Hacker News: jkonline

New comment by jkonline in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

jkonline — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:28:50 +0000

"We like to believe humans are rational animals who occasionally feel emotions. It’s the reverse. We are emotional animals who occasionally think."

Well said.

New comment by jkonline in "Your Website Is Not for You"

jkonline — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:38:28 +0000

"A website isn't art. It's a tool with one job: get the user to do the thing they came for." Great quote! This has already helped me frame a conversation with a client.

New comment by jkonline in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

jkonline — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:47:30 +0000

Suggest you check your .htaccess (or however you secure your server) for storage.j0.hn.

New comment by jkonline in "Colossus, the first large-scale electronic computer"

jkonline — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 17:41:17 +0000

Interesting; I have always thought ENIAC was "first."

New comment by jkonline in "Students invent quieter leaf blower"

jkonline — Thu, 16 May 2024 03:21:22 +0000

First, it's an attachment that could fit on nearly all blowers.

Second, it dampens the noise while retaining all the force.

If this works out, it will be amazing! Kudos to the student teams!

New comment by jkonline in "SF Poop Map"

jkonline — Thu, 16 May 2024 03:15:15 +0000

Just to read the article, I have to have an ArcGis Online account?

That's not an article.

New comment by jkonline in "After shooting, MSU promised safety. It delivered surveillance"

jkonline — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 21:15:03 +0000

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell, 1984

New comment by jkonline in "Show HN: QBasic 4.5 on Android"

jkonline — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 17:39:13 +0000

Yeah, but... Can it gorillas.bas?

New comment by jkonline in "Volute Shaped Blower [video]"

jkonline — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:55:28 +0000

This is quite interesting.

New comment by jkonline in "Websites of 2000 [video]"

jkonline — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 01:23:51 +0000

Filming TV segments about internet websites?

What's next, watching TV on the Internet? Heh

New comment by jkonline in "Drying Fruits (2003)"

jkonline — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:42:04 +0000

We've been looking for additional uses for our new air fryer, including drying fruit.

This is super helpful and interesting. Thank you!

New comment by jkonline in "Show HN: I built an autopilot for the lunar lander game"

jkonline — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:10:20 +0000

"Oh SNAP! I'm amazing at this!" 101.1 point landing on my second try!

At least, that's what I thought, until I realized I had previously activated the auto-pilot. Best #footgun today (so far!).

So I guess I should say: > Oh SNAP! This auto-pilot is amazing at this!

Thanks!

New comment by jkonline in "Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey"

jkonline — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 10:56:55 +0000

The Mozilla blog recently covered some of this IIRC: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/extensions-addo...

New comment by jkonline in "The Mistress of Slang"

jkonline — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 19:32:43 +0000

This is a beautiful article, thank you.

New comment by jkonline in "Blackchain Security"

jkonline — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:48:02 +0000

Looks like a typo in the title: it should be blockchain

New comment by jkonline in "Doors of McMurdo"

jkonline — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 18:59:05 +0000

I think distcalculator is buggy:

"Distance between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA is 99 miles.

If average speed of your car will be standard for this route between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA and road conditions will be as usual, time that you will need to arrive to Los Angeles, CA will be 1 hour."

New comment by jkonline in "Website Fidelity"

jkonline — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:52:47 +0000

@john-doe Thank you, especially for the links. These remind me of the 'before times' when most sites had a special "mobile" version.

The web browsers at work have increasingly moved away from allowing users to control extensions and plug-ins (natch), and ad-mitigating bookmarklets are only so effective.

New comment by jkonline in "Klarna – Company announcement from CEO regarding layoffs"

jkonline — Mon, 23 May 2022 17:01:41 +0000

I agree, I thought the letter was fine. Classy, even.

I don't see a need to have more specific language in the all-employee announcement email.

The right place for that language is in the message(s) specifically to the person's being fired. And, to their credit, they let people know ahead of time what the exact subject of that message will be.

New comment by jkonline in "IP over Avian Carriers RFC 1149 event (2001)"

jkonline — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 18:58:24 +0000

Interesting, many thanks. Currently enjoying the fall down the Golay code rabbit hole.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Golay_code

New comment by jkonline in "IP over Avian Carriers RFC 1149 event (2001)"

jkonline — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 16:38:39 +0000

I have proudly used RFC 1149s and 2549 many times over the years, (as straight faced as possible) as learning aids for INFOSEC and Help desk n00bs. Being able to introduce intentionally humorous material (that is documented within a scientific document process) has been a huge help.