Hacker News: JLO64

New comment by JLO64 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

JLO64 — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:35:14 +0000

What kind of company doesn’t want to pay $5 per month for a paid workers plan for their website?

New comment by JLO64 in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

JLO64 — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:06:19 +0000

As others here have mentioned, https://standardebooks.org/ is excellent and my understanding is that they use Gutenberg books as a source for theirs but done up much nicer.

New comment by JLO64 in "Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer"

JLO64 — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:51:01 +0000

You need both, but it's not exactly realistic to have metro lines everywhere. The west side is pretty dense and has a lot of commercial/business activity so the value per dollar is high. By comparison the east side is super spread out and has a low(er) residential density so the value is far lower. Not to mention a good chunk of the residents on the east side aren't in favor of metro lines in their neighborhood (the stalled Whittier extension of the E line).

It's a pain for me personally since a group I'm involved with is active in the San Gabriel Valley and since I don't have a car I have to rely on buses. It's not an exaggeration when I say a trip for me that's 5 miles west would take double the amount of time east. I'm just glad the planned subway to Van Nuys and the San Fernando Valley up north seems to be going well.

New comment by JLO64 in "White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released"

JLO64 — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:06:36 +0000

A worst case scenario I feel is that the government could restrict inference providers within the US to run only approved/American LLMs, which would be a huge deal since the only recent American OSS model is Gemma. I could see OpenAI/Anthropic/Google lobbying for that though…

New comment by JLO64 in "“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)"

JLO64 — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:24:07 +0000

I’m primarily a coding instructor but I also teach lessons based around Kerbal Space Program. From that angle I’m pretty happy where these devs are going with the sandbox and level of freedom they plan on giving users. One reason my students seem to really like KSP are all the different things you can do/build (especially space planes). While it does have a high difficulty curve when it comes to the controls, once they master them they all seem to appreciate the level of control they have. From my perspective, I feel that instead of trying to make certain systems more accessible/simple they should go in the opposite direction and offer more control/options (preferably with a decent tutorial though).

However, something I really hope the developers plan on making a macOS port. I use a MacBook myself, but I’ve noticed the vast majority of my students also have Macs. I have no hard data to back this up, but I suspect a larger than average segment of users interested in this game are on Mac.

New comment by JLO64 in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

JLO64 — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:02:10 +0000

Both are great shows made by GAINAX, but I highly watching suggest their prototypes as well: Gunbuster and Diebuster. All four are great Mecha shows made by the same studio and it's fun spotting the similarities across all of them.

What I consider to be a spiritual successor to these GAINAX mecha shows was the most recent Gundam series "Gquuuuuux" which shared many staff members from them and has plenty of homages that were fun to spot! Also had the same mechanical designer as the Evangelions so I got a kick out of that.

New comment by JLO64 in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

JLO64 — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:27:13 +0000

I love EVA, but I’ll cautiously recommend it. I feel like there are two sides to it: the mecha/alien/monster sci-fi side which has an amazing aesthetic, and the personal drama focusing on self loathing and loneliness. I think the first side is the most attractive to most people, but what really sticks with me to this day is the latter.

If you do end up watching I have to warn about the watch order. There are two timelines, the original TV series plus the movie “End of Evangelion”, and then the “Rebuild of Eva” movie series which started as a complete reboot but somehow ended as the ultimate Reboot/Remake/Sequel to the original stuff.

New comment by JLO64 in "OpenAI Privacy Filter"

JLO64 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:45:37 +0000

For my customers I use regexes to block them from potentially publishing personal emails/phone numbers to their websites but I really wouldn't mind running this in addition just for the extra peace of mind. I don't have a GPU on our server, but I hope this is light enough of a model to handle CPU only inference on less than 2k tokens at a time.

New comment by JLO64 in "San Francisco Solved Metro Vandalism with One Neat Trick"

JLO64 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:34:15 +0000

I use the Throne bathrooms all the time here in LA. They’re really conveniently placed next to a bunch of Metro stops and are pretty frequently used. I’d actually argue that for busier stations (North Hollywood) more should be added!

The way it works is that you text a phone number (facilitated by a QR code) which Throne you want to use and it automatically opens. These bathrooms play classical music and are touchless so you don’t have to touch any knobs or buttons, you just wave over a sensor to operate the sink or open the door. It’s overall super frictionless/convenient and I agree with the article on how well they’ve been treated (I haven’t seen any graffiti or vandalism yet) despite their frequent use.

New comment by JLO64 in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

JLO64 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:51:33 +0000

Wouldn’t Vercel still make money in that scenario since Netlify uses them?

New comment by JLO64 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

JLO64 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:41:08 +0000

35B (35 billion) is the number of parameters this model has. Its a Mixture of Experts model (MoE) so A3B means that 3B parameters are Active at any moment.

New comment by JLO64 in "Claude Managed Agents"

JLO64 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:34:34 +0000

As someone who spins up docker containers where I use the Anthropic Agentic SDK to build Jekyll websites for customers, I don’t see much of an appeal. I didn’t find it that difficult to set up the infrastructure, the hard part was getting the agents to do exactly what I wanted. Besides, eventually I might want to transition away to another provider (or even self hosting) so I’d prefer having that freedom.

New comment by JLO64 in "Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice"

JLO64 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:36:06 +0000

This is what the Eden switch emulator does ever since Nintendo went after them on GitHub.

New comment by JLO64 in "Take better notes, by hand"

JLO64 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:46:44 +0000

I’m in a long distance relationship at the moment, so one of the things I try to bridge the distance is sending letters! That’s how I got started, but now I’ll send letters to any of my friends (or anyone really) that sends me a mailing address.

One thing I strongly advise when it comes to writing letters with FP ink is to use waterproof/permanent inks. I had to learn that hard way that typical ink doesn’t handle rain well… Diamine just came out with a new lineup of permanent inks which I quite like, but the Platinum stuff (my favorite being Carbon Black) is quite good as well.

New comment by JLO64 in "Take better notes, by hand"

JLO64 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:01:45 +0000

I’ve used an ECO and while it’s not my favorite pen, I have nothing bad to say about the nib (I believe mine was a fine as well). The way FP’s write can vary dramatically between different inks though. I’d recommend first trying out the ink you have and seeing what about it you don’t like before researching other inks.

Just asking out of precaution, but are you sure this bottled ink of yours can be used with fountain pens? Even if it is, it’s best to be careful with a fine nib (I’ve learned the hard way).

New comment by JLO64 in "Take better notes, by hand"

JLO64 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:57:08 +0000

I hated writing by hand, but I got into fountain pens and that really helped change my note taking habits. I mostly write letters, but recently I’ve taken up writing notes during meetings. I loathe doing so, but my FP addiction really helps.

New comment by JLO64 in "Take better notes, by hand"

JLO64 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:52:07 +0000

What ink are you gonna pair with that? I’m not a lefty, but I’ve heard fast drying FP inks are best for writing with a left hand to prevent smudging.

New comment by JLO64 in "GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano"

JLO64 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:37:54 +0000

I have a use case somewhat similar to this where I need to convert the content of PDFs in a non standard format to a specific YAML format. I currently use Haiku for this and am pleased with the accuracy/speed (I haven't tried scanned PDFs yet tho) however I've been thinking about fine tuning a small Qwen model for just this task. I can't yet justify the effort to investigate it but I imagine it could work out.

New comment by JLO64 in "GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano"

JLO64 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:29:22 +0000

In my use case for small models I typically only generate a max of 100 tokens per API call, with the prompt processing taking up the majority of the wait time from the user perspective. I found OAI's models to be quite poor at this and made the switch to Anthropic's API just for this.

I've found Haiku to be a pretty fast at PP, but would be willing to investigate using another provider if they offer faster speeds.

New comment by JLO64 in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

JLO64 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:50:01 +0000

My situation was nowhere similar to yours or OP’s, but back when I was dealing with depression a church group I was volunteering with was one of the main factors in my recovery. I met people that really helped me change for the better and helped give me at least a temporary purpose in life.

There were some days when I didn’t want to do anything, but due to my obligations as a formal member of the group I had to show up. This really helped me since it really forced me to get out and actually do something and not doomscroll YouTube Shorts.

I don’t want to make this specific to any religion or belief system, but in my experience groups centered around a place of worship and focused on service are some of the best ways to create social bonds as an adult. There are also other men’s groups that aren’t religious that fit this: Lions Club, Rotary Club, Veterans Outposts.