Hacker News: kjfarm

New comment by kjfarm in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

kjfarm — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:57:58 +0000

I think the responses are very diverse throughout the region. Got example, in Karachi protestors gathered outside a consulate https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-protesters-attacked-us-c...

But inside Tehran (and in my neighborhood of D.C.) there have been celebrations https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/world/middleeast/iran-kha...

New comment by kjfarm in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

kjfarm — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:44:37 +0000

I think this is a good point, there is evidence (even with strict censorship controls in place) that people inside the country are celebrating https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/world/middleeast/iran-kha...

New comment by kjfarm in "Signal is experiencing technical difficulties"

kjfarm — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:23:48 +0000

Seems like the outage started a 4PM UTC https://statusgator.com/services/signal

New comment by kjfarm in "Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads"

kjfarm — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:36:26 +0000

Love that it is in NC! Though, I'm confused who this is for. Is it for genomics data scientists mainly or is it general compute (I would also compare with hetzner and the other clouds if you are going the general compute method). If genomics or data scientists is the main audience, is this going to grow to be more collab notebook plug and play? Very cool and wish you the best!

New comment by kjfarm in "What Is Going on with the Switch 2 Version of Star Wars Outlaws?"

kjfarm — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:27:58 +0000

At the end of the article: > Update 9/1/2025 11:11 a.m. ET: 40-minutes of footage of Star Wars Outlaws running on Switch 2 in docked mode has seemingly leaked ahead of launch. What’s shown looks decent enough compared to what was described of the PAX West demo running in handheld mode

I appreciate it when publications include corrections at the end of their articles. Even though I don't own a Switch, I enjoyed the piece, and I believe the main point about running AAA games on hardware below the recommended specifications still holds true.

New comment by kjfarm in "Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?"

kjfarm — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:36:34 +0000

This may be because LanceDB is the most attractive with a price point of standard S3 storage ($0.023/GB vs $0.06/GB). I also like that Lancedb works with S3 compatible stores, such as Backblaze B2 which is even cheaper (~70% cheaper).

New comment by kjfarm in "SQL needed structure"

kjfarm — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:25:16 +0000

This response comes across as unnecessarily toxic and quip-y, which is a shame because there's real substance here. The author clearly understands database design, referencing concepts like normal forms and Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF). Even if I don't agree with the conclusion, I have to respect anyone who takes the time to lay out their argument. Challenging ideas are what help our community grow.

New comment by kjfarm in "German Navy blasts out Darth Vader theme on Thames"

kjfarm — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:26:35 +0000

That is not what the BBC link says (text copied below. including their weird British spelling of "recognisable"). It's seems much more light hearted and funny than what you are portraying.

> German Navy blasts out Darth Vader theme on Thames Londoners spotted this ship on the Thames near Tower Bridge, playing the iconic Imperial March theme from the Star Wars trilogies, otherwise recognisable as the Darth Vader music. But it wasn’t coming from a galaxy far, far away - it was a German Navy ship, in London for training and a supply stop. A spokesperson from the German Navy told the BBC the music had "no deeper message" and "the commander can choose the music freely".

New comment by kjfarm in "AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers"

kjfarm — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:52:52 +0000

Are they shutting down CodeCatalyst as well? Or are they just forcing new customers over to CodeCatalyst? It’s weird (for Amazon) they recommend Github and Gitlab over an AWS alternative if they are shifting people over to CodeCatalyst

New comment by kjfarm in "Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes"

kjfarm — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 21:21:47 +0000

I've been playing with https://huggingface.co/microsoft/trocr-base-handwritten which has been pretty good so far. I want to take it and fine-tune on my own handwriting. For equations, I either use mathpix or just type them manually.

New comment by kjfarm in "Museum of Obsolete Objects"

kjfarm — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 22:19:41 +0000

One question, how do I join? which exhibit will I be after?

New comment by kjfarm in "Show HN: Shuttle – Build and ship backends without writing infrastructure files"

kjfarm — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 12:29:29 +0000

My brain read this as “Build Back, Ends Fast.”

I thought trends were changing so quickly I now miss them before I even know about them. Glad I still have a few years left of semi-keeping pace

New comment by kjfarm in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

kjfarm — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:51:28 +0000

https://kenanfarmer.dev

New comment by kjfarm in "Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions"

kjfarm — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:49:48 +0000

I completely agree with legislation via judicial branch being a bad idea. However, affirmative action isn't legislation. This is judicial review striking down policy (executive branch interpretation and implementation of legislation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action https://www.history.com/topics/us-government-and-politics/af...

New comment by kjfarm in "How Software Companies Die (1995)"

kjfarm — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 02:33:26 +0000

Some of his later work may sound similar, but the original cited source is "Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, March 1995" as evidenced by https://homepages.uc.edu/~thomam/Articles/HowSoftwareCompani...

New comment by kjfarm in "Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev"

kjfarm — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:16:05 +0000

A good note for bitwarden is that it has a self hosting open source version, vaultwarden that is easy to switch to: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden I see this as downside protection, as I can quickly migrate if I disagree with bitwarden's direction with minimal changes to my clients.

I do worry about VC pressure on Bitwarden for hypergrowth. However in my personal opinion, the benefits outweigh the cons (for now).

New comment by kjfarm in "Draft policy proposal would authorize SF Police to use deadly force with robots"

kjfarm — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:43:49 +0000

Threads like this bring out the most hate on HN. I wish I could automatically filter this crap out

New comment by kjfarm in "US debt: Federal interest payments could soon exceed military spending"

kjfarm — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:03:42 +0000

a nice graphic of current US govt spending. https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function

New comment by kjfarm in "OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM"

kjfarm — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 16:57:12 +0000

can you share more information about getting iMessage to work? I thought you needed a hardware id or serial number to make it work

New comment by kjfarm in "Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud"

kjfarm — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 02:21:30 +0000

“Amazon Redshit Spectrum” Freudian slip?