Hacker News: jon_richards

New comment by jon_richards in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

jon_richards — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:26:12 +0000

I was expecting this https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-missile-knows-where-it-is

New comment by jon_richards in "The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)"

jon_richards — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:00:10 +0000

> What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.

Andy Warhol

New comment by jon_richards in "DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier"

jon_richards — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:08:19 +0000

Then you need a lawsuit to determine whether the law is “constitutional”.

New comment by jon_richards in "Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL"

jon_richards — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:32:29 +0000

The main value I get from sqlalchemy is parsing the result into useful structures. Getting the two models out of a join, prefetching related objects, etc. Though I much prefer rust diesel’s approach of no lazy queries (prefetches returned as list[tuple[object, list[related_object]], though diesel had other issues for me). My policy with sqlachemy is to unwrap all results to that if I’m passing/returning them. No relationship access outside of the function making the query.

New comment by jon_richards in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

jon_richards — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:41:41 +0000

I was taught that’s old American from before knives were cheap. Originally you’d pass the knife.

Strange that the wiki implies you set the knife down after each cut.

New comment by jon_richards in "Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol"

jon_richards — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:44:43 +0000

This history was a surprisingly interesting read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43667010

New comment by jon_richards in "Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop"

jon_richards — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:55:51 +0000

But how are you going to replace the OG? https://mrcoles.com/dragondrop/

(Ironically doesn’t work on mobile)

New comment by jon_richards in "Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC"

jon_richards — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:23:25 +0000

Steam OS might get a boost soon with their new hardware.

New comment by jon_richards in "Economics of sportsbooks and why they ban the best bettors"

jon_richards — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:28:27 +0000

I’ve thought about making a Venmo for betting.

Start a betting pool with a group of friends. Use an exchange (not sports book) internal to the group, so no external money needed. No commission.

It’s no fun realizing you and your friends have taken opposite bets and are just handing money to the house. Keep that money in your social group and make some friendly bets without worrying about the entire group being taken to the cleaners. The group leaves the Super Bowl party, horse races, etc with just as much money as went in (minus tickets, food/drink, etc).

New comment by jon_richards in "Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything"

jon_richards — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:45:32 +0000

I guess a more accessible version would be toast… what do you put in a toaster?

New comment by jon_richards in "Let's properly analyze an AI article for once"

jon_richards — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:26:26 +0000

Bombe is great. You might like the zactronics games. And there are tons of factory games now if you want factorio with different window dressing.

New comment by jon_richards in "Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff"

jon_richards — Sun, 11 May 2025 18:04:24 +0000

Huh. Just checked kagi and it’s the same. At least you can block sites manually.

New comment by jon_richards in "Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials"

jon_richards — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:02:32 +0000

Or “called them over by raising a hand” with “flagged down”.

New comment by jon_richards in "Evolving OpenAI's Structure"

jon_richards — Mon, 05 May 2025 21:17:49 +0000

As recently as the Silicon Valley tv show, the joke was that every startup pitch claimed they were “making the world a better place”.

New comment by jon_richards in "AI Horseless Carriages"

jon_richards — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:43:59 +0000

Writing an email with AI and having the recipient summarize it with AI is basically all the fun of jpeg compression, but more bandwidth instead of less.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaUIyvy8E8

New comment by jon_richards in "Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad"

jon_richards — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 04:32:59 +0000

The problem making a bear-proof trash can is that there's significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.

New comment by jon_richards in "Getting forked by Microsoft"

jon_richards — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:46:06 +0000

I considered forking an MIT repo once but had no idea how to communicate which parts were under the original MIT license and which weren’t. Unless I copied it into each file and deleted the root license, it seems like it would license all my changes as MIT, too, basically becoming a copy-left license.

New comment by jon_richards in "Too many adults are absolutely clueless"

jon_richards — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 08:39:48 +0000

Not to mention the (now experienced) graduates of really elite schools on the other side of the adversarial relationship, working for those financial institutions.

New comment by jon_richards in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

jon_richards — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:37:30 +0000

The market cares about dollar returned vs dollar-x-time invested. A shoe sits on a shelf until it is sold. If it costs 1.5 times as much to stock a store with shoes, then you need to earn 1.5 times as much money after the same time-delay.

Think in the extreme. $1 billion can probably earn more in a saving account than as a shoe that generates $50 profit after 2 weeks.

New comment by jon_richards in "Forking Work Simplification – Let's Bring Back Eisenhower's Process Improvement"

jon_richards — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:10:49 +0000

And yet we still enter zip code after the rest of the address.