Hacker News: jjordan

New comment by jjordan in "Tesla Roadster"

jjordan — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:25:16 +0000

I wish all the Elon haters put as much effort into making their comments as humorous as yours. Well done.

New comment by jjordan in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

jjordan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:31:39 +0000

self-hosted open source alternative Headscale/Headplane. Uses the Tailscale client without their SaaS being involved.

New comment by jjordan in "Claude partial outage"

jjordan — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:31:28 +0000

Given the amount of usage I'm now getting from Opus 5.5, I'm surprised it took this long since release for their first outage. In my experience, it's about 10x the usage of Fable 5.1 with similar, perhaps greater levels of intelligence.

New comment by jjordan in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

jjordan — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:59:11 +0000

We need an open phone platform badly.

New comment by jjordan in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

jjordan — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:22:51 +0000

Don't worry, it's on the roadmap for Q4 2029.

New comment by jjordan in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

jjordan — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:42:12 +0000

When you use a drill to put a hole in the wall, do you take credit for it, or do you credit the drill? Without intent, a tool, whether it be a drill or an LLM, is just an inert object.

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

jjordan — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:52:01 +0000

It would be great if I could integrate this into our existing (and rather extensive) eslint config as as a plugin of some sort rather than integrate yet another new tool to our dev environment. Any plans for that?

New comment by jjordan in "Shopify moves back to Native from React Native"

jjordan — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:56:47 +0000

FYI I've been building an app, Android first, and discovered the magic of Kotlin Multiplatform. The LLM modularized everything so that it's substantively the same code base, but with Swift only where it's needed. Still working through it, but it seems like a great and underrated platform to build on.

New comment by jjordan in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

jjordan — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:50:24 +0000

Why should they skyrocket? As more autonomous vehicles appear on the roads, incidents with non-autonomous vehicles will go down. Driving will become inherently safer.

New comment by jjordan in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

jjordan — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:48:40 +0000

Yes, I definitely trust insurance companies to do the right thing here.

New comment by jjordan in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

jjordan — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:37:59 +0000

There should be laws put in place to ensure drivers will always be able to drive their cars, if they choose, and also prevent insurance companies from skyrocketing your rates for doing so. This is IMO past due.

New comment by jjordan in "O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"

jjordan — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:20:20 +0000

Closed source doesn't mean not trustworthy. O&O has been making tools like these for a long time.

New comment by jjordan in "K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models"

jjordan — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:10:46 +0000

Hear me out.

Decentralized unstoppable storage, combined with decentralized unstoppable training, sorta like SETI for AI training. The seed of this tech already exists with IPFS and others like it.

We know (some? all?) of the big labs have skirted copyright laws at one point or another. Truly open models would just build on what is publicly available.

New comment by jjordan in "K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models"

jjordan — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:22:06 +0000

Fully open models really need to be a big part of the AI future. That includes all source code, open training data, how it's organized, fed to the model, processed, etc. Until that becomes a thing you're always going to be left wondering what exactly lies underneath the closed model you are using, leaving open the possibility for societal manipulation.

New comment by jjordan in "Grok outage"

jjordan — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:09:00 +0000

People who like near frontier AI at a lower cost than most.

New comment by jjordan in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

jjordan — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:09:50 +0000

What ever happened to IPFS? Wasn't it built for just this kind of thing? I remember trying it years ago and it was absolutely unusable, but was kinda hoping it had made a turnaround by now.

New comment by jjordan in "Music Theory for Programmers"

jjordan — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:33:27 +0000

Fantastic content. Went looking for this on HN after seeing it on lobsters, since I don't have an account there yet. It's truly sad that some of these gems never get front page coverage, for whatever reason.

Anyway, this will be useful as I've struggled to get into an instrument myself and often found myself asking "why" to a lot of accepted conventions. Appreciate all the time you put into this.

New comment by jjordan in "The August 17 outage"

jjordan — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:40:03 +0000

I think it should be noted that the CTO of GitHub doesn't use his own product. No commits since January 2024: https://github.com/v-fedorov-gh

No side projects? Nothing? Just seems odd.

New comment by jjordan in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

jjordan — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:39:33 +0000

I'm partial to Typesense, especially for smaller data sets, since it runs primarily in memory, is easy to use and is hella fast. For bigger data sets, I hear good things about Meilisearch.

New comment by jjordan in "Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug"

jjordan — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:15:47 +0000

Probably the most refreshing thing I've read in a while. Glad to support them moving forward if this is indeed their modus operandi.