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New comment by JosNun in "Allow Carriers on Planes"

JosNun — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:24:28 +0000

Alternatively, keeping kids locked up at home for the first 3-4 years limits their exposure to a variety of situations that help their brains and bodies develop. Then the next generation has a terrible immune system, no social skills, and are underdeveloped mentally.

In fairness, I _do_ agree that there are some things that need to be given up as a parent of young kids... Don't take your kids to a fine restaurant. But at the same time, I don't think children should be excluded from 95% of things because it inconveniences someone else. If it were about preventing people from inconveniencing others, then I think there's a strong argument that it's more than just kids that shouldn't be allowed to do the "fun stuff".

New comment by JosNun in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

JosNun — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:58:04 +0000

Genuinely curious: what are people using these smaller local models for? They are getting decently capable, but they are still small enough that I don't trust them for "real" work outside of a handful of fun toy projects.

Are people actually using them in coding agents? Or are they mostly using them for other things?

New comment by JosNun in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

JosNun — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:40:29 +0000

Presumably, though, those are also things that you'd need for a physical print book, and you could share some of that effort / cost between the two? Maybe this is a naive assumption, but I would assume that the total cost per unit of ebook is still a decent amount less than a print book, even when factoring for the publishing costs, purely due to the fact that you are dealing with a digital version compared with a print version that needs real materials and labor.

New comment by JosNun in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

JosNun — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:38:35 +0000

My question is, where do people buy epubs for these? Are you buying them off of Kindle or similar and stripping the DRM? My biggest withholding is that I can get used paper books for quite cheep (ie, from thriftbooks or similar), but there's not really a similar marketplace for digital versions (understandably so). Maybe I'm just cheap, but I have a hard time justifying near-full-price for books that I can get the physical version for much cheaper, or I already have sitting on my shelf at home.

Any thoughts?

New comment by JosNun in "I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)"

JosNun — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:47:23 +0000

I sit here typing on my DIY split keyboard powered by 2 nice!nanos. It's worth noting that a typical wireless split keyboard (separate left and right halves) uses 2 nice!nanos, so really it's only 25k people interested. That's assuming each person only builds one split keyboard, which... All the keyboard fans I know start with one, but don't stop there :p

Show HN: A simple, sharable physics playground in the browser

JosNun — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:01:32 +0000

I've always been interested in little physics sandboxes where you could build things, and was blown away by XKCD's machine a few years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39953514), which is in-turn based on the classic "The Incredible Machine". Building tiny machines is fun, so I decided to build an app that let's you build one. It's less geared around moving balls from point A to point B, but is more of a freeform build; whatever you can dream up.

Essentially, it let's you build simple machines, mechanisms, and simulations, and watch them play out. There's no practical purpose to it, other than it's fun to tinker, explore, and see what's possible.

Try it out, ask questions, and let me know what you think!

Live site: https://scribblerig.josnun.com Repo: https://github.com/JosNun/scribblerig

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312917

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