Hacker News: jbaber

New comment by jbaber in "Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)"

jbaber — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:34:17 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by jbaber in "The Last Quiet Thing"

jbaber — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:53:00 +0000

[Buzzkill] for android lets you completely control if you get specific notifications at all or with sound etc. I bunch up noisy text threads in once-a-day chunks, silence all notifications not about/from nuclear family from sleep to wake, etc.

It really made me appreciate that, when I have to have my phone, notifications are like an extra obnoxious form of e-mail with all of its problems. [Buzzkill] gives me the phone equivalent of Inbox Zero.

[Buzzkill]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....

New comment by jbaber in "A brief history of instant coffee"

jbaber — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:59:13 +0000

technologyconnections has connected several things to his car charger, including kettles

New comment by jbaber in "Ubuntu now has higher system hardware requirements than Windows 11"

jbaber — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:31:54 +0000

For instance, I installed Xubuntu on an ancient laptop (reluctantly ensured it was 64-bit, but that's it) recently and everything's fine.

I wasn't told by the installer to watch out or have apt choke or anything.

New comment by jbaber in "Ubuntu now has higher system hardware requirements than Windows 11"

jbaber — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:29:05 +0000

This is the first time it occurred to me Xubuntu and Kubuntu might be somehow unofficial. I'm not plugged into the Ubuntu community, so figured the flavors were offered by Canonical.

Why is the server version so supposedly demanding if you can install it without X/Wayland? Or can't you?

New comment by jbaber in "Squarified Treemap Algorithm"

jbaber — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:24:23 +0000

And diskonaut and gdmap.

New comment by jbaber in "Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)"

jbaber — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:39:39 +0000

This is a reach, but do you know where to find the essay I read about someone explaining to King David that a whale isn't a fish and the King laughs at him because his modern mammal explanations are useless and impractical compared to the ones he uses?

I've been trying to re-find it for ages.

New comment by jbaber in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

jbaber — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:39:36 +0000

Meet developers where they are: have multiple remotes at multiple forges and mailing lists.

Don't keep all your eggs in one basket.

New comment by jbaber in "Show HN: Red Grid Link – peer-to-peer team tracking over Bluetooth, no servers"

jbaber — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:53:02 +0000

Is this iOS only?

New comment by jbaber in "3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide"

jbaber — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:30:55 +0000

This happened to me.

I tried to be a good boy and wrote to the company asking for zipper parts to fix it and they told me to buy another jacket.

So I looked for companies that advertise repairability and found Patagonia made the most believable claims. Quite reasonable now that I'm old and rich, but I wouldn't have had the choice when young and poor.

New comment by jbaber in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

jbaber — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:08:22 +0000

One of the virtues of HN is polite prodding when the rules are broken.

New comment by jbaber in "SSH Secret Menu"

jbaber — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:36:19 +0000

I used to think this and used things like `help2man`. I now disagree, but throwing it out there.

New comment by jbaber in "Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal"

jbaber — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:14:26 +0000

I tried to clean it up and put it [on sourcehut] and [on github].

[on sourcehut]: https://git.sr.ht/~jbaber/shadiff

[on github]: https://github.com/jbaber/shadiff

New comment by jbaber in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

jbaber — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:16:41 +0000

That's very good.

New comment by jbaber in "Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal"

jbaber — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:21:08 +0000

I wrote a script that takes two git commits and opens all changed files in vimdiff tabs side by side. I find lots of things too hard to see in github gui. It depends one [tpope's vim-fugitive].

[tpope's vim-fugitive]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

I'll paste it next time I'm on that machine.

New comment by jbaber in "Godot maintainers struggle with 'demoralizing' AI slop PRs"

jbaber — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:50:00 +0000

I agree that sieve is now a feature. And I regret it.

New comment by jbaber in "Godot maintainers struggle with 'demoralizing' AI slop PRs"

jbaber — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:46:10 +0000

The only lock-in for github is issue tracking and actions, yes? The actions lock-in could be significant, but issues can be exported and moved.

I'm glad we live far enough in the future that there are several alternatives. Of course sad to see github has come to this.

New comment by jbaber in "DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)"

jbaber — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:23:02 +0000

Any combination of ghostscript flags or something to turn a random pdf into one that uses these things to make a pdf as fast and small as a djvu?

New comment by jbaber in "Wikipedia: Sandbox"

jbaber — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:14:25 +0000

Often enough I just make a regular html table, the 'pandoc -f html -t mediawiki' or 'pandoc -f html -t markdown' as the case may be.

New comment by jbaber in "Not all Chess960 positions are equally complex"

jbaber — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:17:55 +0000

Working as Fischer intended, right?