Hacker News: jim180

New comment by jim180 in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

jim180 — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:38:06 +0000

as it was the case in Baltic states since forever. Payments with CC came much later.

New comment by jim180 in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

jim180 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:40:32 +0000

there is another differences between Apple monitors vs the rest. - standard and peak brightness[1]. All of them are less bright, than Apple's monitors. I'd really wanna know why.

MSI - 1400 nits, LG - 1250 nits, Apple - 2000 nits. That's peak brightness, standard brightness isn't even mentioned, except for Apple one. Is it just cooling or something more?

[1] https://www.ipsmonitor.com/news/msis-mpg-271kraw16-is-a-firs...

Show HN: Clean Express – a native NNTP/Usenet client for iOS/macOS/visionOS

jim180 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:12:24 +0000

I still read/post in small communities over NNTP and always wanted usenet client that is modern and easy to use on macOS/iOS, so here it is.

95% agentic (not vibed) coded, just because I can and wanted to see if I'm able to drive AIs to build something that is usable :)

Coming soonish to AppStore, ofc.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47219871

Points: 4

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New comment by jim180 in "Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]"

jim180 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:01:02 +0000

would you mind sharing your library of HIGs?

New comment by jim180 in "AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

jim180 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:46:25 +0000

my exact experience, and AI is especially fragile when you are starting new project from scratch.

Right know I'm building NNTP client for macOS (with AppKit), because why not, and initially I had to very carefully plan and prompt what AI has to do, otherwise it would go insane (integration tests are must).

Right know I have read-only mode ready and its very easy to build stuff on top of it.

Also, I had to provide a lot of SKILLS to GPT5.3

New comment by jim180 in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

jim180 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:50:30 +0000

Also I'd add this question, why do so many developers and sysadmins think, that cloud companies always hire competent/non-lazy/non-pissed employees?

New comment by jim180 in "The Codex App"

jim180 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:42:20 +0000

After every time I read "save effort with Electron", I go back to Win2K VM and poke around things and realize how faster everything is than M4 Max, just because value is value, and Electron saves some effort.

New comment by jim180 in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

jim180 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:06:30 +0000

I do have an Apple ID, which was banned due to fraud and customer support couldn’t do anything about.

The thing is, that account was just used for dev. things for the US company, which builds/sells software for the US federal government (among the other US entities).

It would not be very wise to do fraud.

New comment by jim180 in "Django 6"

jim180 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:57:59 +0000

wouldn't it be faster/safer to upgrade to latest django/python rather than rewrite it in React/Go?

New comment by jim180 in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

jim180 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:50:47 +0000

just a couple of days ago, I've moved my self hosted stuff from Cloudflare :)

New comment by jim180 in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

jim180 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:53:39 +0000

given the current state of things, I'd take that slow boot over anything else ;)

New comment by jim180 in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

jim180 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 10:28:15 +0000

Just got back from another flight, where my seat was in the middle of airplane (3 set of rows). No issues whatsoever. One thing I’ve noticed, if I press AirPods harder, I do start hearing hissing in my ears.

New comment by jim180 in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

jim180 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:01:20 +0000

The CPM difference in US vs. rest of the world is huge. If Albania has cpm near zero, it's not worth to show ads there.

New comment by jim180 in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

jim180 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:58:14 +0000

I did sit on both sides (one flight was next to wing) - did had same issue both times.

One thing that was common- I was sitting in a window seat.

New comment by jim180 in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

jim180 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:57:16 +0000

Personally, the left ear.

New comment by jim180 in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

jim180 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:31:33 +0000

If I ask something in Lithuanian, EuroLLM will reply in Latvian lol.

I have to specifically tell something like this: “do you known Lithuanian language”, then it starts replying in Lithuanian

New comment by jim180 in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

jim180 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:21:34 +0000

Lithuanian and Latvian are Baltic languages. Nothing to do with Slavic...

New comment by jim180 in "Zed is now available on Windows"

jim180 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:44:54 +0000

I keep hearing this since I've got my first Pentium 1 PC, that storage is cheap.

New comment by jim180 in "macOS Tahoe"

jim180 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:21:58 +0000

I've yet to understand the point of OLED, if it sits at 400nits. All Apple's devices from iPhone to Studio Display are brighter, some of them are much much brighter even with OLED :/

New comment by jim180 in "The History of Windows XP"

jim180 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 06:32:49 +0000

it always depended on the hardware (being stable, security is another matter).

I've got friends who ran Windows ME and it was rock solid. My experience was very very different, same with Windows 98 SE.

With that being said my PC with Win95 OSR2 was super stable.