Hacker News: jjp

EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

jjp — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:18:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1k2ydn1rz8o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309302

Points: 352

# Comments: 402

New comment by jjp in "Blasted at 20x force of gravity: what ejection from fighter jet does to the body"

jjp — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:25:01 +0000

Blasted out at 20 times the force of gravity: what ejection from a fighter jet does to the body

Blasted at 20x force of gravity: what ejection from fighter jet does to the body

jjp — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:25:01 +0000

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/blasted-out-at-20-times-the-force-of-gravity-what-ejection-from-a-fighter-jet-does-to-the-body-277388

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47297144

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jjp in "I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored"

jjp — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:18:55 +0000

Or perhaps they want to stop any company that doesn’t want to play by the rules as defined by the laws of society. So doesn’t matter whether it’s a US hyperscaler or an EU wanna be.

New comment by jjp in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

jjp — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:34:41 +0000

Walking the dog is my go to for thinking through problems. The dog really loves the hard problems as they get a longer walk.

New comment by jjp in "Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests"

jjp — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:48:58 +0000

Is the influencer career being short lived any different from an athlete

New comment by jjp in "Ask HN: My AI app builder has users, not buyers – why?"

jjp — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:11:53 +0000

Is the user base churning or are you getting multi day active users? Which one will point you in a different direction.

Once the page has been generated where can I host it? The answer will influence your target audience.

And then on pricing what does a credit get me in terms of something tangible - a page, 5 pages?

And for the target audience do they know which model is better? And if so why is it better to use your site than just direct prompt?

New comment by jjp in "Why Software Systems Must Default to the Metric System"

jjp — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:09:54 +0000

If globally we collectively used metric for all units then this becomes realistic. But whilst we have different units being used and a person needs to view this is going to happen.

If the output of a sensor that records in metric, then needs to be viewed in imperial it needs to be converted. Is it better to convert at write or read time always depends on use case and geography. Or do we just force the human in the loop to know that the speed limit is 112km/h even though it’s non digitally signposted at 70.

New comment by jjp in "Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28"

jjp — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 05:49:29 +0000

“Those systems will continue to receive security updates for 3 years.” - looks like 8 years in total.

New comment by jjp in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

jjp — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:14:43 +0000

Whilst the status message acknowledge's the issue with Front Door (AFD), it seems as though the rest of the actions are about how to get Portal/internal services working without relying on AFD. For those of us using Front Door does that mean we're in for a long haul?

Solar panels in space 'could provide 80% of Europe's renewable energy by 2050'

jjp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:08:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/21/solar-panels-in-space-could-provide-80-of-europes-renewable-energy-by-2050

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44974471

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Powerful programming: BBC-controlled electric meters are coming to an end

jjp — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 08:05:11 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/powerful-programming-bbc-controlled-electric-meters-are-coming-to-an-end/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43662383

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers

jjp — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:31:27 +0000

Article URL: https://motifanalytics.medium.com/my-browser-wasmt-prepared-for-this-using-duckdb-apache-arrow-and-web-workers-in-real-life-e3dd4695623d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599613

Points: 126

# Comments: 32

Watching nature scenes can reduce pain, new study shows

jjp — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:57:00 +0000

Article URL: https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-health-and-life-sciences/watching-nature-scenes-can-reduce-pain-new-study-shows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43380010

Points: 37

# Comments: 11

At the bottom of the North Sea, out of air and no hope of rescue, I said goodbye

jjp — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:04:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/04/bottom-north-sea-running-out-air-no-hope-rescue

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256454

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The 'Time Lords' racing to tackle the threat of GPS jamming

jjp — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 09:51:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6yg204pvmo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43240118

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jjp in "A 132-Year-Old Message in a Bottle in a Scottish Lighthouse"

jjp — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:26:34 +0000

BBC report including text of letter https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje0x5j7wgjo

New comment by jjp in "Ask HN: How do you structure your shared finances with your spouse/partner"

jjp — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 05:32:03 +0000

Joint account for everything for the house and family. Both salaries get paid into it, in full. Spend is jointly agreed.

We then both have an individual account for our monthly allowance. Monthly allowance is funded from combined account, and is same amount for us both. Our allowance funds personal items and hobbies.

New comment by jjp in "Flags Are Not Languages"

jjp — Sun, 05 May 2024 16:04:27 +0000

It's also terribly annoying when I've found a page through a search engine and the site decides that I don't want that language. Navigates me to the language of my accept-language, decides that's on a different domain which is managed by a different team/CMS and doesn't have or can't find the page I was looking for in the first place.

Margaret Calvert's radical road signs

jjp — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 05:30:03 +0000

Article URL: https://uxdesign.cc/margaret-calverts-radical-road-signs-75f2ebdbb28f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38470024

Points: 1

# Comments: 0