Hacker News: jdboyd

New comment by jdboyd in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

jdboyd — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:02:07 +0000

I would prefer a coding agent to be somewhat independent of the model provider. Providers are trading off on quality, features, and price so frequently, and I don't want to keep changing my agent every time.

I am looking forward to things slowing down and stabilizing. I'm not saying that should happen today, just I am looking forward to it.

New comment by jdboyd in "Haiku"

jdboyd — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:56:33 +0000

It appears to be usable for daily use for some people, in that enough of a web browser works that you could mostly get by. It would be hard to say it is really practical, nor that it has a convincing path to being practical in the way that say ReactOS does.

New comment by jdboyd in "Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens"

jdboyd — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:42:43 +0000

Maybe for the M6 or M7 generation that might happen?

New comment by jdboyd in "Work with the garage door up (2024)"

jdboyd — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:12:41 +0000

Mastodon and blog both sound good to me. For some, they could alternatively use twitch or youtube.

New comment by jdboyd in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

jdboyd — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:34:59 +0000

I certainly understand the value of replaceable batteries. OTOH, I'm concerned about what this will mean for how many common upper end phones are IP67 submersion rated. I don't want that to go back to being a feature only of clunky super expensive phones, and I would rather have IP67 over a replaceable battery.

Now, if I'm lucky, they will mandate both a replaceable battery and that the phones be ip55 or better, after battery replacement.

New comment by jdboyd in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

jdboyd — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:37:03 +0000

DO doesn't do high availability droplets, and their migration policy is will try, if we detect poor health of server before it fails.

If someone starts thinking about redundancy and load balancers than DO's solution is rent a second similar sized droplet, and then add their load balancing service. If you do those things with Hetzner instead, you would still be spending less than you did with Digital Ocean.

Personally, what is keeping me on DO is that no single droplet I have is large enough to justify moving on its own, and I'm not prepared to deal with moving everything.

New comment by jdboyd in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

jdboyd — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:04:34 +0000

Do you have a link to learn more about that history?

New comment by jdboyd in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

jdboyd — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:42:09 +0000

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has loading images into Resolve before for this very purpose, so I'm interested in trying this at some point.

There is a bunch of other stuff I think is interesting in this release's marketting as well. For instance. OGraf, a new EBU standard for HTML in motion graphics systems, as well as Lottie animation support.

The AI blemish remover looks interesting. The AI content search looks interesting. AI Slate ID looks interesting, although I've never actually used a slate. I'm less thrilled to see an AI speech generator though.

There is now Vertical Resolution support. Not something I have particularly wanted to do, but I can see it being useful to a lot of people. Also, the new Picture in Picture tool looks like it might be a time saver, as someone who does a lot of people talking next to slides.

New comment by jdboyd in "Just a Moment"

jdboyd — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:29:32 +0000

Hey, that's my essay. Never had someone submit anything I wrote to HN before.

New comment by jdboyd in "Zed, A sans for the needs of 21st century (2024)"

jdboyd — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:11:53 +0000

This looks like a cool typeface in how much it can vary itself, but the price feels extremely expensive, and I don't like having to keep track of which of my library of typefaces are allowed to be used on which projects based on which license I bothered to buy for that typeface. Saying that I want to load the font onto a video server raises the price for a single variant to $1500ish, and there is no clarity on what license you need for web videos. Does that count as a movie license, or a TV license, or a web site license?

New comment by jdboyd in "Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer"

jdboyd — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:03:57 +0000

This keeps deciding that I am done describing my drawer before I can mention a single thing that should be stored in the drawer. I basically get paste the dimension and it decides that I hit Generate already.

Now I'm going to try typing my command in a different window and then pasting it in all at once. That worked, but now it isn't at all obvious how my items are supposed to go in the boxes generated, nor how they are to fit into the space.

New comment by jdboyd in "LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown"

jdboyd — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:47:06 +0000

I don't know about converting PowerPoint and Excel to Markdown, but for Word, I'd say open the file in LibreOffice Writer 26.2, and save as Markdown.

Alternatively, use pandoc, and save the command in a .sh or .ps1 to remember.

New comment by jdboyd in "LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown"

jdboyd — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Open .docx file, save as Markdown to nicely preserve things like headings, bold, etc. I moderately frequently have reason to want to go .docx to .md because I have a lot of ediing/rewriting to do and I'd rather work in Emacs than LibreOffice Writer.

New comment by jdboyd in "Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)"

jdboyd — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:10:22 +0000

If you get a root shell once, why not change the root password then?

New comment by jdboyd in "Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)"

jdboyd — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:41:52 +0000

If it started faster, you still probably would find it a bit unwieldy for crop scale and simple color changes. I wish it did those things better, but on the other hand it seems like it would be appropriate to have a simpler program for quick tasks as well.

And I say this as somebody who rather likes the gimp.

UPP: Universal Predicate Pushdown to Smart Storage Commentary

jdboyd — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:18:16 +0000

Article URL: https://danglingpointers.substack.com/p/upp-universal-predicate-pushdown

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47168084

Points: 3

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New comment by jdboyd in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"

jdboyd — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:11:49 +0000

In my city, travel habits and condition, I find I wish for more torque and lower speed. Every place I want to go has significant hills that the motor can't handle, and easing climbing hills is the main reason I want an ebike. My ebike's minimum speed for the motor is 15kph, which is ok by myself, but my family likes to go slower, so I have to go fully manual with them. When I look at ebike ads it feels like nobody else cares about these two areas of performance. When I talk to local ebike shops they are unprepared to talk about torque and minimum speed.

N64 Game-Engine and Editor using libdragon and tiny3d

jdboyd — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:44:14 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/HailToDodongo/pyrite64

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47084560

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jdboyd in "Members-only Philly cop bar has been linked to two DUIs and a third crash"

jdboyd — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:33:54 +0000

https://archive.is/0sGU9

New comment by jdboyd in "Windows NT/OS2 Design Workbook"

jdboyd — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:54:18 +0000

For those unclear on what the large pile of .doc and .pdf files are, it appears to be some revision of the design documents for "NT OS/2", which then turned into just NT. This appears to be the Smithsonian description of their physical copy: https://www.si.edu/object/microsoft-windows-nt-os2-design-wo...