Hacker News: jboynyc

New comment by jboynyc in "‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid"

jboynyc — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:27:02 +0000

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vice_signalling

New comment by jboynyc in "An update on the Farphone's battery"

jboynyc — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 02:06:31 +0000

That's what the project cited as inspiration does: compost.party

AI tool helps find life-saving medicine for rare disease

jboynyc — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:25:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2025/february/ai-tool-helps-find-life-saving-medicine-for-rare-disease

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43475544

Points: 2

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"Greenwashing" Structural Adjustment: Should the IMF Lead the Energy Transition?

jboynyc — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:04:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/greenwashing-structural-adjustment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41938627

Points: 1

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AI Disclosures Project

jboynyc — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:33:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ssrc.org/programs/ai-disclosures-project/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41005185

Points: 1

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New comment by jboynyc in "A City Is Not a Computer (2017)"

jboynyc — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 01:17:46 +0000

Also: “A City is Not a Semilattice Either”

https://doi.org/10.1068/a080375

New comment by jboynyc in "Librum: Open-Source e-book platform"

jboynyc — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:46:13 +0000

Excellent answer, nothing to add.

New comment by jboynyc in "Librum: Open-Source e-book platform"

jboynyc — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:19:02 +0000

I suppose I'm not the only one wondering whether this could replace Calibre for me. Most features seem to be there, but will it allow me to sync ebooks to my Kobo device?

Blau space

jboynyc — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 10:56:06 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blau_space

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38671993

Points: 4

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Could long Covid 'brain fog' be an acquired form of ADHD?

jboynyc — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 23:30:17 +0000

Article URL: https://undark.org/2023/12/07/opinion-adhd-long-covid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38563247

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by jboynyc in "Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box"

jboynyc — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 23:33:34 +0000

There's also simple-nixos-mailserver: https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver

New comment by jboynyc in "Racket branch of Chez Scheme merging with mainline Chez Scheme"

jboynyc — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 09:06:00 +0000

Yes, there are many lovely people, but it is best not to romanticize the community as a whole -- it's got some issues, too: https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-i-no-longer-contrib...

Keeping Software Present: Software as a Timely Object for Studies of the Digital

jboynyc — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:53:22 +0000

Article URL: https://digitalsts.net/essays/keeping-software-present/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701418

Points: 1

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New comment by jboynyc in "Compromising Garmin Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and Its MonkeyC VM"

jboynyc — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 10:39:55 +0000

I use ActivityLog2 which also reads FIT files.

https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2/releases

New comment by jboynyc in "Need for cognition"

jboynyc — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 20:49:37 +0000

Perhaps Rationality and the Reflective Mind by Keith Stanovich (OUP, 2010). https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195341140.001.0001

There are some other interesting references in this blog post: https://culturecog.blog/2021/06/15/a-sociology-of-thinking-d...

Essentials of Compilation: An Incremental Approach in Racket

jboynyc — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:21:10 +0000

Article URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047760/essentials-of-compilation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34889177

Points: 2

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New comment by jboynyc in "Newsboat: an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console"

jboynyc — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 08:22:16 +0000

I didn't realize that Newsboat has Miniflux support! That means you can read your feeds from the console and keep everything in sync with the web interface or any other client software. I will try this out later.

https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/blob/master/CHANGELOG.m...

New comment by jboynyc in "Ask HN: What should I read next?"

jboynyc — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:22:07 +0000

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut.

New comment by jboynyc in "Datasette is my data hammer"

jboynyc — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 07:59:33 +0000

It's just for sqlite databases.

New comment by jboynyc in "Show HN: Wohpe, my sci-fi novel about AI, programmers, climate change"

jboynyc — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:23:24 +0000

Congrats! Is this a portable ebook or is it somehow tied to the Kindle?

(Small correction: you mean "translation" instead of "tradition")