Hacker News: jna_sh

New comment by jna_sh in "Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web"

jna_sh — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:08:42 +0000

Oh I totally missed you had submitted it yourself! Thanks for a wonderful project :)

New comment by jna_sh in "Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web"

jna_sh — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:07:08 +0000

Title is wrong, isn’t it Wander?

New comment by jna_sh in "Grace Hopper's Revenge"

jna_sh — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:22:32 +0000

> The amount of training data doesn’t matter as much as we thought.

Seems a huge assumption to me. From the data one could equally conclude that JavaScript and Python have lower code quality _because_ the quantity of training data, e.g. more code written by less experienced developers

New comment by jna_sh in "This time is different"

jna_sh — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:33:10 +0000

> I dunno if the author realizes, but all the things they mentioned did materialize in one way or another, just not exactly how the hype described it.

From the post, which is not a very long one: "All of the above technologies are still chugging along in some form or other (well, OK, not Quibi). Some are vaguely useful and others are propped up by weirdo cultists"

New comment by jna_sh in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

jna_sh — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:02:07 +0000

Welcome to the comment section Kyle! https://github.com/GoXLR-on-Linux/goxlr-utility/issues/239#i...

New comment by jna_sh in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

jna_sh — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:29:54 +0000

Been on Bazzite for a while now and had very few issues, though to backup the sentiments of Antheas here, they have managed to upset the maintainer of the Go-XLR Linux Utility with their fast and loose HW changes: https://github.com/GoXLR-on-Linux/goxlr-utility/issues/239

Looking around a couple of adjacent communities, it seems the Bazzite maintainers might have acted in the best community interest on this one, so I'm optimistic things will continue in a positive way. Still, might make me a little less full-throated about recommending Bazzite, knowing there's such drama under the surface.

New comment by jna_sh in "The Zen of Reticulum"

jna_sh — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:27:55 +0000

Good to see recent writings and changes, I had taken from the December 2025 blog post that the maintainer was done: https://unsigned.io/articles/2025_12_28_Carrier_Switch.html

New comment by jna_sh in "US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it"

jna_sh — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:27:20 +0000

Jevons paradox in action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

New comment by jna_sh in "U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded"

jna_sh — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:23:10 +0000

There are more people eating sandwiches than committing school shootings. This is insightful.

New comment by jna_sh in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

jna_sh — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:29:18 +0000

I’ve not done any native Linux app development I’m afraid, I can see that being quite painful…

I am mostly over in web application and Python ML land.

New comment by jna_sh in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

jna_sh — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:42:24 +0000

I expected it to be an issue but I’ve had surprisingly few problems so far. If you’re working in docker-land or can use devcontainers, it just works. If you’re not but your stack is well supported by homebrew, also not a problem. Anything else you can handle via a distrobox container, where you can install from package managers to your heart’s content, and they have good integration with the base OS, but I’ve had to reach for distrobox a lot less than I expected.

New comment by jna_sh in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

jna_sh — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:38:29 +0000

I think you should take another look, especially at the “Bazzite developer experience” edition: container based development is pretty much what it’s centred around. Alternatively, Bluefin, which is much more dev focused

New comment by jna_sh in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

jna_sh — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:31:14 +0000

Moved my Framework laptop to Bluefin and my gaming desktop to Bazzite early last year. Zero regrets, zero issues. I'm not new to Linux by any means, I've been dabbling since a kid. But in adulthood, I had given up on having Linux as my daily driver because I just wanted my main computers to work, I didn't want maintaining them to be a hobby. That's not been an issue with Bluefin or Bazzite. I'm sure it's not for a lot of modern Linuxes, but these ones I can vouch for at least!

New comment by jna_sh in "Odoo: Open-Source ERP"

jna_sh — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:51:00 +0000

> has 6700 employees

I noticed this on your site recently whilst evaluating Odoo for a use case, and I’m glad I get the opportunity to ask…why? That seems an astronomical amount for this product. This isn’t a criticism, I am just genuinely curious about the business.

New comment by jna_sh in "Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation"

jna_sh — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:42:46 +0000

Amazing, looks like the ban was lifted where I live in NL in May 2025! Thanks for the heads up, I had missed this, despite being fairly certain I had checked relatively recently.

https://www.sanquin.nl/system/files/2025-05/sq_beleidsregel-...

New comment by jna_sh in "Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation"

jna_sh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:20:36 +0000

I was born in the UK during BSE, and as a result I can’t give blood in Europe. People forget it but the scars are still there.

New comment by jna_sh in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

jna_sh — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:35:25 +0000

I’m not sure you think otherwise, and are just calling on the US as an example since the HN crowd is heavily US skewed, but just for the avoidance of doubt, this is a German event.

New comment by jna_sh in "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access"

jna_sh — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:18:22 +0000

Some journals support “green open access”, where you can share your article minus the journal’s formatting on open repositories etc, sometimes some time after publication, which is usually free. I can’t see any mention of this from the ACM though

New comment by jna_sh in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

jna_sh — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:57:35 +0000

The second paragraph of the linked article?

New comment by jna_sh in "After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up"

jna_sh — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:19:45 +0000

Never on which table? “Exporting” environmental degradation is an incredibly widely discussed issue. Especially for South America, due to illegal rainforest clearing for soy farming to feed the NA/EU cattle industry, and lithium mining in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.