Hacker News: jalada

New comment by jalada in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

jalada — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:01:48 +0000

Spotify pretending like they don’t want AI artists. Once you’re locked in, you won’t look, and they can make maximum ad $$$ and pay no one.

New comment by jalada in "Is beef tallow making a comeback?"

jalada — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:45:18 +0000

Depends on the room.

New comment by jalada in "How random is xkcd? (2015)"

jalada — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:17:51 +0000

Reminds me of Spotify's post about shuffling songs: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-son...

New comment by jalada in "Reclaiming the web with a personal reader"

jalada — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:39:59 +0000

It's looking dated now but I built https://www.rivered.io 10 years ago, based on the same theory, inspired by Dave Winer's discussion on the topic: http://scripting.com/2014/06/02/whatIsARiverOfNewsAggregator....

New comment by jalada in "Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features"

jalada — Tue, 16 May 2023 14:53:45 +0000

I know there's a lot of concerns about generative voices, but it's a shame the only solution is 'insist on a live recording of random phrases'. For those whose voices have already degenerated, but who have hours of recordings available from historical sources (e.g. speech therapy sessions), it's too late to ask them to record something fresh.

Don't get me wrong, it's fantastic to see the tech being used this way. My Dad has lost most of his speech due to some kind of aphasia-causing condition and if this had been available just a year or two ago it could've been a big help for him; it's reassuring that others earlier in the journey will benefit from this.

New comment by jalada in "Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters"

jalada — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 06:34:47 +0000

When I was in Paris in 2019 I tried to use their e-scooters and it was nearly impossible because angry locals had sharpie-d over every barcode so you couldn’t scan them. I’m surprised the companies haven’t left already.

New comment by jalada in "How to Befriend Crows"

jalada — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 22:59:32 +0000

Cute. My parents' house has, for a few years now, been plagued by crows attacking the windows in the early hours of the morning, dive-bombing them, standing outside them screaming, pecking them, etc. If they're not attacking the house they're on the roof or in nearby trees screaming.

The closest to a solution has been to cover every window with outside blinds to at least stop them smashing into them.

I stayed with them for a few months and was woken up by this every morning without fail. Honestly, it was pretty distressing.

I love birds and feed them in our garden (so do my parents!), but I wouldn't want to encourage crows to follow me around after that. I'm always in two minds about this tendency for humans to...humanise...animal behaviour.

New comment by jalada in "Framework Ethernet Expansion Card is now available"

jalada — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 07:56:28 +0000

Orinoco cards were also great for wardriving, I paid a premium to get one over here in the UK (where they were way less common) with an external antenna connector on it.

New comment by jalada in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)"

jalada — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 08:28:27 +0000

Pixie Labs is a digital product agency. We partner with organisations to design, build and launch software that brings their most valuable technology-driven experiences to life. As a senior engineer, you’ll help head up our clients’ development projects and write high-quality, reusable code whilst also sharing your knowledge and expertise with the rest of the team to help them do the same.

You may think an agency isn't for you - often it means hitting unrealistic deadlines imposed by clients, or writing terrible throwaway code just so the company gets paid. We're not like that; we focus on delivering at a sustainable pace and working closely with our clients to manage expectations. You can see for yourself how we manage and deliver projects in our handbook: https://handbook.pixielabs.io.

We're fairly polyglot, but specialise in and make heavy use of Ruby on Rails, Turbo (Hotwire and Stimulus), React and of course Next.js.

Full job spec: https://apply.workable.com/pixie-labs/j/18B26E12B9/

New comment by jalada in "This Year in Matrix"

jalada — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:08:03 +0000

Heads up for anyone thinking about trying out a homeserver or two. To my knowledge there is no way of moving from one piece of homeserver software to another. So for example if you start with conduit you're stuck with it. I think there are a bunch of plans all over the place to mitigate this, but I don't think they're there yet.

New comment by jalada in "Show HN: SlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox"

jalada — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 18:57:58 +0000

Very good.

New comment by jalada in "Gdrive-search: A TUI to quickly find files in your Google Drive"

jalada — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 12:46:14 +0000

Thanks for sharing, OP! I had a lot of fun learning Rust whilst building this, which means some of my code is probably questionable. Any hints about what I've done wildly wrong are much appreciated :)

New comment by jalada in "Computer-1 mini-ITX Chassis"

jalada — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:23:24 +0000

Those handles make it a good LAN party case!

New comment by jalada in "The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used"

jalada — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:49:02 +0000

For anyone who tl;dr:

> Only 61 percent the battery life of a similarly configured XPS 13

New comment by jalada in "Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?"

jalada — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 20:55:52 +0000

Here in the UK it's incredible how little immunotherapy is prescribed despite the fact that it's been available for ages and known to work. Anecdotally I have heard one problem is that allergy medicine is just not something that GPs are kept well informed about. My GP told me that it was 'unwise to mess with the immune system like this'. Uhh...vaccines?

(source: I have had immunotherapy)

New comment by jalada in "BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)"

jalada — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:39:42 +0000

I made a Twitter bot when this first came out that tweets random sounds from this every few hours: https://twitter.com/oh_sfx. A lot of different engine noises...

New comment by jalada in "Subspace – A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI"

jalada — Wed, 20 May 2020 07:23:51 +0000

It's still a thing, it was re-released on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum...

New comment by jalada in "Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019"

jalada — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 22:49:18 +0000

Yes. I think HN stole your asterisks. You meant:

  /.*=.*/ becomes /[^=]*=.*/

That is, zero or more 'not-equals-sign-characters', followed by an equals sign.

Where the first regex is 57 steps for x=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, the second is just 7.

Avoid using greedy .* for backtracking regex engines! Give your greedy regex engine the hints it needs to do what it does best.

New comment by jalada in "Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter"

jalada — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:20:14 +0000

Always nice to hear from people who still use Twitterfall!

New comment by jalada in "Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?"

jalada — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 01:05:30 +0000

Welcome to managing a team of eight people.