Hacker News: jllyhill

Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable

jllyhill — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:19:42 +0000

Article URL: https://maurycyz.com/misc/etherfiles/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505217

Points: 57

# Comments: 38

The Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs (2025)

jllyhill — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:00:07 +0000

Article URL: https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/doorknob-hostility/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311670

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jllyhill in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

jllyhill — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:08:22 +0000

Did you write it or did Claude code slopcoded it for you? Claude is the contributor to all your other repositories. There is a world of difference between "here's a problem that I'm really concerned with and poured all my expertise to solve it" and "I told Claude to fix it for me and now I'm gonna abandon it as soon as I'm done with the HN advertising".

New comment by jllyhill in "Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig"

jllyhill — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:32:59 +0000

You can just scroll down to the contributors section to see that it was indeed written by Claude

New comment by jllyhill in "Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig"

jllyhill — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:29:59 +0000

Because it is, Claude is one of the two contributors. Just another slop project made farming HN points and marketing.

New comment by jllyhill in "Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor"

jllyhill — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:54:39 +0000

For anyone wondering, here's the author confirming it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966159

And here's their Claude skill for writing

https://github.com/AdrianMastronardi/bookwright

Pebble provides a positive update but I still wouldn't recommend buying one

jllyhill — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:05:56 +0000

Article URL: https://ljpuk.net/posts/pebble-provides-a-positive-update-but-i-still-wouldnt-recommend-buying-one

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944968

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Linus Torvalds position on LLM use in Linux kernel code

jllyhill — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:23:58 +0000

Article URL: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwi4zC%2BZe8e%2Bp3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933042

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

A Constructive Look at TempleOS (2015)

jllyhill — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:02:21 +0000

Article URL: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852326

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jllyhill in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

jllyhill — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:06:49 +0000

Do you remember what you've used to add your business? The process shouldn't be so difficult and normally the changes to the OpenStreetMaps database are instant and don't require any moderation or review. There are some sites that were intended to help business owners to get info to the database, maybe there's a problem with one of them.

> The actual business is listed, but with a slightly wrong name. But I can put that exact slightly wrong name into the search on openstreetmap.org right now and there's zero results.

Can you give the name and location? I can look it up to see if there are any errors.

> Then I can manually zoom to the location (which is correct), see my business, tap on it... And nothing. It doesn't open. So given all of this, why would I bother with openstreetmaps as a business owner?

That's the part that annoys me the most. Counterintuitively the map at openstreetmap.org is NOT intended to be an interactive common user web-map, a Google map alternative. It is a non-interactive map for the mapping volunteers to get feedback on whether their changes to the OpenStreetMap database were correct. While you can still right click on a feature, select "Query feature" and look at the raw text, you are better look up your business on something like mapy.com or an app like CoMaps (that use OSM data to create a Google map alternative) to understand what would the users see.

New comment by jllyhill in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

jllyhill — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:56:59 +0000

You can get some info on the tag use with taginfo, e.g. https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/cuisine#projects But it is really technical and not all projects provide this info.

The most obvious place where people will look for and query this kind of data are the OSM-based map apps: OsmAnd, OrganicMaps, CoMaps, mapy.com etc. I don't know if this data is pulled into other major maps like Google's or Apple's.

New comment by jllyhill in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

jllyhill — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:49:48 +0000

There are ways to add pictures as the tags of the OSM objects

- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikimedia_commons

- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:panoramax

- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:mapillary

Mobile apps can use this data to either give links to them (e.g. CoMaps) or display them in the app (e.g. OsmAnd)

New comment by jllyhill in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

jllyhill — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:45:29 +0000

The thing is that the best way to get the phones and opening hours is to walk in person and look them up. Any source for the automated collection is way more likely to be outdated/wrong than what the sign or the person behind the counter tells you. And can also have non-permissive license not compatible with the OSM license.

New comment by jllyhill in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

jllyhill — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:24:06 +0000

Think of it as a very stripped down and opinionated version of OsmAnd. It lacks a lot of power features, but is extremely fast and all of the options are easily available and work out of the box. So it's great for everyday use (especially in cities with a lot of POIs) but not as good for in depth travel and route planning.

For example, I've used F-Droid OsmAnd extensively when planning my trip to Japan, because its guides, WikiData and Wikipedia integration are godsend for finding interesting places to visit, but used CoMaps when I was there to look things up and build routes. I'm also exclusively using OsmAnd for writing GNSS tracks because I can fine tune the parameters of measurements it captures.

Open Source Software Is the Pastime of the Rich

jllyhill — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:33:43 +0000

Article URL: https://humancode.us/2024/09/18/open-source-pastime-for-rich

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720635

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

New comment by jllyhill in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

jllyhill — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:43:54 +0000

Damn it, it was the longest word I've already found in plural form :/ Not sure this is good puzzle design to be honest

New comment by jllyhill in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

jllyhill — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:00:26 +0000

+1 for this. Also not a native speaker and can't for the life of find the two last words in the #5

New comment by jllyhill in "Plotnine"

jllyhill — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:03:55 +0000

What would you say are the benefits of the grammar-of-graphics approach? I've been working with plotting for more than a decade now and have never heard of it. Right now I'm looking through the gallery and can't really grasp what makes this approach better than the one in matplotlib.

PS. It took someone in the comments writing "import plotnine as p9" for me to understand it isn't plotLine.

To Gen or Not to Gen: The Ethical Use of Generative AI

jllyhill — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:03:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/04/to-gen-or-not-to-gen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520883

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Due to DMA, Siri AI delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27

jllyhill — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:10:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-delayed-in-eu-for-ios-27-and-ipados-27/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458124

Points: 1

# Comments: 0