Hacker News: iamjs

New comment by iamjs in "Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost"

iamjs — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:20:23 +0000

If you haven't watched this talk by Matt Might on Precision Medicine with MiniKanren, you will surely find it inspiring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt3XyeFHvt4

Physics of Noseriding [video]

iamjs — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:15:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsrYg4nDeDE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555690

Points: 2

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New comment by iamjs in "Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)"

iamjs — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:07:45 +0000

Reminds me of Borges

New comment by iamjs in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

iamjs — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:12:08 +0000

Two years ago, I started a new company, and decided at the outset to avoid using any heavy JavaScript SPA framework. We stuck to simple server-rendered html and only use progressive-enhancement style JavaScript.

Our app was fast, and simple, but it also came at a cost: we were limited in our ability to take rich UI elements off the shelf with an npm package. We had to do a lot more work to provide a rich user experience. Everything took longer, and the user experience was worse as a result. We cared, but sometimes you don't have time to carry through.

The company failed, and I don't think react would have saved it. But I can tell you first hand that righteous adherence to "simplicity" didn't help either. It's always a trade-off.

New comment by iamjs in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

iamjs — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:41:37 +0000

That's interesting. Every evangelical with whom I've spoken seems to be willing to give Israel carte blanche

New comment by iamjs in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

iamjs — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:34:08 +0000

> It's very likely that at some point they had to explicitly tell Claude "don't worry about that and just make an assumption",

Non technical folks vibe coding aren't explicitly telling Claude anything other than "Accept"

New comment by iamjs in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

iamjs — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:58:10 +0000

The city of Corpus Christi, TX is currently considering options for desalination plants—all of which pump their brine into the shallow water inside the bay or the ship channel.

New comment by iamjs in "Why Technical Founders Struggle with Marketing"

iamjs — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:36:36 +0000

Not unique to software engineers, but a significant factor is that many technical founders are highly specialized. As a result, they use language from their field, draw on cultural context from their field.

Even in this article:

> The marketing playbook for technical founders is just open source logic applied to business.

It's a challenge for us to cross the chasm and meet others in _their_ context. I think that's critical for marketing to be effective.

You would see the same if you hired a medical doctor, or a geologist into a marketing role.

New comment by iamjs in "Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah"

iamjs — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:23:37 +0000

Wow. Never thought I'd see J&J's come up on HN, but as soon as I saw the title, I was intrigued for exactly this reason. I was there too in the early 00's. Small world.

New comment by iamjs in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

iamjs — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:24:21 +0000

I know the Chernobyl fallout had a pretty significant impact on agricultural in the region, but I don't think I've ever heard about anything similar in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, or Colorado. Why not? Surely there is less agricultural activity on the American West than in Eastern Europe, but is that the only reason?

New comment by iamjs in "Sensational Books to Read This Summer"

iamjs — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:07:43 +0000

https://archive.ph/LzM4v

New comment by iamjs in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

iamjs — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:05:17 +0000

I think the `/remote-control` feature does this, if I understand you correctly.

New comment by iamjs in "Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop"

iamjs — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:45:50 +0000

Might be more effective if this was by postal code instead of by entire country

New comment by iamjs in "Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland"

iamjs — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:43:29 +0000

Cool project! My folks get Cliff Swallows nesting under the eaves above their door in central Texas and they make a huge mess. I wish we could encourage them to nest on the side of the house with some bespoke bricks, but they enjoy the doorway.

New comment by iamjs in "Reverse Engineering SimTower"

iamjs — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:40:02 +0000

This is an unnecessarily rude, dismissive, and low value comment. I loved this game growing up and I think it's fantastic to see this work. I don't find it particularly relevant whether or not a language model was involved.

New comment by iamjs in "A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks"

iamjs — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:24:21 +0000

Sometimes I do this, but sometimes it's just more work than it's worth. I have started to do this a bit more with language models to help reduce the toil, but I yearn for a more rigorous method.

New comment by iamjs in "Slop Cop"

iamjs — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:20:16 +0000

I'm enjoying pasting early 2000's era blog posts in here and learning that they too were LLM slop!

New comment by iamjs in "A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks"

iamjs — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:06:42 +0000

I have long wanted a tool to help split large diffs into smaller semantic changes. When you're working on a feature, for example, and end up refactoring along the way, you may wish to have your refactor reviewed and merged without any new functionality.

New comment by iamjs in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

iamjs — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:33:37 +0000

I have a volunteer fig tree growing in a container on my patio in the middle of a bunch of onions. I have always heard of people transplanting them from cuttings, presumably because they are difficult to grow from seed. I have no idea how it got there, but I feel fortunate to have been chosen.

New comment by iamjs in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"

iamjs — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:12:55 +0000

This sentiment is quickly becoming the most annoying low-effort comment on HN. If you don't want to read it, don't read it. If something about the writing offends you, then describe it, so we can talk about it.