Hacker News: jdpigeon

New comment by jdpigeon in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

jdpigeon — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:16:11 +0000

There's probably some mathematical relationship between car dependency, time, and urban sprawl too.

Back in the 70s there may have been 1 or 2 affordable neighborhoods in your metro area where people in their late 20s could buy a house -- and they were both probably fairly close to the city center. Nowdays, I'd say those neighborhoods are likely to be farther away from the city center (exurbs) and thus farther away from each other.

I think about this with my hometown friends in the PNW. Growing up we all lived in Bellevue, Redmond, and Kirkland, and now those areas are all too expensive and folks are living in Issaquah, Duvall, Renton, etc.

New comment by jdpigeon in "Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band"

jdpigeon — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:41:16 +0000

https://www.tindie.com/products/waveletech/18-channel-emg-sm...

New comment by jdpigeon in "I spent twenty years becoming good at the wrong game"

jdpigeon — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:22:13 +0000

Well said. When I was a grad student, chasing what would have been a doomed career in cellular neuroscience, I was unfortunate enough (fortunately in the end, perhaps?) to get struck down by a significant depressive episode. This ended up being the feedback signal I needed to consider changing things up, and I did.

New comment by jdpigeon in "Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV"

jdpigeon — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:57:46 +0000

Yea, interesting how this outs the README as AI Generated.

I don't think any human would ever write a sentence like this without first explaining THE FREAKING CONTROLLER IS MOVING BY VIBRATING

Proximity Creep Mode: Automatically cuts haptic pulse frequency by 50% when the controller is within 150 pixels of the puck to ensure a gentle magnetic dock.

New comment by jdpigeon in "Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models"

jdpigeon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:13:54 +0000

Don't worry, it's happening

New comment by jdpigeon in "Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models"

jdpigeon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:13:34 +0000

100%. Canaries in the coal mine.

New comment by jdpigeon in "Meta pauses AI training program tracking employee keystrokes after internal leak"

jdpigeon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:50:08 +0000

This leak coming after all the reassurances that the intitiative passed privacy review and wouldn't be a leak risk is soo damning.

Not only have the employees lost faith in the executive's integrity, but their basic competency as well.

New comment by jdpigeon in "Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5"

jdpigeon — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:14:07 +0000

You'd be a fool to spend more than 30 seconds on it if you'd played an actual MMO anytime in the last five years. It's immediately apparent how poor quality AI-generated games like this are.

New comment by jdpigeon in "Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5"

jdpigeon — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:13:12 +0000

Hey. This is a total nightmare in my opinion. The dark mirror of something that I know and love and represents one of the highlights of human digital authorship.

If you'd like to play the actual game with other SWEs I'd invite you to help me start a guild for SWEs: https://unplanned-downtime.com/

New comment by jdpigeon in "Talk Is Cheap: The Operational Impact of LLM Use"

jdpigeon — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:18:44 +0000

This effect is likely be excarcebated in teams which are suffering layoffs this year. Even less people to clear the in-flight queue of partially complete tasks

New comment by jdpigeon in "I want to live like Costco people"

jdpigeon — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:07:31 +0000

That's about $200 a koku at Costco

New comment by jdpigeon in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

jdpigeon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:22:25 +0000

Seriously. Very Claude-y vibes from this post. I guess the value of human effort doesn’t extend to writing your own blog posts

New comment by jdpigeon in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

jdpigeon — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:37:55 +0000

Did not realize this. That's bizarre!

New comment by jdpigeon in "Smartphones and being present"

jdpigeon — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:13:46 +0000

A few years ago I traded my huge Google Pixel 6 for a 3 inch Uniherz Jelly.

It's not perfect, as I still spend a lot of time on Reddit and HN on the tiny screen while commuting, but it's moved the needle for me.

New comment by jdpigeon in "How bad are childhood literacy rates?"

jdpigeon — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 03:27:41 +0000

Hmm, it seems that time spent with children has actually been increasing

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/01/parents-children-par...

New comment by jdpigeon in "Show HN: Brutalist Hacker News – A HN reader inspired by brutalist web design"

jdpigeon — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 22:47:32 +0000

This is cool! However I think the page is not interacting with the back button functionality correctly, at least on mobile.

New comment by jdpigeon in "Generative UI and outcome-oriented design"

jdpigeon — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 22:33:32 +0000

Yeah. Unclear after reading this whether anything meeting their definition of GenUI actually exists or whether this is just speculation

New comment by jdpigeon in "Show HN: Bend 2.0 API for transaction enrichment/CO2e estimates"

jdpigeon — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:17:56 +0000

Love to see it! If only I could convince my bosses to invest in tracking this info...

New comment by jdpigeon in "Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music (2022)"

jdpigeon — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 19:08:20 +0000

shudder

New comment by jdpigeon in "The Carrot Problem"

jdpigeon — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 17:32:48 +0000

The last tweet is a little confusing. Teacher's unions? Really?