Hacker News: jwithington

New comment by jwithington in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

jwithington — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:18:08 +0000

I've seen these systems at US defense industry tradeshows so I'm guessing they are in use somewhere.

New comment by jwithington in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

jwithington — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:37:20 +0000

It's crazy that the title is largely clickbait because he's a Deepmind employee who reps Gemini AI Studio.

So if you're just gonna do a clickbait project...why pump the competition?

New comment by jwithington in "John Jumper to join Anthropic"

jwithington — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:28:03 +0000

>What a weird thing to say. It's not a team sport where you support 'sides'.

It is if you have equity!

New comment by jwithington in "Gemini API File Search is now multimodal"

jwithington — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:36:14 +0000

Yes https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing#spend-caps

New comment by jwithington in "Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code"

jwithington — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:33:58 +0000

Yes, we host it ourselves, acting as the data processor which can be important for enterprise customers.

From developer experience, hosting them ourselves allows us to take advantage of our unique infra and deliver fastest time to first tokens of the providers.

New comment by jwithington in "Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code"

jwithington — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:12:12 +0000

I think a cheat code here is to route your requests to GCP's Vertex AI, which has stronger uptimes. Can use it as a fallback or main provider.

Caveats: 1) May not be economic for those on flat-rate Anthropic subscription plans 2) I work at Google.

New comment by jwithington in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

jwithington — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:53:42 +0000

The lock-in is around identity services, right?

Servicing the jobs-to-be-done of the core applications is pretty straightforward I think.

I'm not sure what keeps people locked in besides identity. Article doesn't really specify.

New comment by jwithington in "The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed"

jwithington — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:10:46 +0000

Negative, the Department of War was the predecessor to the Dept of the Army. There used to be a Secretary of the Navy and a Secretary of War, both of whom rolled up direct to the president.

Following post-WWII reorgs, the DoD was created and the Secretary of War became the Secretary of the Army, reporting to the Secretary of Defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_th...

New comment by jwithington in "ChatGPT Atlas"

jwithington — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:11:50 +0000

Why MacOS only and not Windows?

New comment by jwithington in "Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?"

jwithington — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:27:43 +0000

hard to beat the MSFT bundle

New comment by jwithington in "Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?"

jwithington — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 22:57:07 +0000

That's the $XXM question.

New comment by jwithington in "Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?"

jwithington — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 22:37:11 +0000

Yes, I'd think Openshift with Kubevirt would be positioned to move in. Lots of Openshift in some of the sectors I've worked with so seems like a natural expansion.

I forgot about MSFT's ability to bundle Hyper-V though which seems to come up in this thread a lot.

Love the username.

Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?

jwithington — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:19:49 +0000

In certain large industries it feels like there's more urgency to migrate off of VMware than there is to do genAI stuff.

Do others sense this? If so, what options do you see for folks to keep their servers but move off of VMware? Is it all RedHat?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45635940

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New comment by jwithington in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

jwithington — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:11:23 +0000

grok 4's controller lol

New comment by jwithington in "I only use Google Sheets"

jwithington — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:34:57 +0000

I was the internal tools PM that looked at the portfolio of products and asked, "Why aren't all of these just Google Sheets?"

Pivoted out of there lol

New comment by jwithington in "A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers"

jwithington — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:49:50 +0000

i don't really understand why folks are downplaying this in the comments:

some engineers who write the code for production US systems that contain controlled unclassified information live in china. the US government was unaware that this was happening because MSFT hid it from them. as a result, govt stakeholders are/were unable to assess the risk.

all MSFT ATO's should be revoked.

some of the comments point out that foreign workers will help maintain facilities overseas, but govt stakeholders are aware of this, assess the risk, and implement risk controls.

but shady M$FT hid this from govt, and that amplifies the problem!

disclaimer: am google

New comment by jwithington in "Show HN: Open-Source DocumentAI with Ollama"

jwithington — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:59:26 +0000

Say that I'm an amateur historian. I go into an archive and scan a bunch of documents (letters, diagrams, maps, etc). They're saved as JPG files.

What's the best way to make sense of that corpus of knowledge? Is it Rlama or something else?

I'm currently trying to homebrew this with Gemini, but am not sure if there's something that gets me out of building a RAG system from scratch.

New comment by jwithington in "E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays"

jwithington — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:08:18 +0000

Trmnl was referenced but also this one https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/getting-started-with-badg...

New comment by jwithington in "E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays"

jwithington — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:06:46 +0000

Yes https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/diy/byos

New comment by jwithington in "Show HN: TinkerBird – A Chrome-native vector database"

jwithington — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:48:22 +0000

So one could retain the contents of every website every visited and then run local, in-browser searches against that content? Is that the idea? This library would serve as the vector DB?