Hacker News: jmercouris

New comment by jmercouris in "Making ASCII Art in Vim"

jmercouris — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:23:55 +0000

You can use artist mode in Emacs as an equivalent. It's really great for box plots and diagrams.

New comment by jmercouris in "Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh"

jmercouris — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:04:05 +0000

I didn't mean the throughput of the network, I meant the throughput of the calculations. Yes, the latency is the issue.

New comment by jmercouris in "Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh"

jmercouris — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:58:20 +0000

I thought about this too, but the throughput over a network is incredibly slow. It’s not usable for interactive use.

New comment by jmercouris in "Stealing Is a Skill"

jmercouris — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:19:45 +0000

Why did you do this?

New comment by jmercouris in "Show HN: Open Terminal – A Bloomberg Style App for Research"

jmercouris — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:59:23 +0000

Many features appear broken for me on Firefox. I was unable to change the dates, and it was unclear to me as to how one would remove instruments from their comparison after they were added. I clicked "X selected", and then nothing happened.

Building a custom mount for a telescoping webcam

jmercouris — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:54:13 +0000

Article URL: https://john.mercouris.online/webcam-mount.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341377

Points: 12

# Comments: 6

New comment by jmercouris in "Software Engineering at the Tipping Point"

jmercouris — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:40:11 +0000

Sounds exactly like my experience.

New comment by jmercouris in "Why is this site named Antipope?"

jmercouris — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:50:03 +0000

What does AutoPope mean though? The author glosses over this implying it means to pontificate- however- I have not seen this definition anywhere.

New comment by jmercouris in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"

jmercouris — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:11:34 +0000

It doesn’t even make sense though, shouldn’t it be DÖCH?

New comment by jmercouris in "BYD rolls out EV batteries with 5-minute 'flash charging.' But there's a catch"

jmercouris — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:29:23 +0000

It’s not clickbait, given enough power you can charge quickly.

BYD rolls out EV batteries with 5-minute 'flash charging.' But there's a catch

jmercouris — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:04:59 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/byd-rolls-out-ev-batteries-with-5-minute-flash-charging-but-theres-a-catch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267276

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by jmercouris in "FDA says companies can claim "no artificial colors" if they use natural dyes"

jmercouris — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:55:21 +0000

It makes sense, for example, if you use turmeric in a rice dish, would you say it is artificially colored? In a sense rice isn’t yellow, but it is a natural dye.

New comment by jmercouris in "Gen Z first generation since 1800's with lower cognitive performance"

jmercouris — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:37:57 +0000

The article makes some interesting points about the correlation between computer usage in schools and test scores. What I would be interested in is the unmetered computer usage outside of schools. Are students with restricted access to so-called "brain-rot" social media outperforming those with it?

New comment by jmercouris in "Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder"

jmercouris — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:40:58 +0000

MV3 has made it significantly harder. Good luck blocking YouTube ads, for example.

New comment by jmercouris in "Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent"

jmercouris — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:34:32 +0000

Sure, in a sense, but “wiki” actually just means “quick”.

New comment by jmercouris in "Building a Toast Component"

jmercouris — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:12:10 +0000

The information that the user did something "right" should be responsive next to where the user initiated the action- not in a random corner.

New comment by jmercouris in "Building a Toast Component"

jmercouris — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:21:26 +0000

Toasts are a great way to lose information. They are a terrible design and should not be used. They distract the user, are not dense with information, and provide no value. If a message is important enough for the user to read, it should be a dialog box.

New comment by jmercouris in "I see a future in jj"

jmercouris — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:01:22 +0000

After reading the article, the technical merits of `jj` are completely unclear.

New comment by jmercouris in "I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself"

jmercouris — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:03:01 +0000

Good commit logs or comments may tell you why

New comment by jmercouris in "Show HN: I built a tool to solve window management once and for all"

jmercouris — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:07:54 +0000

Cool idea, what model does it use to predict my next window?