Hacker News: jahewson

New comment by jahewson in "FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools"

jahewson — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:07:45 +0000

This would be a $1000 custom part in a Miele appliance though.

New comment by jahewson in "AI World Clocks"

jahewson — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:10:46 +0000

Engineers use their ingenuity. That’s it.

If physical engineers understood everything then standards would not have changed in many decades. Safety factors would be mostly unnecessary. Clearly not the case.

New comment by jahewson in "AI World Clocks"

jahewson — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:23:41 +0000

Maybe we could keep the conversation out of the gutter.

New comment by jahewson in "Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source"

jahewson — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:11:58 +0000

It reads like a sales call where they’re getting customer pushback and responding with something quantitative - not a good opener at all, especially for this audience. The GPT tone pushes it over the edge.

What they built looks great and I don’t disagree with their take in substance, but you get one chance to make your open source announcement good - don’t blow it like this.

New comment by jahewson in "How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time"

jahewson — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:54:41 +0000

I very much dislike the way this article blurs religious and doomsday thinking with conspiracy theory thinking. There’s nobody conspiring on the other side of AGI. Other than that it makes many good observations.

New comment by jahewson in "Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B"

jahewson — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:36:41 +0000

Isn’t this a counter factual that can’t be proved? How do you know it won’t deter other companies?

New comment by jahewson in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

jahewson — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:46:05 +0000

What would you recommend instead?

New comment by jahewson in "Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965"

jahewson — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:42:56 +0000

Yes I think that’s what it is - only the writing on the map uses a horizontal baseline whereas the real script uses a sloping baseline so it looks weird here.

New comment by jahewson in "Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction"

jahewson — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:12:26 +0000

Being able to give a good speech is merit when the goal is to select a leader.

New comment by jahewson in "When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire"

jahewson — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 05:43:25 +0000

Where do you guys get this nonsense from? Is there some sort of conspiracy theory factory? Do you have any idea how the rest of the world behaved during this time period? You are aware that the Muslims literally had multiple empires?

New comment by jahewson in "Everything I know about good API design"

jahewson — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:13:39 +0000

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New comment by jahewson in "A general Fortran code for solutions of problems in space mechanics [pdf]"

jahewson — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:55:10 +0000

Non-secretary women were not in short supply at NASA at this time though. The work of Virginia E. Morrell and Bonnie J. McBride a few years earlier, at this same research center springs to mind.

New comment by jahewson in "1910: The year the modern world lost its mind"

jahewson — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 07:21:23 +0000

Maybe they did…

New comment by jahewson in "Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network"

jahewson — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:31:39 +0000

Car companies, including Hyundai, pay fines of that magnitude every few years for various issues. Yet the issues keep coming.

New comment by jahewson in "Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%"

jahewson — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:34:37 +0000

Bad news for Schrödinger?

New comment by jahewson in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK"

jahewson — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:33:46 +0000

Indeed, CloudFlare Workers does this. Would love to see more.

New comment by jahewson in "Study mode"

jahewson — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:01:24 +0000

Same way you know for humans?

New comment by jahewson in "Historical Tech Tree"

jahewson — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:54:59 +0000

Cool concept. I’d love a vertical version for mobile.

New comment by jahewson in "Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game"

jahewson — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:33:16 +0000

This is such a fun concept!

New comment by jahewson in "‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]"

jahewson — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:49:28 +0000

I see no Sudan flags on campus. No Sudan marches in the streets. No Sudan emojis in people’s Twitter handles. No solidarity with Sudan at music festivals.