Hacker News: jaxn

New comment by jaxn in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

jaxn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:22:04 +0000

But copilot code review agent is pretty good at catching when code and comments diverge (even in unrelated documentation files).

New comment by jaxn in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

jaxn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:19:48 +0000

I didn't even know there was a "three em dash". Bravo.

New comment by jaxn in "“Design me a highly resilient database”"

jaxn — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:10:27 +0000

i also first thought of point of sale servers

New comment by jaxn in "Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font"

jaxn — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:42:03 +0000

I used something like this tool to create 10 different fonts of my handwriting. Then I wrote scripts to randomize which font was used for each character, ensuring that no word had that same variant of a single letter. It worked incredibly well for a personalized printed mail campaign. It really did look hand written.

edit: basically what DANmode replied to the same parent. I did this 10 years ago while running for political office.

New comment by jaxn in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

jaxn — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:48:29 +0000

For some of us, the world has already changed drastically. I am shipping more code, better code, less buggy code WAY faster than ever before. Big systemic changes for the better to our infra as well. There are days where I easily do 2 weeks worth of my best work ever.

I totally understand that not everyone is having that experience. And yet until people live it, it seems they just discount the experience others are having.

I'll take the 12 month bet.

New comment by jaxn in "Google Workspace CLI"

jaxn — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:57:29 +0000

the LLM writes that too

New comment by jaxn in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

jaxn — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:50:27 +0000

I have a small-ish vertical SaaS that is used heavily by ~700 retail stores. I have enabled our customer success team to fix bugs using GitHub copilot. I approve the PRs, but they have fixed a surprising number of issues.

New comment by jaxn in "The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?"

jaxn — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:07:04 +0000

I have been using AI to remove tech debt faster than ever before.

New comment by jaxn in "GPT-5.2"

jaxn — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:42:28 +0000

People are confidently incorrect all the time. It is very likely that people will make up plausible sounding answers on StackOverflow.

You and I have both taken time out of our days to write plausible sounding answers that are essentially opposing hallucinations.

New comment by jaxn in "Show HN: Data Formulator – interactive AI agents for data analysis (Microsoft)"

jaxn — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 02:41:38 +0000

There are references to using connectors to connect to databases, but I can't find any documentation on how to actually do that.

New comment by jaxn in "Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study"

jaxn — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:56:00 +0000

Part of schools "affording" the best teachers is not money, but the amount of discipline problems they need to deal with. Which correlates to the financial status of the families at that school. For tons of reasons.

Which families tend to win the lottery to go to these schools? The parents that can afford to. Even if the school is free, the transportation is often not. Plus the parents have to have enough free time to be aware of the lottery for their 3 year old.

New comment by jaxn in "Apps SDK"

jaxn — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:30:47 +0000

Google wasn’t always profitable.

New comment by jaxn in "Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way"

jaxn — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:01:21 +0000

Which is exactly how I was taught to do it while working in kitchens 25 years ago.

The other thing is that this seems to ignore that the onion is round in the other direction too. As far as I can see, it only covers the first dice cut.

New comment by jaxn in "Where are vacation homes located in the US?"

jaxn — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 22:28:13 +0000

So, no income tax right when you have less income?

New comment by jaxn in "FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores"

jaxn — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:41:34 +0000

That is true when you close an account (like paying off the last $10k on a home loan), but I don't think that is correct when paying a credit card down to a $0 balance and leaving it open.

The reason is that your credit score is impacted by both your available credit (higher is better) and credit utilization (lower is better). When you pay of the last of a home loan and close that account, your available credit goes down and your credit utilization goes up (assuming you had any other debt). Both of those hurt you. When you pay the credit card down to $0 and leave it open, your available crediot stays the same and your utilization goes down.

New comment by jaxn in "Encryption Is Not a Crime"

jaxn — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:58:20 +0000

I believe encryption is the most important 2nd Amendment issue of our time, but I never see it framed that way.

New comment by jaxn in "If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling"

jaxn — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 03:34:10 +0000

Maybe in an apartment. In a house, you want wired backhaul on access points, and wired streaming devices.

New comment by jaxn in "Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?"

jaxn — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:42:23 +0000

START works as well. At least for numbers provided by twilio: https://help.twilio.com/articles/223134027-Twilio-support-fo...

New comment by jaxn in "Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU"

jaxn — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:11:29 +0000

I got pretty far down that path during Covid for a feature of my saas, but limited to specific product categories on solid-ish backgrounds. Like with a lot of things, it’s easy to get good, and takes forever to get great.

New comment by jaxn in "Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right"

jaxn — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:24:50 +0000

I don't think VR is all that different from smartphones at the time of the iPhone launch. The Quest has sold over 20 million units. And at the time of the iPhone launch, a lot of people still had "camera phones" and "feature phones". Business users (like me) has Blackberry / Treo / or a few Windows devices. There were weird texting phones for teens that had keyboards, etc. But most people did not have a smartphone.