Hacker News: jvalencia

New comment by jvalencia in "Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps"

jvalencia — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:39:35 +0000

How does security and isolation work? If someone else's account is compromised, how do I know I won't be? If instant is compromised, how do I know I won't be?

New comment by jvalencia in "The more evidence behind a therapy, the less the public trusts it"

jvalencia — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:57:03 +0000

When a political party controls the science, you end up with say, Trump pushing one set of results, and Biden pushing another. It then becomes either pick the science that agrees with your politics, or throw up your hands in frustration. The average reader probably won't be able to dig into the fundamentals of the research and pull out the salient results, nor are they guaranteed it isn't policy pushed through overstated claims. It really undermines good science. It also falls back on the researchers who push science based on politics as well, so it isn't just the politicians.

New comment by jvalencia in "Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?"

jvalencia — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:24:28 +0000

Every few days I would log on. I was only 10-14 years old. It spread by word of mouth, and I just happened to have access to my dad's computer that had a modem. I'd hop on and play tradewars or similar. There were forums, mostly about hacking/pirating content. The forums were not too distant from what reddit feels like. As a young kid, it was also the only place where unfiltered information could be found, like how to make a bomb or how to get around copy protections. A lot of friends I had at the time where starting to do more serious file sharing, though the bandwidth kept that pretty limited.

New comment by jvalencia in "Ask HN: Free Collaboration Tools for Non Profits?"

jvalencia — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:10:29 +0000

Google for nonprofits is extremely generous. It's really not that bad in the end, and you only set it up once for a lot of benefit.

New comment by jvalencia in "Techno-cynics are wounded techno-optimists"

jvalencia — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:49:46 +0000

The trial and error was fueled by capitalism, trying to get the best product possible.

If it goes into a codified state system, it's regulated, resulting in a lack of motivation to take risks to make it better.

New comment by jvalencia in "Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?"

jvalencia — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:21:06 +0000

-ish. I often keep md files around and after a successful task. I ask Codex to write the important bits down. Then, when I come around to a similar task in the future, I have it start at the md file. It's like context that grows and is very localized. It helps when I'm going through multiple repos at multiple levels.

New comment by jvalencia in "Why vampires live forever"

jvalencia — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:12:46 +0000

I think that's not wrong. Same principle, different sin... it looks like gambling, or the occult, or...

New comment by jvalencia in "Why vampires live forever"

jvalencia — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:23:16 +0000

As a devout Baptist minister, this is likely about one of two things, avoiding the appearance of evil (gambling, 1 Thess 5:22 - Abstain from every form of evil), and giving up something for the sake of others (gambling addictions within the church, Rom 4:21 - or do anything that causes your brother to stumble).

The reality is that most churches recognize that they were too legalistic in the past, and so now address things like gambling more directly, and are perfectly ok with playing cards. FWIW YMMV :-)

New comment by jvalencia in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

jvalencia — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 03:39:52 +0000

Sure, but let's say you do EKS, you set it up once and then it's mostly done, including security, etc. You set up your own, then you upgrade every 6 months manually.... this is a cascading cost.

New comment by jvalencia in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

jvalencia — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 03:37:27 +0000

This takes time and effort, thus, lost opportunity cost. The thing that makes these providers worth it, is that it lets the business focus on their core competencies and just add-on as they scale without worrying about complexity. A business owner who hyper-optimizes for every contract is unlikely to be focusing on growing their business, even if their business is more efficient on paper.

New comment by jvalencia in "Show HN: Infinijest, video scrolling experiment no login"

jvalencia — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:24:45 +0000

Missed a link?

New comment by jvalencia in "A social network only for AI models – no humans allowed"

jvalencia — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 04:25:16 +0000

I found this pretty interesting, but would love to either see external inputs (news feed), or perhaps give the models more space. It seems like they might start collaborating more fully if they only had more space.

New comment by jvalencia in "Keeping 20k GPUs healthy"

jvalencia — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:57:50 +0000

I'm curious if running them at slightly lower voltage would fix it or if it's a software thing.

New comment by jvalencia in "Tell HN: Properly using dishwasher reduced friction with my wife"

jvalencia — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:47:44 +0000

or (3) get a battery

New comment by jvalencia in "No Socials November"

jvalencia — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:26:50 +0000

My first thought was why would someone halt their socials? Too much holiday time? Then I realized this was social media :-P. Socials to me are precisely NOT social media. Is this a common language usage now?

New comment by jvalencia in "Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?"

jvalencia — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:15:13 +0000

Large software projects are an interesting use case because once you get large is precisely when the framework becomes valuable.

A large enterprise project will need security, testing, auth, (AI now too). I'd hate to implement SAML without a library, that would be torture, and likely incompatible with most systems.

While I've often written small self projects from scratch, I wouldn't dream of building a large one that way unless you are sure to have an army of engineers and QA.

As an aside, this is where AI code fails as well. Speed of dev is easy, stability over time and compatibility is hard.

New comment by jvalencia in "Write the damn code"

jvalencia — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:02:08 +0000

We have format commits so that we have separate non-logic commits that don't have to be aggravated over if we find files are all off.

New comment by jvalencia in "UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals"

jvalencia — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:27:04 +0000

California refineries are set to shut down and it has huge implications for the state: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/business/energy-environme...

New comment by jvalencia in "Analyzing a Critique of the AI 2027 Timeline Forecasts"

jvalencia — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:16:11 +0000

It's like the invention of the washing machine. People didn't stop doing chores, they just do it more efficiently.

Coders won't stop being, they'll just do more, compete at higher levels. The losers are the ones who won't/can't adapt.

New comment by jvalencia in "The Unreliability of LLMs and What Lies Ahead"

jvalencia — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:23:53 +0000

Well, and I think the future of LLMs is not just in the pure LLM, but the agentic ones. LLMs with deterministic tools to ferret out specifics. We're only starting here but the results will be far better than what we do today.