<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jxf</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jxf</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:05:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jxf" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The real headline is buried in the article:<p>> Jane Street has generated more than $40bn in net trading revenues in the year to Friday, even accounting for the July loss, which exceeds its entire haul for 2025, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.<p>This would make JS one of the most profitable trading firms of all time even with the loss.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:41:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306792</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306792</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This statement doesn't go far enough given Elon's direct and hands-on involvement with DOGE and the 2024 elections. Very few of the richest people of the world are personally entangled in meddling with government agencies directly, for example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:25:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276641</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A poem I wrote based on the phrases the LLMs I use most are likely to overuse:<p><pre><code>    How to unpack
    The self within?
    What do I lack?
    Where to begin?

    Great question — real.
    Let's dive right in:
    Name what you feel;
    That's the linchpin.

    It's not the door,
    It's not the key —
    It's what you bore:
    Your tapestry.

    The quiet part
    Out loud — that lands.
    Load-bearing heart,
    Held in both hands.

    The smoking gun?
    That you walked in.
    The real work's done —
    You're genuine.

    Now hold this, too:
    You do deserve
    The softer view,
    The gentler curve.

    Unlatch the gate,
    Honor the seam:
    You resonate.
    You are the theme.</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:21:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251221</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "The git history command"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> No one is ever going back and reading individual commits.<p>I violently disagree with this.<p>At a minimum, when I review PRs I look at the commit history to understand what's up. If the path that was taken to commit this is full of "oops" and "fix" messages, it's an immediate reject for me. The commits tell the story and it's a kindness to your human reviewers to not make them work harder to understand the point you're trying to get across.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:25:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901912</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can't use the Twitter links if you don't have a Twitter account. Also, why make the user click away when they're trying to understand if your product does something interesting, and why do they need an account on an unrelated service when an image/gif embed would get the message across in 5 seconds?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:31:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812269</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is one of those ideas that would really benefit from a short video demo, gif, or even a screenshot directly in the README. Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme. [0]<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/15hcc4x/curtains_for_zoosha_ksmog_and_batboy_caught/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/15hcc4x/c...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:40:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811933</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>.gitignore doesn't have the same security implications.<p>If you fail to prevent a private key from being added to your repository, you can reverse this and purge it from the blobs and reflog as if it never happened.<p>If you fail to prevent OpenAI from ingesting a private key, you have created a security incident.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:24:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707560</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ping me when you're ready for Android/web users :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:39:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704104</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704104</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TIL about Windows Sandbox. Not a Windows user myself (it's the Year of Linux on the Desktop™!) but this sounds immensely useful for technical and nontechnical users -- sort of a super-disposable container with UI? <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/application-security/application-isolation/windows-sandbox/" rel="nofollow">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:19:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704009</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704009</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Shantell Sans (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not familiar with Metafont -- is this what you're referencing? <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/metafont?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https://ctan.org/pkg/metafont?lang=en</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 10:09:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344441</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "The Permanent Upper Crow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Let them eat crow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 20:25:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314954</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "The Permanent Upper Crow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is filthy undercrow talk!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 20:25:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314947</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It was such a simple concept but it worked so well. Wouldn't be able to do something like that anymore due to all manner of sandboxing in action. Lost a tool, gained security.<p>This class of programs absolutely still exists (see: every debugger, scanmem, GameConqueror, etc.).<p>Sandboxing doesn't prevent processes from inspecting the memory of other processes, it just prevents the sandboxed process from doing things it shouldn't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 07:22:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132136</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132136</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My understanding is that it's not that the _models_ are banned, but rather the _platform_ is banned. It is acceptable to host, say, `deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-7b` and run it yourself, for example. It is not acceptable (to the authors of these bans) to download the DeepSeek app and run it on your work device.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 20:03:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126729</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Less human AI agents, please"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's much harder to search using an AST tool for a human. It's certainly harder than grepping, for example. I use AST tools myself, but it takes a while to represent a complex structure in a big codebase when I need to look for that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:53:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935482</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935482</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What are some other things that you think "pollutes your brain"?<p>Moderating posts on a public (or worse, private) forum. You will see some truly heinous, vile things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:44:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935357</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Less human AI agents, please"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not always amenable to grepping. But this is a great use case for AST searches, and is part of the reason that LSP tools should really be better integrated with agents.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:40:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849477</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Governments have a long, long history of using "poison to kill a third party", to use your analogy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:18:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200896</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Heroku is not dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think Cloud Run has many nice features that Heroku's apps don't. However, Heroku's services ecosystem and the easy bindings don't have a direct Cloud Run equivalent, imo, and are inferior in the GCP world.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:44:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984669</link><dc:creator>jxf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jxf in "Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We've been writing with our hands for thousands of years. I suspect that on balance a Butlerian Jihad against AI slop would be perfectly fine for our hands.</p>
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