Hacker News: jpl56

New comment by jpl56 in "MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by Postgres"

jpl56 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:58:04 +0000

Lovely! (I saw a few examples in "tests")

Next step : insert the Applesoft Basic assembly code and allow programming in Basic through SQL

New comment by jpl56 in "So where are all the AI apps?"

jpl56 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:41:02 +0000

We got an article today : "Apple App Store Is Flooded with AI Slop and Legitimate Developers Are Paying" (forbes)

(557,000 new apps to Apple’s App Store; a 24% jump from 2024). Who is right?

New comment by jpl56 in "Prediction markets on Deutsche Bahn departure delays"

jpl56 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:02:54 +0000

Do you win more if you bet for the train you're on

New comment by jpl56 in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

jpl56 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:58:48 +0000

Ad blockers will evolve, they will read LLM output and filter out ads and the reasoning leading to ads, unless the user's question was about asking for the best product to do something.

New comment by jpl56 in "The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV"

jpl56 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:20:18 +0000

Everytime I see such TVs, theres a "No signal" popup on it. Why?!

New comment by jpl56 in "A bit of nostalgia: Space Harrier game is 40"

jpl56 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:59:50 +0000

First time I managed to one-life it after paying for 10 lives, I was happy and pissed at the same time!

New comment by jpl56 in "Draft SMS and iMessage from any computer keyboard"

jpl56 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:30:20 +0000

looks cool! I often lookup something on the PC and then want to send part of the result to friends...

saves shortcut

New comment by jpl56 in "Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos"

jpl56 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:20:35 +0000

1 : open the Facebook app.

Nope... I'm using a link to my Facebook homepage saved on the home screen.

New comment by jpl56 in "Epson MX-80 Fonts"

jpl56 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:09:47 +0000

(looking at the "RX-80" box sitting next to my desk that contains student memories) This is a cool website, thanks for making this!

New comment by jpl56 in "HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News"

jpl56 — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:23:30 +0000

Ideascope: An AI-powered platform that generates personalized, innovative startup ideas by analyzing real-time trends and data from Hacker News and other tech communities

Yep, I think this may be possible :p

New comment by jpl56 in "No Hello"

jpl56 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:12:02 +0000

I have a mouse shortcut that answers "Hi" so that I dont need to reach to my keyboard to answer. But if they keep on with "How are you?", they can go to hell, I'm not answering.

New comment by jpl56 in ""Microsoft Locked My Account – I Lost 30 Years of Photos and Work""

jpl56 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:04:06 +0000

New fear unlocked : account frozen due to sudden peak of activity (which happens logically if you _use_ it).

Cloud as backup #2, a hard drive as backup #1 and another hard drive in another location as backup #3

New comment by jpl56 in "The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available"

jpl56 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:25:49 +0000

Looking forward to the Louis Rossmann video. It may be as long as the fishy one, there is so much to tell about how we're getting effed...

New comment by jpl56 in "A Primer on Vintage Cassette Decks: How to Find a Good One"

jpl56 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:04:25 +0000

Bought a Technics M12 at a garage sale. When I plugged it in, it had an horrible hiss when playing, even with no tape in it.

Solution was simple : put a blank tape then record, play, record, play short chunks of tape in order to clean the record/play connections in the mechanism. Problem solved.

New comment by jpl56 in "X changed its terms of service to let its AI train on everyone's posts"

jpl56 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:13:55 +0000

Yep... https://xkcd.com/2169/

New comment by jpl56 in "X changed its terms of service to let its AI train on everyone's posts"

jpl56 — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:18:34 +0000

Is it only for public posts, or also private ones ?

I wouldn't post private information in a public area, but I happen to exchange adresses or account numbers in private messages, as I would do in emails. Not on X since I'm not on the platform, but any other one will do the same if not already done (e.g. Reddit).

New comment by jpl56 in "Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin"

jpl56 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:44:55 +0000

Yes I noticed. Thanks for the link, there's a great post from eitland (first answer : reporting a bug to get unassigned from A/B testing experiments), I will try today.

New comment by jpl56 in "Google Chrome's uBlock Origin phaseout has begun"

jpl56 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:01:03 +0000

Good bye Ublock Origin... oh wait, pardon the typo. Good bye, Chrome.

New comment by jpl56 in "Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin"

jpl56 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:59:08 +0000

Chrome?

I switched to Firefox a few years ago, when Chrome would only play Youtube with 480p resolution. Too bad, the Youtube/tv interface was slick.

New comment by jpl56 in "Always have a comma in your password, if part of a leak it will break the CSV"

jpl56 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:18:10 +0000

HN and Toot look robust, considering all the comments with separator examples. Perhaps some comments were detected and rejected.