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jonny_eh

11,906 karma · joined January 21, 2011

- Software Engineer

- Retro games and pinball fan

- https://twitter.com/JonathanAbrams

- http://github.com/JonAbrams

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jonny_eh··on Gemini 3
That was actually Character.ai's founding story. Two researchers at Google that were frustrated by a lack of resources and the inability to launch an LLM based chatbot. The founders are now back at Google. OpenAI was founded based on fears that Google would completely own AI in the future.
jonny_eh··on Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use
Large tech companies rarely block internet access, since internet access is critical for employees at tech companies.
jonny_eh··on Steam Controller
The non-handheld will likely be pricier than the handheld, due to the beefier specs. You may as well just buy one now.
jonny_eh··on Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier
So she says
jonny_eh··on Blue Prince (1989)
That’s true of 5.25” floppies. The newer, higher capacity, 3.5” floppies had both sides accessible without physically flipping, so all drives only supported inserting the disks in one orientation.

But the Apple II mainly used 5.25” floppies. So I’m not correcting you, just adding more context.

jonny_eh··on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
Plus, I don't see how it is even relevant if a platform has a first party store when it comes to allowing the user to install software.
jonny_eh··on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
Which would hint at a software issue. When it comes to ANC, both should behave identically
jonny_eh··on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
Seems pretty odd that all the reports are about the left ear.
jonny_eh··on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
In which ear(s)?
jonny_eh··on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
He can still defend his employee, right?
jonny_eh··on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
> Probably not a coincidence that Covert Instruments wasn't named in the lawsuit

What's the non-coincidence?

jonny_eh··on Show HN: JSON Query
Maybe it helped that they called it a "programming language"? It helps make it sound super serious.
jonny_eh··on Show HN: JSON Query
For convenience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jq_(programming_language)
jonny_eh··on Microsoft needs to open up more about its OpenAI dealings
Like Amazon?
jonny_eh··on Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence
> the Justice Department’s allegations against Rinderknecht are supported by evidence found on his phone

Sounds like they got the info from his phone, not taken from any servers, so this is likely not an example of a tech company "complying".

jonny_eh··on Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them
I can't recommend Varlock [1] enough. A great way to manage env vars in a project. It lets you define which ones are necessary or optional, their types, and where they should be fetched from.

[1] https://varlock.dev/

jonny_eh··on Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript
> “Aren’t you surprised that this syntax works?” is not praise for a language design.

It's a clever hack. This is Hacker News. Let's try to appreciate clever hacks while here.

jonny_eh··on Vectrex Mini
Literally impossible?
jonny_eh··on Vectrex Mini
Why disagree with a first hand account without any personal experience yourself?
jonny_eh··on After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64
> no serious forks

What about Final Burn Alpha/Neo? They're extremely popular.

jonny_eh··on California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services
That's the leading theory for why CDs started to get compressed. It happened right after portable and car CD players hit the scene in the early nineties.
jonny_eh··on Investing in America 2025
What is Mountain View if not Google's largest investment of all?
jonny_eh··on California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services
Music albums have been suffering by dynamic range compression as well. They apparently sell better since they sound louder, but information is lost in the process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

jonny_eh··on Investing in America 2025
No investments in California? What are we, dog-meat?
jonny_eh··on Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
Good context for why "Apple" is in the headline
jonny_eh··on Supreme Court lets Fed Governor Cook keep job pending oral argument in January
Well, that's the point of the post at the top of this thread, isn't it?
jonny_eh··on Supreme Court lets Fed Governor Cook keep job pending oral argument in January
What does that have to do with the law?
jonny_eh··on What the F*ck Is Artificial General Intelligence?
Please fix the title in HN to match the actual paper's superior title: "What the F*ck Is Artificial General Intelligence?"
jonny_eh··on What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
Does stroppy mean angry where you're from? Where's that?
jonny_eh··on What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
Any negative perception of JD Vance is due to his recent behavior and statements, not from his awkward youth.
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