Hacker News: j4coh

New comment by j4coh in "ICE Begins Buying 'Mega' Warehouse Detention Centers Across US"

j4coh — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:55:29 +0000

Getting ready for the elections?

New comment by j4coh in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

j4coh — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:08:21 +0000

I guess one difference is now you can ask an LLM, trained on an open core product, to generate a license-free version of it.

New comment by j4coh in "Vibe coding kills open source"

j4coh — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:23:24 +0000

I am not sure if it kills open source, but it probably kills open core. You can just take a project like GitLab and ask an LLM, conveniently trained on the GitLab enterprise edition source code, to generate you a fresh copy of whatever features of EE you care about, but with the license laundered.

New comment by j4coh in "Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf]"

j4coh — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:24:25 +0000

It works for coding or system architecture and things like that, as well. For you, when you start thinking, a narrative voice appears? Is it debating yourself?

New comment by j4coh in "Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf]"

j4coh — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:51:15 +0000

I tend to think in images without an internal dialog running. If I think about an upcoming trip I will imagine a series of images related to the trip, possible places to go, or just generally the place. After a bit a potential conclusion appears fully formed in my mind. If I think about a work problem, I might imagine the document, a coworkers face, or something like that while ruminating on it. Basically it feels like the subconscious is handling the details and the conscious self overall directs it.

Occasionally there is some snippet of a sentence I imagine, but it’s almost always cut off prior to finishing the sentence. If I imagine writing something, though, I’ll speak it to myself in my head.

Funnily enough, I’m a pretty weak mental visualiser too. I don’t have aphantasia but metal images are very transparent and dark.

New comment by j4coh in "28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset"

j4coh — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:22:17 +0000

Oh to have had a delete account/comments option.

New comment by j4coh in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

j4coh — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:00:57 +0000

I don't believe companies can reliably tell expert and non-expert developers apart, to sort them so efficiently to play out like you say.

New comment by j4coh in "AI has a deep understanding of how this code works"

j4coh — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:58:30 +0000

After having previously said "AI has a very deep understanding of how this code works. Please challenge me on this."

New comment by j4coh in "AI has a deep understanding of how this code works"

j4coh — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:56:32 +0000

"Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it."

New comment by j4coh in "Students fight back over course taught by AI"

j4coh — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:15:39 +0000

It will work better if you try it with something you know really well.

New comment by j4coh in "Students fight back over course taught by AI"

j4coh — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:13:20 +0000

Next try it on something rare you're an expert in, and be amazed at the low quality.

New comment by j4coh in "How long can it take to become a US citizen?"

j4coh — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:19:28 +0000

Not even in that only 3% of the US population is Native American, and the rest are therefore descended from or are themselves immigrants?

New comment by j4coh in "How long can it take to become a US citizen?"

j4coh — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:07:10 +0000

It’s not an argument, it’s a value.

New comment by j4coh in "How long can it take to become a US citizen?"

j4coh — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:33:13 +0000

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

New comment by j4coh in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

j4coh — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:00:39 +0000

They need to show usage going up and to the right or the house of cards falls apart. So now you’re forced to use it.

New comment by j4coh in "Collaboration sucks"

j4coh — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:22:41 +0000

What do you mean? If I really own something, it's my call.

New comment by j4coh in "Show HN: Gametje – A casual online gaming platform"

j4coh — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:09:18 +0000

Apart from that it could be taken to mean "little sperm or egg cell".

New comment by j4coh in "Rock Tumbler Instructions"

j4coh — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:00:14 +0000

As best I can tell you can’t even properly monetise this or get VC funding. Seems like a waste of effort.

New comment by j4coh in "Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died"

j4coh — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:50:10 +0000

Where? I watched his videos and I never saw him say anything like what you’ve written.

New comment by j4coh in "Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died"

j4coh — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:29:20 +0000

These are things you know? Or this is what you imagine might have happened and what he might have been thinking? For me it makes quite a big difference on how seriously to take you, if you actually know him or not (not in a parasocial way).