Hacker News: jval43

New comment by jval43 in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

jval43 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:54:21 +0000

Play the Gameboy version. I bought every single official Tetris version and they all suck in conparison.

Gameboy emulators are now available again in the iOS app store or even as a a web app. Or just play on real hardware.

New comment by jval43 in "Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library"

jval43 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:42:27 +0000

It was so close! I could already see the end of all the predatory publishing and flourishing of open-access. Some even required by law. Knowledge was finally going to be free.

But no, it will presumably get much worse as LLMs are inserted into this equation as yet another and new gatekeeper.

(Disclaimer: I have publications with ACM, non open-access. And ACM wasn't even too bad, it's the others that give me pause.)

New comment by jval43 in "Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library"

jval43 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:29:59 +0000

My ACM papers are published in full on my website. Not preprints. In fact thats the only reason I have a website, just in case someone actually wants to read them.

The copyright agreement (actually copyright assignment/transfer) with ACM has had a carve-out for this case in it for a while, but it has to be a personal website.

Canbus – Networking so simple, even YOU can understand it [video]

jval43 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:31:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTTCqGtT6I4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041831

Points: 3

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New comment by jval43 in ""Disk Not Ejected Properly": What It Means"

jval43 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:32:48 +0000

A paperclip always worked, even on the slot loading iMacs.

New comment by jval43 in "Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio"

jval43 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:23:44 +0000

Impressive debugging skills, and thank you for the benchmarks. Now I'm wondering if mlx-engine / mlx-lm have these bugs too.

One minor thing: as you are concerned with honest numbers, the graphs should be logarithmic on the y-axis too (like they are on the x-axis). Otherwise it's hard to see whether the curve is sublinear or linear.

New comment by jval43 in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

jval43 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:52:56 +0000

Very carefully - and I mean extremely carefully - word it so that it describes what it does, while implying what it should do without confirming that it actually does that.

Also helps if you fix the bug or change the behavior, the docs are still technically correct. I'm only partially kidding, I swear I've seen this a million times in documentation I read.

New comment by jval43 in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

jval43 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:02:47 +0000

This is one of the reasons I currently use Gemini for daily use and research.

Google has lots of experience with search history, and presumably handles this better than new companies.

New comment by jval43 in "Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance"

jval43 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:06:10 +0000

There was this article recently, which I personally found interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208573 Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering (maderix.substack.com) 376 points | 3 months ago | 122 comments

New comment by jval43 in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

jval43 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:14:53 +0000

Same for me, when riding the bus. Really wanted it to work and tried over the course of several weeks, unfortunately it didn't help.

New comment by jval43 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

jval43 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:49:51 +0000

Thank you, that's a good response and I agree with many of your points.

New comment by jval43 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

jval43 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:38:52 +0000

Problem-solving is not the same as engineering or computer science though.

Problem-solving can be done by an "analyst" or whatever these types of jobs are usually called.

New comment by jval43 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

jval43 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:26:32 +0000

I've found two things to matter:

1. experience, i.e. knowing why and how a rule matters (in general, but also to auditors)

2. willingness to think

If these aren't present, you get overly restrictive compliance that at the same time accomplishes nothing.

New comment by jval43 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

jval43 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:30:56 +0000

My work laptop just started doing this 3 weeks ago! It's insane. Rather new machine too.

It gets so hot in my bag I actually worry about it starting a fire one day. I now take it out every night.

Obviously I tried googling but no dice. Nothing changed, settings seem in order, no idea what to do.

New comment by jval43 in "The worst job interview I ever had"

jval43 — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:09:01 +0000

Always trust your gut. Especially when it comes to people. Don't overthink, never rationalize it. Accept your feeling, it's valid.

If I learned anything from all my past mistakes in life, it's this.

New comment by jval43 in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

jval43 — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:23:37 +0000

Realistically it's 48 M5 Pro vs 128 M5 Max due to constraints on how you can configure them. So a more substantial difference of ~2k US.

New comment by jval43 in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

jval43 — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:32:21 +0000

Counterpoint: the touchscreen in my car DOES work with gloves. Of course the knobs do too.

The screen is some different tech and not quite as responsive as an iPhone screen and does not do multitouch, but otherwise works fine.

New comment by jval43 in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

jval43 — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:14:55 +0000

Even Toyota is going touch now, with the 2026 models lacking climate control knobs.

I don't know why. Every review always praised the previous models for the physical buttons, and literally nobody asked for them. The physical buttons were perfect, yet they've taken them away.

There must be some grand anti-button conspiracy, it just doesn't make any sense.

New comment by jval43 in "OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

jval43 — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:03:08 +0000

We can't. It's just that everyone and their dog has an interest in selling you that lie because money.

Stochastic parrots can code yes, but that does not make them experts. Don't trust them with your life.

New comment by jval43 in "Ti-84 Evo"

jval43 — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:30:28 +0000

I did, in Java 2ME for my Nokia. That was a completely different experience and much harder to get going. I did make a color 2D game though in about a week.

The TI-200 was much more accessible and fun, creating small little programs during or after class. Only once you wanted to go assembly did it become a chore again.

To summarize: not the same.