Hacker News: jcoder

New comment by jcoder in "FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD on Laptop"

jcoder — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:16:06 +0000

I'll never understand why people think this looks human:

  What Made This Time Different
  This time, I didn't just install FreeBSD.
  I created a system for learning and success.

  Clear goal: FreeBSD as my daily driver
  Daily habit: 10 minutes minimum
  Accountability: post the journey on Linkedin

Gee, why not let the agent try FreeBSD for you and do the posting directly

New comment by jcoder in "US Tech Force"

jcoder — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:52:40 +0000

The illustrated “hackers” clothing

New comment by jcoder in "US Tech Force"

jcoder — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:42:58 +0000

There are two attempts to render an American flag on that page and they’re both wrong

New comment by jcoder in "More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad"

jcoder — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 16:36:14 +0000

I'm trying to remember if anyone complained like this about the Apple Card offers in Apple Wallet. For some reason advertising their credit card is completely fine, but advertising their movie is where people get out the pitchforks? Not defending either, I think both are egregious. I just think it's interesting.

New comment by jcoder in "We're bringing Pebble back"

jcoder — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:31:23 +0000

Excited for this—was NOT expecting it to tell me to follow them on Twitter after signing up! That one sure hits different than the last time…

New comment by jcoder in "Warm Handoffs"

jcoder — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:59:45 +0000

That blog is simply saying the same thing as GP—that it’s a term from gov agencies, and musing about applying the same ideas in their work.

New comment by jcoder in "Things I know about Git commits"

jcoder — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 02:55:56 +0000

Not the author, but when I use the phrase I mean each commit accomplishes a single important thing, but also that each commit is complete: it includes necessary tests for example. IMO every commit that lands on `main` must pass the test suite (this means intermediate commits should be squashed into that atomic commit).

New comment by jcoder in "D2 Playground"

jcoder — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 18:52:06 +0000

Even ignoring the rude name-calling, I usually find that these kind of comments are poorly thought-out and come from an unrealistic idea of name ownership. I wasn’t familiar with any other D2 and want to give the benefit of the doubt, so I went through a few pages of search results for “D2 language”. Didn’t see any other projects. Are you thinking of the D3 JavaScript charting library?

New comment by jcoder in "Show HN: Astro App"

jcoder — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:46:15 +0000

But the app is literally called “Astro App”

New comment by jcoder in "Docusign just admitted that they use customer data to train AI"

jcoder — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 04:46:23 +0000

Why a xitter post of a screenshot with no link when the full article is public? https://support.docusign.com/s/document-item?language=en_US&...

New comment by jcoder in "Make a tiny Raspberry Pi based cyberdeck"

jcoder — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 17:58:25 +0000

You’re saying the university denied their application because they referred to their homebrew device as a “laptop” and not a “cyberdeck”? I’m far from any of the worlds involved, but that just seems extremely unlikely to be the reason. In fact I’d expect the opposite—the uni not understanding that an applicant’s “cyberdeck” is actually a homemade laptop—a concept anyone can grasp

New comment by jcoder in "Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign"

jcoder — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 03:38:02 +0000

What kind of issue do you have in mind? By all accounts, the functionality or OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and Google’s suite are the same as Microsoft Office. There’s no theft unless they _actually stole intellectual property_

New comment by jcoder in "Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started"

jcoder — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:14:46 +0000

Or perhaps their coin was biased

New comment by jcoder in "Motocompacto from Honda, 3.7 inch wide Briefcase-form Electric Scooter"

jcoder — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 03:24:42 +0000

Show a picture of an adult riding one, you cowards.

New comment by jcoder in "Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco"

jcoder — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 03:40:03 +0000

> Cones become more critical with the proliferation of non-human drivers

Ironic. Cones are the self-driving car’s only weakness, and yet they can’t survive without them

New comment by jcoder in "Show HN: Obl.ong, Free, quality domains for all"

jcoder — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:18:44 +0000

I’m confused about what “quality domains” means here. I’d honestly never heard of the `.ong` TLD, it seems intended for non-governmental organization. If you’re going to sell subdomains as “quality”, why not get a `.com`?

New comment by jcoder in "Not Using Zoom"

jcoder — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 23:40:03 +0000

Sure, and I think all-party consent should be required if a call has any guests. My point was much shallower—just that OP/Zoom is using language that suggests “customer consent” is some separate thing they would ask for, when in fact using the software (accepting the TOS) is that consent.

New comment by jcoder in "Not Using Zoom"

jcoder — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:14:45 +0000

Say more things. Are you suggesting that by “customer consent”, they mean the consent of someone other than those of us paying for zoom? That makes no sense, and is not supported by the use of “customer” in their TOS.

New comment by jcoder in "Not Using Zoom"

jcoder — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:51:06 +0000

“Customer consent” as in, accepting the TOS by continuing to use the product? Have some respect for the intelligence of your users. If you’re playing dirty lawyerball in HN comments you can’t be trusted to act in good faith.

New comment by jcoder in "Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool"

jcoder — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 01:43:49 +0000

Intellectual property: it represents what kinds of data you maintain, their naming, and their relation. That’s valuable on its own and also points to what your software does.

Security: well, see above—knowing what data is stored determines your value as a target.

Now is it the _best_ way to target an adversary? Probably not.