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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 OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
It's both hard AND expensive.
jonny_eh··on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
I wasn’t referring to Windsurf. But if there was no cash involved here, then ya, the employees were screwed. Do we know that’s the case though?
jonny_eh··on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
The “leftover” employees at Character were NOT screwed over. Options were converted to cash at the deal’s valuation.

Hopefully Windsurf employees are treated well here.

Note: I worked at Character until recently.

jonny_eh··on Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase
Firebase, Supabase, Pocketbase
jonny_eh··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
I was agreeing!
jonny_eh··on The $25k car is going extinct?
Except that inflation isn't just the price of cars. The fact that car prices have gone up faster than "overall" inflation is significant.
jonny_eh··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
One of their costliest, most visible, failed experiments ever.
jonny_eh··on Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
An ever-shifting UI sounds unlearnable, and therefore unusable.
jonny_eh··on Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway
Right, YOU need to enable it. I assumed it was always up to the rider, since they're the beneficiary of it.
jonny_eh··on AI will shrink Amazon's workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says
This is Hacker News sir
jonny_eh··on Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway
You need to enable it on your account.
jonny_eh··on Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway
Uber lets you enable a PIN for each ride. The driver can't say they picked you up until they punch in the random 4 digit PIN the app gave you for the ride.
jonny_eh··on I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
> But because I wasn't there during the critical 49 days when the decision was made to kill WebOS, somehow the failure became my responsibility.

Wow, so whiney. He's an executive, a leader. A captain doesn't complain if the crew is mad at him, for any reason.

jonny_eh··on Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
But Mozilla isn't showing the supposedly problematic flow. Where, exactly, are things going wrong? Show an example?
jonny_eh··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
> About as realistic as telling people how to use semiconductors or petrochemicals for good instead of bad.

Sounds better than nothing.

jonny_eh··on Mary Meeker's first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI
Right, needs more context. How many more people have internet access now?
jonny_eh··on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
My local one removed all its seats and is now take out only.
jonny_eh··on US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal
> To the point that the president is pretty much useless.

That's only if he does illegal stuff, which he's doing like there's no tomorrow.

jonny_eh··on xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
It has been injected with politically motivated bias: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk...
jonny_eh··on Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House
> React Server Components run on the server, and unlike client-side components, they don’t return raw HTML you can easily inspect in Dev Tools

Isn't it the opposite? RSC returns raw HTML. Did you mean that it obscures the API fetches it makes?

jonny_eh··on Square Theory
We call it Awful Waffle, based on a Board Game called Brain Strain. They had "Awful Waffle" as an example.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8785/brain-strain

I made a proof-of-concept daily game: https://awfulwaffle.jonabrams.com/

jonny_eh··on Claude 4
Better information hierarchy.
jonny_eh··on Claude 4
Who's reading these docs?
jonny_eh··on Claude 4
> although it's possible Claude 4 was trained on that discussion lol

This is why we can't have consistent benchmarks

jonny_eh··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
What's an ESTA form? I've never encountered one as a Canadian.
jonny_eh··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Can you be block-listed if you withdraw your application to enter?
jonny_eh··on Dia – An Early Review
How about https://ladybird.org/?
jonny_eh··on I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
But what additional data are you worried about them having?
jonny_eh··on I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
There should to be some kind of government operated identity confirmation service that is secure/private.

Or by someone "government-like" such as Apple or Google.

jonny_eh··on I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)
Some of us have a lot to do!
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