Hacker News: billyjobob

New comment by billyjobob in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

billyjobob — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:05:55 +0000

This is great but sails far too close to Poe's Law that I predict downvotes.

New comment by billyjobob in "Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art"

billyjobob — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:58:13 +0000

Probably due to the movie "Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan".

People missed the joke that it was poor English on purpose.

New comment by billyjobob in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"

billyjobob — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:26:14 +0000

I recall a post recently that suggested rather than a fixed contact interval ("message this friend every 2 weeks") it was better to use a Fibonacci spiral (2 weeks, 3 weeks, 5 weeks, etc). Perhaps you could implement that?

New comment by billyjobob in "RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet"

billyjobob — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:05:52 +0000

The "hardware" section is really cool, and then you get to the "software" section and it's just webslop.

New comment by billyjobob in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

billyjobob — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:48:06 +0000

Sometimes it works if you install an old version of the cryptography package from before they introduced Rust.

New comment by billyjobob in "IP Addresses Through 2025"

billyjobob — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:37:29 +0000

My ISP added IPv6 support and my router began handing out IPv6 addresses. How did I know this?

1. My AppleTV began stuttering during playback.

2. My old iMac began crashing every time it connected to the wifi.

At least the iMac has an option to disable IPv6. The AppleTV has no such option so I had to do it in the router.

New comment by billyjobob in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

billyjobob — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:24:05 +0000

If you send the full 200k tokens on every request you will get very few requests before you hit the token limit. Caching reduces the number sent but I don't know how much they can cache?

New comment by billyjobob in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

billyjobob — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 04:02:12 +0000

Lookup "wake-on-lan".

New comment by billyjobob in "The long wait is over, Ganymede has arrived"

billyjobob — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:46:15 +0000

Bruce Perens (creator of The Open Source Definition) is attempting to remedy this at https://postopen.org/

New comment by billyjobob in "Steam censors LGBTQ+ content on behalf of the Russian Government"

billyjobob — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:18:03 +0000

Why is Steam even operating in Russia? Isn’t Russia under sanction so rest of the world doesn’t do business there?

New comment by billyjobob in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

billyjobob — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:46:05 +0000

The fact that the UK doesn’t allow “impromptu checks”, otherwise known as “Papers please!” is not a bug, it’s a feature that distinguishes our democracy from other states and we are pretty proud of it.

New comment by billyjobob in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

billyjobob — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:42:17 +0000

He says the checksums are different but he doesn’t provide a diff to show how different. It could just be a single flipped bit or something. And that could happen in his own RAM/disk/CPU/router so seems premature to immediately blame Apple.

New comment by billyjobob in "Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE"

billyjobob — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:40:32 +0000

Doesn’t sound like we have the full story from either side. This blog post from Nate reads like he is continuing to gaslight. But then Jonathan doesn’t explain why he didn’t just buy into the partnership like the other 2 did if he wanted to be a co-owner.

New comment by billyjobob in "Claude now has access to a server-side container environment"

billyjobob — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:50:38 +0000

Both of those models have Anthropic API compatible endpoints, so you just set an environmental variable pointing to them before you run Claude Code.

New comment by billyjobob in "Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor"

billyjobob — Sun, 04 May 2025 11:17:24 +0000

Please don’t use the adjective “free” when describing proprietary software. We know you mean “free as in beer” but those outside our community may not and it may cause confusion over the meaning of free software.

New comment by billyjobob in "Fully documented source code for Lander on the Acorn Archimedes"

billyjobob — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:34:42 +0000

> if Acorn had been based in the US, the world would be using Acorn machines

Is not ARM (the Acorn Risc Machine) the most popular type of machine in the world currently?

New comment by billyjobob in "Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable"

billyjobob — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:16:09 +0000

Like The Mirror? https://www.themirror.space/

Ask HN: Is there any point teaching kids to code?

billyjobob — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 01:51:31 +0000

Back in the 90s, I had to teach myself to code solely using books. It wasn't easy, because I never had access to an actual adult coder. So in 2018 I setup a group to teach coding to kids in my neighborhood, giving them an opportunity I never had. It was popular and I enjoyed teaching.

We had to shutdown due to the pandemic. I am now considering re-opening, but I am struggling to find motivation.

For most kids, coding is no longer a viable career option. Those few who still want to pursue it can get more immediate personalized instruction from ChatGPT than they can from me. I have literally offered free mentoring - something I would have bitten off an arm to get myself - and been told they don't see any value in it compared to what they learn from ChatGPT and Youtube.

So, in 2024, is there any point in teaching kids to code?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40942170

Points: 7

# Comments: 9

New comment by billyjobob in "KickC is a C-compiler for 6502-based platforms creating readable assembler code"

billyjobob — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 01:06:49 +0000

https://github.com/irmen/prog8

New comment by billyjobob in "Alan Turing died 70 years ago"

billyjobob — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:26:51 +0000

Turing's boyfriend was 19, therefore not an adult under UK law at the time.