Hacker News: jpl56

New comment by jpl56 in "Yay? All my feeds are getting boring"

jpl56 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:34:03 +0000

Removing thumbnails from Youtube looks very boring. Do you open Youtube on your subscribed channels page ? That way, you can trust your favorite Youtubers' thumbnails.

And there's so much crap, shorts and minigames in the general Youtube feed, you won't want to go back there. On my side, I wish to be able to go to my Instagram followed channels without the need of a few taps.

New comment by jpl56 in "A portable, sensitive, low power, analog Geiger counter (2025)"

jpl56 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:30:19 +0000

- Where do these vegetables come from ?

- click...click...click...

- Tchernobyl. Thank you.

New comment by jpl56 in "Show HN: ApeiroCraft – see when clients open your proposals"

jpl56 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:21:02 +0000

As a French reader, I read this as "ApéroCraft" ("apéro" means "Pre-dinner drink" here)

New comment by jpl56 in "Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript"

jpl56 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:30:18 +0000

It's a good thing to optimize workflows and sometimes it can help others.

I miss the Firefox extension someone wrote a while ago (like ~2012), it was called HnMarkAllRead

1) it marked as read all topics on a page by clicking a button, even the ones I didn't visit yet and

2) it had this option to not display a topic already read on a previous session when displaying the next page

A new Firefox version killed it unfortunately.

New comment by jpl56 in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"

jpl56 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:53:04 +0000

Ghost cut looks like a good idea to deal with an issue OP has :

- I located where I want my text to go

- but when I select and cut, it reflows and I need to locate the place again

Considering the millions of edge cases with Copy, Cut & Paste, the best idea seems to use two other keys for Ghost Cut and Ghost Paste. And Ghost Paste would put it into the clipboard so that you can paste it multiple times and in other apps.

I've another idea of how to do the Ghost thing :

- locate where the text has to go, mark the location

- select and cut the text, the editor reflows

- go back to the marked location then paste

the editor may have built-in bookmark key shortcuts, or it would be a new thing to create.

New comment by jpl56 in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"

jpl56 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:28:03 +0000

The clipboard is very weak in Excel. If I copy something, update a cell somewhere and then paste elsewhere, the clipboard vanishes and I need to copy all over again.

New comment by jpl56 in "Public Transport – Don't Make Me Think"

jpl56 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:28:54 +0000

Paris (my city): you already noticed than bus and metros have different prices. You can transfer from metro to metro or metro to trains, it doesn't charge another trip if you have to pass barriers, unless there's a system failure... Apart from the monthly pass, us locals have a kinda new offer (2 years ago) that allows all transfers, should have been like that for ages! Yes, two apps, but you can buy a 2€ plastic card instead. Knowing what and how to recharge this card (or the app) would need a whole post.

Munich (recent holiday)

close to what you described for Warsaw: buy a weekly pass from a machine, it comes already stamped, the ticket won't leave your wallet ever again (no need to show it unless there are controllers). There are zones and you can buy extension tickets. And there is an app too.

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...