Hacker News: jredwards

New comment by jredwards in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

jredwards — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:11:23 +0000

I've been avoiding Chrome-based browsers for many years now but have only recently become aware of how catastrophically low the Firefox market share is. I'm kind of shocked that more people aren't choosing to avoid Chrome.

New comment by jredwards in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

jredwards — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:52:49 +0000

Seems like all of OpenAI's "deals" are announcement fodder with no real contract, primed to quietly fall through later.

New comment by jredwards in "The Digital Leviathan"

jredwards — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:29:56 +0000

For all of the article's brown-nosing, there doesn't seem anything particularly groundbreaking about this thesis: the internet was once thought of as a mechanism for the unvarnished spread of information and is now utilized by those with power and influence as a mechanic for careful information control. Am I missing something?

Hilariously, the article manages to have a right-wing bent to this revelation, as though it's those insidious liberals buying up the world's information streams and intentionally breaking them.

Okay, buddy.

New comment by jredwards in "Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry"

jredwards — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:38:35 +0000

I didn't realize Firefox's market share had gotten so low. Now I'm sad.

New comment by jredwards in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

jredwards — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:39:00 +0000

Need is definitely too strong a word, but I think we can agree that uv has so far been the best solution to a problem that plagued python development for a really long time.

New comment by jredwards in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

jredwards — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:28:33 +0000

As someone who loves Astral and hates OpenAI, this is making me pretty sad.

New comment by jredwards in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

jredwards — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:07:11 +0000

And this is how you get Moltbook.

New comment by jredwards in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

jredwards — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:39:42 +0000

That can't be whole story, though. They're still profitable.

New comment by jredwards in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

jredwards — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:42:57 +0000

I have always asserted, and will continue to assert, that Tuesday is the funniest day of the week. If you construct a joke for which the punchline must be a day of the week, Tuesday is nearly always the correct ending.

New comment by jredwards in "Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in"

jredwards — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:59:43 +0000

I'd like to see evidence that open models are closing that gap. That would be promising.

New comment by jredwards in "'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos"

jredwards — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:20:48 +0000

The labor market is cratering, but tech worker pay remains higher in the US than anywhere else on the planet.

New comment by jredwards in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

jredwards — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:56:11 +0000

I'm actually in the process of building a home NAS server primarily for this purpose. Delighted to hear everyone has such a good experience.

New comment by jredwards in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

jredwards — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:24:24 +0000

I cannot even imagine the horror and the relief. I imagine if I were those paramedics, getting a card or a picture from that kid would make my whole year.

New comment by jredwards in "Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?"

jredwards — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:51:13 +0000

Drivers in Hawaii have taken this to an extreme level and will stop in the middle of the road to let pedestrians or other cars go ahead of them even when they have the right of way. And they throw the shaka when they do it.

New comment by jredwards in "White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign"

jredwards — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:07:27 +0000

Doubt that would matter today. How much things have changed in such a short time.

New comment by jredwards in "The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US"

jredwards — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:02:56 +0000

I've heard tit-for-two-tats is effective

New comment by jredwards in "Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival"

jredwards — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:50:31 +0000

Same for the reference to developers taking longer to complete tasks with AI. That's absolutely not the finding of that study.

New comment by jredwards in "AI makes bad managers"

jredwards — Mon, 26 May 2025 19:46:52 +0000

Counterpoint: if you think being a good manager boils down to writing a really great performance assessment, you already suck at your job.

New comment by jredwards in "MCP: An in-depth introduction"

jredwards — Sat, 17 May 2025 18:51:50 +0000

You're not wrong, but you are being pretty pedantic about it. I consider myself pedantic in most circumstances but this one clearly doesn't bother me.

New comment by jredwards in "MCP: An in-depth introduction"

jredwards — Sat, 17 May 2025 04:24:21 +0000

There are thousands of ready-made MCP servers hosted on https://smithery.ai