Hacker News: ajjenkins

New comment by ajjenkins in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

ajjenkins — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:56:19 +0000

How would they know for sure if the submitted code was written by a human or AI? If they had a “no-AI” policy, there would be no way to enforce it.

The policy makes sense to me given the security concerns for the project.

New comment by ajjenkins in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"

ajjenkins — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:00:04 +0000

The appendix has examples of the statements that led to the most disagreement:

https://lenz.io/research/llm-disagreement

New comment by ajjenkins in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

ajjenkins — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:05:19 +0000

This is wrong. You can’t convert between the two because it’s possible to have a lot of wealth with very little (even zero) income. Billionaires can completely avoid income taxes by paying themselves a very low salary and instead borrowing money against their assets (usually stock), which is not taxed as income.

Source: The Second Estate by Ray Madoff (2025)

New comment by ajjenkins in "Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups"

ajjenkins — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 03:17:33 +0000

This seems useful, but I don’t think this could replace most use cases for Meetup or Eventbrite.

This actually sounds more similar to Partiful, which I like for one-off events. I would describe this as an open source Partiful, but not specifically geared towards parties.

New comment by ajjenkins in "Show HN: I rewrote my notepad calculator as a local-first app with CRDT syncing"

ajjenkins — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 02:14:01 +0000

This is really cool. I’m not sure what I would ever use it for, but it’s a cool idea and seems well executed.

New comment by ajjenkins in "Three Ubisoft chiefs found guilty of enabling culture of sexual harassment"

ajjenkins — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:24:09 +0000

As someone who lives in the US, I was surprised to hear they’re facing jail time for this. In the cases I’ve heard, the company itself is sued and just has to pay damages to the victim. But I think it makes a lot of sense to hold the leaders of a company accountable for the culture they create and they should face jail time. I wonder why our laws don’t do that in the US.

New comment by ajjenkins in "Why email startups fail"

ajjenkins — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:05:03 +0000

I’m surprised Hey isn’t mentioned. That’s the only example I know of someone recently trying to reinvent email. Maybe it wasn’t included because it’s part of Basecamp and not its own company. But I think it’s important to discuss if your argument is that “no one has successfully reinvented email”.

New comment by ajjenkins in "Ask HN: Is the header CSS broken for you?"

ajjenkins — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 04:10:35 +0000

Yes, it looks broken to me. The top article is too close to the header. I’m on iOS Safari.

New comment by ajjenkins in "AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed"

ajjenkins — Sun, 25 May 2025 18:09:05 +0000

Yeah. The title implies that the model has developed a scary sense of self preservation, but when you read the details it’s exactly what you said.

The conditions that elicited this response seemed very contrived to me.

New comment by ajjenkins in "Animated Factorization"

ajjenkins — Wed, 21 May 2025 15:35:59 +0000

This would make a cool progress bar replacement. Replace percentage with the number of dots (0-100).

New comment by ajjenkins in "Why bad philosophy is stopping progress in physics"

ajjenkins — Fri, 16 May 2025 03:21:12 +0000

I’m not an expert in physics, but this seems like a misguided critique to me. My understanding is that physicists aren’t looking for “new” physics because they’re trying to upend established physics, but because they’re trying to reconcile “inconsistencies” in the standard model. Like reconciling quantum physics with general relativity. We need new physics because we know there are gaps in our current understanding of the universe. I haven’t heard about many attempts to disprove established physics. Theoretical physicists aren’t looking just trying to fill the gaps in the model.

New comment by ajjenkins in "Congress passes Take It Down act despite major flaws"

ajjenkins — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:29:53 +0000

I agree. I generally support the EFF, but I disagree with them on this. I read through the bill and the language is very specific to revenge porn (although I’m not a lawyer). I think it would be very difficult for Trump or anyone else to abuse this law and use it for censorship.

I have friends who were the victim of revenge porn and I think this law would help them. I’m looking forward to this becoming a law.

New comment by ajjenkins in "Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library"

ajjenkins — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 04:22:43 +0000

Components look great. I would pay for these if I needed one of them for a project. It would be great if they worked in React Native too.

New comment by ajjenkins in "WhatsApp defends 'optional' AI tool that cannot be turned off"

ajjenkins — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:20:54 +0000

Instagram Messages and Snapchat also have an AI chatbot you can’t get rid of. It’s even more annoying on those platforms because they appear at the top of your chat list and it’s easy to accidentally click on them.

New comment by ajjenkins in "Show HN: I Made Bagel Font"

ajjenkins — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:40:03 +0000

It works on iOS Safari

New comment by ajjenkins in "Show HN: I made a math puzzle game. Hope you like it"

ajjenkins — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 03:31:06 +0000

Yeah, you should be able to manually lock or they should lock automatically once it’s guaranteed a tile is in the right place. Like if there’s only one black tile in a row and that row is correct.

New comment by ajjenkins in "Show HN: I made a math puzzle game. Hope you like it"

ajjenkins — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 03:28:45 +0000

Yeah, it feels like there’s a slight delay when you tap on a tile. I’m playing on an iPhone.

New comment by ajjenkins in "Americans die earlier at all wealth levels, even if wealth buys more years"

ajjenkins — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:57:17 +0000

People like to say that the American healthcare system is great if you’re rich, but based on this study, that’s not true. Interesting.

New comment by ajjenkins in "Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic"

ajjenkins — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:55:40 +0000

Can you color code the brackets so it’s easy to see how the clues are nested? Like outermost brackets are red, one level of nesting is blue, next level of nesting is orange. My brain is having a hard time parsing all of the clues.

New comment by ajjenkins in "An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force"

ajjenkins — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:57:14 +0000

AI can definitely produce a deletion. In fact, I commonly use AI to do this. Copy some code and prompt the AI to make the code simpler or more concise. The output will usually be fewer lines of code.

Unless you meant that AI won’t remove entire features from the code. But AI can do that too if you prompt it to. I think the bigger issue is that companies don’t put enough value on removing things and only focus on adding new features. That’s not a problem with AI though.