Hacker News: jeremyw

New comment by jeremyw in "Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting"

jeremyw — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:18:36 +0000

Yikes. Vastly outweighed by the ruination of journalism by politics.

New comment by jeremyw in "Molly guard in reverse"

jeremyw — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:16:39 +0000

Lest anyone think it's just little kids that are mesmerized by the shiny red button; we were showing a potential graduate student around the compsci labs, and he walks over to an important server and simply turns it off. He could never quite explain his impulse to do so.

New comment by jeremyw in "Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after"

jeremyw — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:45:35 +0000

Up in model sophistication. It accurately understands the first segment is metaphorical and not valid in the sense of physical weight. Open the thinking section, if need be.

New comment by jeremyw in "Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after"

jeremyw — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 23:25:07 +0000

And continuing up: o3 was both correct and playful.

> In literal, physical terms, a pound of courage would—by definition—tip the scales at one avoirdupois pound (≈ 454 g). A modern UK £1 coin, on the other hand, weighs only 8.75 g. So if you could bottle bravery, the jar marked “1 lb Courage” would outweigh the coin by a factor of about 52 to 1.

> (Of course, measured in sheer impact, courage can feel far heavier than anything money can buy!)

https://chatgpt.com/share/68057dbc-2ff4-8010-ac30-b404135200...

New comment by jeremyw in "My favourite Git commit (2019)"

jeremyw — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 06:11:53 +0000

Yes, I misworded. The usefulness of commit messages, Scott's point.

New comment by jeremyw in "My favourite Git commit (2019)"

jeremyw — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:24:11 +0000

I take Scott's point with a difference perspective.

Though commit messages are ephemeral and hard to utilize in the future, they're the stream of consciousness of the project.

They convey very important shifts in direction, discoveries in the making, code smells, limits of current architecture, and markers of tech debt. We don't know what this beast will be. And we figure it out commit by commit. Document it.

New comment by jeremyw in "Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US"

jeremyw — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:55:03 +0000

Hmmm. I've charged publicly ~100 times on the Tesla network (mostly cross-country, but some long city stays) and I've had to wait briefly twice.

New comment by jeremyw in "When Google Fiber abandons your city as a failed experiment (2019)"

jeremyw — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 06:13:06 +0000

If you run home servers and like having complete control, I recommend staying away from AT&T Fiber. They play lots of network games (port remapping/takeover, routing issues, no limits but limits!).

Google Fiber, on the other hand, has been clean and clear.

New comment by jeremyw in "Red Programming Language"

jeremyw — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 23:31:01 +0000

Since examples were hard to find:

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/red/

https://www.red-by-example.org/

New comment by jeremyw in "Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?"

jeremyw — Mon, 22 May 2023 02:36:33 +0000

Note they misuse the term end-to-end encrypted, and apply it to mirroring "what banks do". I don't know anything else about their product, but this is sloppy and/or dishonest.

New comment by jeremyw in "Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did It Better"

jeremyw — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 20:57:02 +0000

Ah, I misunderstood. Thanks for the kind reply.

New comment by jeremyw in "Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did It Better"

jeremyw — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 19:27:03 +0000

Any recommended material to learn about fragility in the Dutch system?

You've made a number of comments in this vein. Do you see it as apart from the cycle of the successful? Wherein we slowly relax the effort is took to make success. And then deny these efforts altogether, and create fantasies of what _really_ brought success.

New comment by jeremyw in "We chose NanoIDs for PlanetScale’s API"

jeremyw — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:38:58 +0000

Yes, you must match your RNG values to an integer multiple of your alphabet size, or there will be bias on modulo. Filter, smear bits, etc.

More explanation here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10984974/why-do-people-s...

New comment by jeremyw in "Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG"

jeremyw — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:17:33 +0000

Fair enough. I believe I can mitigate enough of these to continue the utility of password-protecting my keys, but I take your point.

New comment by jeremyw in "Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG"

jeremyw — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:01:23 +0000

I suppose in a homebrew situation, but not if age is root-installed, correct? It seems like that's a hard boundary.

New comment by jeremyw in "Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG"

jeremyw — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 00:32:19 +0000

Can you clarify re not password-protecting keys?

If I run GUI applications, let's say, as my user -- as is the default in most operating systems -- they have general access to my files, including my keys-as-files, no? (Putting aside some minor restrictions MacOS and others are slowly making.)

New comment by jeremyw in "Monotype acquires Hoefler&Co"

jeremyw — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:45:23 +0000

How so? Frere-Jones comes later, but becomes vital to the new state of the business. 15 years together!

See 37signals for another such example: design studio, but oh, software is where we shine, but I need this tech fellow as full partner.

New comment by jeremyw in "Monotype acquires Hoefler&Co"

jeremyw — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 04:02:57 +0000

What a sad affair. Interviews and documentaries clearly demonstrating their relationship as partners, without a hierarchy. Then one baldly asserts his ownership rights, and the other realizes the naive trust he'd put in his colleague was vapor.

New comment by jeremyw in "Show HN: Pop.com – pair programming with low-latency, Screenhero-style sharing"

jeremyw — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:16:49 +0000

Your security doc says 1-on-1 calls are end-to-end encrypted, and I'm glad for it. Recommend promoting that bit to homepage marketing.

Do you expect to be able to make 3+ multiparty calls end-to-end encrypted, eventually?

New comment by jeremyw in "Time to sunburn"

jeremyw — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 17:24:21 +0000

Consider removing omega-6 seed oils from your diet. Like many others who have tried it, I now have a normal tan response, where in the past I burned in a heartbeat.

Note: you do need to wait a few months for the fatty acid composition of your skin to turn over.