Hacker News: JLCarveth

New comment by JLCarveth in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

JLCarveth — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:33:53 +0000

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage.

New comment by JLCarveth in "Android Developer Verification"

JLCarveth — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:03:55 +0000

Please don't try and police my language

New comment by JLCarveth in "Android Developer Verification"

JLCarveth — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:02:14 +0000

Being able to side load apps was why I switched to android 10 years ago

LM studios gets flagged as Trojan by latest Windows Defender update

JLCarveth — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:01:30 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio-bug-tracker/issues/1686

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506677

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by JLCarveth in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

JLCarveth — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:25:25 +0000

I guarantee you the people downloading these apps aren't thinking about that. They use what works best.

New comment by JLCarveth in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

JLCarveth — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:22:31 +0000

Every time I have tried using `gemini-cli` it just thinks endlessly and never actually gives a response.

New comment by JLCarveth in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

JLCarveth — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:21:11 +0000

I've reported direct threats of violence and Instagram told me it wasn't against their policies.

New comment by JLCarveth in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

JLCarveth — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:17:25 +0000

I replaced MyFitnessPal: https://macros.jlcarveth.dev

Uses vision models to allow for automatic scanning of nutrition tables. Supports UPCs. Still thinking of a good name.

I also made an RPG game via a discord bot: https://questforge.ca

New comment by JLCarveth in "ASK HN: Postman removes free team collaboration (small teams capped at 1 user)"

JLCarveth — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:04:40 +0000

Long ago I switched to Bruno [1]

The biggest benefit for me was having requests stored as plaintext files, so you can easily track it with git.

[1] https://www.usebruno.com/

New comment by JLCarveth in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

JLCarveth — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:36:07 +0000

I would always close claude to start a new chat... Guess I should stop doing that. Thanks for bringing my attention to those two env vars.

Building Debian Packages on Arch Linux with Systemd-Nspawn

JLCarveth — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:46:51 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jlcarveth.dev/post/systemd-nspawn.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648505

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by JLCarveth in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

JLCarveth — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:08:22 +0000

Your previous comment was a run on sentence and didn't make much sense at all.

New comment by JLCarveth in "Facebook has made it impossible to delete Pages – dark patterns everywhere"

JLCarveth — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:55:19 +0000

> some fake pictures of someone likely AI generated

New comment by JLCarveth in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

JLCarveth — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:49:59 +0000

The Github CEO did step down a few months ago, they never named a successor. Could have something to do with the recent issues. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865560

New comment by JLCarveth in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

JLCarveth — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:44:43 +0000

The last outage was a whole 5 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45915731

New comment by JLCarveth in "SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds"

JLCarveth — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:14:30 +0000

No.

New comment by JLCarveth in "SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds"

JLCarveth — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:45:19 +0000

I would love Minecraft with more intelligent villagers I could boss around to mine and build for me.

New comment by JLCarveth in "GitHub partial outage"

JLCarveth — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:47:41 +0000

This sure does seem to happen a lot

New comment by JLCarveth in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

JLCarveth — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:34:20 +0000

You could also just run the node.js process via a `systemd` service and sandbox it that way using hardening directives.

New comment by JLCarveth in "Ask HN: Desktop Agents for Linux"

JLCarveth — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:07:35 +0000

I've used LMStudio with no issues with an MCP server I've written