Hacker News: tomjacobs

New comment by tomjacobs in "Filing the Corners Off MacBooks"

tomjacobs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:43:52 +0000

yay

New comment by tomjacobs in "Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project)"

tomjacobs — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:47:41 +0000

wow, just wow

i did something similar when i was 18. got to the point of filesystem and mouse driver.

Show HN: Building a Humanoid

tomjacobs — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 04:14:28 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@TomPJacobs/building-a-humanoid-ff7e36bcd9d4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41397671

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Watch YouTube videos with other people

tomjacobs — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:57:10 +0000

I'm building a site for people to watch youtube videos together and chat. Let me know what you think.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36673512

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomjacobs in "Show HN: Walk and Talk"

tomjacobs — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:08:30 +0000

I saw some people

Show HN: Walk and Talk

tomjacobs — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 02:50:07 +0000

I'm building a site to talk to people. What you think?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36252489

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by tomjacobs in "Show HN: Chat to People in a Room"

tomjacobs — Sun, 28 May 2023 22:07:15 +0000

thanks! yeah gotta make it better on mobile, such small screens!

Show HN: Chat to People in a Room

tomjacobs — Sun, 28 May 2023 21:35:41 +0000

I'm building a site where you can talk to other people and walk around to different rooms. Try it out and let me know what you think.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36108021

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by tomjacobs in "Show HN: I made a simple starter web app in Node.js"

tomjacobs — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 18:06:06 +0000

Not sure how to add links: https://github.com/tjacobs/Basic-Web-App-Template

Show HN: I made a simple starter web app in Node.js

tomjacobs — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 18:02:37 +0000

I have this problem every year or so; I want to create a web app that has the basics: a database, user sign in, runs on AWS, a templating engine, and has a small learning curve so that I don't have to learn five new skills and frameworks at the same time just to get started. But there's always a new javascript framework system to learn, always new little gotchas to get me, and always promising new concepts to wrap my head around...

So I put together a very simple web app, with technologies that I understand: Javascript, jQuery, Node.js (basic knowledge), SQLite, and just one new thing to me: Passport, so that I don't have to write my own cookies etc for saving user login sessions in the browser.

Code is here for download:

https://github.com/tjacobs/Basic-Web-App-Template

https://medium.com/@TomPJacobs/basic-web-app-template-30682de9a834

Even if it doesn't help you, I hope that next year when I have a new idea, this will save me many days of getting distracted going down shiny new software technology rabbit holes...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33765000

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Basic Web App Template

tomjacobs — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 21:58:02 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@TomPJacobs/basic-web-app-template-30682de9a834

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33685854

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomjacobs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)"

tomjacobs — Tue, 03 May 2022 00:41:52 +0000

Ghost Robotics | Android developer, and other robotics positions available | Full-time | REMOTE/ONSITE, VISA | Philadelphia, PA

Ghost Robotics builds autonomous legged robots.

You may have seen our videos: https://www.ghostrobotics.io https://twitter.com/Ghost_Robotics

Our customers include more than 25+ US and allied government agencies, defense and industrial enterprises.

Location: Philadelphia, PA (remote considered, must be able to come into office one day per week on average)

Compensation: Competitive base, full benefits, and highly motivating equity incentive package.

Responsibilities:

    - Develop new features, maintain, and upgrade the Ghost Robotics controller Android java app.
    - Work on bug fixing, regression testing, and improving app performance. 
    - Gather customer feedback, document and communicate customer functional requirements. 
    - Work with colleagues to design and implement user interface support for new robot behaviors. 
    - Work with UI/UX designers to iterate on app designs, with user feedback, and implement designs.

Experience:

    - Four years minimum developing Java Android applications.
    - Bachelor’s in software, computer engineering, or similar discipline.
    - Experience developing a mobile app from early concept into production. 
    - Experience working with remote data via UDP, HTTP, REST APIs, and JSON.

Email your resume to: tom.jacobs@ghostrobotics.io

New comment by tomjacobs in "Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch"

tomjacobs — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 01:09:39 +0000

Absolutely amazing. That's a lot of work.

New comment by tomjacobs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)"

tomjacobs — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 02:34:41 +0000

cool

New comment by tomjacobs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)"

tomjacobs — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 02:26:28 +0000

cool!

Show HN: Teleport: A Telepresence Robot

tomjacobs — Sat, 22 May 2021 19:45:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tindie.com/products/teleport/teleport-telepresence-and-music-player-robot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27249701

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Looking for help on JavaScript audio stream Opus encoding decoding

tomjacobs — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:03:34 +0000

I'm building a telepresence robot, which streams audio. It works streaming raw PCM audio, but encoding it with libopus and decoding it in browser JS libopus results in buzzing and chipmunk voices. Anyone had any experience with libopus in JS?

Demo: http://teleportconnect.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25918241

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Remote Control Teleport Robot

tomjacobs — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:39:50 +0000

Article URL: http://teleportconnect.com/teleport.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25689258

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by tomjacobs in "Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D"

tomjacobs — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 02:37:06 +0000

Great! Nothing like a pandemic to push tech forward.

This would work well with a physical controllable positionable telepresence device as well:

http://teleportconnect.com

Move around in a shared real space together.

Wanted: Someone who knows about Web Audio API

tomjacobs — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:07:28 +0000

To help me fix the audio stuttering issue in: http://teleportconnect.com/teleport.html