Hacker News: jmaw

New comment by jmaw in "gTLD Reveal Day: 1372 unique strings"

jmaw — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:23:20 +0000

If my counting is correct (the results wrap across multiple pages), 13 companies applied for the .agent TLD.

New comment by jmaw in "ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains"

jmaw — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:22:53 +0000

Here is a direct link to the applied TLDs: https://newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org/applications

If my counting is correct (the results wrap across multiple pages), 13 companies applied for the .agent TLD.

New comment by jmaw in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

jmaw — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:26:21 +0000

Good old Hyrum's Law

New comment by jmaw in "The most important product decision is what you don't build"

jmaw — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:41:34 +0000

There are few things nicer than seeing a PR with a lot of red!

New comment by jmaw in "How to write an effective software design document"

jmaw — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:57:49 +0000

I think you're probably right. However I attribute the lack of upfront design in software is due to the relative ease of changing it after the fact.

New comment by jmaw in "How to write an effective software design document"

jmaw — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:53:56 +0000

I would argue that the technical limitations should be considered during the creation of the design doc. In my experience, writing design docs can help me simplify the implementation because I've through through a lot of the headaches ahead of time.

But I will say I've seen many projects get ended by customer request or reorg. I think it's a cost-benefit analysis where you should consider the size of the project (and how long it will take to implement) vs. how long it will take to write the design doc. If it's a 2 day task, that is easy to change after the fact, then no need to write a design doc. But if it's a 2 month project that will have public endpoints that other teams or products will use, it likely is worth a 2-3 day design doc.

New comment by jmaw in "How to write an effective software design document"

jmaw — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:48:11 +0000

I think the design doc still has some value after it has been created. For me it almost acts like a checklist of things to be completed, and it's nice to have it in one place in bite-sized bits. My design docs will also have links to external resources and it's nice to have them in one place so I don't have to track them down later.

But I 100% agree that the majority of the value is gained in the writing of the design doc, and the decisions/tradeoffs that have to be thought through during that process. Which is why I strongly push back against suggestions of using AI to write design docs. Since delegating the writing to AI causes over half the value of the design doc to be lost.

New comment by jmaw in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"

jmaw — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:38:45 +0000

Simply send your cable through the center of the earth and boom, latency reduced by ~1/2. Remember me when you make billions of $ from my idea.

New comment by jmaw in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

jmaw — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:18:17 +0000

My processing power is also weak :(

New comment by jmaw in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

jmaw — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:17:15 +0000

At the very least, should be a 429

New comment by jmaw in "ChatGPT outage – Resolved"

jmaw — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:15:41 +0000

I heard they can't figure out how to fix it with ChatGPT down.

New comment by jmaw in "Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards"

jmaw — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:57:37 +0000

I think you can similarly reduce humans. For example, all humans do is contract muscles. This doesn't fully cover all of biology, such as replicating cells, etc. so not exactly comprehensive, but hopefully that helps get the idea across.

LLMS: Receive text/binary input, process it, and output text/binary input Humans: Receive various inputs, process them, and output muscle contractions

New comment by jmaw in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

jmaw — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:33:49 +0000

Or maybe generalized to "get good at problem solving." I've found building software systems has a lot of parallels to working on physical things such as carpentry/DIY and working on small engines. The concepts of breaking down a problem into a bunch of smaller problems, and identifying what can be independently tested/built remain the same.

New comment by jmaw in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

jmaw — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:03:53 +0000

Whoa, totally realistic xD

New comment by jmaw in "Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft"

jmaw — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:14:45 +0000

Ooo, sneaky. Not being familiar with flight verbiage, I didn't catch the "27 minute mission" being different than a 27 minute long flight!

New comment by jmaw in "GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties"

jmaw — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:25:26 +0000

Sorry folks, guess my GHCP query was too large...

New comment by jmaw in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

jmaw — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:06:50 +0000

This is why rare steak is ok, but rare ground beef hamburgers are not. Although less cooked through burgers are sometimes served in restaurants that grind their beef fresh right before cooking

New comment by jmaw in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

jmaw — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:56:34 +0000

Ok, using a laser thermometer for food is hilarious. Thanks for this xD

New comment by jmaw in "The Valley of Webhooks"

jmaw — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:02:11 +0000

I agree that this could be a good middle ground. This causes the webhook to be a push notification with the eventId/cursor, that then causes the consumer to pull the actual data (along with other recent events if desired).

New comment by jmaw in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

jmaw — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:09:00 +0000

How much of gardening is dealing with bugs?