Hacker News: jLaForest

New comment by jLaForest in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

jLaForest — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:31:02 +0000

Datalix seems fully sold out to me

New comment by jLaForest in "How to earn a billion dollars"

jLaForest — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:38:40 +0000

Selling others labor isn't legitimate earning when you get a higher share of the labors value than the laborer themselves.

New comment by jLaForest in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

jLaForest — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:47:12 +0000

Tell that to the people of Alabama who just had their primary election results cancelled

New comment by jLaForest in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

jLaForest — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:46:05 +0000

Anyone willingly making that choice has a massive safety net protecting them (almost always family money)

New comment by jLaForest in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

jLaForest — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:23:43 +0000

Maybe snowflake was a bad example considering that stock is up 36 percent today haha

New comment by jLaForest in "Don't Subscribe So Casually"

jLaForest — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:17:28 +0000

Do they also give a prorated refund? Otherwise that seems to be blatant theft

New comment by jLaForest in "The user is visibly frustrated"

jLaForest — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:08:59 +0000

Yea I've definely called it an auto complete clanker a few times and it's never given me any backtalk

New comment by jLaForest in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

jLaForest — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:12:10 +0000

The gas furnace in my basement don't have a massive jet turbine emiting high frequency noise

New comment by jLaForest in "Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

jLaForest — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:44:29 +0000

The purpose of this war is to distract from the Epstein files, and it's been very successful

New comment by jLaForest in "A nicer voltmeter clock"

jLaForest — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:42:21 +0000

I've had a lot of fun with onshape, it's free for public projects

New comment by jLaForest in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

jLaForest — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:45:42 +0000

While the burning of methane is cleaner, the extraction of methane is a massive source of uncontrolled pollution emissions which is made worse by the fact that methane is 20x worse for greenhouse effect than CO2. Clean methane is another green washing myth to encourage people to keep consuming at much as possible

New comment by jLaForest in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

jLaForest — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:29:02 +0000

It sounds like you are describing oh my open agent

New comment by jLaForest in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"

jLaForest — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:24:12 +0000

tell that to those Iranian school girls, oh wait you cant cause palantir is incompetent and those kids are dead

New comment by jLaForest in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

jLaForest — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:52:07 +0000

the point is that they tipped their hand about where they want to go in the future. They are just A B testing to see how much it pissed off their customers

New comment by jLaForest in "Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code"

jLaForest — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:56:27 +0000

very cool, im working on a similar kicad tool for dong the fully schematic generation and pcb layout using python generated by AI. Not quite ready to publish it yet, but im glad im not the only one who sees the potential of AI generated code + kicad

New comment by jLaForest in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

jLaForest — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:32:23 +0000

After last week I canceled my claude subscription and bought the GitHub copilot subscription ($40/mo tier) so far I've been very happy, haven't hit any usage limits yet and seems like I won't ever at this rate

New comment by jLaForest in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

jLaForest — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:03:44 +0000

You over estimate the American publics capacity for critical thought and reflection. Most Americans will come away from this humiliation thinking we just need to increase the military budget

New comment by jLaForest in "Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)"

jLaForest — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:53:00 +0000

Chambers aren't available so I wouldn't hold you breath waiting for lofts

New comment by jLaForest in "What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?"

jLaForest — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:12:08 +0000

Jevons paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

New comment by jLaForest in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

jLaForest — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:11:18 +0000

Read my comment again, I watched the videos with my own eyes.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." — George Orwell, 1984.