Hacker News: jachee

New comment by jachee in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

jachee — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:10:00 +0000

> we're not talking about a product that kills its users

Yeah, it just pushes the ones with the tendency to do it themselves.

New comment by jachee in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

jachee — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:32:08 +0000

I got my Claude (client, not Code) to behave better by adding “I’d prefer answers to be succinct as possible—bordering on gruff, even. When I want more depth or explanation, I’ll ask.” to its settings literally this morning.

It made it write more like a dev than a marketing agent.

New comment by jachee in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

jachee — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:43:53 +0000

Yes.

New comment by jachee in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

jachee — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:37:37 +0000

The right wing doesn’t want to run the government, they want to occupy it so it doesn’t run except to enrich themselves.

New comment by jachee in "Zohran and the Short Link"

jachee — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:32:09 +0000

What if I told you there’s an existing protocol for doing Really Simple Syndication?

New comment by jachee in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

jachee — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:02:47 +0000

It can’t be destroying evidence if there’s no case or charge being pressed for which that material would be evidence.

“Entering the country while in possession of a device storing binary data” isn’t a crime.

New comment by jachee in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

jachee — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:51:32 +0000

It’s been pretty flimsy armor lately.

New comment by jachee in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"

jachee — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:57:39 +0000

“We’re sorry, Carol.”

New comment by jachee in "Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack"

jachee — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:31:42 +0000

There is no Epimemetic Division.

New comment by jachee in "Our position on open-weights models"

jachee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:25:23 +0000

What’s the equivalent term for “safety” that’s used by others?

New comment by jachee in "Em dashes are amazing"

jachee — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:12:09 +0000

Chicago does it one way and AP does it the other.

I definitely prefer it un-spaced, though, personally.

New comment by jachee in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

jachee — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:55:33 +0000

At no point did (or will) I defend the surveillance state.

New comment by jachee in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

jachee — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:23:00 +0000

Paintballs are even better, environmentally and effort-wise.

Especially if the propellant tank is pressurized using a solar powered compressor.

(Theoretically, of course. I wouldn’t advocate destroying private property.)

New comment by jachee in "My favorite keyboards"

jachee — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:15:44 +0000

My default layout has function keys as basically an "fn" key plus the appropriate number. I thought I was going to miss the dedicated keys way more than I do in practice.

If I were starting from scratch, and really had a function-key-centric workflow, I'd probably make the number keys (and - and + for F11 and F12 respectively) be tap-and-hold for that function key input.

New comment by jachee in "My favorite keyboards"

jachee — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:34:29 +0000

I love my moonlander, don't get me wrong, but I've also recently gotten a RealForce R3, and I love it, too. Very nice for a daily driver work keeb.

New comment by jachee in "The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing"

jachee — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:20:43 +0000

Not within the given time period. Only two there.

New comment by jachee in "The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing"

jachee — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:17:10 +0000

What if I told you that prison is also corporal punishment?

New comment by jachee in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

jachee — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:31:51 +0000

Nah… 2.5x diff. :P

New comment by jachee in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

jachee — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:46:43 +0000

That was two $500/mo servers, not $2500/mo.

New comment by jachee in "Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game"

jachee — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:03:45 +0000

The hole (like in IRL golf) has a flag in it. :)

The Overview button helps get an idea of where to go.