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jjordan··on Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books recommended on HN
Funny, I bookmark interesting things all the time on here. I had this bookmarked. I've never revisited it.
jjordan··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
> And just to prove that I'm an irrational human, for the last 21 years every time I pass the spot where I found the wallet I can't help but look around for a lost wallet, as if it's some magical spot where the universe deposits lost wallets.

My dog does the same thing. One day years ago he caught a rat, and that's the first place he darts to every time he goes outside. He thinks its the magic rat spot.

jjordan··on Tesla Roadster
I wish all the Elon haters put as much effort into making their comments as humorous as yours. Well done.
jjordan··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
self-hosted open source alternative Headscale/Headplane. Uses the Tailscale client without their SaaS being involved.
jjordan··on Claude partial outage
Given the amount of usage I'm now getting from Opus 5.5, I'm surprised it took this long since release for their first outage. In my experience, it's about 10x the usage of Fable 5.1 with similar, perhaps greater levels of intelligence.
jjordan··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
We need an open phone platform badly.
jjordan··on Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
Don't worry, it's on the roadmap for Q4 2029.
jjordan··on I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture
When you use a drill to put a hole in the wall, do you take credit for it, or do you credit the drill? Without intent, a tool, whether it be a drill or an LLM, is just an inert object.
jjordan··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
It would be great if I could integrate this into our existing (and rather extensive) eslint config as as a plugin of some sort rather than integrate yet another new tool to our dev environment. Any plans for that?
jjordan··on Shopify moves back to Native from React Native
FYI I've been building an app, Android first, and discovered the magic of Kotlin Multiplatform. The LLM modularized everything so that it's substantively the same code base, but with Swift only where it's needed. Still working through it, but it seems like a great and underrated platform to build on.
jjordan··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
Why should they skyrocket? As more autonomous vehicles appear on the roads, incidents with non-autonomous vehicles will go down. Driving will become inherently safer.
jjordan··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
Yes, I definitely trust insurance companies to do the right thing here.
jjordan··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
There should be laws put in place to ensure drivers will always be able to drive their cars, if they choose, and also prevent insurance companies from skyrocketing your rates for doing so. This is IMO past due.
jjordan··on O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11
Closed source doesn't mean not trustworthy. O&O has been making tools like these for a long time.
jjordan··on K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
Hear me out.

Decentralized unstoppable storage, combined with decentralized unstoppable training, sorta like SETI for AI training. The seed of this tech already exists with IPFS and others like it.

We know (some? all?) of the big labs have skirted copyright laws at one point or another. Truly open models would just build on what is publicly available.

jjordan··on K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
Fully open models really need to be a big part of the AI future. That includes all source code, open training data, how it's organized, fed to the model, processed, etc. Until that becomes a thing you're always going to be left wondering what exactly lies underneath the closed model you are using, leaving open the possibility for societal manipulation.
jjordan··on Grok outage
People who like near frontier AI at a lower cost than most.
jjordan··on Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
What ever happened to IPFS? Wasn't it built for just this kind of thing? I remember trying it years ago and it was absolutely unusable, but was kinda hoping it had made a turnaround by now.
jjordan··on Music Theory for Programmers
Fantastic content. Went looking for this on HN after seeing it on lobsters, since I don't have an account there yet. It's truly sad that some of these gems never get front page coverage, for whatever reason.

Anyway, this will be useful as I've struggled to get into an instrument myself and often found myself asking "why" to a lot of accepted conventions. Appreciate all the time you put into this.

jjordan··on The August 17 outage
I think it should be noted that the CTO of GitHub doesn't use his own product. No commits since January 2024: https://github.com/v-fedorov-gh

No side projects? Nothing? Just seems odd.

jjordan··on PostgreSQL for Everything
I'm partial to Typesense, especially for smaller data sets, since it runs primarily in memory, is easy to use and is hella fast. For bigger data sets, I hear good things about Meilisearch.
jjordan··on Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
Probably the most refreshing thing I've read in a while. Glad to support them moving forward if this is indeed their modus operandi.
jjordan··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
I'm just about done with https://RSSVault.org, a curated RSS feed directory.

Password is vaultearly644988 if you want to check it out.

The companion app, a widget-first RSS headline viewer called Just The Headlines is just about done too. Site is online if you want to see screenshots: https://justtheheadlines.app

I'm in the (required, sigh) closed test phase of Google Play Store approval. Drop me a line on X (https://x.com/JJordan) if you would like to join the test for that.

Feedback is more than welcome.

jjordan··on Claude Fable now requires usage credits
It might be a quiet A-B test they're running, but there are several reports now of Claude Code reporting that Fable usage is no longer subscription based and requires using usage credits.
jjordan··on A directory of people who love RSS
Thanks Dave! Actually I was meaning to reach out, as parsing your site's RSS brought broader support for the format to the entire site. Those title-less blog posts were something else :D I didn't know much about the history of RSS going into this, so I might be your newest fan. Thanks for all of your contributions to the free and open web.
jjordan··on A directory of people who love RSS
If you think that's esoteric, there's also a JSON feed standard. I have found one thus far while building out an RSS directory of over 1,000 entries.
jjordan··on A directory of people who love RSS
Thank you
jjordan··on A directory of people who love RSS
Yeah I'm focused on including more of the Indie Web. I include BBC, NYT, etc. because people expect it, but the directory already has some real depth worth exploring. And each feed details page has a cadence rating to tell you how often they post. So grouping a firehose with a specialty blog that posts 6 times a year probably isn't a good idea, but an OPML full of blogs that post ~monthly would be a delight, IMO.
jjordan··on A directory of people who love RSS
Yes, with several months of iteration. I've wanted to build this for years but to get it to the point where it's a quality destination is an effort beyond the time I would have been able to contribute.
jjordan··on A directory of people who love RSS
Hey thanks for taking the time.

"White or almost white text would be better." -- There is some white text, headers and headlines mostly. Did you find the lack of contrast difficult to deal with?

"Make “Add” button visible on homepage." -- you mean like in the search results? That's a fine idea.

"Make a possibility to batch suggest feeds" -- I've been toying with how to handle OPML imports. Definitely a feature to come on the app, but I fear with mass submission on the vault I would be inundated with feeds, and the curation aspect would suffer. I want quality over quantity. But maybe there's a happy middle ground somewhere.

"Move explanatory part of RSS to some other part" -- yeah I guess this might be helpful to someone who doesn't know what RSS is, but then they probably aren't visiting anyway lol I'll give it some thought.

Appreciate it. Thanks again.

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