Hacker News: joshcartme

New comment by joshcartme in "Ti-84 Evo"

joshcartme — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:04:04 +0000

I think ground up commonly indicates that an outlet is controlled by a switch on the wall. It's not code, but I think it's a convention

New comment by joshcartme in "AV1's open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec"

joshcartme — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:04:39 +0000

Yeah I'm curious to see how this turns out, because I think part of the appeal of AV1 was how it's unencumbered by them

AV1's open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec

joshcartme — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:19:38 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/av1s-open-royalty-free-promise-in-question-as-dolby-sues-snapchat-over-codec/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548402

Points: 26

# Comments: 4

Show HN: ChatSMTP – Email an AI

joshcartme — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:44:14 +0000

This is a toy project I've been working on. It was mostly something I realized I could make so I decided to go for it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367978

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by joshcartme in "I just want working RCS messaging"

joshcartme — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:55:20 +0000

I have an iphone, previously had an android. I had trouble with RCS chats and then did the "Don't have your previous device" part here, https://messages.google.com/disable-chat. And since then things have been pretty good for me.

New comment by joshcartme in "Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust"

joshcartme — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 23:02:26 +0000

If you look at bench or conformance here, https://github.com/ivankra/javascript-zoo?tab=readme-ov-file..., you can get an idea of how it compares in some ways

You were asleep but swear you weren't: what is paradoxical insomnia?

joshcartme — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:41:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/oct/27/paradoxical-insomnia-sleep

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726023

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by joshcartme in "Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop"

joshcartme — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:27:18 +0000

Thanks! I searched a little and didn't find this but clearly could have searched better

New comment by joshcartme in "Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop"

joshcartme — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:59:25 +0000

Apparently it's only about as powerful as a RTX 5070, but it's got 128GB of memory. Curious to see if it has a niche vs using something like a framework desktop with 128GB of RAM.

edit: It does have an ARM processor and runs some variant of Ubuntu.

Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop

joshcartme — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:59:25 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/nvidia-sells-tiny-new-computer-that-puts-big-ai-on-your-desktop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582910

Points: 8

# Comments: 4

New comment by joshcartme in "Cloudflare Email Service: private beta"

joshcartme — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:42:20 +0000

I had the exact same thought. I guess now you could put something in a queue if you have to do non-trivial processing before replying, but that’s not what they wrote

New comment by joshcartme in "The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare"

joshcartme — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:47:03 +0000

I restarted FF and am now seeing something similar. Hard refreshing alternates between 2 and 3, and soft refreshes quickly get back to 3 most of the time

New comment by joshcartme in "The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare"

joshcartme — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:35:44 +0000

It reproduces for me in FF 142 on Windows. When I first went to https://cloudflare-quic.com/ it said HTTP/3, but after a few hard refreshes it says HTTP/2 and hasn't gone back to 3

New comment by joshcartme in "Why is D3 so Verbose?"

joshcartme — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:14:20 +0000

At least these days I think Plot, https://observablehq.com/plot/getting-started, which uses D3 under the hood and is from the makers of D3, is probably the closest thing to an official charting tool built on top of D3.

Show HN: Squiddly, Disable the GitHub merge button based on checks or a label

joshcartme — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 22:42:55 +0000

I've been working on a hobby project in a private repo on Github. I'm not at the point where I want to convert to a Github team so I can't enforce branch protection rules. I did want to prevent merging if some CI check I have setup failed so I don't end up with type-errors in main.

To solve for this I made this extension which disables the Github merge button when checks are failing and/or a user defined label is on the PR.

There's a content script that uses a MutationObserver to know when to disable/enable. That content script also listens to chrome.storage.sync.onChanged to know the values set in the configuration pop-over.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44858950

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by joshcartme in "GPU-rich labs have won: What's left for the rest of us is distillation"

joshcartme — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 22:32:00 +0000

Thanks for clarifying!

I think I'm getting it now: OS models are getting closer, but only via distillation. Not by training a new frontier model which is out of reach for economic reasons.

New comment by joshcartme in "GPU-rich labs have won: What's left for the rest of us is distillation"

joshcartme — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 23:16:18 +0000

Maybe I'm totally misreading this, but it seems like the post contradicts itself. At the beginning of the third paragraph:

> Impressively, open source models have been able to quickly catch up to big labs.

And then the beginning of the fourth:

> Open-source has been lagging behind proprietary models for years, but lately this gap has been widening.

Followed by a picture that is more or less inscrutable.

New comment by joshcartme in "Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat"

joshcartme — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:03:40 +0000

Wow, that really is amazing!

I couldn't help but notice that you can still see the shadows of the rips in the fixed version. I wonder how hard it would be to get those fixed as well.

Starting an Engineering-Driven Initiative

joshcartme — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 20:18:59 +0000

Article URL: https://slack.engineering/starting-an-initiative/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378499

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by joshcartme in "Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1"

joshcartme — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 20:33:22 +0000

It looks like you comment may have been cut off, it sounds good. I'd say go for it, see if you can develop a community around!