Hacker News: jlian

New comment by jlian in "GPT-6 Astra"

jlian — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:35:07 +0000

It's on Azure now, but limited

https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/gpt-6-astra-frontier-intell...

New comment by jlian in "Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud"

jlian — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:48:39 +0000

> laptops left open just so tasks could keep running

Too real. We’re currently still sticking to local agent workflows which feel more powerful than cloud native ones. Moving that to your own cloud with no third-party control plane feels like the right middle ground. Nice work

EDIT: the adversarial two-agent review loop is really clever!

New comment by jlian in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

jlian — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:45:18 +0000

This is mine https://johnlian.net/

I posted it to Hacker News once, and it seemed to be decently received https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281060

New comment by jlian in "Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable"

jlian — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:19:17 +0000

This was actually the first route I considered. Unfortunately the latency was too much.

> My first instinct was to lean on traditional automation stacks: HomeKit scenes to chain “TV on” into “receiver on” or wattage triggers via an Eve Energy plug. This kind of worked, but every extra layer added 30 seconds of lag or more.

New comment by jlian in "Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable"

jlian — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:16:04 +0000

Yes I actually run into the same issue and put it down as a footnote on the post

https://johnlian.net/posts/hdmi-cec/#fn:3

Where I talk about the craziness that happens when more than 3 playback devices are on in my system:

> ...if the one playback device (e.g. PS5) was on, changing input to another playback device (e.g. Xbox) was impossible, I'd get a quick black screen and the input snaps back to PS5. This is wild, but fortunately I only use one console at a time so it’s not a big deal.

I remember when I wad losing my mind diagnosing this, I ended up asking ChatGPT for help with deciphering the HDMI-CEC frames when this was happening. It told me about the 3 device limit being the culprit with the line "You’re not crazy, HDMI-CEC is."

Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable

jlian — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:37:09 +0000

Article URL: https://johnlian.net/posts/hdmi-cec/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281060

Points: 281

# Comments: 144

New comment by jlian in "Could Removing Social Media Metrics Reduce Polarization?"

jlian — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 22:20:10 +0000

I like how WeChat does it for their "Moments" posts, where you can see only the number of Likes from your friends.

https://www.quora.com/Who-can-see-what-you-publish-and-comme...

New comment by jlian in "Sign In with Apple [video]"

jlian — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:41:21 +0000

I’m not sure if this is right approach. In fact in the 70’s, the US basically went through this back and forth, largely influenced by one book:

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

Essentially, the book advocates that the only goal antitrust laws should have is to protect consumer welfare, not competitors.

IMO, Apple’s requirement doesn’t feel like it would harm consumer welfare.

New comment by jlian in "India will soon overtake China to become the most populous country in the world"

jlian — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:29:00 +0000

A short-ish read on how the UN does population projections and major factors contributing to the expected population decline:

https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Publications/Files/Key_Findings_...

Google’s iron grip on Android (2013)

jlian — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 17:29:31 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=339141

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17560315

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jlian in "A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance"

jlian — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:15:59 +0000

One thing that Apple hasn't addressed is if the Geekbench results [1] over-represents or exaggerates the the throttling effect. Since Geekbench pushes the iPhone to its limits for the duration of the benchmark, iOS needs to throttle performance to prevent shutdown while being tested. This results in lower-than-expected test scores every time. But how much does this map to real-life, visible performance drop?

Edit: Another question I have is how do other devices handle battery degradation? Do Android phones just let devices shutdown unexpectedly or is there also performance throttling? Or is the problem non-existent on non-Apple devices somehow?

[1] https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2017/12/iphone-performance-an...

New comment by jlian in "Teachable Machine: Teach a machine using your camera, live in the browser"

jlian — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:58:00 +0000

There is a student offer that doesn’t require credit card https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0144p/

New comment by jlian in "Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane"

jlian — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:10:09 +0000

Back in the days MS used to allow you to create a "Microsoft Account" (MSA) using any email, including an email that's already associated with Azure Active Directory (AAD work or school account).

This was a mistake and has been patched. But it looks like an MSA was created using the same email as your AAD before the fix.

Thus, from MS's perspective, there are two distinct accounts under the same email, hence the UX. It's really quite a mess, and yes the situation is weird. We're working on it make it better.

Try transferring the subscriptions to your work email using this method https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/billing/billing-subsc...

New comment by jlian in "Google Cloud SQL for Postgres"

jlian — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:22:38 +0000

Would love to hear more about your opinions on the first part.

New comment by jlian in "Microsoft earnings blow past estimates in every category, beats Street"

jlian — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:34:52 +0000

This might not meet your needs but you can use Azure App Service (free) to host a static website

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/acoat/2016/01/28/publish-a-...

EDIT: also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31653643/how-to-deploy-a-...

New comment by jlian in "ArduPilot and DroneCode"

jlian — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 18:32:38 +0000

I'm super curious as well.. 3DR is the original platinum member, Intel and Qualcomm are newer. It seems like all three were collaborating on pivoting towards proprietary drone tech which obviously doesn't sit well with ArduPilot/tridge

New comment by jlian in "Microsoft Pix"

jlian — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 23:51:01 +0000

The last item is very prevalent throughout many microsoft.com pages. https://azure.microsoft.com has gotten it right here but I'm wondering what's preventing the rest of microsoft.com to do the same.

New comment by jlian in "Microsoft Pix"

jlian — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 23:41:26 +0000

Two confirmation dialogs (one from the app and one from iOS) for deleting an image seems kind of overkill. Can you make it just one?

New comment by jlian in "Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup"

jlian — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:50:08 +0000

I went through a similar experience. In hindsight the red flags were extremely obvious but I was also in extreme denial. I really wanted it to be true and was not willing to face whatever I would be able to dig up. So I didn't try. Paychecks were bouncing and I was still clasping onto the sliver of hope in order to not lose the job.

I was (am still am) a new grad with no experience but I had co-workers with families and responsibilities. We all wanted it to be true too badly and willfully ignored the warning signs.

New comment by jlian in "Two-factor authentication for Apple ID"

jlian — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 22:48:10 +0000

Looks like it's a different process now https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204921