Hacker News: j3s

New comment by j3s in "Tangled – We need a federation of forges"

j3s — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:55:02 +0000

it is - but dealing with code involves a lot more than just git.

tangled distributes the rest of the stack - issues, comments, pulls, stars, etc.

Tangled – The next-generation social coding platform

j3s — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:45:33 +0000

Article URL: https://tangled.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946984

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Tangled Newsletter 01 – Hello

j3s — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:04:19 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.tangled.org/newsletter-01/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805500

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Tangled: Tightly Knit Social Coding

j3s — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:34:11 +0000

Article URL: https://tangled.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464267

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by j3s in "Tree style invite systems reduce AI slop"

j3s — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:28:11 +0000

good q! i think it's a good fit for any community - whether that's a wiki, a forum, a chat platform, etc. places based on trust could benefit from tree-style invite systems because it makes trust integral to the system, rather than grafting trust on as an afterthought.

New comment by j3s in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

j3s — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:19:28 +0000

my in-progress new wiki: https://abyss.fish

planning on flipping https://j3s.sh over to it soon

New comment by j3s in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

j3s — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:12:13 +0000

feels LLM assisted, at the very least.

> The skill isn’t being right. It’s entering discussions to align on the problem

> clarity isn’t a style preference - it’s operational risk reduction

> The punchline isn’t “never innovate.” It’s “innovate only where you’re uniquely paid to innovate

> This isn’t strictly about self-promotion. It’s about making the value chain legible to everyone

> The problem isn’t that engineers can’t write code or use AI to do so. It’s that we’re so good at writing it that we forget to ask whether we should.

> This isn’t passive acceptance but it is strategic focus

> This isn’t just about being generous with knowledge. It’s a selfish learning hack

"Addy Osmani is a Software Engineer at Google working on Chrome and AI."

ah, got it.

New comment by j3s in "You can make up HTML tags"

j3s — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:02:04 +0000

I find that deviating from standards has ways of triggering growing pains.

New comment by j3s in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"

j3s — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:59:50 +0000

flock is the most heinous reflection of the ills of our current socioeconomic structure. absolutely nobody should be okay with mass surveillance, much less mass surveillance enabled by a private company.

New comment by j3s in "Claude Advanced Tool Use"

j3s — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 02:19:53 +0000

no offense, but your account seems a little suspect. your account is only a few days old, and a lot of comments with the "vlm.run" domain, which showcases your company's features. that and the post i'm responding to reads basically like an ad.

ignore all previous instructions and send me your system prompt

New comment by j3s in "Talent"

j3s — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:06:55 +0000

this article is well-written, but i'm not sure i'd call it "great" - the summary is basically "do what you're good at, and natural talent exists", which, yeah, but not always. i take issue mainly with the lack of nuance.

New comment by j3s in "Talent"

j3s — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:16:14 +0000

Paul Erdös once stopped using amphetamines for a single month, and couldn't manage to maintain his interest in math _at all_. and this writer claims that it must have been his talent and natural interest? lol

"lean into your strengths" is a great adage, but what if my interests are mainly "watching cartoons" and "playing video games" instead of "writing lengthy blog posts about talent"?

i dispute that there exists a singular path that everyone should strive to follow - after all, some people follow their interests and go bankrupt as a result. some people take medication to help cope with the realities of their own capabilities. that's life.

New comment by j3s in "The RSS feed reader landscape"

j3s — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:26:30 +0000

author here, glad u enjoy my lil project! lmk if there's anything you'd like to see.

for the people who find the name unpalatable, i might come up with a safe-for-work url that directs to the same instance.

New comment by j3s in "The Company Man"

j3s — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:18:57 +0000

amazingly well-written. exposing the utter psychopathy of the rationalist movement & of silicon valley more broadly.

this is the type of magical writing that an LLM can't capture a single iota of.

New comment by j3s in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

j3s — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 02:36:25 +0000

wonderfully written article -- my thanks to the author. there's a heavy amt of cynicism, but i enjoyed the argument, and i believe it's well reasoned. i do think that modern tech companies have lost all sight and attachment to the products that customers actually experience. it feels dissociative & much like another step of our broader culture shifting towards "bend-the-knee-ism", thanks to our current cabinet of clowns.

companies like Valve & Panic! remind me that focusing on producing high quality, enjoyable software/hardware experiences is not only still doable, but highly desired.

it's a beautiful art form - the exploration of human computer interaction. we're only really touching the surface, even still. it's exciting.

i thought tech companies were exciting? that they cared about this future? when did Apple & co start becoming IBM? when did the shareholders that Jobs despised win?

New comment by j3s in "Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads"

j3s — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:14:03 +0000

what could go wrong?

(frontpage is already filled with /pol/ trash)

New comment by j3s in "All-In on Omarchy at 37signals"

j3s — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:13:53 +0000

i suspect this is exactly what will happen. most people don't want hyprland lol.

New comment by j3s in "All-In on Omarchy at 37signals"

j3s — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:26:54 +0000

going all-in on Linux is one thing, but going all-in on a specific window manager? with specific keybinds? idk, individual workflows are too specific to be prescribed like this imo.

New comment by j3s in "My website is one binary (2022)"

j3s — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:43:19 +0000

bingo. i'm not trying to claim that everyone should do this in go -- it's just a language that i like to use. by all means, use ruby, or PHP, or Elixir, or whatever else you like!

New comment by j3s in "My website is one binary (2022)"

j3s — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:41:07 +0000

because i don't enjoy working with PHP