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New comment by jazzyjackson in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

jazzyjackson — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:43:54 +0000

You’re hilarious

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

jazzyjackson — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:56:06 +0000

OP did say “his kind”, leaving it as an exercise for the reader

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

jazzyjackson — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:07:46 +0000

“Sorry, I don’t know where you are”

New comment by jazzyjackson in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

jazzyjackson — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:34:43 +0000

I deleted my Google account but I’m pretty sure you can configure a Passkey on the device that lets you log in, and have that passkey in a password manager you’ve logged into on the new device and that will be considered good enough.

Setting aside my opinion that it’s asinine to upload passkeys to the cloud :)

New comment by jazzyjackson in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

jazzyjackson — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:23:33 +0000

I know they’re always changing things but I’m 99% sure one drive can be disabled with a checkbox either in “turn windows features on or off” or via group policy editor.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

jazzyjackson — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:53:44 +0000

Speaking of shitting on Dubai have they built any plumbing yet or are they still trucking their sewage out of town?

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

jazzyjackson — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:55:04 +0000

I’m out of the loop, why is compute better /after/ being launched into space? Is the idea just to be co-located within the ISP to reduce round trip time to the LLMs?

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

jazzyjackson — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:51:20 +0000

Personally I can go without owing money to Saudi royals.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

jazzyjackson — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:43:01 +0000

Baller

New comment by jazzyjackson in "The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)"

jazzyjackson — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:42:01 +0000

It also has an interesting capability to absorb smudges and oils, I use it to clean watch dials, just dragging the putty over the surface.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)"

jazzyjackson — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:21:20 +0000

There’s a very useful putty for watchmakers called Rodico, it can serve this purpose well and can also be stuck to a screwdriver to hold onto the screw while placing it, instead of relying on magnetism (no good in watchmaking to magnetize your screws, I figure cameras are similar, you can increase resistance to movement if magnetism pulls things together…)

I’ve also seen a clever technique of drawing a diagram of whatever you’re working on on cardboard, and stabbing the screw into the cardboard to keep track of where everything lives

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

jazzyjackson — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:17:12 +0000

But why would I prefer to have an AI summary of a social interaction than just having the social interaction ?

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:35:17 +0000

I’ll explain it: these tools are non-deterministic and people have different experiences with them. For a few people every interaction is totally fumbled and they think the cheerleaders of gen AI must be lying, for others the chatbot hits one home run after another and lets them add microcontrollers to their CAN bus. When these people’s good luck runs out and they start getting mixed results like the average user, they assert the service must have been down graded

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:30:26 +0000

If you social interactions can be mediated by a chatbot I implore you to find better social interaction

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:12:44 +0000

It’s not inevitable if people choose to make it illegal. Illinois for one has strict laws around collecting bioinformatics.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

jazzyjackson — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:29:16 +0000

Just that the default reality is the hardware you buy belonging to someone else, who only really sold you a license to use the hardware on limited terms until the manufacturer drops support

New comment by jazzyjackson in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

jazzyjackson — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:10:18 +0000

I guess the claim is simply that AI written code is verbose and there’s lots of it being created but I agree, these systems seem to be able to create lots of low quality software, so until FreeCAD has feature parity with Solidworks I’m bearish on the singularity.

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx"

jazzyjackson — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:29:18 +0000

If you really want to dig into semantic fuzzy search you can check out the wordnet project and chatscript, which provides an excellent lem , stem , and parse tool which tags each search term with its term in wordnet, so you can match against a hierarchy of concepts, including category of food. There are other solutions I’m sure but I’ve always wanted to make a local db search with this, I think it would be more structured and debuggable thank straight vector similarity

https://github.com/ChatScript/ChatScript

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts"

jazzyjackson — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:24:16 +0000

Plus any kids that played with firecrackers has a visceral sense of how much power is in fractions of a stick of dynamite

New comment by jazzyjackson in "Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding"

jazzyjackson — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:24:56 +0000

Website Obesity mentioned ! [0]

  This project led me to propose the Taft Test:

  Does your page design improve when you replace every image with William Howard Taft?

  If so, then, maybe all those images aren’t adding a lot to your article. At the very least, leave Taft there! You just admitted it looks better.

[0] (idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity): https://web.archive.org/web/20260421022440/https://idlewords...