Hacker News: joncrane

New comment by joncrane in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

joncrane — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:09:41 +0000

I think the point they are trying to make is the golden retriever vibe/energy you get from Claude gives "after work yoga."

New comment by joncrane in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"

joncrane — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:50:13 +0000

There are Chinooks with no bids as of yet....as well as a Bombardier Challenger

New comment by joncrane in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

joncrane — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:16:41 +0000

The controller was talking to Frontier plane when he first said stop, then said stopstopTruck1stopstopstop and it would be easy for there to be a gap in processing for the driver of truck 1 because the verbiage all flowed in the same stanza that was started when addressing the Frontier flight.

New comment by joncrane in "No Terms. No Conditions"

joncrane — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:14:41 +0000

My mind when to the same thing. Great song.

New comment by joncrane in "What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog)"

joncrane — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:22:59 +0000

We get it! They have 22,477 tests with a 99.98% pass rate, ship 65 commits to main daily, and keep 98 engineers productive on a single monorepo.

I thought the repetition of these statitics was a little tired, but overall that's an impressive solution. Also totally get that the hardest part is log ingestion and indexing.

New comment by joncrane in "AirPods Max 2"

joncrane — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:04:14 +0000

>They are a luxury item, you are paying for the privilege of signaling you can afford $550 headphones.

Plus they give juuuust enough features to cover for the true purpose and give you plausible deniability. Same as most luxury items. None truly give the value of the cost (Is a Ferrari 10x as fast as a GR86? Carry 10x as much stuff? Go 10x as far on the same gas load? Etc etc etc)

"Oh but there's nothing like the experience of driving a Ferrari!"

New comment by joncrane in "Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025"

joncrane — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:26:06 +0000

OP literally said that users add their domains, meaning they are explicitly ASKING OP to scrape their websites.

New comment by joncrane in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

joncrane — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:55:19 +0000

I think there's another dimension to this, which is the toxic home life which led to these behaviors. Good luck unpacking this all and getting healthier.

New comment by joncrane in "Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir"

joncrane — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:29:17 +0000

1) To get ahead of any transition drama 2) Because he's sick

New comment by joncrane in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

joncrane — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:41:30 +0000

As far as I understand, many not-at-fault accidents DO make one's rates go up. The rationale being "the places she drives are extra dangerous and puts our client at risk, despite driving properly."

New comment by joncrane in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

joncrane — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:35:41 +0000

As I mentioned in another comment, Waze does this. There's a stretch of the Capital Beltway that, if it was on a race track and compressed, would be called "esses." It's totally fine to navigate at 80 MPH with no drama in any mechanically sound, post-1980 car, but it catches mediocre drivers by surprise. Waze throws up a "history of accidents" message whenever I drive through it.

New comment by joncrane in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

joncrane — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:32:24 +0000

Waze has this, and it works off of the same underlying data IIRC. It pops up a "history of accidents" note.

New comment by joncrane in "Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?"

joncrane — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:28:52 +0000

Same here. I still crave sweets like nutella before I got to bed. I just don't eat as much of it.

New comment by joncrane in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

joncrane — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:16:28 +0000

"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence"

New comment by joncrane in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

joncrane — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:53:00 +0000

My VSCode's built-in chat has 4o and 4.1 as the only options; will there be an update for that?

New comment by joncrane in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

joncrane — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:15:57 +0000

This is a weird example because there are crappy go-karts and there are carefully designed and assembled go-karts. You can have a high quality anything: car, truck, go-kart, trailer, wagon.

New comment by joncrane in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

joncrane — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:12:58 +0000

I cannot add git Bash as an option for a terminal in VSCode. I had it installed via PortableGit and the chat told me it doesn't work unless it's in a standard location. I installed in a standard location and still no dice.

New comment by joncrane in "Dude, where's my supersonic jet?"

joncrane — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:29:43 +0000

It literally says "first" in the upper right hand corner of the image indicating the red seats, which are clearly not as nice as the purple seats, aka Delta One?

New comment by joncrane in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

joncrane — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:42:17 +0000

You guys are getting bags?

New comment by joncrane in "Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]"

joncrane — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:42:28 +0000

>is it that they're in on the grift and everyone understands that she's just there as a wink-wink-totaly-not state censor, or do they genuinely fall for her schtick?

It's both. That's one of the things that's difficult to suss out and therefore have a plan to engage. There's plausible deniability on both ends of that spectrum. Even in the high positions in the administration, there's a smattering of True Believers in amongst the grifters.