Hacker News: jordanscales

New comment by jordanscales in "Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically"

jordanscales — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:12:33 +0000

Nice work! I'd consider ditching the AI art though, it was distracting.

New comment by jordanscales in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

jordanscales — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:48:53 +0000

Nice work! I wish rankings were done with an Elo score. I was worried of regretting my choices sometimes (single elimination?). Would require a lot more comparisons to arrive at stable scores, but the interface is nice I wouldn't mind.

New comment by jordanscales in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

jordanscales — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:23:09 +0000

This is awkward? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473

New comment by jordanscales in "We mourn our craft"

jordanscales — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:55:12 +0000

The inspired me to write down some scattered thoughts I have on this [0]. tl;dr I firmly believe we kicked the can down the road and now it's too late.

Things programmers forgot to do before AI started writing a bunch of software:

1. Learn how to review code

Some tools exist, some of them are even quite good! Large organizations have tried to build best practices to balance urgency with correctness, but programmers are still quite bad at this.

2. Compare program A vs program B

In a similar vein, we simply do not know how to measure one program vs another. Or a function against another. Or even one variableName vs another_variable_name.

"It depends" Depends on what? We never sorted this out.

3. Talk to other professions

We are not the first profession forced to coordinate with Automation as a coworker, and we certainly won't be the last. We're not even the first knowledge workers to do so.

How did other laborers deal with this? We don't know because we were busy making websites.

[0]: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wh7bie3ld7bmg3cz76sbjkwj/po...

New comment by jordanscales in "Dave Farber has died"

jordanscales — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:45:38 +0000

Was fortunate enough to attend a few guest lectures from him at Stevens when I got my minor degree in science and technology studies. He was so sharp that I was blown away that he was (at the time) 80 years old.

I wonder what his life in Tokyo was like! Did he ever write about it?

New comment by jordanscales in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

jordanscales — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:25:27 +0000

https://jordanscales.com thanks for stopping by

New comment by jordanscales in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

jordanscales — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:55:42 +0000

Threats like the ones Powell's receiving would be the end of any other presidency. Why tech elites continue to align themselves with this clownshow will be a source of incredible shame that I'll hold onto forever.

New comment by jordanscales in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

jordanscales — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:46:57 +0000

Looks absurd. Can't wait to try it.

New comment by jordanscales in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

jordanscales — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:59:26 +0000

I did not vote for this. Some of my neighbors voted for this because they were pushed over the edge by inflammatory social media algorithms, some stayed home for similar reasons.

Corporations absolutely have an effect on all of this, you can bet they'd save time and money by focusing their efforts elsewhere if they thought it was pointless.

New comment by jordanscales in "Tesla is at risk of losing subsidies in Korea over widespread battery failures"

jordanscales — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:50:51 +0000

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” - John Maynard Keynes

New comment by jordanscales in "Source code for the X recommendation algorithm"

jordanscales — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:53:44 +0000

Unfortunately, this [0] cancels out everything ten-fold. The owner of the website is boosting the content of himself and the people he supports. This did not happen in the old twitter - not even close.

[0] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/236

New comment by jordanscales in "Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor"

jordanscales — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:21:05 +0000

Fantastic work! I briefly explored poking around NDS roms to get the fonts and images out to build something like this.

Graphite Chat

jordanscales — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:22:50 +0000

Article URL: https://graphite.dev/blog/introducing-graphite-chat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953321

Points: 14

# Comments: 6

New comment by jordanscales in "Figma will IPO on July 31"

jordanscales — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:01:48 +0000

Hard to imagine that interaction not being an immediate disqualifier for every single tech employee.

New comment by jordanscales in "Show HN: I made Logic gates using CSS if() function"

jordanscales — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 12:48:45 +0000

I assume this is not more powerful computationally than existing selectors, right? What exactly keeps CSS+HTML from being Turing-complete?

New comment by jordanscales in "Finite State Machine Designer"

jordanscales — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 19:38:20 +0000

Impressive! I wonder what this guy went on to build /s

New comment by jordanscales in "TI-84 Plus CE Python Graphing Calculator"

jordanscales — Sun, 09 May 2021 00:01:35 +0000

My first programs were written using the tree menu of a TI-83. Probably nostalgia talking, but I truly think it may have been the most engaging programming I've ever done.

New comment by jordanscales in "Mark Shuttleworth Reddit AMA today"

jordanscales — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:09:20 +0000

Rush Holt's doing one today as well!

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j17ir/hi_im_rush_holt...