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Co-Founder @ Blockspring / jason@tokoph.net

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/tokoph; my proof: https://keybase.io/tokoph/sigs/jiIHop4rTWFxy5t6sepNe-Bx7pmxbVgF9sy9--Wr14o ]

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jtokoph··on Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
We shared an office space with Watsi years ago in San Francisco. Chase, Grace and the rest of the team were amazing.

Chase: one thing that’s always stuck with me was when you talked about when you realized that you “can both do good and do well”.

jtokoph··on Google Public CA is down
> A fix to resolve the issue will roll out in about 8 hours

oof

jtokoph··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Put of curiosity, does the firewall block because the company doesn’t want internal data ever hitting a 3rd party LLM?
jtokoph··on KDE Plasma 6.6 Released
The post auto plays videos as you scroll and sets them to full screen on mobile. It also seems to hijack all scrolling and stutters constantly on scroll.
jtokoph··on Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door
Now I want to see one where you let any login work but dump them at a fake shell that logs the commands sent. I’m curious what they do. Could even crowd source a mapping of command string matches to example output.
jtokoph··on CSS-Doodle
I think there is value in making it a declarative model
jtokoph··on Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer
I don’t have access to the article, so I’m basing this response solely on your comment. I wonder if the author thinks all animations on the web are called GIFs. So being part of creating one of the early methods of publishing animations on the web (Shockwave) confused the author.
jtokoph··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
It’s one reason I hoped lobste.rs had taken off. All posts are tagged and you can filter out by tag.
jtokoph··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
I couldn’t figure out what they were doing in the first few screens of scrolling. Moved on.
jtokoph··on IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder
it seemed to me like the park entrance building was just decoration
jtokoph··on Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
This infuriates me. I launch the app to play music and am forced to interact with a pop-up promoting some random new release that is nowhere near the same universe as my music taste.

They recently did the annual “Wrapped” release. It took over the iOS Home Screen widget I use for playing/pausing recent playlists. The widget was unusable until you (1) watched the wrapped video in full on that device (didn’t matter that I had watched it on other devices before) and (2) you had to listen to the playlist they generated of your most played songs.

jtokoph··on Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management
Many companies have discretionary budgets fully in control of the employee. For example, I had $2,500 per year to spend on valid expenses without needing prior approval.
jtokoph··on Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management
I would argue that the price is too low. Any price under $200 is practically free to the employee with so many companies providing learning and development budgets.
jtokoph··on DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship
I would hope that they have access to a tool to look up the passport by number and confirm that the details match the copy and the photo appears to look like the person.
jtokoph··on How I Left YouTube
Re. (1): It can really depend on what they did before and during school. While in school, one could have real internships, real personal projects, open-source contributions, working for the university, contract gigs, etc.

Personal anecdata: I was solo building software projects in highschool that earned income (real product, creating real value, some of which were acquired) and worked on the school district websites. During college I contracted with startups part time while also building projects of my own.

jtokoph··on Unifi Travel Router
I’ve been waiting for one of these with built in eSIM support
jtokoph··on Unifi Travel Router
Usually you connect your laptop/phone to the portable router network, which then just pulls up the captive portal. Once you auth from one device, any device behind the router is authed with the portal. This is because the hotel network just sees your router's IP/MAC.
jtokoph··on You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser
This is great. I also played the heck out of GTA2. I had a lot of fun attempting to mod the textures to get my favorite cars in the game. Respect is everything.
jtokoph··on Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know
This is a really smart idea.

I’m trying to learn to speak Chinese and not read it yet. The issue is most of the language learning apps have a focus on characters. I feel like I just want to see the pinyin. Maybe I don’t know what I need, but I haven’t found the right tool.

jtokoph··on LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
Yes. It’s profile points. You earn one per upvote on your content. Just like here on HN
jtokoph··on Ghostty is now non-profit
Someone just made an anonymous $10,000 donation!
jtokoph··on Anthropic acquires Bun
One option is that the current Bun shareholders didn't see a profitable future and didn't even care if they were made even and a return of the remaining cash was adequate.

Another option is that this was an equity deal where Bun shareholders believe there is still a large multiple worth up potential upside in the current Anthropic valuation.

Plus many other scenarios.

jtokoph··on Seagate achieves 6.9TB storage capacity per platter
I wonder what the lifespan, error rate and speed of these drives are
jtokoph··on KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support
At least XWayland will still be supported. Native Wayland windows don’t support controlling window position or living through transparent windows. This is important for apps that provide overlays.
jtokoph··on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
And no captions
jtokoph··on Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
The prompt injection doesn’t even have to be in 1px font or blending color. The malicious site can just return different content based on the user-agent or other way of detecting the AI agent request.
jtokoph··on Orion 1.0
The article says they are currently working on Linux and Windows builds
jtokoph··on Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key
Previously: A cryptography research body held an election and they can't decrypt the results https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46020596
jtokoph··on Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
And when they do work, my North American two prong plug falls right out half of the time.
jtokoph··on Theft of 'The Weeping Woman' from the National Gallery of Victoria
The painting was recovered undamaged. I’m not sure there was a huge loss
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