Hacker News: jdejean

New comment by jdejean in "Users say Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app"

jdejean — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:38:52 +0000

Agree with everything you’re saying but “enhancing office communication experiences” is absolutely the path they would take to excuse installing ads

New comment by jdejean in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

jdejean — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:20:53 +0000

Tips don’t include links to unassociated paid products. Call it a promotion if you prefer, it’s still an unsolicited funnel

New comment by jdejean in "Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"

jdejean — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:00:25 +0000

What an intellectually bankrupt take; Extremely convincing until you realize less than 50% of people in the 60s even finished high school, and less than 8% of them even attempted post secondary education. Rejection of traditional values post 95 is attributable to any number of side effects of humans participating in the internet. We realized the scale of antiquated regulation. Something the “traditional media” would’ve never bothered to cover. This post is about weed not some soap box for your silent generation tears.

New comment by jdejean in "UBI as a productivity dividend"

jdejean — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:30:08 +0000

I find it hard to believe shifting spending from welfare to cash won’t result in inflation. It’s about accessibility and how liquid the assistance is. It’s also about how evenly that’s distributed.

To the parent comment’s point, if UBI is evenly distributed across everyone (“Universal”) and exists as liquid spending power (“Income”), there’s no way that doesn’t result in a rate of inflation that perfectly counteracts the existence of UBI.

Prices are only low when the seller wants to scale/reach more buyers. If low/no income buyers disappear, why would prices stay low? If there were an infinite number of high income buyers, cheap products wouldn’t even exist in a freely capitalistic system. Instead we have a limited number of buyers in a wide range of income levels, which drives a wide range of prices and sellers competing at every price point.

It feels like the laws of physics, once you cut off one side of the scale it will fling in the other direction. I also hate everything I just said, I would love to exist in a world that wasn’t subject to these forces. Just seems impossible in a freely capitalistic system.

New comment by jdejean in "Good software knows when to stop"

jdejean — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:16:32 +0000

I think it’s always worth it to consider feature requests from your users. Other comments here reference video games. This is nothing like video games. Video games have arbitrary constraints anyway and should be carefully crafted to preserve the vision. If you don’t like it, make a new game.

Software’s constraints are not arbitrary, they are attached to specific use cases and any new feature that benefits any of those use cases should be considered.

The real issue is when these companies (especially VC backed) add new features and BS that no user has ever asked for. Features that exclusively benefit the company’s bottom line or support some quiet pivot to a new audience leaving everyone else to the curb.

New comment by jdejean in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

jdejean — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:32:51 +0000

Why would AI at that scale not have the exact corruptible inclination humans have?

New comment by jdejean in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

jdejean — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:16:04 +0000

Exactly, we see this play out clearly with streaming apps. Disney sells a subscription to remove ads, then one day they change their mind and now you only see “less ads” and they introduce an even more expensive plan that removes ads. The behavior should be criminal yet every major streaming app does this.

These companies like to pretend ads are the pro-consumer approach when in reality they’d much rather scale through advertising than anything else. They get to increase revenue without touching acquisition cost. The only loser is the poor chump trying to watch their favorite TV show.

New comment by jdejean in "How I use Obsidian (2023)"

jdejean — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:10:35 +0000

No databases, views, nested pages, automations, or collaboration. It’s a flat list of files with folders. You can supplement these features with plugins but it’s not the same. Notion is objectively more powerful but if you care about data ownership or minimalism you might prefer Obsidian

New comment by jdejean in "Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory"

jdejean — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:08:41 +0000

For a web developer local-first only describes where the state of the program lives. In the case of this app that’s in local files. If anthropics api was down you would just use something else. Something like OpenRouter would support model fallbacks out of the box

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

jdejean — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:40:47 +0000

Most of my gripes are probably Gnome specific in this case - When you screenshot something it pins the image temporarily on the screen. If I drag into any open app it avoids saving it to disk. - Pressing CMD W or Q consistently closes any app (works on some gnome apps) - Mac keychain passkeys (I don’t own a usb stick) - Third party window management (through accessibility privileges only) - Apps respecting dark mode settings - The app menu (file, edit, window, etc) being in the same spot every time

Definitely not exhaustive since I only spent a few weeks with it. There were also plenty of things I liked about Gnome more but not enough to tip the scale for me

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

jdejean — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:27:42 +0000

I have to say that almost everything worked out of the box. The webcam is known to not mesh great with Asahi quite yet. Otherwise:

- Machine failed to wake from suspend almost 50% of the time (with both wired and BT peripherals) - WiFi speed was SIGNIFICANTLY slower. Easily a fraction of what it was on Mac - USB C display was no-op - Magic trackpad velocity is wild across apps - Window management shortcuts varied across apps (seems Gnome changes a lot, frequently) - Machine did not feel quicker, in fact generally felt slower than Tahoe but granted I did not benchmark anything

I would happily try it again when the project is further along

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

jdejean — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:21:11 +0000

Tahoe is uniquely bad in so many ways, so I tried the Asahi Fedora Remix with Gnome on my M2 Mac Mini. Aesthetically I was more attracted to Gnome, it feels like what we lost with Tahoe. Tahoe to me feels like a really chopped Android skin or something. I made it a few weeks on the Fedora Remix but ended up having to switch back to Mac over missing webcam drivers and other random hardware issues. Plus there’s little OS things that Mac does that make it really hard to go elsewhere.

New comment by jdejean in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

jdejean — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:49:29 +0000

Whoops!! Pesky mistake. An AI feature bypassed the AI opt-out setting yet again. What are we gonna do with all this data now??

New comment by jdejean in "White House website mysteriously streams personal finance YouTube creator"

jdejean — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:53:46 +0000

Around 1am Friday morning, a Make.com automation uploading YouTube videos to a website, began uploading dozens of YouTube’s latest videos. Despite querying a specific channel ID, YouTube API was returning any newly uploaded video. As you can imagine, the videos were pretty gross. I doubt this is related, but if so, we’re lucky it was a finance livestream.