johanyc's comments

On: Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

[johanyc]

I would like to see dashcam video

On: Prism

[johanyc]

I did not make the association at all

On: U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office

[johanyc]

> brain drain

Where are they draining to?

On: Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

[johanyc]

It's pretty common practice if naming them will get the people who shared the info in trouble. Depends on whether you think Time is a trustworthy source I guess

[vogre → johanyc]

Time always was a propaganda leaflet.

Remember "bomb serbs to heel" or "sinister world of saddam"

On: eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update

[johanyc]

Stop the ai witch hunt madness

On: 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos

[johanyc]

Why is he losing support in Canada

On: jQuery 4

[johanyc]

is there any reason to use jquery if you've never used it before

[modarts → johanyc]

Don’t let all of the old heads glazing jquery in this thread confuse you - they’re just nostalgic. There’s no reason to even think of using jquery in 2026

[thunderfork → johanyc]

Generally speaking, no, since a lot of what it does is now available natively, the odds that you'll need something from it are much lower.

There's probably some corner-case stuff it still makes easier if you're not using some framework, but I don't think there's a reason to go out of your way to use it just for the sake of using it.

[hu3 → johanyc]

if you need to sprinkle interactivity, jQuery is much more approachable than spa libraries like react.

maybe use Vue or something like mithril which doesn't require build. But jQuery is short and easy to grasp.

On: Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice

[johanyc]

Yeah hackernews users kept thinking the average consumers like to tinker like we do lol

On: Our approach to advertising

[johanyc]

> Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscriptions will not include ads

On: A4 Paper Stories

[johanyc]

That would make the folded phone too wide though. More like a mini tablet.