environment for work. It read the ticket, which was decently specified and knowing the codebase as well as "Ghasp... reading the code" I had to correct it about 5 times to do it in a way that I would have expected it to. Getting the pipelines right, environment variables, and configs. It was all relatively straight forward imo. Then I had to prompt it to clean up its corrections, because it left a workflow variable in the github action that some intermediate step required but the final solution didn't. I definitely would not have caught that if I didn't read the output. Idk, there seems to be a natural limit as to how much it can infer and I have no idea how to fix it. I did write about it [here](https://javiergonzalez.io/blog/the-assumption-problem/) though.

javier123454321on The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

A lot of times people think they're getting a different drug that happens to be laced

javier123454321on GLM-5.3-Flash

Possibly influenced by that, but I believe that is a different issue. I meant the way it processed a request. It went into so many more loops of thinking.

javier123454321on GLM-5.3-Flash

All I can say is that even if it is, I was almost glad to go back to using DS4 Flash. Because 0XAlpha was just so friggin slow to complete a task because of the level of circular reasoning that it would go over and over into, sometimes even returning no output. If I just wanted something done I would switch from a free model to a paid one which is crazy.

javier123454321on Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI

This seems to be trained(? or referencing) on the specific cars' owner's manual.

javier123454321on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

Author, if you're here, there's a typo. > I was planning on insulting the office myself

What did it do to you that you needed to insult it?

javier123454321on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

not OP but tailscale ssh does the trick for me.

javier123454321on DeepSeek API Pricing Update

yes I use both, but tend to prefer DS-Flash

javier123454321on DeepSeek API Pricing Update

Ever since I started using flash, it has slowly crept up to be my default for everything. It is at the good enough state for a fraction of everything else that's out there.

javier123454321on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

This is unconscionable. It's an incredibly bad look to be up an entirety of a workday. When my company migrated from Bitbucket, I never thought that we'd be going to a worse service.

javier123454321on DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

I found that opencode absolutely lets you do everything that pi does. With a few niceties in the UI on top.