Hacker News: dejongh

New comment by dejongh in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

dejongh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:24:35 +0000

Fun and sad. Garbage collected languages like .NET, Java, and Go are slow compared DIY languages like C, Rust, and Swift. So, no wonder the Windows team dislike them. However, it seems the Windows team had to live with a React start menu for quite some time. How does that fit into the over all battle between the teams and UI frameworks?

New comment by dejongh in "RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#"

dejongh — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:11:24 +0000

Cool article. I wonder why they decided to start sentences with lower case? Free association!?

New comment by dejongh in "Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]"

dejongh — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:39:30 +0000

What an amazing storyteller. I will watch many more of her videos. I hope she will make many more videos ♥

New comment by dejongh in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

dejongh — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:47:13 +0000

For me the show was a trip down memory lane in more than one way. The tech is one. Doing startups with friends is another. Being a workaholic and having relationships is yet another. The penultimate episode hit me hard - am I the only one?

New comment by dejongh in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

dejongh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:58:07 +0000

GPT auto gave me a long answer that included both walk and drive. Not good.

GPT thinking told me to drive and that walking would make no sense. Perfect answer.

New comment by dejongh in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

dejongh — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:59:32 +0000

Let's all install this and form a fail-safe (if you are in a populated area) and unregulated mesh. I would love to see how far into the Amazonas or Greenland it works.

New comment by dejongh in "Affinity Studio now free"

dejongh — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:08:11 +0000

Freeium mostly sucks. Escape before they squeeze every drop of blood out of you. There is a cost to everything that is how the reality get's in.

New comment by dejongh in "Just let me select text"

dejongh — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:15:35 +0000

I don't know the bumble app, but it really annoys me that I cannot copy text in reddit and facebook (I am forced to use this app by my daughters hobby). If you dev a mobile app - make sure users can select and copy text!

New comment by dejongh in "'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback"

dejongh — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:14:04 +0000

This is a very interesting article. The concept "run an experiment in your head and predict the outcome" is a capability that AIs must have to attain some kind of general intelligence. Anyway, read the article, it's great.

New comment by dejongh in "iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras"

dejongh — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 07:06:10 +0000

After reading the article I might dust off my DSLR, however the fact that I have my iPhone with me most of the time will never change - so more than 99% of my photos/videos will be captured by that thing.

New comment by dejongh in "Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator"

dejongh — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:27:17 +0000

Cool. It would be great to extend with a confidence operator. Something like:

Without default confidence: 0~9

With confidence: 0%100~9%95

We are sure it is 0 or more and we are %95 certain it is 9 or less.

Would that work?

New comment by dejongh in "Nebula Sans"

dejongh — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 10:52:54 +0000

Thanks for posting and commenting. The choice of font is a great way to add aesthetics to text - designers so use this opportunity a lot more IMHO.

New comment by dejongh in "When will we fix the tools that run the world?"

dejongh — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:39:52 +0000

Old software is not replaced because nobody fully understands it, and therefore it is a gigantic effort and risk to reverse engineer it.

New comment by dejongh in "Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node"

dejongh — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:22:48 +0000

Having skia power in nodejs is a cool idea. Thanks!

New comment by dejongh in "Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds"

dejongh — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:21:18 +0000

Cool!

How can I forward Facebook messenger messages to email?

dejongh — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:58:43 +0000

I am not very active on Facebook and Messenger, but once in a while I get a message on Messenger. How can I forward these messages to my email?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40147622

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by dejongh in "Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit"

dejongh — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:37:28 +0000

Wow

New comment by dejongh in "Cross My Heart – A Frogger Demake in 256 Bytes of HTML/JS"

dejongh — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 22:23:20 +0000

crashed chrome :)

New comment by dejongh in "Atlassian cripples’ Jira automation for all but enterprise customers"

dejongh — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:00:19 +0000

On September 18th Atlassian announced a new license model for Jira automation that severely limits automation for all but enterprise customers starting November 1st. Many customers will be forced to give up their automation or upgrade to expensive enterprise tiers. Since there is no enterprise tier for Jira Product Discovery customers using automation in this product don’t even have the option to pay more.

Atlassian cripples’ Jira automation for all but enterprise customers

dejongh — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:00:19 +0000

Article URL: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Automation-articles/Introducing-our-new-packaging-model-for-Jira-Cloud-Automation/ba-p/2446099

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37595898

Points: 100

# Comments: 93