Hacker News: janpot

The two oldest printing presses

janpot — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:01:19 +0000

Article URL: https://museumplantinmoretus.be/en/worlds-two-oldest-printing-presses

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175748

Points: 33

# Comments: 11

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage [video]

janpot — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:02:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599690

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by janpot in "Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase"

janpot — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:44:43 +0000

In 2026, we call this "plan mode"

New comment by janpot in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

janpot — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:24:56 +0000

Dont't be evil, etc... we've seen it all before. Eventually ads will be hidden in the answers, it's just a matter of time, enshittification ensues eventually.

God, how stupid do they think we are?

SpaceX prioritizes lunar 'self-growing city' over Mars project

janpot — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:19:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/science/musk-says-spacex-prioritise-building-self-growing-city-moon-2026-02-08/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944900

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip

janpot — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:27:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/harvard-global-ranking-chinese-universities-trump-cuts.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645761

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by janpot in "Show HN: Diffswarm – GitHub-style review and workflow for any unified diff"

janpot — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 03:09:57 +0000

Cool idea. The GitHub link in the top-right corner appears to be broken

Olaf: Bringing an Animated Character to Life in the Physical World [video]

janpot — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:44:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L8OFMTteOo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46335764

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Sutton SignWriting is a writing system for sign languages

janpot — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:54:40 +0000

Article URL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44614747

Points: 36

# Comments: 10

New comment by janpot in "The Architecture Behind Lovable and Bolt"

janpot — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:00:02 +0000

was quite impressed after building my label maker application [1] and stylex playground [2]. Had some real world needs and both were built in bolt with 99% of edits made through prompts. My tips would mostly center around:

- don't try to fix mistakes, revert and try with an updated prompt. the context seems to get polluted otherwise.

- don't treat it as a black box, inspect the generated code and prompt to write specific abstractions. don't just tell it what to build, but also how. this is where experienced programmers will get way more mileage.

[1] https://courageous-toffee-e5dd6f.netlify.app/

[2] https://venerable-melomakarona-255f96.netlify.app/

In Memory of Mikeal Rogers: A Builder of Communities

janpot — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:38:57 +0000

Article URL: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/mikeal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44330032

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by janpot in "Can Earth's rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim"

janpot — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:01:45 +0000

"640K ought to be enough for anybody"

New comment by janpot in "Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS"

janpot — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:49:21 +0000

I wish they took the use-case of resizable panels into account. Even if the implementation is fully user-land, a styleable separator that can also receive events would be so useful.

New comment by janpot in "Calendar.txt"

janpot — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:07:02 +0000

my dad keeps his calendar in an excel file with almost the exact same format except he omits dates with no entries. Every week he prints a new version of this on a single A4 which he folds and keeps in his wallet. new events are hand written at the bottom and get included in the excel weekly. he's been doing this for as long as I can remember.