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New comment by jinushaun in "Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets"

jinushaun — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:22:36 +0000

Ignoring the gamblers losing money because they lack insider information, the harm is that you changed the incentive for war. It is motivated by money for the gamblers, not military or political objectives. The difference between this and rigged sports gambling is that people die. They die on a whim and they die unnecessarily. I shouldn’t have to explain why people dying is bad.

New comment by jinushaun in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

jinushaun — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:18:27 +0000

Technically true, but this concept is foreign to English speakers. English relies heavily on diphthongs and can’t separate the sounds in their head. Simplest example is probably the word “no” which is very much a diphthong.

That’s why they always have such predictable accents in another language.

New comment by jinushaun in "Goodbye to Sora"

jinushaun — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:33:41 +0000

Only because they promote it. The default experience for a new user on Youtube is to show you content from creators with 5M+ subscribers. It’s a positive feedback loop.

I find all of it lame and cringe, so I downvote all of that. However stuff still sneaks by…

New comment by jinushaun in "JavaScript Is Enough"

jinushaun — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:56:02 +0000

Two way props make for a nice demo, but are a nightmare to maintain.

New comment by jinushaun in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

jinushaun — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:27:57 +0000

No, Windows was broken before AI

New comment by jinushaun in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

jinushaun — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:16:09 +0000

My second pair of AirPods is not even 2 years old yet and I don’t think it will last much longer. The first one died quickly too. My next headphones will be wired

New comment by jinushaun in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

jinushaun — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:08:44 +0000

Did you read the article? It’s not a crazy ask. They want multi-user Claude sessions. But what stops the humans from talking to each other? Boom! You suddenly have Slack.

New comment by jinushaun in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

jinushaun — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:01:05 +0000

But group chat is chat. Even the chat interface with Claude is chat. You can also say the same for any sort of commenting system. Posts and comments, tweets and comments, etc.

I’ve built such system many times. They’re basically all the same, especially if you introduce real time updates. Channels and threads are just organization strategies.

New comment by jinushaun in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

jinushaun — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:35:12 +0000

Except quotation marks look like regular text. I regularly use quotes in prompts for, ya know, quotes.

New comment by jinushaun in "Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don't Make the Same Mistake"

jinushaun — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:10:46 +0000

Same. Feels like “AI slop” was trained on my personal writing style. The quoted text from the article writes with the same voice as mine.

New comment by jinushaun in "Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026"

jinushaun — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:29:54 +0000

They really are forcing me to visit facebook.com in 2026 aren’t they? Guess I’ll stop using FB messenger when I’m on a computer.

New comment by jinushaun in "Washington imposes 'terrorist-grade sanctions' on Francesca Albanese, ICC judges"

jinushaun — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:23:10 +0000

In 2026, everyone is a terrorist. Just like we predicted back in 2001.

New comment by jinushaun in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

jinushaun — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:34:11 +0000

> The PMs are completely asleep at the wheel, when they aren't actively self-sabotaging.

You’ve never worked at MS, have you? PMs aren’t asleep at the wheel. They are doing their job because their performance reviews are tied to adding these top-down goals into the team’s roadmap. That’s the horrible part.

New comment by jinushaun in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

jinushaun — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:30:07 +0000

This reminds me of “emo” music. All the emotions except happiness. These renders are depressing.

New comment by jinushaun in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

jinushaun — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:52:07 +0000

You can say the same about the traditional car industry. Just because it’s a “solved problem” doesn’t mean you can ignore the TAM.

I think people are frustrated because Musk has been pretty up front that Tesla only exists to further his goals for Mars and robots. He doesn’t actually care about selling cars.

New comment by jinushaun in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

jinushaun — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:36:34 +0000

No! Wegmans was amazing when in lived in NY. We would actually go out of our way to shop at Wegmans and plan our weekend around it.

New comment by jinushaun in "Satya Nadella: a masterclass in saying everything while promising nothing"

jinushaun — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:15:49 +0000

To be fair, Ballmer trashed Windows. Satya just doesn’t care to fix it like he did cloud.

New comment by jinushaun in "A Year of 3D Printing"

jinushaun — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:12:18 +0000

I picked up a P1S for Black Friday. I’ve been printing non-stop since December, including some stuff I modeled myself. Only failed prints have been because I printed the wrong thing. It’s been flawless with PLA. Haven’t done PETG or ASA yet.

New comment by jinushaun in "King – man + woman is queen; but why? (2017)"

jinushaun — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:15:45 +0000

Article is about AI and vector spaces, but queen literally means ”wife/woman” in old English. Disappointed. Thought this would be an article on etymology.

New comment by jinushaun in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

jinushaun — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:55:46 +0000

I don’t like AI for production code, but I love it for ideation and prototyping. I agree. It really allows you to quickly iterate on ideas without being blocked by implementation details.