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jonplacketton AI is a horse (2024)

All true apart you can only lead it to water - it drinks ALL the water regardless of anything else.

jonplacketton Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

Are search engines like Kagi completely screwed by this or is there a way for them to keep operating?

Out of these the text selection and the Apple Pay card button bring me the most daily pain.

Even writing this short sentence I’ve accidentally deleted words when I just wanted to move the cursor and it decides, no, you must want to select that whole word

jonplacketton Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned

Yeah the little hardware I had actually tried to make was so painful compared to software dev. Interested to read the part about asking users to make their own spotify dev account. How’s that going so far? Seems like it could be a big roadblock for non techy users?

jonplacketton Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned

This is a great idea. I’ve been thinking about making something like this for a while due to all the problems you describe.

I was planning to make something that used rfid cards to play specific songs / albums so it worked more like yoto. But that would just make it even more niche!

Good luck you you!

jonplacketton How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery

*source, maker of Claude.

jonplacketton Iran report says 16,500 dead in 'genocide under digital darkness'

Don’t give them ideas…

jonplacketton Consent-O-Matic

It’s completely ridiculous there isn’t just a way to set ‘no thanks’ in the browser

jonplacketton Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?

I have worsening cataracts that I don’t want to get operated on yet, and dark mode is amazing. It’s so annoying when reader mode isn’t available now.

jonplacketton Our approach to advertising

Google also famously intent Isla made their search engine _worse_ so you have to look through more results, and then see more ads.

The enshitificstion begins.

The only saving grace is the promise to have an ad-free tier.

If something is valuable to you, paying for it to not have ads is very reasonable.

jonplacketton Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts

Hardly anyone seems to be talking about this though. “Won’t somebody think of the children” is still far too effective.

jonplacketton Ask HN: Share your personal website

Thanks so much! It’s a bit of a throwback to a more fun time of internet-ness

jonplacketton Ask HN: Share your personal website

I still miss flash!

jonplacketton Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts

Does it worry anyone else that this is all actually a government attack on anonymity?

I have 2 kids and I agree under 16s shouldn’t be on social media.

But everyone then has to prove they’re 16+

Is this just stealth digital ID cards?

Or am I conspiracy theorist?

jonplacketton Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://plackett.co.uk

I made this about 5 years ago with just html and a-frame. The cms is an inline json file. It has aged really well!

jonplacketton The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

And those screens were TINY so how can it now be worse?

I think one of the big issues is the autocorrect seems to make as many correctly typed words into random bullshit words as it does typos into correct words. So you feel like you’re walking on ice, just constantly monitoring what you last typed to make sure it didn’t make it into nonsense.

jonplacketton The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

I’ve noticed a gradual increase in my annoyance with technology over the last couple of years. A lot of things now just feel irritating and not-quite-right.

Eg on my iPhone filling in a password sometime is kinda blanks the screen while I’m trying to fill the password in.

My keyboard is absolutely terrible.

Lots of other little annoyances I can’t remember right now.

This window thing is another good example of just not enough thought being put into things.

jonplacketton Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

So wait did they just catch a 200 year old shark and cut its eye ball out to have a look?

jonplacketton US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

Lots of rich people here I guess.

jonplacketton US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

Just ban corporate ownership of private homes. Ban second homes altogether.

jonplacketton Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration

Sloppy coding to know a link could be a problem and render it anyway. But even worse to ignore the person who tells you you did that.

jonplacketton Eat Real Food

Diet advice is always way too complex.

For most people ‘stop drinking sugary drinks ever’ would probably make the biggest life change.

And ‘the athletes plate’ would be the runner up bit of advice if you want something simple - half th plate veggies, 1/4 complex carbs, 1/4 unprocessed meat.

If you want to do it with complexity, count your macros.

jonplacketton Eat Real Food

The thing is though you’ll be eating (I presume) mostly lean meat. Chicken breast, white fish etc.

When you compare the macros of that to sausages or ribs or even steak it’s quite drastically different.

Also I’d guess you aren’t covering your meat in thick sugary sauce every time…

jonplacketton Vietnam bans unskippable ads

300ms is a lot less latency than an ad

jonplacketton Vietnam bans unskippable ads

Nice linguistic explanation of social media just been coined as ‘ultra processed language’

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQh50UKkt10/?igsh=MWx6ZW41ZHV...

jonplacketton Vietnam bans unskippable ads

The funny thing is that any company that has their ad displayed to me like this makes me just hate them.

jonplacketton Vietnam bans unskippable ads

VPN use via Vietnam is about to go global.

jonplacketton There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout

This isn’t how nukes would get used. They wouldn’t just fire them at cities to start with. It would most likely be something tactical, but perhaps end up escalating to insanity anyway

jonplacketton Gemini 3.0 Deciphered the Mystery of a Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf's

True. Sometimes weird links with very few upvotes magically end up in the top 10. But the comments usually bring them back to earth!

The most real benefit of HN vs Reddit is commenters who are actually knowledgeable in that field, who leave a comment or vote up an actually useful comment.

jonplacketton Gemini 3.0 Deciphered the Mystery of a Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf's

I feel sorry for people having to read the internet without the HN comments