Hacker News: johng

New comment by johng in "A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards"

johng — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:48:53 +0000

I did EXACTLY the same thing when I saw that name and that card. What a cool name. I wanted to see if it was still around!

New comment by johng in "B.C. boaters warned to avoid mysterious floating island"

johng — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:35:34 +0000

Interesting anyone else seen anything like this?

New comment by johng in "OVH dedicated server price increase"

johng — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:02:01 +0000

Wow, another one. They've had 2 already.

New comment by johng in "Claude Red Bar (visual and audible notifier of task completion)"

johng — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:53:43 +0000

This might interest you, was on HN a week or so ago?

https://sidepulse.io/

New comment by johng in "New US missile left wide path of death and destruction in Iranian neighborhoods"

johng — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:04:33 +0000

I'll note that they got the figures of civilians from Iran itself, which was mentioned right after the line that you copy and pasted from but conveniently left out. It would be wise to be skeptical of the figures from Iran, just like it would be wise to be skeptical of the figures from Hamas. They have an incentive to lie.

Having said that, this doesn't seem like the right weapon for a civilian area at all. I don't know the target, maybe in the long run it was worth it. We may never know. But last I heard the figure of civilians killed by the IRGC in the past year was over 52,000. If we can get closer to the end of that regime and save lives, perhaps there will be some small semblance of understanding.

New comment by johng in "Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance"

johng — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:33:53 +0000

I checked this out, do you have the music available for purchase or download? Loved the song in this trailer, looks cool as well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdQ_QV2t5vQ

New comment by johng in "For ancient Romans, pooping was a group activity"

johng — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:01:19 +0000

I'll admit it... I'm 48 years old and I still find phallus, scrotum, fart and poop jokes funny. I still tell your mom jokes. I guess I've never fully grown up. Also, never married, no kids.. so, just an old bachelor I guess. I'm sure I'm an outlier.

New comment by johng in "Pi-Duplex"

johng — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:29:33 +0000

This looks really neat. I hope you keep working on this and polish it up more. I'd love to be able to use this reliably. Will have to install it and give it a try soon.

New comment by johng in "Try Omarchy as a native, hardware-accelerated app on an Apple Silicon Mac"

johng — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:07:38 +0000

It's interesting to me, but no idea how you'd scan this for viruses or malware, etc.

New comment by johng in "Can Reddit survive in the AI era?"

johng — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:04:44 +0000

Definitely. I'd love to see the internet go back to dedicated forums for topics. They seem to be less toxic and have better quality information.

New comment by johng in "25 Years of Haiku: From "Ok, Let's Start" to the Present"

johng — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:21:22 +0000

Still the most beautiful OS I've ever seen honestly. I wish there was desktop interface for Linux that looked like it and worked like it.

New comment by johng in "Examining RFK Jr.'S Role in the Measles Outbreak"

johng — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:59:48 +0000

Is it his fault that Mexico is also having a record outbreak?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X2...

New comment by johng in "Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS"

johng — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:31:43 +0000

Solaris 9 and Haiku OS are the tops.

New comment by johng in "Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized"

johng — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:08:49 +0000

Tried to sign up with an account and the confirmation email never arrived. I tried twice. Using fastmail, didn't hit the SPAM folder either.

New comment by johng in "Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized"

johng — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:46:40 +0000

Before you try stuff like this, from an unknown developer, do you run the codebase through AI to scan for malware, backdoors, etc and build it yourself? I'm always skeptical about running stuff like this now a days.

New comment by johng in "The president's second term has involved pardoning more than 1,800 criminals"

johng — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:40:49 +0000

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/07/biden-gra...

New comment by johng in "Show HN: A community library for Claude Code status lines"

johng — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:14:46 +0000

Pretty neat!

New comment by johng in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

johng — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:17:51 +0000

I get hung here on Debian 13 after installing rustup and doing rustup install stable.

Building [=======================> ] 610/611: dirge(bin)

Just hangs there :(

New comment by johng in "Show HN: Stream – Unlimited DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731"

johng — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:04:12 +0000

I'm new at this but trying to get this going with Hermes and I'm getting a 404 based on the instructions:

Docs say to use this URL but it's not working, gives a 404: https://api.camelai.com/v1

So do the following URL's that are also listed in the docs: https://stream.camelai.com/v1

Edit, seems to be working now that I set it up correctly, changed it to chat completion. The steps on this page could be more clear:

hermes model

# Choose: Custom endpoint # Base URL: https://api.camelai.com/v1 # Model: deepseek-v4-flash # API key:

It doesn't mention selecting 'chat completion' during the configuration, those instructions are on this page: https://camelai.com/stream/guides/hermes

But these instructions are better: https://camelai.com/docs/stream/hermes

New comment by johng in "Show HN: AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status"

johng — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:50:37 +0000

Looks neat, and I ordered the bundle from SidePulse.io as well. Thanks for the project and pointing this out.