Hacker News: jhy

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.

New comment by jhy in "Tell HN: Server error (5xx) in Google Search Console may not be 5xx at all"

jhy — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:20:32 +0000

Cloudflare does offer rate limiting - it's in Security / WAF / Rate limiting rules.

On the free plan it is perhaps a bit limited in the rules you can create (match based on bot or URL regex, limit by # requests per IP per 10 seconds). But still pretty useful for slowing stupid requests.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/rate-limiting-rules/cr...

And / or you can use Transform Rules to better normalize the Origin URLs so that the query string or other path info doesn't create new origin requests. Or more simply, enable Ignore Query String in the Cache Settings.

New comment by jhy in "Gmail using too much RAM: 1-2GB per tab in Safari"

jhy — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:24:25 +0000

I run an 8GB M1 as my main desktop for Java development and it's 70% fine. I needed a replacement for my previous PC during covid/cpu shortages and in AU, there were no 16GB versions available. (So the upsell argument is not the only part of the story).

For running Chrome, IntelliJ, Spotify, Terminal, fuzz tests etc at once, it's fine. But running YourKit profiling or Steam etc, everything else swaps out and grinds.

So: it's amazing to me that you can do so much with just 8GB,and egregious that Apple can't put in a couple of slots for an extension.

New comment by jhy in "Open AirPlay 2 Receiver"

jhy — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 01:10:44 +0000

If it was decompiled, that's not really reverse engineering though. So I'm not confident that the DMCA carve out would apply here.

New comment by jhy in "The Poor ROI of Autonomy (2020)"

jhy — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 07:41:58 +0000

And that one driver now carries all the responsibility. To automate them out, you need 100% accuracy which closes in on impossible to achieve. Any lack of perfection would be down to the automator. So it's a very scary piece to take on when there's no human in the loop left to hold the bag when something goes wrong.