Hacker News: jdnordy

New comment by jdnordy in "Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock"

jdnordy — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:13:54 +0000

I love this. Any advice how to get involved in my local community in a similar way? I'd be so into doing some community project during my free time.

New comment by jdnordy in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

jdnordy — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:57:15 +0000

Anyone else suspicious this might be satire ironically written by an LLM?

New comment by jdnordy in "Ask HN: Random black bar above HN header?"

jdnordy — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:45:49 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11335903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954

> It's an online version of the black arm band that's often worn to acknowledge the passing of a great figure in a community.

New comment by jdnordy in "Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?"

jdnordy — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:37:34 +0000

> That would explain why messaging, which is mostly based on phone contacts and therefore more in the user’s control, would be the place people now trust for their social graph.

This is the reason the I wouldn't be interested in an new old Facebook. I'd add that Messaging Apps have significantly improved since the time old Facebook was relevant. They allow Group Chats that function like a "feed" and include images, videos, memes. You can even search your chat history.

Group chats are basically old Facebook feeds with a select part of the social graph. I never thought about it this way, but they totally are. This is actually where Messaging Apps improve upon the old model. A Facebook feed was your entire social graph and your "posts" went out to that entire graph. I don't want this. I never did, really. I like the scoped social graph my "posts" reach in a Group Chat.

New comment by jdnordy in "Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm"

jdnordy — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 22:51:55 +0000

github link now show a warning at the top of the page:

> This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.

Is this new? Perhaps Twitter already removed the code from their main branch? Or was this just a joke from the beginning?

New comment by jdnordy in "After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel"

jdnordy — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:04:55 +0000

> We are all experiencing what happened when politicians regulated the web. I hope you are enjoying your cookie modals; browsing the web in 2022 is an absolute hell.

This. Just This.

Seriously though, as someone fairly uneducated in the space of how standards, protocols, and regulations get set in place, how can the ship be moved on this issue? Tech companies will likely only move / allocate resources if there is financial incentive. So what do we do?

New comment by jdnordy in "U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings"

jdnordy — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 23:28:20 +0000

Just when you think it's time to count hire education out because of bloated administrative spending, overwhelming student debt, and poor technical training for real world jobs, a light shines in the darkness.

I guess there's still hope if higher education can learn from Professors of the likes of Michael Thaddeus. He and others like him make pursing a degree valuable. The administration can go...

Note: read the original document: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigation...

New comment by jdnordy in "Gmail accepts forged YouTube emails"

jdnordy — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 04:18:01 +0000

I received the same email, just from a different domain:

ARC-Authentication-Results: i=2; mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@seiroowebizexpo.com header.s=jb54 header.b="l0E4c/Ut"; dkim=pass header.i=@youtube.com header.s=20210112 header.b=xGMHx3cn; arc=pass (i=1 spf=pass spfdomain=scoutcamp.bounces.google.com dkim=pass dkdomain=youtube.com dmarc=pass fromdomain=youtube.com); spf=pass (google.com: domain of support@seiroowebizexpo.com designates 2a01:7c8:aab3:2dc::8 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=support@seiroowebizexpo.com; dmarc=pass (p=REJECT sp=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=youtube.com Return-Path: Received: from 8j.seiroowebizexpo.com (8j.seiroowebizexpo.com. [2a01:7c8:aab3:2dc::8])

New comment by jdnordy in "I Trained My TikTok"

jdnordy — Mon, 16 May 2022 00:04:27 +0000

ahh, this is such a refreshing article. Social media is not the evil of all evils. What matters is how you use it. "The Algorithm" can be really good if you use it well. I benefit a lot from my engagement with these platforms from staying up-to-date on the news to blowing of steam after work to thinking about new and interesting thing.

Instead of shouting, "Boo!" Why not talk about how to engage well?

New comment by jdnordy in "Would You Take Out a Loan for a Pair of Jeans? (2017)"

jdnordy — Fri, 13 May 2022 18:54:25 +0000

How do credit card companies stay in business? If you just use a credit card like a debit card, it's just free money from the credit card companies. Or am I benefiting from others bad spending habits?

Affirm (and other installment type companies) offer a different benefit, I guess? No rewards, but you don't have to have all money on hand. I love this for my iPhone, but these installments could easily stack up.

New comment by jdnordy in "Unix command line conventions over time"

jdnordy — Sat, 07 May 2022 18:06:31 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed this post. The history of software is interesting... the process is so iterative. Often, I take for granted the current state of software I use. The refinements came through many years, many engineers, and many decisions.

I wonder where I can find more posts / articles like this. short, punchy, well written histories of software I use.

New comment by jdnordy in "My First Impressions of Web3"

jdnordy — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:45:15 +0000

This is the best article I've found to help me understand what Web3 is and how it actually works. Thanks op!

New comment by jdnordy in "Bitcoin has few attributes of money but all the attributes of a collectible"

jdnordy — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 04:51:28 +0000

A key difference between collectibles and bitcoin/cryptocurrency is that collectibles don't claim to be money nor are they trying to replace current money systems. I'm no expert on money, how it works and how it gets value, but I would be interested to find an article discussing whether cryptocurrency has enough of the qualities of "money" to replace any current money system.

Barnes and Noble Suffers Cyber Security Attack

jdnordy — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 16:03:49 +0000

Article URL: https://mail.barnesandnoble.com/H/2/v6000001752ab27ae89619bb6e96638900/d94bd31c-8383-4521-a3ad-9d54de8d09ef/HTML

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24810946

Points: 5

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New comment by jdnordy in "Shake window to minimize all other windows"

jdnordy — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:08:07 +0000

Did anyone actually know about this? I discovered it because it kept happening to me by accident when I would be moving a window. Still don't know if this is a desirable feature or not...

Shake window to minimize all other windows

jdnordy — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:06:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-aero-shake-3506983

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23854077

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Difference Between '/' and '/News'?

jdnordy — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 03:14:56 +0000

Can anyone explain to me the difference between the homepage and the /news page of hackernews? Thank you in advanced.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808501

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

Unix-Style Permissions

jdnordy — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 23:35:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/436#issuecomment-395964366

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23658198

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

CSS Algorithm Challenge

jdnordy — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:21:15 +0000

Article URL: https://cssbattle.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23489800

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: How do you handle blog post uploads for your website?

jdnordy — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 01:45:28 +0000

Currently, I’m adding markdown files to the github repo for my website, which then deploys through vercel. I use next js and the getStaticProps api and the dynamic routes functionality to generate a page for each markdown file. Right now, this works great as I only have 3 writings. But I imagine as a continue to post, this won’t scale well. So I’m curious to hear what everyone else does for their website?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23472990

Points: 3

# Comments: 2