Scratching my own (and my employer's, but they don't know that) itch and building a knowledge management system as a nerdy way of spending evenings. I refused to learn JS for years, but turns out it's not as bad as I thought, and TS makes it really nice, plus I like (to my surprise) SolidJS' JSX interpretation quite a lot. Half vibe-coded, half breaking things and learning a lot.
Readit Newsjkkola commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) · Posted by u/david927
jkkola commented on ‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Are other AI companies doing the same thing? Would like to see more articles about this...
There's a YouTube video titled "AI is a hype-fueled dumpster fire" [0] that mentions OpenAI's shenanigans. I haven't fact checked that but I've heard enough stories to believe it.
jkkola commented on Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available pola.rs/posts/polars-clou... · Posted by u/jonbaer
I absolutely love Polars. I work on some unholy dirty data and the ease of use, chaining, speed are a godsend. One dataset that previously took 40 minutes in Pandas now takes two minutes in Polars. Granted, the Pandas query could be optimized, but out of the box, Polars eats pandas when it comes to speed and efficiency.
I basically ditched SQL for most of my analytical work because it's way easier to understand for my juniors (we're not technically a tech team) so it's a total win in my eyes.
jkkola commented on Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed zed.dev/blog/claude-code-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Zed's main selling point over VSCode for me is the lack of a slight delay between when I press a key and when the character appears.
VSCode has always felt ever so slightly sluggish to me, and I find it maddening as I type.
This is why I cannot switch to neovim despite my attempts. I love the workflow, but the delay is too noticeable for me, and nothing helps. It's not a long delay, but long enough for me to feel like I have to wait for hours compared to Zed.
jkkola commented on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/blenderob
I have an Amazfit smartwatch that gets charged by a simple USB cable with two pins that magnetically attaches to the back of the watch. When I was on vacation and forgot that cable I was able to make my own by cutting a USB cable and attaching the wires to the contacts of the watch with tape. That simplicity is hard to beat. And this watch is water resistant.
I have one too and I swear by it, but let's face it - it's not £16. But thanks for the tip about the cable!
jkkola commented on Microsoft became incompetent in IT mikekaganski.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/doener
All of the tech giants have really broken account recovery flows. They've all been glomming on recovery options, single sign-on, 2FA, etc features and none of it is coherent, with lots of dead ends where the optional recovery option it suggests isn't actually supported.
Amazon has a lot of issues with accounts shared between their national storefronts. I lost a Google account that owns a YouTube channel since it wants to 2FA to a long-gone phone number. Apple has a lot of oddities when you used different emails for your Apple ID, iTunes Connect, and iTunes before they unified everything.
One great example though is Facebook
My wife's Facebook account recently got hacked, and I managed to recover it though this crazy workflow:
The hacker had removed her email address and phone number from the account, changed her password, and added their controlled Meta account as a connected account. This connected account had an email but no password, so it could not be removed without adding a password to it, which required verifying the attackers email address.
None of the account recovery tools worked (including the “this wasn’t me” link in the Facebook “did you just delete your phone number” email - what is the point of that link) - they couldn’t find her account by email or phone number, and even though the Facebook app itself was still logged in, none of the account center tools allowed us to do anything without the new password. It also did not allow us to remove the connection to the hackers Meta account or log it out from their devices because it had no password and it would become orphaned with no login.
What seems to have worked for us:
1. Open the still-logged-in FB Messenger app on her phone. It now asks to add a phone number to enhance security. We did this.
2. Now install WhatsApp and sign up using the phone number.
3. Now go into the Facebook app, change password, I forgot my password, and use WhatsApp as 2-factor authentication.
4. Now we have control of the password again! We also added a app (TOTP) 2-factor authentication and iOS passkey to her account at this point to add more options for control.
5. Go to Meta Quest website (meta dot com), and log in via Facebook. This logs us into the attackers account!
6. We could now add a 2-factor authentication to the hackers account, after which it also now let us change the password of the attackers account without knowing the old one.
7. With a password on the account, we can now log them out of all other devices (the attackers phone).
8. We could also now change the permissions so the attackers Meta account could not be used to log in to her Facebook account, but it’s still listed as a related account since it requires email confirmation to remove.
9. Managed to use the 2-factor code to reset the email address on the attackers meta account, so now we own it completely!
I just wanted to say that's equally impressive and terrifying. Good job though!