Hacker News: jamroom

New comment by jamroom in "An old photo of a large BBS (2022)"

jamroom — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:31:58 +0000

Yep - I ran a 16 line Major BBS back in the mid 90's in Seattle - used what was called a "Bocaboard" - had 16 serial ports on it - plugged in 16 external USR 28.8 modems. It all ran off of one PC.

New comment by jamroom in "Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution (2025)"

jamroom — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:05:45 +0000

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

New comment by jamroom in "Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy"

jamroom — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:29:01 +0000

We didn’t go in to Irag because Saddam was a mass murderer - we went in because Bush lied to America that Saddam was trying to get yellow cake uranium to build a bomb. A lot of Americans were against the war because we knew Saddam was not involved in 9/11 but Bush jr wanted to finish what his father couldn’t in the first gulf war. Honestly I would love it if we cared enough about mass murderers to actually go in and help, but I just don’t see that being a reason.

New comment by jamroom in "Coffee for people who don't like coffee"

jamroom — Wed, 14 May 2025 01:22:32 +0000

My experience with people who "don't like the taste of coffee" usually has been that they don't like how bitter and strong the taste is, which is almost always tasting the "roast" instead of the bean. Single origin light roast is the way to go if you want a really good non-coffee tasting cup of coffee. My recommendation is central america single origin (Guatamala, Costa Rica, etc) - the beans from this region tend to lean towards caramel / chocolate / hazelnut tastes which goes a long way in getting non-coffee lovers to like a cup of coffee.

New comment by jamroom in "Y Combinator says Google is a monopolist, no comment about its OpenAI ties"

jamroom — Tue, 13 May 2025 23:06:04 +0000

The article doesn't appear to say that OpenAI is a monopolist - it's more a conflict of interest:

   However, YC is also closely tied to OpenAI, which is now directly competing against Google on search. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman used to run YC, while OpenAI was the first group affiliated with YC Research.

New comment by jamroom in "Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL"

jamroom — Mon, 05 May 2025 20:20:18 +0000

Quick question - is it possible to import multiple files at once? I frequently get ZIP files full of csv/xlsx files that I need to search through. I didn't see a way to import more than 1 file at a time. Thanks!

New comment by jamroom in "Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival"

jamroom — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:08:54 +0000

I've tried most archiving/bookmarking self hosted solutions I could find and the one I like the best is:

https://readeck.org/en/

New comment by jamroom in "Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets"

jamroom — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:31:04 +0000

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-instruct...

New comment by jamroom in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

jamroom — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:54:47 +0000

Over 200,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in Katrina:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_of_New_Orleans

Not sure how that is a "tiny fraction" of homes. $125 billion in damage (2005).

New comment by jamroom in "Post World War II Food"

jamroom — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 16:16:15 +0000

I had not seen this claim before, but upon checking it out it appears to be true:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_...

I'm guessing that is what they are talking about.

New comment by jamroom in "Is AWS S3 having an outage?"

jamroom — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:44:51 +0000

us-east-2 seeing tons of S3 errors.

New comment by jamroom in "US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink"

jamroom — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 20:07:03 +0000

Not sure what they use but I've used Speedtest CLI:

https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli

works good.

New comment by jamroom in "Wisconsin couple has old phones and nobody to buy them"

jamroom — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 17:17:07 +0000

Honestly based on the photos this looks like they are hoarders.

New comment by jamroom in "Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds"

jamroom — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 20:53:47 +0000

Do you have a link to one that shows A/C? I'm only seeing C/C (I'm A/C so curious). Thanks!

New comment by jamroom in "Goodbye, San Francisco"

jamroom — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:04:08 +0000

I don't know how accurate this list is, but it sure seems like most of the high crime cities in the US are NOT in the west:

https://www.safehome.org/resources/crime-statistics-by-state...

New comment by jamroom in "Apple Announces New MacBook Air with 15.3-Inch Display and M2 Chip"

jamroom — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:22:08 +0000

I suspect the majority of mac owners still have intel based macs so they want to highlight the performance improvement to those users - since they may be most likely to upgrade?

New comment by jamroom in "Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network to another PC"

jamroom — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:09:02 +0000

Yeah this is what you do - "restart in offline mode". I have my kids do this and we can all play whenever.

New comment by jamroom in "Ask HN: What's on your home server?"

jamroom — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 19:34:24 +0000

Gitea works really well for this - just choose "new migration" and set the remote up as a mirror - super easy.

New comment by jamroom in "Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine"

jamroom — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 20:22:43 +0000

Yeah I can't access our services on us-east-2 on AT&T 5G but CAN on my CenturyLink fiber.

New comment by jamroom in "Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine"

jamroom — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 20:21:42 +0000

We're still up on us-east-2 but lots of customers calling in that they can't connect - makes me think there's some network down somewhere.