Hacker News: notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=notjulianjaynesHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:04:23 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal"]]>https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/29/geoffrey-epstein-is...

]]>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:26:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998565notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998565https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998565<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?"]]>I know nothing about this other than I thought it was a joke at first, but I think it's the same idea https://github.com/RapidataAI/human-use

]]>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:20:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458105notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458105https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458105<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "Show HN: Epstein Files Organized and Searchable"]]>This is great!

I made an attempt at something similar, but putting it online was a bit beyond what I know how to do.

https://github.com/JonGerhardson/Epsteindb

]]>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:25:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934527notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934527https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934527<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "Estimating AI energy use"]]>Not OP but the EPA has a calculator for estimating emissions to energy consumption. https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calc...

]]>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:03:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490944notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490944https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490944<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"]]>>(I wrote an extensive suite of software to track this)

Interesting. . . do you have a page for the project or anything?

]]>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 23:57:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44409189notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44409189https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44409189<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "BYOK – Bring Your Own Keyboard"]]>I once wrote a ~2,000 word draft,on an alpha-smart ($6 at a goodwill) and then couldn't get the transfer to computer function to work correctly, so I had to rewrite the whole thing because I wasn't gonna sit there and manually re-type three lines at a time from the grayscale LCD. The subsequent draft was actually better though, so for this reason I would recommend such a device. It's also a fun novelty thing. Really though, if you keep getting distracted from your writing, maybe consider if it's because you don't actually have anything to say?

]]>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:34:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44362885notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44362885https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44362885<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles"]]>Yeah this one is funny because it's literally the stated mission of several U.S. based Zionist/anti-antisemetic organizations.

]]>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:48:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323561notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323561https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323561<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "How to Make a Living as a Writer"]]>You are probably thinking this means life will be more like that Jack Kerouac line "the mad ones..." I am imagining how what you describe plays out is more like a billion reality TV stars all trying to one up each other.

]]>Sat, 24 May 2025 07:47:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44079533notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44079533https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44079533<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "Verizon tries to get out of merger condition requiring it to unlock phones"]]>This applies to carrier locking, not their practice of preventing bootloader unlocking on devices sold by Verizon, correct?

]]>Thu, 22 May 2025 00:57:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057734notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057734https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057734<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?"]]>There's some annoying parts to using it, but the query tool for the Air Force Civil Engineering Center's CERCLA records database is otherwise good and information dense, IMO. https://ar.cce.af.mil/

]]>Fri, 09 May 2025 09:10:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43935064notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43935064https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43935064<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025"]]>> Essentially 100% of those people are making more via tips or under the table

source please

]]>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 03:22:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840947notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840947https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840947<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025"]]>Most minimum wage workers are not teenagers https://www.epi.org/publication/minimum-wage-workers/

]]>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 03:21:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840936notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840936https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840936<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering"]]>DeWalt also makes a series of batteries that will either provide ~20v (5s3p) or ~60v (15s1p) depending on the tool you plug it into. I've taken one of these apart before and how they implement this is just a mechanical switch between the cell groups, which only gets depressed when inserted into 60v tools. Not sure if thats why they put all the circuitry on the tool side, but I can't think of another good way to implement the same. (You'd need a pretty beefy boost/buck controller for the amps these tools pull )

]]>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:22:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728919notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728919https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728919<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter"]]>https://www.canirunthisllm.net/

]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 05:04:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43468258notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43468258https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43468258<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "China Discloses Powerful Deep-Sea Cable Cutter"]]>https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3303246/chin...

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]]>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:00:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43454145notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43454145https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43454145<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger"]]>If the bar for AGI is "as smart as a human being," and humans do not-very-smart things like invest obscene amounts of money into developing AGI then maybe it's actually not as high of a bar as we assume it is.

]]>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 03:09:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43215328notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43215328https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43215328<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "I Went to SQL Injection Court"]]>Damn, this is impressive. I've been fighting with a state agency since December for 17,000 emails. I don't think I've ever tried to request emails and received zero push-back, but a $33 million estimate just, chef's kiss

]]>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:07:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177409notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177409https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177409<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "WhatsApp, Signal Sign letter against UK privacy bill, say they will not comply (2023)"]]>The Cloud Act is basically just the Stored Communications Act but for foreign countries, isn't it? Since Signal doesn't have (practically) any user data to hand over to begin with, I don't really see why this matters. Am I missing something?

]]>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:01:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140118notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140118https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140118<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL"]]>I sometimes do the strawberry question immediately followed by "How many Rs in "bookkeeper?"

]]>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:47:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030611notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030611https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030611<![CDATA[New comment by notjulianjaynes in "New Bill Aims to Block Pirate Sites in the U.S."]]>Are there currently any laws in the U.S. requiring blocks on specific websites for any reason (csam, terrorist recruitment etc.).

]]>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:42:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876598notjulianjayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876598https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876598