Hacker News: jadbox

New comment by jadbox in "Who are the fire-tamers?"

jadbox — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:18:51 +0000

Praise the Sun \o/

New comment by jadbox in "Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch"

jadbox — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:10:17 +0000

As someone who is pitch-challenged, thank you

New comment by jadbox in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

jadbox — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:10:45 +0000

I once reported a bug to Cavedog and stated I didn't have Internet access out in the country to download a patch. They were kind and sent me the patch with the fix via floppy in the mail!

New comment by jadbox in "'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York"

jadbox — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:58:10 +0000

This should be followed in every state.

New comment by jadbox in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

jadbox — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:19:20 +0000

Not _my_ opinion, but I just wanted to share that many people (in the Midwest) do believe that anything synthetic that it not readily made from simple materials has "less soul". It's a sorta test of "if I dropped you off in the jungle, can you still produce works of soul? Or are you just another cog in the machine.".

New comment by jadbox in "Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive'"

jadbox — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:22:48 +0000

Look, I'm not defending MS, but this feels like such a non-story. Every AI company wants people to love their product to use it as much as possible. EVERY game company every has wanted people to be addicted to their project. The context isn't "hypnotise people to use our AI against their will" but rather within Office products to make their AI so useful that people are 'addicted' to use it for all office work. This seems far less nefarious than the title.

New comment by jadbox in "Every Byte Matters"

jadbox — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:58:48 +0000

Zig's MultiArrayList is a cool language feature to support objects of collections, and I wish more languages had first class support for it (without overhead of copy's).

New comment by jadbox in "Qwen3.7-Plus: Multimodal Agent Intelligence"

jadbox — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:33:45 +0000

They also do not release Max models too.

New comment by jadbox in "Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness"

jadbox — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:54:49 +0000

Is there a good benchmark leaderboard between coding agents?

New comment by jadbox in "Childhood Computing"

jadbox — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:33:30 +0000

I LOVE how the C64 OS was a programming language (BASIC). Even if you used the hardware the gaming, you had to learn a little bit of programming (LOAD "*",8,1).

New comment by jadbox in "Childhood Computing"

jadbox — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:15:48 +0000

I had the same Tandy 1000 SX and also a Commodore 64. My parents did not approve of video game, so outside of pacman, these were equipment to learn programming when I was in my single digits. My major complaint of today's computers is that they are getting harder to harder to 'learn' coding. When you used the Commodore for example, the interface was the programming language. In a way, you HAD to learn a little bit of programming to even use it. iOS devices for a long time made local development an impossibility, although the situation has improved a bit since the early days (still no JIT allowed, but I digress).

New comment by jadbox in "ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies"

jadbox — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:39:22 +0000

Boggles my mind you'd even imagine a positive scenario here. Let the states choose? This is not only how we kept slavery going by letting states drive, but it also caused a civic war when we had no federal coordination.

Nay, we must reform and reclaim a just federal government. Letting states drive themselves will turn the country into extreme violence.

New comment by jadbox in "Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model"

jadbox — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:26:28 +0000

Sure, but again, it's a micro 3B model. Perhaps it can't be used for general video work, but it might be able to do basic edits like remove an object from a table in a shot.

New comment by jadbox in "Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024)"

jadbox — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:25:43 +0000

If I remember right, Nim sprang out from the D language community and uses it for different modules. It's been a long time since I kept up with the Nim community.

New comment by jadbox in "Googlebook"

jadbox — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:56:13 +0000

I argue this is both true and not true in stark ways with Google. Just look at Google Groups listserv, it's been running forever and arguably mosts used neighborhood listservs globally and has been very stable.. all largely for free. On the other hand, new experiments get chopped very quickly at Google. So, it's more like if the service can survive 2 years, then Google generally keeps it around*.

* unless it gets merged dozens of times into other similar projects.

New comment by jadbox in "Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale"

jadbox — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:43:51 +0000

Can this run locally or is this a service?

New comment by jadbox in "UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)"

jadbox — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:06:26 +0000

I'm a big fan of Ted Chiang's "Understand" short story, but I think your way over hyping the study there: more neuron growth does not even generally translate to higher intelligence and can often introduce a variety of degenerative effects because pathways are not being grown a an organized systematic way through natural process of experience adaptation.

New comment by jadbox in "TanStack NPM Packages Compromised"

jadbox — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:02:26 +0000

Exactly, the only real way to escape this madness is if we move back to "Standard Libs" where your project only depends on 1-3 core libraries. For example, .NET and Java are almost entire 'kitchen sink' ecosystems. Arguably for simple projects, Go has a fairly large standard lib.

New comment by jadbox in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

jadbox — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:41:04 +0000

Jarred has already said on Twitter that this was only an experiment for comparisons and very, very unlikely that they'd switch to Rust.

New comment by jadbox in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

jadbox — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:46:15 +0000

I feel seen. It's compounded if you also need to add HIPAA row-level security compliance that spans to every form of resource.