Hacker News: jcrash

New comment by jcrash in "Apple pulls iPhone 16 ad over Apple Intelligence mishap"

jcrash — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:35:32 +0000

Is it a mishap? Title made me think Siri said something similar to Googles ‘glue on pizza’ mishaps

More like, the feature advertised is cancelled for iPhone 16

New comment by jcrash in "Uncut Currency"

jcrash — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:00:33 +0000

I would love a source for this if you could find one. I tried searching and will search more in depth later. Any more keywords or information you remember about the story?

New comment by jcrash in "New Model Y"

jcrash — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 06:28:06 +0000

New Tesla Model Y. Thoughts?

New Model Y

jcrash — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 06:28:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tesla.com/en_au/modely

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653159

Points: 11

# Comments: 15

New comment by jcrash in "Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit"

jcrash — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 20:10:25 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBoUHay7XBI&t=345s

one of the few youtube links on this page that is still up

New comment by jcrash in "Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days"

jcrash — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:59:28 +0000

It looks like the day of the week is off by one. Jan 1 2025 is a Wednesday, labeled Tuesday. Fridays is labeled as the weekend, for all weeks.

Other than that, this looks cool. Wish you could turn off public holidays though, some of us don't get those.

New comment by jcrash in "U.S. chip revival plan chooses sites"

jcrash — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 21:03:00 +0000

The locations of the two sites— .... Sunnyvale, Calif., .... Albany, N.Y. ...... The location of the third planned center ..... is still a matter of speculation.

Why would you add a 'saved you a click' comment and then literally post BS?

New comment by jcrash in "Apple Helping Police Use iPhones for Surveillance"

jcrash — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:20:18 +0000

Clickbait.

New comment by jcrash in "You can create your own holiday"

jcrash — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:33:58 +0000

Yup, your half-birthday!

New comment by jcrash in "Ask HN: What should I buy in Japan?"

jcrash — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:08:46 +0000

Yup went to uniqlo while in Kyoto and bought some pants.

They're my favorite pants now

New comment by jcrash in "Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?"

jcrash — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:26:20 +0000

> pressing on a cup, which stood upside down on plastic plate with holes, kinda inverted shower head

I think they still use these in bars

https://barsupplies.com/collections/glass-washers

New comment by jcrash in "NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They're AI"

jcrash — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:12:38 +0000

"I called my wife ... there was no one on the other end"

Disturbing! But cool.

New comment by jcrash in "Apple No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round"

jcrash — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:52:32 +0000

Is this a joke?

New comment by jcrash in "The internet is 90% Fake"

jcrash — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:18:41 +0000

What's the answer? Leave the internet?

New comment by jcrash in "Reddit Breaks Old.reddit.com"

jcrash — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:08:16 +0000

Yes. New reddit is working, but old reddit cannot access subreddits or posts...

I hope this is temporary.

New comment by jcrash in "After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days"

jcrash — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:53:46 +0000

Yelp sucks. I wish Apple Maps would drop it like a hot potato.

New comment by jcrash in "Was the Internet created to survive a nuclear strike? (2022)"

jcrash — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:30:32 +0000

I was going to share this story but you beat me to it. They're still claiming this in tours ~2017.

The building was called the Foreign Languages Building until very recently and is now called the Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building.

Relevant info from the UIHistory site:

"Located on the site of the former Old Entomology Building, ground was broken on the Foreign Language Building (FLB) on December 18, 1968.

A popular myth is that the building's distinctive architecture was a result of its being designed to house a supercomputer on campus called Plato. The building was supposedly designed so that if it was bombed, the building's shell would fall outwards, protecting the supercomputer on the inside. It is also rumored that the building's interior layout was a result of trying to confuse Soviet spies and prevent them from stealing secrets from the supercomputer.

In reality, the building's architecture is not actually all that unique and was a popular style of the day. In fact, just a few blocks to the west, one may find the Speech and Hearing Sciences Building, which a 2-story clone of the building. Plato itself was real, but refered not to a secret government program, but rather to the first "modern" electronic learning system, the forbearer of course software like WebCT and Mallard. The mainframe computer that ran the Plato system was located in north campus, in a building which used to reside on the west side of the Bardeen Quad." [0]

[0] https://uihistories.library.illinois.edu/virtualtour/maincam...

Hilarious that the myth extends to the interior design - the basement really is a maze the first few times you visit.

New comment by jcrash in "Apple Maps on the web launches in beta"

jcrash — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:54:57 +0000

I just wish Apple Maps would drop Yelp .. I hate Yelp

New comment by jcrash in "Apple Maps on the web launches in beta"

jcrash — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:54:26 +0000

Still working for me - Firefox on Win10

New comment by jcrash in "PSA: Safari URL Correction Being Exploited by Scammers"

jcrash — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:36:29 +0000

Thanks for posting this.

>It seems like Safari always puts `.com` when URL does not have a TLD

This doesn't even seem that helpful of a redirect! Plenty of sites don't use .com. Might be better to turn off this functionality completely.