Hacker News: jhy

New comment by jhy in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

jhy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:30:25 +0000

Thanks, AltaVista LiveTopics is a good keyword. I found:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Alta-Vista-LiveTopic-Gra...

which has some different coverage.

I did try to archive the blog you linked but unfortunately the owner is blocking it with robots.txt

User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: /

New comment by jhy in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

jhy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:55:59 +0000

That feature sounds amazing! I tried searching wayback etc but wasn't able to find any more details. Do you happen to know of any screenshots / deeper descriptions for it?

Perhaps we could nerd snipe Marginalia Search to add it :)

New comment by jhy in "Slumber a TUI HTTP Client"

jhy — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:47:52 +0000

> Slumber is a terminal-based HTTP client, built for interacting with REST and other HTTP clients

I wonder what that means -- I looked around the docs but didn't see that it interacts with other clients. I thought maybe it would show a generated curl command or something along those lines. But perhaps it's just a typo for HTTP servers?

New comment by jhy in "Why is Inkwell stuck in review"

jhy — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:33:02 +0000

With a previously registered trademark -- the article says it has been "listed as 'dead”' by the US Patent & Trademark Office" and unused for decades.

New comment by jhy in "Stop using icons in data tables"

jhy — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:17:39 +0000

It's perhaps a confused reference to their old company, Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g).

https://www.nngroup.com/about/

New comment by jhy in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"

jhy — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:07:51 +0000

New? You haven't been able to buy a new Holden since '21.

New comment by jhy in "AWS CodeCommit Returns to General Availability"

jhy — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:59:28 +0000

> We’re not just maintaining CodeCommit—we’re investing in it.

Thanks, AI blog writer. Did the AI product manager see too much customer pushback hitting your AI account managers?

The Cities Skylines Paradox: how the sequel stumbled

jhy — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:02:15 +0000

Article URL: https://selix.net/notes/the-cities-skyline-paradox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978541

Points: 42

# Comments: 55

New comment by jhy in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

jhy — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:55:52 +0000

Health services are state based in AU; would be great to hear which state you're talking about

New comment by jhy in "What's your preferred playback speed: 1x, 1.5x or 2x?"

jhy — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:48:18 +0000

"O", you're on a typewriter! :)

New comment by jhy in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

jhy — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:33:12 +0000

Sometimes, late at night when I'm trying to sleep, and I hear the grumble of a Harley, or my neighbors staggering to their door, I wonder: why do we not have earflaps, like we do eyelids?

New comment by jhy in "Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole"

jhy — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:33:11 +0000

Thanks, I found that version much more engaging and understandable.

New comment by jhy in "Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole"

jhy — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 07:13:33 +0000

Well, perhaps it's an AI writing about a tool...

> No API routes. No request/response cycles. No DTOs. Just… objects that magically sync. It kind of feels like cheating.

New comment by jhy in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

jhy — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 02:52:45 +0000

Making slippery slope arguments like this is not discussing in good faith. I was providing the context of someone who lives in that geo-political area.

New comment by jhy in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

jhy — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:14:23 +0000

Because folks don't want to enable drink-drivers and speeders? Maybe they want to use their roads with some basic level of safety?

New comment by jhy in "A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks'"

jhy — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:06:51 +0000

My guess (it would be nice if they actually said...) is that they were missing the required lang attribute on their HTML.

If not defined it will default to unknown (not to the user's locale) and so this makes Chrome guess. And there wasn't much text in the lightbox (which might be a different page?) for the browser to infer from.

Don't Be Frupid

jhy — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 04:01:36 +0000

Article URL: https://selix.net/notes/dont-be-frupid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996796

Points: 140

# Comments: 126

New comment by jhy in "Don't use cosine similarity carelessly"

jhy — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 07:44:35 +0000

We used to have this problem in AWS Rekognition; a poorly detected face -- e.g. a blurry face in the background -- would hit with high confidence with every other blurry face. We fixed that largely by adding specific tests against this [effectively] null vector. The same will work for text or other image vectors.

New comment by jhy in "I wish I didn't miss the '90s-00s internet"

jhy — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 05:50:01 +0000

What IRC network(s) do you like nowadays?

New comment by jhy in "Looking Glass' new lineup includes a $300 phone-sized holographic display"

jhy — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 00:05:48 +0000

And it was only parallax pseudo-3D. It wasn't anything like the 3DS lenticular stereo effect. Four (!) head-tracking cameras on the front tried to understand where you were looking, and then the UI would shift about in response. There was no convincing 3D effect.

The intention was that the UI would reveal extra info (like meta-data about a photo, or calendar details) when you shifted your head POV. Like a gesture that you could do one-handed while riding the bus. (But not discoverable, and twitchy, and tail-wagging-the-dog.)

Given how coarse the tracking had to be so that the UI wasn't constantly shifting, it would have been far simpler and more energy efficient just to use the accelerometer instead of the fancy camera setup. And just use that for some nice parallax effects in the launcher; not as a core UI interaction.