Hacker News: jamesbfb

New comment by jamesbfb in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

jamesbfb — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:01:25 +0000

No different to preventing game studios being liable for mass shootings. Reminds me of the post-Columbine hysteria where media was super critical of Doom and Nine Inch Nails.

New comment by jamesbfb in "Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker"

jamesbfb — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:29:59 +0000

Bless! Absolutely love this, and an absolutely no disrespect, this is vibe code goodness! These are the kinds of things I have an absolute ball building, usually when I’m sitting on the couch at the end of the day duel screening.

What’s the data source? Assuming NASA being NASA they have a public API for the mission?

New comment by jamesbfb in "The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms"

jamesbfb — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:24:06 +0000

I think we must be of a similar generation, I also remember being a kid seeing those stupid ads with celebrities “bending their finger”. It’s really gross to think how normalised gambling is.

There is another side to this though, and that’s our pub culture and how “big gambling” plays a role in keeping pubs financially viable with the help of pokies. In the wise words of Tim Whitlam, “Blow up the pokies”

New comment by jamesbfb in "The Weather Channel – RetroCast"

jamesbfb — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:39:08 +0000

Edit: deleted, someone already mention non-US locations not working

New comment by jamesbfb in "TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)"

jamesbfb — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:22:01 +0000

Rusty, of SomaFM fame? What a blessing to see you here! Mega fan, proud SomaFM mug owner from Australia :)

Ask HN: Old hat devs, how do you feel about LLMs and how do you stay engaged?

jamesbfb — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:51:40 +0000

In my 40s, head up a dev team and still cut and review code. I’m enamoured with all things AI, but I’m feeling this feeling akin to hitting IDDQD as a kid when playing doom; this isn’t fun anymore.

I sorely miss that dopamine hit when I manage to make some random compute method a million percent more performant after hours opposed to an LLM figuring it out in mere minutes, so I ask you this, what are you doing to remain excited with what you do?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912205

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by jamesbfb in "Django: what’s new in 6.0"

jamesbfb — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:27:02 +0000

I’m very much an Odoo guy who has dabbled with Django (and notably, celery in the past) but as someone who makes huge use of the Odoo OCA queue module[0], I never understood why Django never made use of the Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY to offload tasks. Maybe this is my misunderstanding as I’m pretty green with the Django ecosystem as a whole.

[0] https://github.com/oca/queue

New comment by jamesbfb in "McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash"

jamesbfb — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:12:12 +0000

It almost seems intentionally AI? If anything, if my job at Maccas…ahem, McDonald's (sorry, spot the Aussie) is in marketing, I’d expect to to be promptly fired if this wasn’t expected to pass for anything less than satire.

New comment by jamesbfb in "From Rockets to Heat Pumps"

jamesbfb — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 03:36:18 +0000

I’m always fascinated by how heat pumps (or reverse cycle units for Australians) are not the defacto standard in other countries and somehow come up for debate in the US. I remember watching one of the many TechnologyConnections videos on the subject and was wondering although interesting, what is with this focus on heat pumps being better than XYZ? Is the resistance to change really that great?

Being Australian, at least in Victoria, I don’t know of many houses that have gas heating. I also think it’s been a hot minute since I’ve seen household evap cooling, which I find has slowly been replaced by reverse cycle units given the climate has changed for us in VIC that the humidity increase over the years tends to make the evap units far less effective.

New comment by jamesbfb in "EQ: A video about all forms of equalizers"

jamesbfb — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:58:39 +0000

POSY is an absolute treasure. The time and effort he puts into his videos is absolutely evident.

New comment by jamesbfb in "European airports race to fix check-in glitch after hacking disruption"

jamesbfb — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:39:06 +0000

Left Brussels 6 hours after attending Odoo Experience and it was organised chaos at the airport. Heavy reliance on passengers checking in online first and using those details to check passengers and luggage in “manually”. I applaud the Emirates staff as to how well they handled it.

New comment by jamesbfb in "Texas brothers buy abandoned Boeing 727 for $10k"

jamesbfb — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 13:42:34 +0000

Brilliant.

New comment by jamesbfb in "The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done"

jamesbfb — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 10:13:19 +0000

In my 40s and I’ve recently been diagnosed with inattentive adhd. TFA makes a lot of sense to me given I’m one of the rare people at my company who commutes to the office every day even though we are an in-person optional workplace. Whenever I’ve had to WFH, I’ve struggled massively to gain an initial focus. Although medication has helped tremendously, I still feel much more productive in an office setting.

New comment by jamesbfb in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

jamesbfb — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:30:57 +0000

RIP Aaron

New comment by jamesbfb in "Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls"

jamesbfb — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:13:31 +0000

> Instantly speak to a sales rep

Soo, if you’re like me, booking a call is a necessity. Most days, half of my day is booked. How do you work around this?

That said, I do like the idea of a uniformed platform with a low barrier of entry when it comes to contacting me.

New comment by jamesbfb in "OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it"

jamesbfb — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:32:33 +0000

Update. Turns out PyCharm does not play nice with a plethora of symlinks. :(

New comment by jamesbfb in "OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it"

jamesbfb — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:41:07 +0000

Well, TIL. Being relatively new to nix, you’ve let me down another rabbit hole :)

New comment by jamesbfb in "OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it"

jamesbfb — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:20:48 +0000

Can relate. I’ve recently taken ownership of a new work laptop with Ubuntu (with “experimental” zfs) and using dedupe on my nix store has been an absolute blessing!

New comment by jamesbfb in "Busy Status Bar"

jamesbfb — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:19:53 +0000

I’ve blocked out 2 4 hour blocks for some work mandated sabbaticals for months now. It’s been great! People now remember the days and which block they can’t contact me, and work around it. It’s become such a successful thing that we recommend this to others within my team.

New comment by jamesbfb in "Video Surveillance with YOLO+llava"

jamesbfb — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 10:45:43 +0000

+1 for Frigate and Reolink. I have it running in a Proxmox VM on an old dell r710 (yes, it’s sucks watts and needs replacing) but all said, Frigate, is, amazing! The ease of integration with HA is equally great.