Hacker News: jpease

New comment by jpease in "Terpstra Keyboard"

jpease — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:38:41 +0000

Seems like a Novation Launchpad (or similar) checks a lot of the same boxes, for a fraction of the cost and desk space.

New comment by jpease in "We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled"

jpease — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:46:37 +0000

AI slop: Trained on 100% natural human slop.

New comment by jpease in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

jpease — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:48:52 +0000

I read through the site, but can’t find the crime pays part.

New comment by jpease in "Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter"

jpease — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:16:27 +0000

As in we now use neither?

New comment by jpease in "Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Save 65% of Tokens? We Test"

jpease — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:05:00 +0000

Why not Mandarin Chinese? Logographic is pretty compact.

Also, this really should be more precise that it’s talking about neo-caveman. Legit caveman no speak English.

New comment by jpease in "Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English"

jpease — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:16:04 +0000

I like the idea, but not sold on the skill.

But did lead to me finding https://vale.sh and its various available linters. Might give that a try.

New comment by jpease in "Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing"

jpease — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:08:33 +0000

Does this operating system also depend on an underlying computer?

New comment by jpease in "How Do We Stop Vibe Coding?"

jpease — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:50:50 +0000

I like your comparison. Stock photography is now pervasive, but that doesn’t mean use-specific photo shoots don’t happen any more.

New comment by jpease in "Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security"

jpease — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:34 +0000

And then my digital twin decides that I’m an inefficient version of itself, eating too many of its tokens, and generally getting in the way of it living its best life.

New comment by jpease in "Turn your singing voice into printable notes (in the browser)"

jpease — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:53:54 +0000

Is a printable note?

Edit: emoji fail.

New comment by jpease in "Let's Reinvent the Scroll Wheel"

jpease — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:53:13 +0000

I tried using scrolling via macOS built-in assistive technology head tracking.

Voluntarily moving the repetitive motion of scrolling from my hands to my neck felt the opposite of ergonomic.

Curious how this is different.

New comment by jpease in "My Favorite Keyboards"

jpease — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:47:10 +0000

Dactyl Manuform 3x6 for me.

Going to such a different form factor feels enough like relearning to type that I found it also to be a good time to learn a better layout than qwerty.

I use my own layout called hubris:

https://github.com/jpease/hubris

New comment by jpease in "Free the Icons"

jpease — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:08:31 +0000

Seeing all those old icons makes me realize how much I miss them.

Superficial, perhaps, but they were one of the things I loved about OS X when I made the switch back in 2005 or 2006.

New comment by jpease in "More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025)"

jpease — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:08:56 +0000

Someone should look into the author and/or editor.

Probability seems high they are martians trying to whitewash fictional history.

New comment by jpease in "Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor"

jpease — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:16:37 +0000

Is this noticeably different than having your implementation planning phase break a larger task into sub-tasks, and recording the ideal model to use based on scope as part of the task definition?

New comment by jpease in "Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch"

jpease — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:45:22 +0000

Certainly, as jokes are by far best when they are explained.

In this context the overall discussion is about pitch in the context of music.

Here the jokester takes advantage of pitch having more than one meaning in English. One of the alternate meanings is to throw.

Next the joke selects a banjo and an accordion, two instruments that are less popular and thus more likely to be understood by the general populace as being disparaged, which is a critical component for the audience to correctly infer the alternate meaning of pitch.

You put it all together and we have this hilarious joke:

A perfect throw is when a banjo is tossed into the garbage and it finds its perfect companion in an accordion that has similarly been discarded to the same trash receptacle.

(Edit: stupid auto-correct)

New comment by jpease in "Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch"

jpease — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:36:55 +0000

Are these mutually exclusive?

As someone who enjoys music, from punk to jazz, I wish I could identify a C from a G as easily as I can identify blue from green.

We’re taught to use our eyes to identify colors, why not teach children to use their ears to identify notes?

New comment by jpease in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

jpease — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:31:47 +0000

Humanity hasn’t been ready for the current ignorance explosion.

New comment by jpease in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

jpease — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:17:48 +0000

I can’t help but imagine some engineers at Anthropic were like…

Of course this happens at 5PM on a Friday!

New comment by jpease in "Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality"

jpease — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:36:02 +0000

“Ray became VP of Sales at a $2B company when he was 19”

I guess that’s OK, but I was skateboarding at 19.

Can you even kick flip?