Hacker News: neal_jones

New comment by neal_jones in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

neal_jones — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:50:52 +0000

This looks very cool

New comment by neal_jones in "Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader"

neal_jones — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:48:48 +0000

Yea, that’s what I use. My only complaint about the reader is no backlight. Everything else is great.

New comment by neal_jones in "Don't be a meat proxy"

neal_jones — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:57:40 +0000

Not sure why I first heard it, but I think the crux of the issue is that you can outsource intelligence, but you can’t outsource understanding

New comment by neal_jones in "Our position on open-weights models"

neal_jones — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:31:28 +0000

Turns out the whole system is quite fragile when faced with people who have no interest in anyone besides themselves

New comment by neal_jones in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

neal_jones — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:35:35 +0000

Could be mistaken but isn’t that building used for the Severance tv show?

New comment by neal_jones in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

neal_jones — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:29:30 +0000

The thing I can’t stop thinking about is that Ai is accelerating convergence to the mean (I may be misusing that)

The internet does that but it feels different with this

New comment by neal_jones in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

neal_jones — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:25:05 +0000

That is my hope. At the same time, feels like a peak “don’t know what we don’t know” situation

New comment by neal_jones in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

neal_jones — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:13:40 +0000

Inside of me are two wolves. One that’s like “F Apple” and another that is like “Are they going to do an M5 ultra or…?”

New comment by neal_jones in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

neal_jones — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:58:16 +0000

How’s Gemma 4 been?

New comment by neal_jones in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

neal_jones — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:43:13 +0000

I love the Mac trackpad but would love it more if the pencil worked with it

New comment by neal_jones in "The road to electric in charts and data"

neal_jones — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:45:38 +0000

I’d like to think governments would serve the interests of the people but in my experience it’s just been they serve the interests of the corporations.

FYI I’ve only lived in the UK and the USA, both of which are living far below their potential

New comment by neal_jones in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

neal_jones — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:55:30 +0000

Yea, it is incredible to see what could be accomplished with time and technology.

Someone in my immediate family had Glioblastoma, it felt like fighting a hurricane.

New comment by neal_jones in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

neal_jones — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:06:49 +0000

Yea, I’m just consulting with small projects. A year ago Jira felt like the default, last month I learned about Linear.

I’ve just been surprised lately at how often it isn’t the first thing mentioned. I came from a Fortune 500 and Jira was mostly hated there as well. I still think its foothold is so big that it’ll be a long time before anyone goes through the effort to migrate. I’d personally rather live with it than try to replace it.

New comment by neal_jones in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

neal_jones — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:38:45 +0000

I don’t know about established companies pivoting but new operations/projects don’t seem to default to Jira like they did previously. In my very non-scientific sample size, I’ve noticed a shift in the last 3-6 months

New comment by neal_jones in "Personal Computer by Perplexity"

neal_jones — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:28:41 +0000

Yea, but since they link to a page where they describe openclaw as “malware reading your text messages” I’m assuming they like to think of this as something more evolved

New comment by neal_jones in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

neal_jones — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:33:00 +0000

Dude, I blame all bugs on ai at this point. I suspect one could roughly identify AI’s entry into the game based on some metric of large system outages. Assume someone has already done this but…probably doesn’t matter.

New comment by neal_jones in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

neal_jones — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:47:04 +0000

I’ve gone home from work before to take a shower. At least one time I took multiple showers in a work day to think.

I now live somewhere that hot water is expensive and I didn’t realize how good things were before.

New comment by neal_jones in "A Year of 3D Printing"

neal_jones — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:20:52 +0000

Also did a luggage wheel/stump. I modified another model someone had made. It was amateur on about every level and rushed with maybe 18 hours before departure but, to my great satisfaction, it did work.

New comment by neal_jones in "How to make a damn website (2024)"

neal_jones — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:42:57 +0000

Been thinking about this lately. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by neal_jones in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

neal_jones — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:39:26 +0000

Opened a laptop on my last flight and this was my immediate and persistent fear