Hacker News: jjallen

New comment by jjallen in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

jjallen — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:05:00 +0000

Governmental filings are not PR and either are lawsuits. The lawsuit was won or at the very least validated by a judge.

New comment by jjallen in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

jjallen — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:53:58 +0000

No. I figured it was almost completely if not completely about OpenAI. These things tend to be quite lengthy and I do not have an hour to devote to reading things that don’t directly impact me or my family of profession these days.

New comment by jjallen in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

jjallen — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:50:15 +0000

Yes I am sure of the second part based on the government’s own publicly available tweets and lawsuits that have been filed.

New comment by jjallen in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

jjallen — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:48:14 +0000

I do wonder exactly what he was doing to be considered a snake. I know he was working on other things, but what else was going on?

New comment by jjallen in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

jjallen — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:46:55 +0000

I mean he quit what he considered to be a problematic company, founded another one, that one’s models refused to do things that the previous company would do, then his new company refused to do the US government’s evil bidding while the other company happily went along with it.

Not small differences to me.

New comment by jjallen in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

jjallen — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:23:57 +0000

I’ve never been annoyed with YouTube search. Product is great as far as I’m concerned. Love YouTube all around.

New comment by jjallen in "21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains"

jjallen — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:46:10 +0000

Make me an offer.

New comment by jjallen in "21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains"

jjallen — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:47:22 +0000

For kicks and giggles and because my wife was born in Yugoslavia I bought Yugoslavia.org a few years ago. Would like to do something meaningful with it.

New comment by jjallen in "OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO)"

jjallen — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:46:48 +0000

This is not just OpenAI though. I don’t think this is new in general for these AI chat apps. Claude at the very least asks a question as the last part of its responses I believe every time.

New comment by jjallen in "Show HN: I speak 5 languages. Common apps taught me none. So I built lairner"

jjallen — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:39:42 +0000

It gave me a very wrong intro starting lesson number after saying I was second from the most advanced level and answering 26/26 of the intro questions correctly. It was showing me things like what does the 1st most common verb mean, etc. Just FYI.

New comment by jjallen in "Judge order bars feds from altering or destroying evidence in Pretti shooting"

jjallen — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:37:52 +0000

Like what would that look like? US citizens being shot in the back of the head by government agents? On a weekly basis?

New comment by jjallen in "Judge order bars feds from altering or destroying evidence in Pretti shooting"

jjallen — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:55:02 +0000

Not sure why anyone thinks a judges order is worth anything in the USA anymore. I am not reassured at all.

New comment by jjallen in "Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode"

jjallen — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:49:09 +0000

This is definitely Barbara Streisanding right now. I had never heard of OpenCode. But I sure have now! Will have to check it out. Doubt I’ll end up immediately canceling Claude Code Max, but we’ll see.

New comment by jjallen in "NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware"

jjallen — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:38:45 +0000

Very cool. Was thinking about working onthis myself after moving in a house 4 months ago with these to all of a sudden ahve to replace them for no good reason.

New comment by jjallen in "Dead soldiers' teeth reveal diseases that doomed Napoleon's army"

jjallen — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:12:53 +0000

Exactly. If it is used a certain way by enough people, that is also an accepted definition. Dictionaries lag actual speech and language I suppose.

New comment by jjallen in "VectorWare – from creators of `rust-GPU` and `rust-CUDA`"

jjallen — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:20:55 +0000

+1 for cudarc. I've been using it for a couple of years now and has worked great. I'm using it for financial markets backtesting.

New comment by jjallen in "How to sequence your DNA for <$2k"

jjallen — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 23:46:32 +0000

Because of public family trees potentially linking a genome to a family, no dna is fully anonymous these days.

New comment by jjallen in "Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip"

jjallen — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:23:34 +0000

Clearly not.

New comment by jjallen in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

jjallen — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:39:55 +0000

Are they going to reinvest these funds into educations so our country can fill these roles or just waste it on weapons and unwinnable wars?

I would be totally fine with this if it was the former, but I would bet that it won't be...

New comment by jjallen in "Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?"

jjallen — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:04:11 +0000

I have not and don’t run an adblocker fwiw.