Hacker News: jd3

New comment by jd3 in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

jd3 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:20:09 +0000

The US app is still laggy (even on the iPhone 17 Pro) and constantly logs you out. My theory is that they set the login timeout to a low number to make it harder to accrue points.

New comment by jd3 in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

jd3 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:55:38 +0000

We dealt with this headache for 7+ years at my former employer. Thanks so much for this.

New comment by jd3 in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

jd3 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:25:04 +0000

> ability to stream US TV when abroad (by exiting from my home network)

Should note that Tailscale does not work natively with hdhr for mpeg television streams b/c wireguard doesn't natively support udp multicast/broadcast. Also can't directly port forward b/c hdhr sets a default ttl of 2.

My understanding is that most VPNs in general don't support udp multicast due to operating on the network layer rather than data link, though iirc OpenVPN supports multicast traffic through its virtual TAP (Layer 2) rather than TUN (Layer 3).

Tailscale does create a TUN/TAP virtual network[0], though udp multicast is still not natively supported.

[0]: https://tailscale.com/docs/concepts/tailscale-osi#data-link-...

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1013

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/11134

New comment by jd3 in "60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon"

jd3 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:25:05 +0000

The effects aren't too far off from reports of the maduro raid, though my understanding is that the US just used a standard LRAD

New comment by jd3 in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

jd3 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:47:52 +0000

I stopped reading when I realized it wasn't a deep dive into the most interesting question I had, which is the technical hardware design process and finding a factory to actually take your design and manufacture it.

New comment by jd3 in "What's up with all those equals signs anyway?"

jd3 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:21:11 +0000

I discovered X-Face[0] through gmane! Such a blast from the past.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face

New comment by jd3 in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

jd3 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:43:00 +0000

I noticed this and modified the .car to just make window corners sharp. It looks a bit jarring, but functionally speaking, it feels like a big improvement.

New comment by jd3 in "Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)"

jd3 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:54:42 +0000

Thanks, typo; updated.

New comment by jd3 in "Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)"

jd3 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:48:21 +0000

Dennis Ritchie running Rob Pike's acme editor on Windows back in July 2002.

https://anders.unix.se/images/dmr_screenshot.gif

https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developer...

New comment by jd3 in "Asbestosis"

jd3 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 03:14:08 +0000

My mom's father died in his early 30's while working as an engineer for Mack Trucks in Hagerstown, Maryland in the '50s and '60s and my mom, to this day, attributes his rapid health decline to mesothelioma/industrial asbestos exposure.

New comment by jd3 in "I only use Google Sheets"

jd3 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:56:10 +0000

We bought a Google Workspace subscription for a building I help manage and I was shocked when I found out that you can't archive emails for discovery/legal purposes unless you buy a more expensive subscription that has access to the "vault."

We already pay nearly $90/mo for 6 seats!

New comment by jd3 in "Plugin System"

jd3 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:56:37 +0000

Tried using the "Online Media" built-in plugin for a couple of trivial test cases — Youtube and archive.org — the former worked, while the latter failed, so I disabled it and switched back to yt-dlp in

  Settings => Network => Enable youtube-dl => Custom youtube-dl path => "~/.local/bin/"

because I installed yt-dlp globally through uv

  uv tool install yt-dlp

New comment by jd3 in "I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory"

jd3 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:03:46 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AyEzA5ziE0

New comment by jd3 in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

jd3 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:27:09 +0000

took me longer than i'd care to admit to figure out how to install whisper as a user/system package on macOS w/o brew (which pulls in all of llvm@16 during install)

    brew install uv
    uv tool install openai-whisper
    then add ~/.local/bin/ to $PATH

New comment by jd3 in "The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)"

jd3 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:17:54 +0000

> What is especially remarkable, however, is how quickly the Fox News report appeared and then vanished. Internet sources say that when someone stumbles upon evidence of a possible conspiracy, such as the ones noted above, most journalists say it’s nothing but trouble to pursue it. Even if leads are developed, editors tend to ignore them. Some make it clear that such leads can hurt the writers professionally. Eyewitness reports regarding the Israeli peddlers from authoritative sources, however, make the story of the Israeli squads impossible to dismiss.

https://www.wrmea.org/2002-may/israeli-trainees-and-mossad-a...

New comment by jd3 in "Benzene at 200"

jd3 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:38:52 +0000

Was going to make the same comment.

https://i.imgur.com/EGyYmkX.jpg

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/16/science/the-benzene-ring-...

New comment by jd3 in "Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment"

jd3 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:07:46 +0000

I'm a fan of the tiles/patterns from DESQView/X

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16044021

New comment by jd3 in "I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors"

jd3 — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:53:37 +0000

When working for my former employer, we rolled our own help center, but after awhile, it was deemed easier and cheaper to just cut it and transfer everything to zendesk.

New comment by jd3 in "What made the Irish famine so deadly"

jd3 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:56:44 +0000

I'm Irish and this is the correct answer

New comment by jd3 in "Tailscale is pretty useful"

jd3 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:06:27 +0000

I tried using tailscale to share my hdhomerun prime tuners over the internet, but sadly, it doesn't seem to work due to Tailscale's lack of support for mDNS lookups[0][1]. You can't just forward the port b/c the hdhr device packets have a ttl of 1 hop (and, while you could change the ttl through iptables, that seems like a lot of trouble).

I can open a stream manually through http://192.168.1.189:5004/auto/v600 while connected to tailscale (w/ my apple tv in-home as an exit node) on my laptop outside of the house, but when I open the HDHR/Channels apps, they can't detect the HDHR tuner itself.

Apparently this "just works" with openvpn, so I've been thinking about just switching back to that.

[0]: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1013

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/HDHR/comments/z8byns/watching_remot...