Hacker News: JVIDEL

New comment by JVIDEL in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

JVIDEL — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:45:49 +0000

The premise was kinda dumb, wouldn't be surprised if its just a scam.

New comment by JVIDEL in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

JVIDEL — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:45:08 +0000

Wait, whats the point of this if I can have my old laptop running in my garage?

New comment by JVIDEL in "PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement"

JVIDEL — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:43:36 +0000

So is this just for hobbyists or it has any, say, industrial applications? are there any machines still running on a Z80?

New comment by JVIDEL in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

JVIDEL — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:54:23 +0000

Odds are if he left there's the possibility their compensation situation might have changed for the worse if not leading to downsizing, that in the edge of a recession with plenty of competition out there.

New comment by JVIDEL in "Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper"

JVIDEL — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:12:40 +0000

Win11 its such a dumpster fire they had to stop selling Win10 licenses to force people to upgrade.

Add to that porting copilot to Win10 because there aren't enough Win11 users around.

Ask HN: Who Created QR Payments?

JVIDEL — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:57:45 +0000

By which I mean the concept/first MVP, not necessarily the first successful product launch which IIRC was WeChat.

Anyone knows?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31934388

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Which was the first app that used QR codes to do payments?

JVIDEL — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 05:49:57 +0000

The most famous case is probably wechat, but which company was the first to do it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25195683

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by JVIDEL in "Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers"

JVIDEL — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:43:23 +0000

You got a point in the optimization part, it's difficult to compare both chips when you're running on completely different OSs, specially when one of them ruins a specially optimized OS like ios

The closest it could get I think would be running a variant of Unix optimized for the Ryzen.

New comment by JVIDEL in "Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable"

JVIDEL — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 05:12:31 +0000

"no where to go"

Indeed, subs and groups in social media have decimated web forums, web2.0 has consolidated most communities within a handful of sites.

New comment by JVIDEL in "Sonder: E-Ink Keyboard"

JVIDEL — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 10:36:11 +0000

A Russian company launched a similar keyboard like 10 years ago, don't know what the long term reliability was

New comment by JVIDEL in "Sonder: E-Ink Keyboard"

JVIDEL — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 10:34:55 +0000

Not all the keys can change and the ones that can't are all Mac ones which limits the adoption of Windows users which like it or not are still the vast majority

New comment by JVIDEL in "Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says"

JVIDEL — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:43:39 +0000

Can we trust those numbers though?

New comment by JVIDEL in "Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says"

JVIDEL — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:39:22 +0000

This post

This post right here

This is peak HN

We're facing potentially the worst global pandemic in a century and you're talking about takeout and pet sitting

And this is the top post

New comment by JVIDEL in "Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes"

JVIDEL — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 23:25:19 +0000

Are you going to support evernote?

New comment by JVIDEL in "Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?"

JVIDEL — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 23:24:20 +0000

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Blindsight yet.

Awesome scifi book, it will blow your mind.

New comment by JVIDEL in "Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later"

JVIDEL — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:11:06 +0000

If you think this is bad wait until streaming-only games get killed.

New comment by JVIDEL in "Consume less, create more"

JVIDEL — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:39:30 +0000

Many who used to have a PC now have just a smartphone but the problem is that phones are modeled to be consumption devices, not for production. Even pro/highend mobile devices lack the ability to compete head-to-head with an actual laptop/macbook because the underlying OS is limited in scope by design.

TL;DR: you were never meant to do work on a phone, just watch stuff

New comment by JVIDEL in "Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers"

JVIDEL — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:35:41 +0000

>but on most things there's almost no difference between they and Aliexpress. I can buy the same products from Aliexpress way cheaper and have them delivered in 2-3 days.

That's what a lot of FBA vendors are, middlemen. Some Chinese companies learned about this and are now doing FBA directly.....but the quality is the same and so are the prices.

New comment by JVIDEL in "Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers"

JVIDEL — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:34:11 +0000

I remember looking into startup ideas for an FBA venture and the forums being incredibly sleazy most of the time.

That was years ago, no surprise this is the result.

New comment by JVIDEL in "Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore"

JVIDEL — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:25:14 +0000

>according to our own personal interpretation

That's incredibly problematic