Hacker News: OJFord

New comment by OJFord in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

OJFord — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:08:47 +0000

Which makes it non-compliant in the UK, and no doubt elsewhere too. I don't understand how Apple (hardly a small fly-by-night!) continues to get away with it.

New comment by OJFord in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

OJFord — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:22:45 +0000

Yes, exactly? And closer competitors to Uber came later and are I assume successful. Just like there is Gitlab, Bitbucket, sourcehut, and several others all 'within the confines of the hosted git problem'.

New comment by OJFord in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

OJFord — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:15:21 +0000

"don't work well for AI" is a hell of an understatement, the Application they are Specific to is literally just sha256(sha256(x)), what AI are you going to do with that?

GP probably didn't mean that hardware though, but rather the facility, electricity supply, cooling, etc.

New comment by OJFord in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

OJFord — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:13:59 +0000

I mined in 2014 with free electricity and that was true even then. That's with hindsight though, the mining reward is more predictable than that market price would increase (more than) equivalently.

New comment by OJFord in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

OJFord — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:10:57 +0000

No, mining is exactly what makes transactions go through, computing the next result in chain, certifying that the transaction happened.

New comment by OJFord in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

OJFord — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:42:19 +0000

That's like saying the problem for competitors to Uber is that they still have to take customers between the same A and B.

New comment by OJFord in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

OJFord — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:53:36 +0000

He said transistor count on chip doubles. (The more accurate pithy comment would be they took it as available resources.)

New comment by OJFord in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

OJFord — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:17:22 +0000

Is it lifting him up? It's certainly irrelevant, is my point. My assumption then is that it's because it's supposed to be surprising. 'Hobbyist spends 20y on their hobby' isn't that surprising, even if the hobby is interesting; instead of letting the story stand on that interest, they're attempting to add 'shock and awe'.

New comment by OJFord in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

OJFord — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:30:02 +0000

'Truck driver' here serving only to put him down, because the feat wouldn't be expected of such a person?

Seems to me like papers' infamous (at least in the UK) references to victims' or alleged perpatrators' house prices, to instruct our sympathy, when it's not otherwise at all relevant.

New comment by OJFord in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

OJFord — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:47:06 +0000

I saw a video of some French politician's speech on Reddit; most commenters were praising the guy's English. It was AI dubbed...

New comment by OJFord in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

OJFord — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:04:28 +0000

Unless it was a chicken coöp... One of few cases it actually resolves an ambiguity!

New comment by OJFord in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

OJFord — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:29:04 +0000

Firefox on Android: 'Google AI' (in app name) is clipped off the top; the Apple 'share' button is clipped on the bottom.

New comment by OJFord in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

OJFord — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:37:03 +0000

I think it's fair enough that 'the assistant in the GUI/cloud program X, like Clippy++' has the same name for all X.

But it's absolutely bonkers that that's the same name as the IDE auto-complete integration, and the GitHub agentic worker, and the GitHub chat, and the GitHub reviewer.

New comment by OJFord in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

OJFord — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:17:15 +0000

Really? Almost every example imports something from Go, and it states "interoperability with the Go ecosystem" (or similar, from memory).

New comment by OJFord in "Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens"

OJFord — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:34:20 +0000

Especially with only 1mo commitment, what happens if there's a lot of churn after the first month – more people leave a cohort than are waiting for one? The whole cohort is then waiting for it to fill again before it restarts? And will people waiting for the next cohort to fill automatically be reassigned to the last (now not full) one anyway, or would there then be multiple partially filled cohorts for a single spec?

I like the idea, I just wouldn't want my subscription to suddenly be on hold because a peer decided to stop theirs.

New comment by OJFord in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

OJFord — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:43:22 +0000

> The video does say "do ISO last" which I think is a good guideline. Easier said than done while shooting, though.

> … also while fact checking this comment, I stumbled across Canon's KB stating to use as low an ISO as possible, which the video rails against. They should talk to Canon, I guess?

Isn't ISO last the same as setting it as low as possible? Obviously it's always set to something, so I thought 'doing it last' means start with it low, set exposure & shutter, increase as necessary?

(Shutter speed being dictated by subject and availability of tripod, essentially it's just exposure & ISO which becomes about how much light there is and how it's distributed, I suppose.)

I'm not really into photography though, so perhaps that's all nonsense/misunderstanding.

New comment by OJFord in "GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo"

OJFord — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:36:27 +0000

This is GitHub being overzealous/getting it wrong, or some miscommunication somewhere. These are forks of Anthropic's open source repo on GitHub, CEO said previously it's not them DMCAing forks of it.

Edit: sorry, not CEO, Boris Cherny (CC head): https://x.com/bcherny/status/2039426466094731289

New comment by OJFord in "Memo: A language that remembers only the last 12 lines of code"

OJFord — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:38:33 +0000

That's an example of something different.

New comment by OJFord in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

OJFord — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:37:24 +0000

I know they're similar numbers, but all you're really doing is making this look cheap, because it isn't a weekly contract.

(Not that the comparison would make much more sense if it were, apples and doorframes.)

New comment by OJFord in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

OJFord — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:34:14 +0000

And that's absolutely not what the commenter up-thread meant.