Hacker News: jwx48

New comment by jwx48 in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

jwx48 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:52:01 +0000

What is your M2's total memory? I find this application really interesting.

On the non-use of AI in my writing process

jwx48 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:56:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/08/on-the-non-use-of-ai-in-my-wri.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134038

Points: 130

# Comments: 136

Midterm media bedwetting over socialism has begun

jwx48 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:01:50 +0000

Article URL: https://karlbode.com/midterm-media-bedwetting-over-socialism-has-truly-begun/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733700

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by jwx48 in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

jwx48 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:56:31 +0000

...that use gasoline, and come from a dealership that is actively hostile. I'd rather take my chances on the Slate to replace my 13 year old car.

New comment by jwx48 in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

jwx48 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:42:00 +0000

That strikes me as a forced correlation. Something along the lines of "some people are willing to pay more for British racing green, so let's charge $X for it".

Pazuzu

jwx48 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:11:54 +0000

Article URL: https://spectrecollie.com/2026/06/18/pazuzu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596879

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

A personal letter on transformative AI

jwx48 — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://multipliercg.substack.com/p/a-personal-letter-on-transformative

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160020

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jwx48 in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

jwx48 — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:00:22 +0000

> editing is thinking.

I hadn’t realized until just now how accurate that is for me as well. Thank you.

New comment by jwx48 in "Launching the Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative"

jwx48 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:21:51 +0000

I’d love to know how Mercer County, West Virginia was chosen. I grew up there.

New comment by jwx48 in "White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying"

jwx48 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:04:51 +0000

There was, I believe, a hairdresser rounded up by ICE and sent to CECOT with images/video of his head getting shaved and audio of him crying for his mother. I think about him all the time, and wonder what happened to him because it's so horrific. He doesn't strike me as the kind of person who would survive a situation like that, and yet nothing on his status, or his family, has noticably trickled out as information in the last nine or 10 months. My short little comment here will do nothing to encompass the context of the situation, but to have this humiliating experience documented and highlighted only to have it disappear so quickly and easily it's downright depressing.

New comment by jwx48 in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

jwx48 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:45:27 +0000

It is. Pretty much anyone who actually believes the “millions of illegal immigrants” line is detached from reality.

New comment by jwx48 in "Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report"

jwx48 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 10:05:58 +0000

Bingo. Therein lies the difference between a “client” and a “customer”.

New comment by jwx48 in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"

jwx48 — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:32:06 +0000

This is the best example of documentation I’ve seen posted here in a very long time.

New comment by jwx48 in "Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck"

jwx48 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:51:36 +0000

I think of this every single time I see or read about a cybertruck.

New comment by jwx48 in "The year I didn't survive"

jwx48 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:02:11 +0000

Good one. I’m going to add that to my list of metaphors and analogies. Some people just don’t understand the experience, and this seems helpful.

New comment by jwx48 in "Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results"

jwx48 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:20:25 +0000

Because corporate blogs are predominantly nothing but marketing fluff that dominates search results so thoroughly that they drown out any actual useful information.

New comment by jwx48 in "New theory suggests time is an illusion created by quantum entanglement"

jwx48 — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:15:23 +0000

> Now imagine for a second, that the whole universe was a big cycle, and that you are going to be repeating this very same life in a “future” cycle, and maybe infinitely many times

I've heard this called 'Eternal recurrence of the same' in a past life (pun not intended). It fascinates and terrifies me at the same time.

New comment by jwx48 in "Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution"

jwx48 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:36:53 +0000

Litter box cleaner: A kinect, a digital weight scale, a couple of cameras, a robot arm, a litter box, an internet connection and I would pay 25c for people using Amazon's Mechanical Turk to manipulate the robot arm and clean the litter box for me. And people would wait in line to take the job.

This blows my mind, and I love it. What sort of limits did you put on the Mechanical Turk service to keep people from farming the... you know... turds.

New comment by jwx48 in "Why Aren't More People Buying Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids?"

jwx48 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 16:14:52 +0000

I need hearing aids. I even want hearing aids. After finally getting to see an audiologist I looked at the $5000US price offered by the in-house shop and could not stomach it (in part because they were not covered by my insurance). This was back in February of this year, so OTC hearing aids were officially a thing, and I'd hoped against hope that the prices would reflect that. After surveying the OTC hearing aid landscape for the past 10/11 months I may just go ahead and get them, because I've not found any good sources of information on them. Just lots and lots of marketing copy.

New comment by jwx48 in "Why we’re dropping Basecamp"

jwx48 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:47:37 +0000

Could you expand on this? I'm genuinely curious because I'm a former academic librarian, emphasis on 'former'.