Hacker News: jphoward

New comment by jphoward in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

jphoward — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:36:08 +0000

The browser it built, obviously the context window of the entire project is huge. They mention loads of parallel agents in the blog post, so I guess each agent is given a module to work on, and some tests? And then a 'manager' agent plugs this in without reading the code? Otherwise I can't see how, even with ChatGPT 5.2/Gemini 3, you could do this otherwise? In retrospect it seems an obvious approach and akin to how humans work in teams, but it's still interesting.

New comment by jphoward in "The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network"

jphoward — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:25:23 +0000

Here is some more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Red_Line

And one of the old cable huts still exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Cable_Station

New comment by jphoward in "I tried Gleam for Advent of Code"

jphoward — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:05:42 +0000

'Ruined' is a bit strong, isn't it?

New comment by jphoward in "Size of Life"

jphoward — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:33:42 +0000

It seems to be like some of the scales slightly off?

If you are looking at the ladybird (ladybug) with the amoeba to the left, the amoeba isn't an order of the magnitude smaller - it would actually be visible by the human eye (bigger than a grain of sand)? Indeed, the amoeba seems the same size as the ladybird's foot?

Similarly, this makes the bumblebee appear smaller than a human finger (the in the adjacent picture), which isn't the case?

New comment by jphoward in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

jphoward — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:53:14 +0000

Nice! What might be a nice lesser 'clue' to simply revealing a word is highlighting letter(s) on the board that are part of it? Favouring maybe highlighting letters that are contiguous with a blue bit?

New comment by jphoward in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

jphoward — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:38:37 +0000

Have you not seen some of the replies at the link?

For example:

"You are joking ?!

The commit about source only is 4 days old (9e49d5e)

We are currently paying for a license while using the open source version, you already removed the oidc code from UI console and now docker images. We are not happy by this lock-in. We will discuss this internally, but you may loose a paying customer with this behavior."

New comment by jphoward in "Microsoft PowerToys"

jphoward — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:09:46 +0000

Are you me? Exact same! The problem with dual monitors is either you're sat in front of the gap, or you need to pivot. This way you get a 'normal' monitor and a portrait section to the side, much better.

New comment by jphoward in "UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse"

jphoward — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:58:30 +0000

Why does that link say the current director of public prosecutions is Sir Kier Starmer? It's hard to take it seriously.

New comment by jphoward in "500 days of math"

jphoward — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:14:14 +0000

$49 seems a surprisingly high amount for something aimed at students and learners - I appreciate the content may be good, but it's effectively 3 times a Netflix subscription.

It's meant to be something you stick with in the "long term" by its nature, and yet an annual subscription is $500 - this is just completely unrealistic for any student. Someone in a lower end job hoping to "up skill" is going to really struggle with this.

New comment by jphoward in "The Dereliction of Due Process in the Scala Community"

jphoward — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:41:17 +0000

I don't think there's any question about the "probably" - I'm not that involved in the community but the subreddit makes it sound totally disharmonious.

Why do the people who need the least help from you, appreciate it the most?

jphoward — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:58:28 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@darrelfrancis2013/why-do-the-people-who-need-the-least-help-from-you-appreciate-it-the-most-ea79aeaf51d7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44809986

Points: 1

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New comment by jphoward in "Why there are so many more South Asian CEOs than East Asian CEOs in the US"

jphoward — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:35:47 +0000

"There are far fewer East Asian CEOs in the Fortune 500, and most of them are the founders of their companies like Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Tony Xu (DoorDash), Lisa Su (AMD)"

Lisa Su only joined AMD in 2012?

New comment by jphoward in "OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face"

jphoward — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:51:59 +0000

I think they could release non-agentic models that are as good as 4o, and have almost no repercussions on sales tbh.

I have Ollama installed (only a small proportion of their clients would have a large enough GPU for this) and have download deepseek and played with it, but I still pay for an OpenAI subscription because I want the speed of a hosted model, and never mind the luxuries of things like Codex's diffs/pull request support, agents on new models, deep research etc. - I use them all at least weekly.

New comment by jphoward in "The untold impact of cancellation"

jphoward — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:41:30 +0000

Yeah but because it's a GitHub repo is has an inherent audit trail for that, so it's not really erasing misdeeds... indeed it highlights those people in diffs!

New comment by jphoward in "The untold impact of cancellation"

jphoward — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:17:06 +0000

At the bottom it references a GitHub where people have previously added signatures against Jon Pretty - and now the maintainer says "NOTE: This repo is closed. Do not open issues; they will be summarily closed and ignored." - i.e. telling people they shouldn't even TRY to amend their signatures.

Regardless of what you think of Jon Pretty, how is this justifiable? Telling people they can't unsupport something because you're not open to issues, but also not removing it?!

New comment by jphoward in "My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)"

jphoward — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:38:56 +0000

64 GB of RAM which is addressable by a GPU is exceptional for a laptop - this is not just system RAM.

New comment by jphoward in "My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)"

jphoward — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:18:23 +0000

No but 64 GB of unified memory provides almost as much GPU RAM capacity as two RTX 5090s (only less due to the unified nature) - top of the range GPUs - so it's a truly exceptional laptop in this regard.

New comment by jphoward in "OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative"

jphoward — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:28:37 +0000

Sorry I'm a bit out of the loop, but what's CapCut?

New comment by jphoward in "Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic"

jphoward — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:30:43 +0000

I don't think you know what "cringe" means... this really makes you cringe? And they didn't say it was crazy, they said it was interesting enough to raise eyebrows. Everyone knows there are amazing coders in hedge funds, but not many hedge funds have forked a language - it is worthy of discussion here.

New comment by jphoward in "LsCs is a cross platform C++ GUI library focused on Medical Devices"

jphoward — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:04:29 +0000

Are you sure? Philips' medical side have an in house GUI library (Qt-esuqe) called Sense and it's mainly implemented using C++.