Hacker News: jimbob45

New comment by jimbob45 in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

jimbob45 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:10:53 +0000

I can't think of what I'd want a native UI solution for.

A proper first-party LLM app for ChatGPT/Claude that doesn’t buckle under the weight of large threads.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity"

jimbob45 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:40:32 +0000

Rural Washington, Oregon, and California actually are what these leftists think Texas is. Let’s not forget which state Cliven and Ammon Bundy staged their standoff in.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Notes on DeepSeek"

jimbob45 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:27:38 +0000

YouTube has never seriously had competition and AliBaba has been around almost as long as Amazon.

New comment by jimbob45 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

jimbob45 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:30:36 +0000

Haha have you never watched COPS? I’ve seen tamer UFC fights than some COPS episodes.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Claude Fable 5"

jimbob45 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:46:33 +0000

They already have though, no? If we lost access to every model permanently besides Qwen tomorrow, would we really be limited by AI in what we could achieve in the future? Sure, it might be slower and take a little more work but it seems like the cat is already out of the bag.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

jimbob45 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:39:30 +0000

That was a good watch. From your comment, it seemed like this was a low-medium level issue with low-medium venues doing exclusive deals with LN/TM but Madison Square Garden is arguably the most prestigious venue in the world.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers"

jimbob45 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:06:38 +0000

Can’t recommend the book Airframe by Michael Crichton to help contextualize the typical kneejerk reactions to these kinds of things versus the usual culprits enough.

Edit: thanks for pointing out the typo. Good book still.

New comment by jimbob45 in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"

jimbob45 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:15:21 +0000

The regret is what infuriates me. If I knew in high school what I know now about how to take care of this specific body, I’d have been unstoppable.

New comment by jimbob45 in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

jimbob45 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:44:08 +0000

After all has been said about the ages of Biden and Trump, it’s ironic that having presidents with experience living through Vietnam and the Soviet-Afghan war has been so useful for their two terms.

New comment by jimbob45 in "The Ü Programming Language"

jimbob45 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:26:19 +0000

Are there plans to bring in compile-time attributes like C#? I really like what I’m seeing here apart from the lack of that.

Edit: also the name is ungoogleable.

New comment by jimbob45 in "My Students Can't Read"

jimbob45 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:16:06 +0000

Is the problem participation? Or is it that entire years are devoted to reading ancient books with bad English and unrelatable themes simply because of tradition? Shakespeare wrote some neat plays but they’re not helping the reading epidemic.

Math teachers had the balls to radically revamp their curriculums with Common Core and now their teachings are no longer formulaic but instead stimulate original thought and creativity. It’s high time for English teachers to do the same.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks"

jimbob45 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:21:30 +0000

I find the opposite to be true. It’s easier to curate YouTube than it is to vet Prime or Netflix because YouTube’s algorithm keeps recommendations pretty tight to what is currently being watched. If you seed it with benign enough content, it’s hard for your kid to get to the good stuff without effort that they may not know to apply.

New comment by jimbob45 in "U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, but It's Not at the Ballot Box"

jimbob45 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:26:42 +0000

They’ve done this to my workplace too. We have several domains for employee-concerning content and they’ve mirrored them and placed them at the top of Google’s search results. If you’ve forgotten the URL and go to Google it, you can get phished super easily.

I can see the elderly and the tech illiterate falling for similar schemes with mirrors of the NYT, CNN, FOX, etc.

New comment by jimbob45 in "The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)"

jimbob45 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:48:32 +0000

What is pitch in regard to a rectangle in question two?

New comment by jimbob45 in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

jimbob45 — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:28:48 +0000

Have you not seen Stand and Deliver? We’ve seen incredible teachers prove over and over again that no student is truly unreachable given enough time and attention.

New comment by jimbob45 in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

jimbob45 — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:35:55 +0000

Yeah I hear you but I want to incentivize dense housing like that. If you live in Texas or Florida, it’s easy to see how second homes can entirely overtake acres and acres of land.

New comment by jimbob45 in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

jimbob45 — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:26:37 +0000

I agree and I’d prefer to see apartments excluded from this. Apartments are what I want second-homeowners to own rather than hoarding valuable land.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

jimbob45 — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:21:11 +0000

Lost in the commotion is the chaos that NIL is wreaking on universities and their donation funnels. The donations side of things seems to be rapidly drying up as a revenue source.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Does anybody like React?"

jimbob45 — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:17:05 +0000

Came to ask this myself. Oddly enough, I think they’ve kind of slipped under everyone’s radar.

New comment by jimbob45 in "I keep bouncing off the Scheme language"

jimbob45 — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:31:40 +0000

As far as I know, Racket docs are entirely human-generated. The functions aren’t tied concretely together to types by anything. In C#, types and their member functions are automatically tied and inspectable in code. That’s what I feel is missing. Also, I don’t want to take away from the phenomenal Racket docs. They’re a real treat to work with.