Hacker News: jvreeland

New comment by jvreeland in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

jvreeland — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:22:53 +0000

I hate nothing more than when a random mistype on a website or app causing shit i don’t understand to happen without reasonable ways to undo it or discover it. I don’t really care if the app can be controlled with a keyboard i want the ui to be discverable and usefull.

New comment by jvreeland in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

jvreeland — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:29:51 +0000

systemd not SystemD

New comment by jvreeland in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

jvreeland — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:29:31 +0000

systemd not SystemD idk why people got that in their head.

New comment by jvreeland in "A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition"

jvreeland — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:32:50 +0000

I'd love to find more info on this but from what I can find it seems to be making webpages that look like those product, and seemingly can "run python" or "emulate a game" but writing something that, based on all of GitHub, can approximate an iPhone or emulator in javscript/css/HTML is very very very different than writing an OS.

New comment by jvreeland in "Magit Is Amazing"

jvreeland — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:53:24 +0000

I'll acknowledge that it's a strange comment and I could rewrite things to get the behavior I want and the reasoning is well explained by the author

https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/1811#issuecomment-9415...

But I find that there are cases in my workflow that I am more bothered by these things in magit than benefit I get from it.

New comment by jvreeland in "Magit Is Amazing"

jvreeland — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:07:23 +0000

I always see people saying magit is awesome but i really can't stand it. Especially the keybindings and transient which seems the main draw.

New comment by jvreeland in "AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing"

jvreeland — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:47:56 +0000

I think I broadly agree with this. I am super frustrated that everythign always wants me to search for things. As an example Finders default search while looking at a folder is the whole machine instead of a filter in the directory you are viewing in seems totally insane to me. It's almost like they don't want me to know where my files are.

I can understand that it's a result, to a degree of cloud services and peoples primary mode swapping to opening and app and opening recents or searching instead of opening a file to open an app but it does mean that you're at the mercy of what I experience as some pretty crap search algorithms that don't seem to want you to find the information you're looking for. I keep encountering searches that rank fuzzy matches over exact matches or aren't stable as you continue to complete the same word and I just don't understand how that's acceptable after being pointed out if search is what I'm supposed to be using.

New comment by jvreeland in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

jvreeland — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:50:12 +0000

Awesome I wasn't having enough trouble figuring out what I could tap and not now everything has this crappy distorted look.

New comment by jvreeland in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"

jvreeland — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:12:13 +0000

this has been a known problem with YouTube for ever and they seem to have no interest in fixing it.

New comment by jvreeland in "Ask HN: Why do/don't you use C?"

jvreeland — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:46:42 +0000

> If so: why, and what for?

A huge amount of important existing software is written in C. If the code is already written or needs to inter-operate with other pieces in many languages I typically write C. There are a also lot of things that can be easier in C because that modern safer languages would stop you from doing foot shooting things that C won't it's quicker sometimes to write or prototype in C.

> If not: why not, and what do you use instead?

A not insignificant part of my career has been fixing bugs in C code that's been around forever. It's almost always the same class of dumb bugs that wouldn't exist in other languages. This is not anecdata the research agrees. No new projects should be started in C there are better tools.

New comment by jvreeland in "Preliminary Post Incident Review"

jvreeland — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:45:14 +0000

I really dislike reading website that take over half the screen and make me read off to the side like this. I can fix it by zooming in but I don't understand why they thought making the navigation take up that much of the screen or not be collapsable was a good move.

New comment by jvreeland in "4-day workweek employees are happier. One lawmaker says it's 'here to stay.'"

jvreeland — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 22:10:40 +0000

YES PLEASE. I'd really like to see us head towards 3 6 hours days.

New comment by jvreeland in "SEC Charges Nvidia with Inadequate Disclosures about Impact of Cryptomining"

jvreeland — Fri, 06 May 2022 15:02:25 +0000

I think most is doing a lot of work there. No one I know who games or does CAD is mining crypto because it's in no way worth it and I imagine there's nothing but anecdata for your statment either.

New comment by jvreeland in "U.S. inflation rate rises to 13-year high of 5.4%"

jvreeland — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 14:17:24 +0000

This is actually a big part of Modern Monetary theory: From the wikipedia page

  ...the primary risk once the economy reaches full 
  employment is inflation, which can be addressed by 
  gathering taxes...

New comment by jvreeland in "The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9"

jvreeland — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:21:46 +0000

It seem pretty common for people who own Apple products to say "2013 macbook air" and that is easy to find on the device or in the software. Apple makes it pretty clear newer is better. Intel has a bunch of lakes and numbers and an easier way to tell would be nice all around. Though Apple has less skus to differentiate making it much easier for them.

New comment by jvreeland in "U.S. moves to double Canadian lumber tariffs"

jvreeland — Thu, 27 May 2021 19:58:24 +0000

right, what we needs is high housing prices.

New comment by jvreeland in "File Descriptor Limits"

jvreeland — Thu, 20 May 2021 00:53:12 +0000

I mean we've known for a while select is broken that code is probably buggy and insecure.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10352#c1

https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110660879328901

New comment by jvreeland in "iOS 13's Music App Sucks"

jvreeland — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:48:39 +0000

Yeah basically the same stuff i dislike about the 'Listen now' and other weird modes.

New comment by jvreeland in "iOS 13's Music App Sucks"

jvreeland — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:05:12 +0000

I really don't like overcast : ( I've tried to switch several times, especially since the podcast redesign and I just can't.

New comment by jvreeland in "iOS 13's Music App Sucks"

jvreeland — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:27:06 +0000

The podcast app is trash too