Hacker News: jb1991

New comment by jb1991 in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

jb1991 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:57:57 +0000

Unless I misunderstood your question, are you simply trying to use emacs bindings in all text areas of the browser like the URL bar, any text fields on webpages, being able to move to the beginning or the end of a line, backspace, etc., go to the next or previous line, all with emacs bindings? That has worked for decades on Mac and it works for me now in all browsers.

New comment by jb1991 in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

jb1991 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:08:36 +0000

Firefox emacs bindings still work on Mac since everywhere on macOS supports emacs bindings, nearly.

New comment by jb1991 in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

jb1991 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:40:14 +0000

He’s just a braggart. When you see something like this in somebody’s personal bio on social media, it’s basically a banner that means “take everything I say in the context of me promoting myself.”

New comment by jb1991 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

jb1991 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:36:21 +0000

The source of your information requires more scrutiny.

New comment by jb1991 in "The Last Technical Interview"

jb1991 — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:34:39 +0000

My point was that this perspective is not lost on the author of that article, as he directly addresses it.

New comment by jb1991 in "The Last Technical Interview"

jb1991 — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:57:52 +0000

That is directly addressed in the article.

New comment by jb1991 in "What Is a Dickover?"

jb1991 — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:08:53 +0000

I was thinking it would be nice if you could at least drag the popup out of the way so you could delay reading it while you first focus on what’s underneath. But then I realized, that would technically be a dick move.

New comment by jb1991 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

jb1991 — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:04:27 +0000

Now I am super curious, I really need to see an example of one of these videos!

New comment by jb1991 in "Everyone Against Us (2023)"

jb1991 — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:39:41 +0000

Here in Mexico I definitely know a few people who feel similarly.

New comment by jb1991 in "The Art of Money Getting"

jb1991 — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:47:46 +0000

I also think a big part of it is that it’s becoming more and more easy to cheat your way through life in many respects. Many people always chase the thing that makes the most money, and they’ll take every shortcut they can to get it. And the tools for cheating your way through life are evolving. Every aspect of the tool chain.

New comment by jb1991 in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

jb1991 — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:45:55 +0000

Exactly, this is very old C++ on display in this article. It’s certainly not as safe as a language like Rust, but quite a lot of undefended behavior and things that will shoot yourself in the foot have been changed over the last 10 years.

Most C++ today will be immediately obvious and not accidentally mixed up with C.

New comment by jb1991 in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

jb1991 — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:30:36 +0000

Some of the C++ code in this article has not been idiomatic in over a decade, and would be considered a code smell today. The language has evolved into quite a different language than when it was first created. As soon as I saw all of those raw pointers and direct pointer access, it was clear that at least part of this article should be taken with a grain of salt.

The other obvious issue with the overall perspective is that C and C++ are being thrown together directly as if somehow they’re nearly the same language, but they are really very far apart nowadays.

New comment by jb1991 in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

jb1991 — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:10:49 +0000

Is a trackpoint the same as a pointing stick?

New comment by jb1991 in "Prolog Coding Horror"

jb1991 — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:10:50 +0000

These two languages are completely different paradigms.

New comment by jb1991 in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

jb1991 — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:15:40 +0000

> pointing stick mouse. It adds high-precision pointing stick functionality to any setup

I’ve never heard these terms before. What is a pointing stick on a computer?

New comment by jb1991 in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

jb1991 — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:43:13 +0000

Or just about any movie theater of any kind outside of North America.

New comment by jb1991 in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

jb1991 — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:42:43 +0000

Outside North America just about every country I’ve ever lived in or visited had assigned movie ticket seats.

New comment by jb1991 in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

jb1991 — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:42:14 +0000

It’s the only way I’ve ever seen movie tickets sold outside of North America anywhere.

New comment by jb1991 in "Let's talk about LLMs"

jb1991 — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:58:06 +0000

Funny, I have the complete opposite impression after using claude code for a while. I would never trust it to design anything. Never again. But it can code pretty well given a very tight and limited scope.

New comment by jb1991 in "[dead]"

jb1991 — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:57:15 +0000

It’s a sad side effect of the AI revolution that no one knows what is real and trustworthy anymore. I saw a “rare” photo someone shared on Reddit of Hitler and it received tons of comments until it was pointed out that it’s definitely not a real photo.