Hacker News: OJFord

New comment by OJFord in "Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain"

OJFord — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:21:33 +0000

No this is people who have registered john.johnson.name, but johnson.name remains Verisign's (and e.g. unrelated Alice has also registered alice.johnson.name)

New comment by OJFord in "How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies?"

OJFord — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:59:16 +0000

I'm struggling to get through TFaS, really don't understand how it became such a 'PopPsych' (if that's a thing) classic.

It's like a collection of the obvious, the wrong, and autobiography of someone you haven't otherwise heard of.

New comment by OJFord in "Passkeys are not a trap"

OJFord — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:18:34 +0000

Trap or not I don't want them and the UX is shit and user-hostile.

New comment by OJFord in "Making big downloads resumable in Firefox"

OJFord — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:04:02 +0000

It's a very familiar style, like recognising an unsigned letter/message from someone you know well because it 'sounds like them'. Not really so much a deterministic list of things that make it Claude (if it were so, fixing it would be easy) but if you insist 'One caveat with that fix:' abrupt introduction/call to attention immediately sounds like it to me. Steps through it in concise detail, and then 'Worth checking' summary somewhat stating the obvious, with a curiously vague 'if the source publishes one'.

New comment by OJFord in "Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?"

OJFord — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:56:13 +0000

And so we've arrived broadly back at white and blue collars after all.

New comment by OJFord in "Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20"

OJFord — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:09:23 +0000

Interesting flex, is that a metric or an American tonne?

New comment by OJFord in "Passkeys are a trap"

OJFord — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:56:30 +0000

Santander UK sends its 'don't fall for a phishing scam' etc. emails from yoursantander2.co.uk or something stupid like that that's not what you ever interact with.

New comment by OJFord in "I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard"

OJFord — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:57:33 +0000

It doesn't really matter if they're happy with the result does it? Many of us here generate stuff in Claude Code for our employers.

There's still expertise and experience used in prompting, reviewing, refining it - a professional using AI doesn't automatically make it a scam.

New comment by OJFord in "Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI"

OJFord — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:08:39 +0000

I went through a phase of reporting them (to YouTube, there's a button while playing to do so) and did get automated reply that a lot were removed. Some took several reports, others they continued to insist didn't violate their policies, but they will remove them.

New comment by OJFord in "Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI"

OJFord — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:02:49 +0000

Then my 'amail' client seems to fit the bill.. (OSS, rust, I use it on Linux and haven't tested elsewhere) ..not really suggesting it – it's pretty barebones and just whatever I've needed, but you're welcome to it obviously! Especially if you have issues/PRs to spur me on to features I've wanted too...

New comment by OJFord in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

OJFord — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:24:29 +0000

The UK, where nobody has ceiling fans.

New comment by OJFord in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

OJFord — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:21:21 +0000

Bone apple tea!

New comment by OJFord in "Agents don't need memory, they need documentation"

OJFord — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:20:00 +0000

This sounds interesting but (from the homepage too) I don't understand how it's different than having it run any other linter?

New comment by OJFord in "Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager"

OJFord — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:06:48 +0000

It ought to be the offspring of a spinster, really.

New comment by OJFord in "Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager"

OJFord — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:05:02 +0000

Pretty stupid to assume familiarity with random suburbs though, unless writing in a local newspaper.

New comment by OJFord in "Everyone's Packing Up"

OJFord — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:15:29 +0000

You could say the same about software; clearly it's missing the same 'ease and cheapness of creating the bespoke idea you have'.

New comment by OJFord in "Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS"

OJFord — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:56:08 +0000

ghostty is the .app, perhaps it makes more sense if you imagine some other app, Spotify.app say, imagine for whatever reason it shells out to ls for listing files, it will show as Spotify requesting access not ls.

New comment by OJFord in "Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal"

OJFord — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:12:31 +0000

That was not the claim. They said 'is on the order of months away', not 'was'.

New comment by OJFord in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

OJFord — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:09:06 +0000

It's a new extreme, but we've always been building of the shoulders of giants.

New comment by OJFord in "Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?"

OJFord — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:19:14 +0000

I think we're saying broadly the same thing. (Old school) Software engineering is fairly unlike most engineering disciplines. We've been both the engineer and the technician (and the latter's taken a lot of time, especially as at lower levels) but now Claude (or equivalent) is capable of being the technician, at least.