Hacker News: danieljacksonno

New comment by danieljacksonno in "CSS-Tricks in Limbo"

danieljacksonno — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:54:41 +0000

"One dude" that has been one of the lead and most well known contributors to open source for decades now.

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it"

danieljacksonno — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:08:02 +0000

If you have it question you for 1M tokens (aka the full length of the Wheel of Time series), I think your own context might get full before the LLMs.

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025)"

danieljacksonno — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:39:05 +0000

The open source models are pretty good too now. They are a few months behind, but not more than that. Sure, you still have to host them in the cloud to get enough VRAM to run them - but looking 10+ years into the future the end game here will probably be having a local LLM that runs on your own computer and is more than capable enough to do coding for you.

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Meta: Messenger.com is no longer available for messaging"

danieljacksonno — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:06:30 +0000

That means I'll move all my friends and family to Signal then. I guess it was about time.

New comment by danieljacksonno in "EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided"

danieljacksonno — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:47:49 +0000

Your clique might be more skeptical. Statistics show the population at large is not.

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Writing is thinking"

danieljacksonno — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:50:25 +0000

It seems obvious to me. Just like drawing and sketching helps thinking about design, coding helps thinking about programming.

It's one of the reasons for the "one to throw away"-idea of writing shitty code first just to get it to work, and then remake it after you have thought through the problem by coding it.

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague"

danieljacksonno — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:12:53 +0000

He repeated it several times.

Europe certainly takes it seriously. Germany and France has spoken out officially against it, with Macron even visiting Greenland to show support.

Denmark is freaking out, and want to remove all dependencies on the US as quickly as possible.

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague"

danieljacksonno — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:09:18 +0000

Trump has several times threatened to take Greenland, by military force if necessary. He categorically has "not ruled out" military force against a NATO ally.

First source, but there are many: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/04/world/greenland-annexatio...

This has, for obvious reasons, been huge news in all of Europe and especially in Denmark.

I'm sure MAGA Americans want to hand-wave it away, and since Trump is so difficult to understand and says so many whacky things, we're all hoping he doesn't mean it, but it's underscored the need to quickly get independent of the USA.

New comment by danieljacksonno in "WordPress retaliation impacts community"

danieljacksonno — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:40:23 +0000

They turned off all pro features

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely"

danieljacksonno — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 06:42:38 +0000

I had the same reaction. It's a one time password, so it does not need to be as secure as a permanent one, but it still feels silly to have a long password that you can just type the first few characters and have it auto complete each word, versus just having a shorter password to begin with.

That said I can see how autocompleting from the first three letters of each word for "beaver-grass-hypocondriac-shelf" might be easier for a human than typing "beagrahypshe"

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128"

danieljacksonno — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:16:34 +0000

this standard is also pushed by Google and Chrome, AFAIK

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger"

danieljacksonno — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 13:52:49 +0000

The use would be to make a profit

New comment by danieljacksonno in "We raised a bunch of money"

danieljacksonno — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:42:54 +0000

What? Of course they should. It shows they care about their customers, and that they are confident in their use case and honest when they say what they are a good fit for or not

New comment by danieljacksonno in "I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won't have to"

danieljacksonno — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:32:20 +0000

Can't Github buy some high quality stars every now and then to kill those accounts who look legit (or perhaps once was legit) and ban them for partaking?

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S."

danieljacksonno — Tue, 23 May 2023 08:15:04 +0000

The question is what is legal or not.

The US has laws that give them the legal right to snoop on any data about EU (avd other foreign) citizens.

Those laws make it impossible to follow EU privacy laws as a US company.

One of the two have to give, and the US should make exceptions for EU citizens, or rescind the CLOUD act.

New comment by danieljacksonno in "We will be shutting down neeva.com"

danieljacksonno — Sun, 21 May 2023 05:29:21 +0000

Any examples?

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Alphabet’s Profit Falls 34% (fourth consecutive drop) Amid Ads Slowdown"

danieljacksonno — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 07:48:46 +0000

I'm trying to pay for Kagi search to see if it's better. Not sure if it is, but at least it's not worse. In my tests they seem to get most of the results from Google, but just jumble them about a bit. They do have a "programming" mode though, which is useful.

If nothing else, it's refreshing to pay for search, to support non-ad-driven revenue models for the most important feature of the web.

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide"

danieljacksonno — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:48:06 +0000

Punishes? Apple is the most highly valued company of all.

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Ask HN: What is your experience in tech consulting?"

danieljacksonno — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:22:07 +0000

For SOWs, I find that it helps to keep them very explicit about the larger goals and the "why" of the project, but vague on details, and then enter into an agreement where the customer pays you to keep scope at a level where the larger goal and "why" can be accomplished within budget, not into an agreement where the customer controls the scope and you just balloon the budget if they increase it.

New comment by danieljacksonno in "Phoenix 1.7 is View-less"

danieljacksonno — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:33:57 +0000

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