Hacker News: jaydenmilne

New comment by jaydenmilne in "WireGuard for Windows Reaches v1.0"

jaydenmilne — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:37:19 +0000

Very impressive work, WireGuard is a phenomenal piece of software, congrats on getting to 1.0

I can see Raymond Chen’s eye twitching at some of those (clever and necessary!) undocumented workarounds though :D

Windows is just a different world I guess

New comment by jaydenmilne in "MacBook Neo"

jaydenmilne — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:42:06 +0000

People forget that macOS and even Windows (well, pre-11) excel at swapping. There are all sorts of hacks and tricks they do to make sure the system remains responsive when under severe memory pressure.

This compared to Linux, where desktop environments seem to get noticeably bogged down and stressed out when swapping (the cursor starts stuttering and the shell becomes unresponsive).

Although even KDE does OK on 4gb of RAM in 2026 as long as you only have one instance of Chromium loaded.

New comment by jaydenmilne in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

jaydenmilne — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:00:27 +0000

Other states that do this well don't start counting mail in ballots until after polls closed. They know if someone voted in person, so their mail in ballot is rejected before being opened and verified.

New comment by jaydenmilne in "The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025"

jaydenmilne — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:44:44 +0000

I ought to complain about YouTube more often, #47 with an average of 1200 points per post

New comment by jaydenmilne in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

jaydenmilne — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:12:26 +0000

Technically correct, the best kind of correct

New comment by jaydenmilne in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

jaydenmilne — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:09:32 +0000

Unfortunately I don't have pictures from before this change, but you used to get 5-6 videos I believe. Now you get two (and maybe one is an ad).

The point is that I made a joke projection in my last post in April that by next May there would be only one video on the homepage, because obviously that would be ridiculous, right? Then I turned on my TV and it happened.

See the previous blog post: https://jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses....

New comment by jaydenmilne in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

jaydenmilne — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:04:31 +0000

Satire is dead

Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

jaydenmilne — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:04:31 +0000

Related: Someone at YouTube needs glasses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846487 - April 2025 (694 comments)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051340

Points: 1001

# Comments: 692

New comment by jaydenmilne in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

jaydenmilne — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:05:45 +0000

1070 TI works perfect on Arch for the past ~6 months with latest drivers (better than Debian stable!). This card is old enough that only the closed source drivers are supported, but it seems to work fine.

New comment by jaydenmilne in "RF Shielding History: When the FCC Cracked Down on Computers"

jaydenmilne — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:56:03 +0000

Tangentially related: once I bought a no name Amazon HDMI switch that would cause FM interference but only when the screen was mostly white: https://youtu.be/n2DPLEvwO-k

Another reason to use dark mode I guess

New comment by jaydenmilne in "Gmail Autopilot (2009)"

jaydenmilne — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:48:49 +0000

In which the Gmail team lampoons the agentic AI future 16 years in advance.

Clearly you’d never want a computer reading and responding to your emails unsupervised - right?

Gmail Autopilot (2009)

jaydenmilne — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:48:49 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.google/autopilot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45038929

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jaydenmilne in "Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month"

jaydenmilne — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:06:09 +0000

ArchiveTeam is trying to brute force the entire URL space before its too late. You can run a Virtualbox VM/docker image (ArchiveTeam Warrior) to help (unique IPs are needed). I've been running it for a couple months and found a million.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

New comment by jaydenmilne in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

jaydenmilne — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:28:38 +0000

"Writing is its own reward"

― Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

"… and now its Sam Altman’s reward too!"

― Jayden Milne (2025). https://jayd.ml/about/

I think both are true.

New comment by jaydenmilne in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

jaydenmilne — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:46:15 +0000

I’ve noticed that they have different, worse headlines in the digital edition and on the web. They seem more clickbaity.

I just want to get on the record and say that whoever in the paper argues for and writes the fun headlines is on the right side of history

New comment by jaydenmilne in "Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure"

jaydenmilne — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:24:05 +0000

Microsoft has ruined their PC games with this. I hesitate to fire up Minecraft or Master Chief Collection these days because I just _know_ it is going to make me reauth for no apparent reason. I took 2FA off my Microsoft account because of this, so congrats.

These are a video games, not a bank account! Please just let me have fun!

New comment by jaydenmilne in "How to post when no one is reading"

jaydenmilne — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:35:54 +0000

“Writing is its own reward”

― Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

“… and now its Sam Altman’s reward too!”

― Jayden Milne (2025). “About”, https://jayd.ml/about

New comment by jaydenmilne in "The Machine Stops (1909)"

jaydenmilne — Thu, 22 May 2025 03:39:36 +0000

I read this and was left wondering - is this about technology, or civilization?

I think the machine is just other people. And maybe the music has seemed off lately.

New comment by jaydenmilne in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

jaydenmilne — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:13:31 +0000

I've done this. For example, here's some handycam HI8 footage of STS-106 and a launch tower tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2eye32EA8

Filmed in HI8 480p, but YouTube's 480p looks like mud and doesn't do the uncompressed analog source justice. You can see this when you select 4K

New comment by jaydenmilne in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

jaydenmilne — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:43:42 +0000

YouTube should just show ads, that's what makes money anyway right?

Cable TV figured this out a long time ago.