Hacker News: jenkstom

New comment by jenkstom in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

jenkstom — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:38:33 +0000

If it's open then there will be multiple providers. I see it is on OpenRouter now.

New comment by jenkstom in "Typesetting Sheet Music with AI"

jenkstom — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:49:15 +0000

I tried this also. I was wanting to arrange a piece for jazz band. It had good advice, from a textual standpoint, but the lilypond music very rarely made sense unless I asked it for something very simple like 12-bar blues.

New comment by jenkstom in "In a World of Hype, GraphQL's Fundamental Advantages over tRPC Still Hold True"

jenkstom — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:22:50 +0000

Is there a link to a non-broken website? This one continuously resizes itself, which makes it very hard to read.

New comment by jenkstom in "Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)"

jenkstom — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:25:39 +0000

Sorry, but I'd be dead without mine. I'm going to have to disagree with you.

New comment by jenkstom in "Perfume reviews"

jenkstom — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:27:01 +0000

Scent sensitivity is a real, and ADA protected, disability. Why do I have to have an asthma attack or a migraine because someone has to express themselves through chemical warfare? Perfumes are as bad for people's health as second hand smoke, and one in twenty or so people everywhere feel just like I do.

New comment by jenkstom in "Meta advisor warns AI slop is "inevitable" & doesn't know what to do about it"

jenkstom — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:55:48 +0000

We solved this a long time ago with crypto. Just sign everything.

New comment by jenkstom in "I Miss Visual Basic"

jenkstom — Wed, 14 May 2025 20:56:30 +0000

Why not Delphi? And why not Lazarus?

New comment by jenkstom in "A.I. is prompting an evolution, not extinction, for coders"

jenkstom — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:40 +0000

It seems like AI will generate opportunities for fixing code. Both in reducing internal technical debt ("code maintenance", which is a specialized skill already) and external technical debt (architecture, which is being built by AI also). Eventually AI will be good enough for both of these things as well, and then we may just become the priests of the Temples of Syrinx.

New comment by jenkstom in "Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to Federal Payment System"

jenkstom — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:52:24 +0000

The US Treasury and currency aren't important?

New comment by jenkstom in "Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore"

jenkstom — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:51:34 +0000

U.S. Treasury bills underpin the financial systems of the world, but most especially that of the United States. This is an ELE for the US.

New comment by jenkstom in "Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore"

jenkstom — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:48:27 +0000

Bureaucracy is there to protect us from people like Trump and Elon. Congress can pass laws and the president can issue orders. This action threatens the US financial system, which threatens the economic stability of most of the world. In terms of human suffering this could have massive impact. We now have a psychopath (well, at least one) with his fingers around our throats. We're all waiting to see what comes next, but it won't be good.

New comment by jenkstom in "Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science"

jenkstom — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:30:05 +0000

I'm sorry, but reason magazine has personally made my life difficult by participating in medical gaslighting. There may be something to some of this, but I'm not inclined to trust them at face value.

New comment by jenkstom in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

jenkstom — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:09:57 +0000

There's always the hope that the average voter can find their way to a considered, moral vote. That didn't happen.

New comment by jenkstom in "Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content"

jenkstom — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 19:00:18 +0000

My law professor told me to never sign a contract I didn't modify in some way, so I usually change these to be something I like better before hitting accept.

New comment by jenkstom in "Why so many people in Hacker News do not use their real names?"

jenkstom — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:05:18 +0000

Because around 5% of people are profoundly unreasonable to the point of malignancy. That explains a lot of human behavior, actually.

New comment by jenkstom in "Ask HN: Should I medicate my ADHD?"

jenkstom — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 17:20:49 +0000

Does it cause you problems in work or life? Then yes. If you don't know the answer then maybe it's worth trying for a while to see how it goes.

Beware, though, the first few weeks on ADHD meds can be intense (finding motivation you didn't know you didn't have), but they don't really last forever. Your brain adapts.

ADHD meds don't take away the superpower part as far as I've noticed. They just enhance it.

New comment by jenkstom in "Sorry you feel that way: why passive aggression took over the world"

jenkstom — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 19:10:52 +0000

The thing that seems to be missed here is that passive aggression is a perfectly valid way to deal with direct and immature aggression, such as you get with personality disorders. Maintaining a level of deniability isn't always a bad thing. And any idealization of "direct aggressiveness" is just an excuse for psychopaths (or NPD, BPD, etc). Of which I've had enough in my life, thank you very much.

It's sad that much of the discussion here is effectively excusing fascism. Another case where passive aggression is a perfectly valid and mature coping mechanism.

New comment by jenkstom in "Marijuana use raises risk of heart attack, heart failure and stroke"

jenkstom — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:59:38 +0000

Yet another clickbait title. Correlation is not causation.

New comment by jenkstom in "Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)"

jenkstom — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:36:44 +0000

The basic idea is sound. But the majority of the examples are strangely politically biased and in my experience they are things I've never heard from the 1%.

New comment by jenkstom in "Tell HN: Enterprises spend 10x more to build no-code solutions than coded ones"

jenkstom — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 18:01:29 +0000

This is exactly right. And codeless tends to not have the capability of dealing with complexity very well, meaning architecture is brittle.