<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jonplackett</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonplackett</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:20:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jonplackett" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the point they’re making though is that the numbers seem too good to be true.<p>ie. Does anyone know the payback time for a B100 used just for inference? I assume it’s more than a couple of months? Or is it just training that costs so much?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:55:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789999</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789999</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems pretty obvious doesn’t it?<p>Like the point of being more intelligent than someone or something is to an extent being able to simulate their brain and thinking with your own brain.<p>We’re cleverer than animals because we can simulate all their actions before they do them.<p>You can’t simulate something more advanced than yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:58:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666994</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666994</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe do some research before just dispatching random thoughts<p><a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/europe/2026/04/03/france-pushes-back-on-calls-to-force-reopening-of-hormuz-strait-as-macron-trades-barbs-with-trump/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/europe/2026/04/03/franc...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:21:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652905</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So wait what is the interaction between Gemma and Claude?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:17:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652866</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They read The Three Body problem</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:05:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566709</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What company are you with for that tariff? Do you have solar panels or something?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:07:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556453</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s all a big PR campaign. They will reveal shortly that they used Claude as their legal team.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:41:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537733</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Obsolete Sounds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Philips Coffee grinder is quite intense with Airpods on. Feels like my head is the grinder.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:27:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530880</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m not sure this is intended to be factually accurate</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:12:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476011</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Chuck Norris has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Chuck Norris doesn’t die. Death gets Chuck Norris.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:32:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455120</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does this just continue the ‘western way’ of spending a crap load of money on each military item, instead of getting good at making A LOT of something really cheaply?<p>Ukraine and Iran are both showing it quickly becomes a war of attrition and fancy weapons get very expensive very fast, or run out very fast.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:34:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385116</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385116</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Explode it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:48:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371030</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "“This is not the computer for you”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> He is going to go through System Settings, panel by panel, and adjust everything he can adjust just to see how he likes it<p>10 year old me identifies with this so much.<p>I managed to get the computer to display 256 colours instead of the 16 it had been set up with. Everyone was impressed and this meant I was now allowed to take the computer apart and put it back together again without anyone being scared.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:51:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362021</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "The MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also it’s just one adjective per device. Compare that to the dell pro max premium</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:54:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344270</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344270</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Really thought this was called Meta IRT and assumed it was just Facebook spyware.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:34:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333038</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Meta acquires Moltbook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fb just acquire anything that could in any possible way be a threat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:58:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330301</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330301</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How long do those chrome books last though?<p>I reckon even an iPhone pro is better value than an average android phone. Same with iPad vs Android tablet.<p>Because they last 3 possibly 4 times longer. A decent Apple laptop purchased 4 years ago is still basically a top notch laptop. Build quality is amazing. Resale value is still very high.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:47:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250198</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "Bet on German Train Delays"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Damn someone foiled my plan already.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:59:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246250</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately it won’t be long til we’re all forced up to Tahoe anyway. Well, ee iOS developers will be anyway once they make the latest Xcode only work with it…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:55:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245771</link><dc:creator>jonplackett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonplackett in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wish they’d come back with physical keys, with tiny changeable displays on each one. Customisation, but touch feel without looking.</p>
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