Hacker News: johsole

New comment by johsole in "Show HN: Bible as RAG Database"

johsole — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:31:48 +0000

Very happy you built this. I was thinking about building this myself.

New comment by johsole in "Apple Foundation Models"

johsole — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:08:48 +0000

There was a time when Opus was the only model really worth using, I think that was maybe 4.4 or 4.5, but I agree Sonnet is pretty good now and can be used quite often.

New comment by johsole in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

johsole — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:53:43 +0000

Like many I also discovered this about 10 years ago and love.

One other thing I've been doing lately is also to use bar lacing instead of cross lacing. A small change that makes shoes much more comfortable.

New comment by johsole in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

johsole — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:06:18 +0000

+1 for htmx + Django, really my favorite stack for development.

New comment by johsole in "Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive"

johsole — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:54:09 +0000

Looking at the Ferrari and it's missing that certain look, styling, and tradition Ferrari's have. This design looks like a nice modern electric car, but doesn't have the wow of a Ferrari.

New comment by johsole in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

johsole — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:29:37 +0000

Thank you for linking the study.

Some good news from it. If you weigh the food instead of depending on the package size then the labels become much more accurate!!

"Serving size, by weight, exceeded label statements by 1.2% [median] (25th percentile −1.4, 75th percentile 4.3, p=0.10). When differences in serving size were accounted for, metabolizable calories were 6.8 kcal (0.5, 23.5, p=0.0003) or 4.3% (0.2, 13.7, p=0.001) higher than the label statement."

If you look at the table "Deviation of metabolizable calories from label calories" [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3605747/figure/F1/] you'll see that most labels even for service side are pretty good and there are some that are really bad.

If you'll look at one of the worst offenders Tostitos, the label has "Tostitos Tortilla Chips - serving size 24 chips", but chips vary a lot in size, so you could have a huge variance in weight. If instead you weighed them, which I do with my chips, I bet the calories are much closer to the label.

Body composition comes down to routine. I've found found I love to eat, but I pretty much eat the same meals week over week, that makes it extremely easy for me to lose or gain weight depending on my goals.

New comment by johsole in "3.4M Solar Panels"

johsole — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:55:19 +0000

do you have a blog or some links of walking through the process of getting everything setup?

New comment by johsole in "Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental?"

johsole — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:22:46 +0000

If I'm building something for myself it's always Django + HTML/jQuery, it's crazy how productive that is for me.

For work it's react/TS/express/...

Both have there uses and places.

New comment by johsole in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

johsole — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:16:15 +0000

My DVD and BR collection has been growing. I just buy used for both and I can usually pick up great stuff pretty cheaply. I also subscribe to YouTube premium for both ad free YouTube and ad free YouTube Music.

YouTube premium also has a number of free movies, the type of stuff you used to see on cable TV. Not the big hits

New comment by johsole in "Robots eat cars"

johsole — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:14:46 +0000

Really looking forward to seeing Optimus and what the timeline actually will be.

New comment by johsole in "Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]"

johsole — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:04:39 +0000

This is a great pdf and well worth the read. I've had a lot of the same questions in my head and glad to see they are concerns others are facing as well.

New comment by johsole in "Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations"

johsole — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:23:41 +0000

love to see it, my auto researcher is getting more capable with less effort every release

New comment by johsole in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

johsole — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:29:35 +0000

I make mistakes when writing code, but I know what types of mistakes I make. With AI it's like a coworker who makes mistakes, sometimes they're obvious to me and sometimes they're not, because I make different mistakes.

New comment by johsole in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

johsole — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:37:35 +0000

Nice work.

New comment by johsole in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

johsole — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:03:35 +0000

I think Microsoft probably picks up all of OpenAI if OpenAI gets in financial trouble.

New comment by johsole in "There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)"

johsole — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:54:32 +0000

> I personally welcome nuclear war and anything else which will help wipe out the human race

If you hate humanity, you hate yourself, and that is a miserable way to live. Reprogram your brain, by repetition, it works, and you can find joy.

New comment by johsole in "There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)"

johsole — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:43:37 +0000

The US had a version of this as well. At the height of lockdowns and social distancing a lot of health officials were saying protesting racial injustice was more important than Covid 19, which we closed a lot of businesses for.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/04/public-hea...

New comment by johsole in "There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)"

johsole — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:36:30 +0000

> living according to Christian principles brings benefits _in this life also_

It does, in this life and the next.

New comment by johsole in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

johsole — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:20:10 +0000

HTMX :)

New comment by johsole in "Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees"

johsole — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:36:59 +0000

if I could retire, raise my kids and homeschool them, and do housework instead I would in a second. Nothing is more interesting, more fulfilling, and more challenging then raising the next generation.