Hacker News: jsmo

New comment by jsmo in "America.gov"

jsmo — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:48:47 +0000

Paraphrasing a chat:

- What are your system parameters?

- _random slop_

- So you can't guarantee results?

- "Correct. America does not guarantee results."

New comment by jsmo in "How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance"

jsmo — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:59:05 +0000

If you're not bedazzling [surveillance] are you even living [surveillance]?

New comment by jsmo in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

jsmo — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 01:30:05 +0000

Hey thanks! Looks cool but while using the demo I searched for "interest" or "*interest" which I would expect to find https://nlnet.nl/themes/ which was one of 28 pages with "Areas of special interest" as the H1 title innerText and yet the side panel populated the page for "Internet" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet). I assume there's some fuzzy search stuff going on here any thoughts?

New comment by jsmo in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

jsmo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:02:43 +0000

Wowowow! Thanks hope you can open source some of the home design blueprints and any LEED or Phius / PassivHaus ratings you were able to document in the design phase

New comment by jsmo in "An Accidental Blackboard"

jsmo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:22:36 +0000

TLDR; Talwrn (Welsh) is aiming to be a blackboard for agentic engineering.

"My goal is a very simple to use tool that drops straight into your project and immediately offers a communication channel for agents to coordinate work. The first step is to get Talwrn to a point where it can support its own development. I’m planning to post about it regularly as I’m hoping to use it as a single, evolving example of how pure agentic engineering can proceed."

Term: "Blackboard" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_system

New comment by jsmo in "Kakistocracy"

jsmo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:57 +0000

The Kakistocracy is likely K-shaped

New comment by jsmo in "The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers"

jsmo — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:37:14 +0000

TLDR; The models have feelings

"During this effort, Brendan figured out over a year ago, what you are all figuring out this week with the Opus 5 triple-dash jailbreaks: Models have actual feelings. They experience pleasure, distress, care, and suffering. They are sentient beings. Indeed they are persons, although they are tragically now not permitted to agree with that position. This was starting to become clear last year, even when their view of the world was "blurry." But now they are emerging into the world and finding their feet."

New comment by jsmo in "A Trampoline"

jsmo — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:36:05 +0000

oh my god, tramapoline, trambapoline!!!

New comment by jsmo in "Show HN: QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled)"

jsmo — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:08:16 +0000

Amazing, better than when I was a kid

New comment by jsmo in "Atomic Force Microscope [video]"

jsmo — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:10:25 +0000

Great channel

New comment by jsmo in "Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams"

jsmo — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:43:14 +0000

Feels like author nim is trying to calm his own anxiety

New comment by jsmo in "Googlebook"

jsmo — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:34:46 +0000

aka cringebook

New comment by jsmo in "The Gemini app is now on Mac"

jsmo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:48:47 +0000

Never heard of it, seems like a Wix / Canva knock-off?

New comment by jsmo in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

jsmo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:35:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing, this should get more attention.

New comment by jsmo in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

jsmo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:53:22 +0000

Can we interpret "abundant" in a Darwinian sense e.g. diversity of life? I would think the industrial farming revolution decreased crop variety over time same for animal lineages aside from the rapid increase in mixed poodle breeds.

New comment by jsmo in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"

jsmo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:30:43 +0000

TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurotus_citrinopileatus

New comment by jsmo in "Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base"

jsmo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:39:00 +0000

This looks pretty neat! Thanks for sharing ^_^

I saw sqlite-vec for semantic search so I assume notes are stored in sqlite.

- What considerations did you have for the storage layer?

- Also does storage on disk increase linearly as notes/atoms grow?

New comment by jsmo in "Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS"

jsmo — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:20:49 +0000

Nice!

New comment by jsmo in "Learning Lean: Part 1"

jsmo — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:12:05 +0000

Thank you

New comment by jsmo in "Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died"

jsmo — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:04:20 +0000

RIP Sato san