Hacker News: philjackson

New comment by philjackson in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

philjackson — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:37:43 +0000

I don't know how they're still in business after that. They also had a massive data breach at one point.

New comment by philjackson in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

philjackson — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:24:37 +0000

> it takes time to spin up a hard drive factory

Very good.

New comment by philjackson in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

philjackson — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:55:13 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to post these.

New comment by philjackson in "x86 prefixes and escape opcodes flowchart"

philjackson — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:54:28 +0000

If anything, it's going to at least double its traffic this way when people click again assuming they hit back somehow.

New comment by philjackson in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

philjackson — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:18:00 +0000

They need to build a great product as well as somehow fund the project. Seem like those credentials match the requirements.

New comment by philjackson in "Replacement.ai"

philjackson — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 15:18:48 +0000

> This is what government is for

They're busy selling watches whilst people can still afford them thanks to having jobs.

New comment by philjackson in "US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees"

philjackson — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:34:34 +0000

Trump really has enabled grifting en mass. Any semblance of corporate responsibility out of the window.

New comment by philjackson in "This map is not upside down"

philjackson — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:03:28 +0000

Australia finally the right way up.

New comment by philjackson in "Reshaped is now open source"

philjackson — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:29:44 +0000

This looks like a really solid library and a lot of code for free. Many thanks to Dmitry / the team.

New comment by philjackson in "Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver"

philjackson — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:20:27 +0000

Great analogy. We've attempted to produce these systems and every time what emerges is software which makes easy things easy and hard things impossible.

New comment by philjackson in "Sequoia backs Zed"

philjackson — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:44:56 +0000

As an aside, I really like the Zed website. Easy to read and pleasant to look at.

New comment by philjackson in "Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text"

philjackson — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:52:58 +0000

Also had a quick play too. The TUI is garbled thanks to some stderr messages which can just be dev/null'd. I don't seem to be able to interact with the transcripts with the arrow or jk keys.

Overall though, it's fast and really impressive. Can't wait for it to progress.

New comment by philjackson in "The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme"

philjackson — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:17:38 +0000

I need to make an urgent call to my accountant.

New comment by philjackson in "Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux"

philjackson — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:06:36 +0000

This is really impressive work.

New comment by philjackson in "Making $1M from my personal projects"

philjackson — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 21:50:38 +0000

Willing to name the service?

New comment by philjackson in "Making $1M from my personal projects"

philjackson — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 21:31:28 +0000

I feel like I'm being mocked for having a widescreen monitor.

New comment by philjackson in "The Future of Comments Is Lies, I Guess"

philjackson — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 13:44:32 +0000

I seem to remember MS having this idea for email many years ago.

New comment by philjackson in "Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager"

philjackson — Sat, 24 May 2025 13:09:18 +0000

Check out YADM which allows you to link files based on criteria such as hostname.

New comment by philjackson in "Show HN: Kando – A cross-platform pie menu for your desktop"

philjackson — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:54:07 +0000

Great docs and website!

New comment by philjackson in "Differential Growth Addon for Blender"

philjackson — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:39:29 +0000

I agree - one of those bits of software you can't believe is free. I've also done some pretty terrible modelling, even my doughnuts suck.