Hacker News: jayknight

New comment by jayknight in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

jayknight — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:28:51 +0000

And for folks that do want to bury the body, it can be done way cheaper than the funeral industrial complex would have you believe. Our church keeps a simple coffin on hand that the family can use at cost. And we have folks who will prepare the body and bring it to the church. The only part we don't usually do is dig the grave. Cemeteries usually include that in the cost of the plot.

New comment by jayknight in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

jayknight — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:17:13 +0000

Next year they will introduce "hAIngouts" as an AI chat bot.

New comment by jayknight in "iNaturalist"

jayknight — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:47:20 +0000

It has options to hide or obscure the location, which I use whenever I'm anywhere near my house, but it should be a little better about prompting users to use that.

New comment by jayknight in "Show HN: Github.blog Down"

jayknight — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:08:39 +0000

Works for me.

New comment by jayknight in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

jayknight — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:14:18 +0000

Just run WSL inside of Windows.

New comment by jayknight in "Show HN: Detect any object in satellite imagery using a text prompt"

jayknight — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:08:02 +0000

Neat. I was recently wondering if there was a way to find houses in my area that had roof-top solar, just to get an idea of how common it was.

New comment by jayknight in "‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)"

jayknight — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:47:42 +0000

I've heard it, but only in a tongue-in-cheek context, at least the way I've always interpreted it.

New comment by jayknight in "EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source)"

jayknight — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:33:45 +0000

> then step on them for the kill

I heard the sound effect of that when I read you're comment.

New comment by jayknight in "As HN: Why is no one using my free library?"

jayknight — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:05:50 +0000

Find an open-source project that has a react frontend and could use a tour, and create a PR for a nice tour using your library. Be transparent that you're the author of the library and you've done this work to showcase the capabilities of it.

I personally usually dislike that kind of tour and look for the skip button as soon as I can, so I'm not sure what sort of reception you'll see, so be prepared for it to be rejected. But then you can try again somewhere else (without getting spammy)

New comment by jayknight in "YouTube Is Down"

jayknight — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:16:59 +0000

I'm currently sitting next to my son who is watching a Mark Rober video on youtube.

But yeah, neither the web site or the app are loading anything right now. But I guess a stream in progress in unaffected.

New comment by jayknight in "X has under 30 engineers"

jayknight — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:32:52 +0000

https://xcancel.com/nikitabier/status/2021992577642508562

New comment by jayknight in "Microblogging from Your Terminal"

jayknight — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:34:55 +0000

>Authenticate with your SSH key. Your public key is your identity.

Can I add multiple keys somehow? Like if I want to connect from different machines, or rotate my key one day?

New comment by jayknight in "A list of fun destinations for telnet"

jayknight — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:22:26 +0000

We'll all just be fingering each other.

Google shutting down Gmailify after nearly 10 years

jayknight — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:04:47 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5google.com/2026/01/23/gmail-gmailify-pop-shutting-down/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748645

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

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

jayknight — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:44:47 +0000

Yeah, and this solution results in paper ballots. You get three different ways to count them.

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

jayknight — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:57:09 +0000

My state uses a system that I think is the best of most worlds. You check in at one table, they give you a "receipt" that you give to another table who trades that for a little card. The card isn't linked to you at all and it gives you access to a voting machine. You enter your choices into the machine, which prints out a paper ballot that you can review and verify before putting it into the box as you leave. So, your vote is recorded by the voting machine for quick tallying, but your vote is also recorded on paper that is human and machine readable for verifiable re-counts if needed.

New comment by jayknight in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

jayknight — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:35:55 +0000

Lawnchair has been good enough for me, get a recent development build, they don't release very often.

New comment by jayknight in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

jayknight — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:59:51 +0000

See this MKBHD video for an idea of features in Chinese EVs.

https://youtu.be/Mb6H7trzMfI

New comment by jayknight in "[dead]"

jayknight — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:14:31 +0000

From the FAQ:

> How do I make a link in a text submission?

>You can't. This is to prevent people from submitting a link with their comments in a privileged position at the top of the page. If you want to submit a link with comments, just submit the link, then add a regular comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

New comment by jayknight in "[dead]"

jayknight — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:10:59 +0000

I don't submit much, but doesn't the text section of a link submission just get posted as the first comment?