Hacker News: jonwinstanley

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga"

jonwinstanley — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:17:46 +0000

Is this from the same person that did Castle Map a few weeks ago? Feels similar

New comment by jonwinstanley in "The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall"

jonwinstanley — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:32:15 +0000

And the Open Weight models keep improving.

For many tasks, you don’t need a frontier model.

New comment by jonwinstanley in "A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”"

jonwinstanley — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:46:24 +0000

Yes! This is my pet hate. Third world does not mean poor. Switzerland is third world as it was aligned to neither bloc.

New comment by jonwinstanley in "I don't recommend Tailwind CSS"

jonwinstanley — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:06:01 +0000

Totally agree. It does break the rules, but it feels so much faster than defining class names.

On simple projects I usually @apply tailwind styles to standard elements like headings, block quote, aside, nav etc. Then just use semantic html.

Looks good and takes so little effort.

New comment by jonwinstanley in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

jonwinstanley — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:14:17 +0000

Well, we can see it coming, but we are doing very little about

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Stolen Buttons"

jonwinstanley — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:43:59 +0000

Web 2.0 was fun :-)

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search"

jonwinstanley — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:59:28 +0000

Go button needs to be a different colour/contrast. I also didn’t see it

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Show HN: For 10 World Cups, my model's 2 favorites had the champion every time"

jonwinstanley — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:04:34 +0000

The top 4 countries got seeded so they avoid each other.

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Show HN: For 10 World Cups, my model's 2 favorites had the champion every time"

jonwinstanley — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:01:36 +0000

Every 4 years is good. Makes it a special event

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Show HN: For 10 World Cups, my model's 2 favorites had the champion every time"

jonwinstanley — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:59:41 +0000

Also, being able to predict football with complete accuracy is impossible

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C"

jonwinstanley — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:31:57 +0000

If you only need it for 4 days a year, it’s still a big expense that needs some thought

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Knoppix"

jonwinstanley — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:27:52 +0000

Very nostalgic! I remember using this a few times around maybe 2005 when a Windows system got corrupted. Knoppix would boot from the CD and let you recover files from your HD. Loved it

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Show HN: Lean bulk, cut, body recomp. Calculate maintenance calories"

jonwinstanley — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:43:42 +0000

> when you eat more than your maintenance calories, you gain weight; when you eat less than your maintenance calories, you lose weight.

Sounds interesting.

At it's core, this idea does roughly work. But there are a lot of caveats around maintenance calories.

The main one is that not all calories are equal. 500 calories of spinach is very different to 500 calories of a McDonalds burger.

Is this something that the service is able to take in to account?

New comment by jonwinstanley in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

jonwinstanley — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:44:05 +0000

Did someone hallucinate how scrolling is supposed to work on a web page?

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Ferrari Luce"

jonwinstanley — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:23:33 +0000

Yes agreed, Ive been searching for some better photos but might have to wait a while

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Ferrari Luce"

jonwinstanley — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:19:37 +0000

Agreed. But by the description it sounds like it has very long wheels base.

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

jonwinstanley — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:20:15 +0000

Oh, and it’s completely different on mobile. Game is slower and much easier to score well.

My feedback above was on desktop.

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

jonwinstanley — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:16:40 +0000

Really like this game. A few bits of feedback:

- Can you add a keyboard key that also launches, rather than always have to be a click - Can you make it so it restarts without having to click the play again button? Maybe use the same keyboard button as above? - When fail, why does the ship fall to the floor? Maybe a gentle curve away would be more "realistic" - Why is the bg squares? Maybe it should be more of a subtle space bg

Thanks for making it!

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?"

jonwinstanley — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:42:58 +0000

Also considered to be one of the best ever at these

New comment by jonwinstanley in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

jonwinstanley — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:00:55 +0000

I use the baked in Apple transcription and haven't had any issues. But what I do is usually pretty simple.

What makes the others vastly better?