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jonwinstanley commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
jonwinstanley · 3 days ago
https://golazito.com/

I built a daily football (soccer) quiz a bit like Wordle but identifying 5 footballers by their career path.

Stating to get a quite a few people playing it each day now.

I suppose if it is ever to make any money it will need ads at some point but for now it is ad-free.

I’ve enjoyed making something simple and shipping it rather than trying to do something more grand.

jonwinstanley commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
multiplegeorges · 7 days ago
There is nothing that social media provides that a private group chat with your closest people doesn't fulfill.

It could be banned with nothing of value lost.

jonwinstanley · 7 days ago
The whole world seems to be hooked on TikTok, reels and shorts for entertainment.

Reversing that would take some doing.

jonwinstanley commented on Is it a bubble?   oaktreecapital.com/insigh... · Posted by u/saigrandhi
sosborn · 8 days ago
A great example is the DotCom bubble. Wiped out a lot of capital but it really did transform the world.
jonwinstanley · 8 days ago
But also, a lot of the dot com companies that people invested in in 1999 went bust, meaning those specific investments went to zero even if the web as a whole was a huge success financially.
jonwinstanley commented on Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership   ahelwer.ca/post/2025-11-2... · Posted by u/tensegrist
listenallyall · 17 days ago
In the short-term, absolutely. Problem is that the points are permanent- so the first person to answer a question, based on the current standards in 2008 or whatever, got hundreds or thousands of points and that answer is still at the top despite multiple revisions and better options introduced later. For example jquery to JS to ES6.

All SO points should slowly degrade, if an answer is still the best 15 years later it will continue to be upvoted but if newer, better solutions come along, the original solution will eventually fall in karma points and the newer, better solution will overtake it.

That's how the site should have been designed, IMO.

jonwinstanley · 17 days ago
Agreed, sounds like that would be better.

I suppose the questions on SO are probably very varied in terms of the traffic they receive, attention they get etc. But there must be some parameters to make it work.

jonwinstanley commented on Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership   ahelwer.ca/post/2025-11-2... · Posted by u/tensegrist
jonwinstanley · 18 days ago
So interesting that this post is about putting incentives in the right place.

I distinctly remember the number one fantastic thing about StackOverflow in the beginning was that their incentives were so much better than all the alternatives.

The way SO gave you points for answering questions and gave you more for being the best answer etc etc meant the answers you got there were so much better than anywhere else. This is why the site grew so rapidly and so quickly became the best place to get a great answer.

jonwinstanley commented on So you wanna build a local RAG?   blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog... · Posted by u/pedriquepacheco
JKCalhoun · 19 days ago
I kinda do want to build a local RAG? I want some significant subset of Wikipedia (I assume most people know about these) on a dedicated machine with a RAG front-end. I would have then an offline Wikipedia "librarian" I could query.

But I'm lazy and assumed that someone has already built such a thing. I'm just not aware of this "Wikipedia-RAG-in-a-box".

jonwinstanley · 19 days ago
Standard Ollama probably covers a lot of this
jonwinstanley commented on Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds   bbc.com/news/articles/c23... · Posted by u/1659447091
jonwinstanley · 21 days ago
Sure, but it melts off your face
jonwinstanley commented on Cheaper MacBook powered by iPhone chip coming in 2026, per new report   9to5mac.com/2025/11/04/ch... · Posted by u/spurgu
uxp100 · a month ago
One thing that is different is that carriers regularly subsidize phones. I paid 0 for my current phone, an iPhone 13 mini (when it was relatively new), partner paid nothing for theirs, latest pixel.

Now, lower cost carriers do less of this, and you need to get the high end plan, so it’s not good advice for everyone to get the free phone deal. It is one way a laptop is different. A decent chunk of people aren’t directly paying for their phone.

jonwinstanley · a month ago
When you say you paid 0, presumably your just paid for it via a monthly contract over several years?
jonwinstanley commented on Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation   github.com/character-ai/O... · Posted by u/montyanderson
roarcher · 2 months ago
Never. I've seen people instantly go from liking a static image to disliking it upon learning it was AI generated. The same applies to other kinds of media. No matter how "good" it is, knowing that it was created by an unfeeling algorithm ruins it for most people.
jonwinstanley · 2 months ago
This is defo true until the moment it gets so good people can't tell.
jonwinstanley commented on Samsung's Galaxy XR Mixed Reality Headset Now Available for $1,800   macrumors.com/2025/10/21/... · Posted by u/mgh2
jonwinstanley · 2 months ago
That design is absolutely shameless

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