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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.

New comment by iamjs in "Sleep Machine"

iamjs — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:29:00 +0000

This is a Markov Chain based generative arpeggiator. It stochastically walks through diatonic chord changes using weights derived from Hook Theory's database of chord change trends in popular music. For each chord, it randomly selects notes from three octaves of arpeggios. It's sort of like an infinite music box.

Sleep Machine

iamjs — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:03:31 +0000

Article URL: https://zzz.jordanstephens.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647912

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by iamjs in "Attention Is Bayesian Inference"

iamjs — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:12:13 +0000

It's so disappointing that this has become a meme. Lot's of people write with em-dashes. If you want to criticize the _writing_, then do so.

New comment by iamjs in "AI is forcing us to write good code"

iamjs — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:08:48 +0000

I find that this idea of restricting degrees of freedom is absolutely critical to being productive with agents at scale. Please enlighten us as to why you think this is nonsense

New comment by iamjs in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

iamjs — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:26:41 +0000

Say I wanted to run the GitHub Action's "self hosted" runner on my own infra, then integrate it with my repo using webhooks (like I would for other CI platforms). What value would I be losing?

New comment by iamjs in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

iamjs — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:48:04 +0000

I struggled with hand and wrist pain for years from spending too much time at a computer. I did physiotherapy for years and while it helped me manage pain, I was never able to truly build enough strength to get ahead of it until I started bouldering. I took it very slowly—I spent months on very easy problems—but because it was so much fun, I kept going back. Initially, I would only go on Saturday mornings, so I had the full weekend to recover before jumping back into the work week on Monday. After a two or three months of that, I was able to climb anytime I wished. I'm still not a particularly advanced climber, and I typically only go once per week, but I am still slowly progressing, and I absolutely love it.

New comment by iamjs in "Ruby already solved my problem"

iamjs — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 22:18:20 +0000

it could be anything, but virtually everything implements `#to_s`.

New comment by iamjs in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

iamjs — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:21:51 +0000

> Bridging the Gap: Why Not Just Docker Compose?

The draw of a docker-compose-like interface for deployment is so alluring that I have spent the last year or so working on a tool called Defang that takes a compose file and deploys it to the cloud. We don't support Hetzner (yet), but we do support AWS, GCP, and DO. We provision networking, IAM, compute, database, secrets, etc in your cloud account, so you maintain full control, but you also get the ergonomics of compose.

If you are on a PaaS and you want to reduce cost without losing ergonomics and scalability, it might be interesting.

New comment by iamjs in "Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?"

iamjs — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:40:24 +0000

We are building some exciting cloud deployment tools at https://defang.io.

We are making it super easy to manage your deployments through the compose.yaml file you probably already have. The idea is to have a single definition of your application, that you can use locally, and project it into any cloud.

We're a small team based in Vancouver. If you're in town, reach out and come visit: jordan.stephens@defang.io

New comment by iamjs in "Mario Vargas Llosa has died"

iamjs — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:41:37 +0000

What are a few of the most interesting things you could possibly say?

New comment by iamjs in "GPT-4.5"

iamjs — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:44:46 +0000

At a glance, none of these appear to be meaningfully worse than GPT-4.5

New comment by iamjs in "NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation"

iamjs — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:10:39 +0000

I understand Nebulae like the Eagle Nebula are fairly dynamic regions of space, so I find it interesting that we have photographs of the same region over a 27 years time span and at a glance, the structure of the Pillars of Creation appears virtually identical.

I understand that 27 years is minuscule on the cosmic timescale, but what order of timescale would be necessary for the evolution of Pillars of Creation to be are apparent to a casual observer? hundreds of years? thousands?

New comment by iamjs in "Speeding up Prettier locally and on your CI with dprint"

iamjs — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 07:25:11 +0000

Serious question: Why not use source control to identify the files with changes and limit the scope of your formatter run to just those files. If the unchanged files met the formatter rules when they were committed, then repeated runs should be guaranteed to pass. Why introduce a cache when you could just do less work?

New comment by iamjs in "The Oldest Building in Every US State"

iamjs — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 13:57:47 +0000

Espada was the first of the Spanish Missions in the region, established in 1690.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_la_Es...

New comment by iamjs in "Types, and Why You Should Care [video]"

iamjs — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:44:17 +0000

better audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVuEPwNuCHw