Hacker News: jjordan

New comment by jjordan in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

jjordan — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:41:05 +0000

How did we let this happen? We used to have open protocols, apps like Pidgin that would bring multiple chat clients together under one interface, IRC, Skype P2P, etc. etc.

Was it spammers that caused this mass migration to ever more closed platforms?

New comment by jjordan in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

jjordan — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:47:31 +0000

Real people are complex and hold a wide palette of skills, opinions, habits, biases, etc. Just enjoy the good and disregard the bad.

New comment by jjordan in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

jjordan — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:29:31 +0000

It's the safer bet.

New comment by jjordan in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

jjordan — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:12:40 +0000

There was no decision made on this basis. It was dismissed entirely due to the elapsed statute of limitations.

New comment by jjordan in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

jjordan — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:07:00 +0000

Back when Google was still fun and innovating. Enshittification consumes all.

New comment by jjordan in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

jjordan — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:03:24 +0000

Wow, what's the go-to client these days?

New comment by jjordan in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

jjordan — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:33:39 +0000

oof, this bubble popping is gonna be brutal.

New comment by jjordan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

jjordan — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:27:55 +0000

Trying to make a stab at improving RSS feed discoverability. There's a website portion and an app portion. Hope to have something to show off in a few weeks.

New comment by jjordan in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

jjordan — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:59:11 +0000

It feels like we're one technological breakthrough away from all of these data centers going up to be deemed irrelevant.

New comment by jjordan in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

jjordan — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:45:09 +0000

Nintendo hardware IMO is mostly reasonably priced. Their first party game library is why many buy into the ecosystem and they charge a premium for it. The original Switch was under-powered but also the first of its kind. The Switch 2 was mostly a hardware bump with additional polish to the rough edges of the original Switch.

New comment by jjordan in "AI slop video is being used as an attack ad in a contentious Kentucky primary"

jjordan — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:52:49 +0000

No "AI generated" markings or any indication provided that the video used in the ad isn't real. It brings forth a question we will soon need to face: how to regulate AI use in political advertisements designed to influence voters.

AI slop video is being used as an attack ad in a contentious Kentucky primary

jjordan — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:52:49 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/MassieforKY/status/2051347166505881864

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012273

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by jjordan in "I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search"

jjordan — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:32:31 +0000

Any plans for RSS feed(s)? Would love to passively track the auctions in this manner. Per state, ending soon etc. would be fantastic.

New comment by jjordan in "Copy Fail"

jjordan — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:51:16 +0000

Good writing for a broad audience requires it. Unfortunately the LLMs don't tend to adopt this guideline.

New comment by jjordan in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

jjordan — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:13:17 +0000

It's not. It's a glorified code editor with no moat. Those are (massive) bubble prices.

New comment by jjordan in "What game engines know about data that databases forgot"

jjordan — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:05:18 +0000

I've always passively wondered why this wasn't more of a thing. Something like pgAdmin is fine I guess, but it's always felt like "just barely good enough" rather than an immersive power tool to get things done, and done well. Possibly just a skill issue, but that's been my impression.

New comment by jjordan in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

jjordan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:29:29 +0000

Need 66 senate votes to impeach in the senate.

New comment by jjordan in "SpaceX files to go public"

jjordan — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:10:46 +0000

Well in terms of landmass covered it's not even a contest.

New comment by jjordan in "Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine"

jjordan — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:42:55 +0000

Someone did something interesting to them and shared it with the world. That you feel is a waste of time does not add to the conversation and more broadly acts as a chilling effect on others who might want to share their interests.

When it comes to something like this, mom's advice is golden: "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything."

New comment by jjordan in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

jjordan — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:39:01 +0000

Failing or not, there's no way to justify their current spend without saying the words "massive" and "bubble".