Hacker News: joahua

New comment by joahua in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

joahua — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:14:26 +0000

Murdoch media killed a story critical of Labor government member so there is not _no_ evidence of support here.

New comment by joahua in "Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers"

joahua — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:17:02 +0000

Aluminium designed in as heat sink perhaps? But not sure if this is so relevant in an actively cooled DC setting as passive buried under cables at a home workspace!

CIA's 'Kryptos' sculpture, unsolved for 35 years, is up for sale

joahua — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 04:19:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/08/14/kryptos-code-k4-solution-jim-sanborn-auction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44928829

Points: 24

# Comments: 10

Critical Technology Tracker

joahua — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 03:19:49 +0000

Article URL: https://techtracker.aspi.org.au

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43640287

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ping.gl – The Simplest Monitoring Service

joahua — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 05:16:27 +0000

Article URL: https://ping.gl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42680290

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Linkcheck

joahua — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 02:19:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/filiph/linkcheck

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169153

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by joahua in "Show HN: Convert any website into a React component"

joahua — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 23:56:00 +0000

I wonder if it is because Tailwind is the target, and it's reflecting default Tailwind font stack. Brackets notation is often used for size values but probably pretty rare to use for a font stack, as this kind of thing typically goes in config.

Drowning the Crystal Goblet

joahua — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 01:09:24 +0000

Article URL: https://typographyforlawyers.com/drowning-the-crystal-goblet.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41966977

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Australia Speaks App

joahua — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 09:21:49 +0000

Article URL: https://phoneapps.shinyapps.io/AustraliaSpeaks2021/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41785959

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by joahua in "New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft"

joahua — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 20:19:47 +0000

Antitrust

New comment by joahua in "Show HN: XRain – Explore rainfall statistics around the world"

joahua — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:32:28 +0000

Policy impediments to use are real! Your data gap-filler approach is interesting though.

Along this line… occasionally there is official but obviously-wrong data from even WMO accredited providers whose automatic weather stations ('AWS') are busted. Perhaps your approach would help provide a widely validated bound-check? The trouble is often that kind of undetected, obviously-wrong data, is also a symptom of 'we have no money to fix it'…

Joby Delivers First EVTOL Aircraft

joahua — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 06:27:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jobyaviation.com/news/joby-delivers-first-evtol-edwards/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37670923

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by joahua in "London Street Trees"

joahua — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:39:33 +0000

As anyone who’s been near government data publishing or asset tracking works attest - That’s a sure fire way to either publish stale/wrong information or simply lose trees.

I’m not in London but surely there is more than 100k in public policy good to be had in promoting trees as assets that are worth stewarding well. Is population scale care for trees with a month of arborist days?

Urban forests make air conditioning work. Consider it an indirect investment in power grid resistance.

They also help surface drainage. Consider it an investment in roads and stormwater.

New comment by joahua in "Experts fear crooks are cracking keys stolen in LastPass breach"

joahua — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:11:17 +0000

That feels sensible to me. Facebook (used to?) do similar.

The risk here is different but you could imagine someone trying to migrate password managers and pasting a script they found on GitHub that purported to help.

New comment by joahua in "FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds"

joahua — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:28:18 +0000

With an optical muzzle flash companion to wake it / circumvent the speed of sound, it could even complain about being shot at! https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6685317

New comment by joahua in "R.I.P. Macromedia FreeHand (2007)"

joahua — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:44:23 +0000

Yes! Do people still use it for EDMs? Or did responsive email kill this use case too?

New comment by joahua in "Watch TV from the 90s and earlier"

joahua — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:28:55 +0000

To be fair TV ratings did this, just on a very slow inference cycle!

New comment by joahua in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

joahua — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:33:21 +0000

Ditto. I can’t see this being used portably so do wonder if the 2 hour battery life is a clue on how fatiguing the experience might be.

2 hours I guess covers a commute, but it’s hardly handheld form factor - how much bigger would it need to be to get “all day wear” battery life? It doesn’t feel like a real spatial constraint, so can only presume >2hrs is not required in actual use.

New comment by joahua in "Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?"

joahua — Tue, 30 May 2023 22:27:50 +0000

As a believer - thanks for the insight! Normative acceptance of bizarre claims must feel odd. I guess there is a passing familiarity with some of these stories in some of these communities that means they are either unexceptional or at least, not the “main game” as supernatural beliefs go — but that must have felt strange!

Most faith communities I’ve been part of have had some form of space for questions and encouraged discussion about stories they have heard. I’ve found probably 1 in 10 people would start a discussion about this and maybe half would engage with it, suggesting community is a big part of the draw but also that for a significant minority, community is centred on some of these “big if they were to happen today” events.

I do think wrestling with our reality to understand the nature of the world is a pretty powerful force for creating meaningful relationships! But this depth can also be uncomfortable or abstract at times.

New comment by joahua in "User stories? thanks but no"

joahua — Fri, 19 May 2023 21:05:28 +0000

I like your “programming at the edge” turn of phrase.

Centralised IT functions have some bearing here at an org level, not just the wider market. It’s vexed because while I deeply believe business needs would be better met locally, we still want a line of accountability on things like security and availability and data integrity that require a bit of longer term thought. Feature factory thinking certainly exists in bigger centralised teams, the kind that accrete management-speak and overbearing agile processes — but it’s also a false dichotomy to say “just build with the business and nothing of value was lost”.