Hacker News: jeromechoo

New comment by jeromechoo in "The Weather Channel – RetroCast"

jeromechoo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:38:24 +0000

This needs to be an Apple TV app!! Way more fun than watching fly by skyscrapers.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs"

jeromechoo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:20:08 +0000

I think many developers worth their salt will argue the same. Cloud is and has always been a shortcut to buying your own hardware. Local models will get better and smaller. Qwen3-coder-next runs on a Spark and is as capable as Sonnet 4.5. Bonsai released a 1-bit model yesterday.

I also like the freedom of not having to ration a daily allowance of tokens.

New comment by jeromechoo in "A simple web we own"

jeromechoo — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:16:40 +0000

There are a few. Try this one: https://ooh.directory/

New comment by jeromechoo in "In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5%"

jeromechoo — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:14:02 +0000

The dilemma we're battling with here is the morality of avoiding most of your taxes if you can afford to hire the right people to manage your money.

Would it still be justified if we replaced "taxes" with "judgement in the afterlife"?

Playing Stereo Love on an i8's electric muffler [video]

jeromechoo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:38:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@trevorjelam/video/7608752927301258510

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153928

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jeromechoo in "A simple web we own"

jeromechoo — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:07:55 +0000

What does “bringing (RSS) back properly” entail in your eyes?

It’s still alive. Many sites still use it. Many people still subscribe to those sites. RSS reader apps are still being created to this day.

New comment by jeromechoo in "All Look Same?"

jeromechoo — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:44:48 +0000

15/18 on food. Been to and eaten at all three countries. It was mostly instinct TBH. I’m not sure I can point out exactly what characteristics make a particular picture of food Korean/Chinese/Japanese.

That said I really love food. I cook all 3 types often and go out to eat all 3 types (and even regional variants) quite frequently.

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

jeromechoo — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:27:24 +0000

One unobtrusive ad in the middle of an article isn't going to pay for a journalist and their camera person in a war zone.

By "news should be free" I think you probably mean "taxpayer funded".

New comment by jeromechoo in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

jeromechoo — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:34:54 +0000

This is an American-centric POV. I can’t speak for Europe but in many parts of Asia payments are most commonly done as a transfer of digital cash rather than credit. Whether it’s “consumer friendly” is not particularly relevant. People already accept it as a way to transact and there’s very little reason to switch to credit cards.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Bunny Database"

jeromechoo — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:17:30 +0000

parse.com was my last straw building on "as a service" startups because of this. DaaS is not even particularly good for hobby projects anymore given how easy it is to work with sqlite.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Clawdbot is a security nightmare [video]"

jeromechoo — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:57:09 +0000

Response from Clawdbot author when I said this: https://masto.ai/@jeromechoo/115928552690869904

New comment by jeromechoo in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

jeromechoo — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:43:51 +0000

My experience of 100% agentic coding has been roughly the same as yours. That said, starting an agent off on a task has been the single most productive step I have introduced to my workflow in awhile.

95% of the time the code doesn't even build but it gets all the jigsaw pieces in place and it's a million times easier to start deleting and moving pieces around than to start from scratch.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"

jeromechoo — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:16:29 +0000

Building an index is easy. Building a fresh index is extremely hard.

Ranking an index is hard. It's not just BM25 or cosine similarity. How do you prioritize certain domains over others? How do you rank homepages that typically have no real content in them for navigational queries?

Changing the behavior of 90% of the non-Chinese internet is unraveling 25 years and billions of dollars spent on ensuring Google is the default and sometimes only option.

Historically, it takes a significant technological counter position or anti-trust breakup for a behemoth like Google to lose its footing. Unfortunately for us, Google is currently competing well in the only true technological threat to their existence to appear in decades.

The Target forensics lab (2024)

jeromechoo — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:41:01 +0000

Article URL: https://thehorizonsun.com/features/2024/04/11/the-target-forensics-lab/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527645

Points: 78

# Comments: 117

New comment by jeromechoo in "HTML Slides with notes"

jeromechoo — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:13:19 +0000

I’m sure this is great on desktop but lack of mobile support today is kindof a bummer. It doesn’t even degrade gracefully.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury"

jeromechoo — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:02:22 +0000

I got a $1500 quote to replace a stuck thermostat in my car from my local mechanic. After some Youtubing I was able to replace the part myself with $150 in parts.

I got a $5000 quote to fix my AC 2 summers ago and no amount of Youtube was able to help me DIY a fix.

Maybe in the long term there will be more HVAC techs than auto mechanics. Somehow I don't think that's likely.

The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII

jeromechoo — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 03:07:11 +0000

Article URL: https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-10-19-privacy-theater-pii-phone-numbers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45639903

Points: 27

# Comments: 26

New comment by jeromechoo in "KAG – Knowledge Graph RAG Framework"

jeromechoo — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:06:25 +0000

There are two paths to KG generation today and both are problematic in their own ways. 1. Natural Language Processing (NLP) 2. LLM

NLP is fast but requires a model that is trained on an ontology that works with your data. Once you do, it’s a matter of simply feeling the model your bazillion CSVs and PDFs.

LLMs are slow but way easier to start as ontologies can be generated on the fly. This is a double edged sword however as LLMs have a tendency to lose fidelity and consistency on edge naming.

I work in NLP, which is the most used in practice as it’s far more consistent and explainable in very large corpora. But the difficulty in starting a fresh ontology dead ends many projects.

New comment by jeromechoo in "ExxonMobil's Alleged Hack-for-Hire Campaign Targeting Climate Activists"

jeromechoo — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:23:25 +0000

I agree with you but the only time execs were held personally responsible that I can remember is Enron and that was on insider trading charges. There is so much plausible deniability and near unlimited appeals built into the system that it would take mountains of evidence and several hundred Lina Khans for an actually responsible executive to be tried for something like this.

New comment by jeromechoo in "Egoless Engineering"

jeromechoo — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:58:15 +0000

I joined my current company to work on Growth. I was added to Gitlab, and for the first 3 months I pushed all my commits as MRs that my manager reviewed and merged into main. Standard procedure.

One day I needed to get a hotfix out to prod STAT. I pinged my manager to accept the MR and explained all the testing I've done. He said I could just accept it myself if I wanted it up now.

Turns out I've had the permission to push to prod since day one. The only red tape I had to cross was my own confidence.