Hacker News: jcoder

New comment by jcoder in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

jcoder — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:25:15 +0000

I appreciate the replies on the determinism point and I’ve learned some new things here. In any case I probably should not have tagged that on, as my main point was to share that the sort of property that parent is talking about (whether true for all LLMs/providers/harnesses or not) is statelessness, not idempotency.

New comment by jcoder in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

jcoder — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:04:27 +0000

> All requests to an LLM are idempotent, for every API call you need to send it the entire conversation history

A more appropriate term is “stateless”. LLM responses are certainly not idempotent, as they are not even deterministic.

New comment by jcoder in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

jcoder — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:18:22 +0000

The ring sizing has been such a debacle, first with needing to buy (!) their special ring sizing kit because standard sizing wouldn’t be accurate they said, and now they say that the ring sizing kits weren’t true to size and suggest this:

> When in doubt, order a larger size. You can always adjust a larger Index 01 to feel smaller with a foam adhesive or clip but you can’t make it larger!

Size up and shim it with foam!

New comment by jcoder in "AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes"

jcoder — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:56:23 +0000

> Moves are trusted

Indeed, you can just play e1e8 and capture the opponents king (which doesn’t end the game). It’s a digital chessboard, not a chess engine.

New comment by jcoder in "Strata – An app that talks me out of dying outdoors"

jcoder — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:25:47 +0000

“Strata doesn’t just show the data. It makes the call.”

Scroll scroll scroll…

“Strata informs your decisions — it doesn't make them for you.”

I hope you don’t kill someone.

New comment by jcoder in "Apple Watch for Your Kids"

jcoder — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:42:06 +0000

My child has an SE, and the only downside we’ve seen is that without a connected iPhone or WiFi network, the battery life is unimaginably bad. That little LTE radio works hard in the school.

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.