Hacker News: 98codes

New comment by 98codes in "Apple Music 404 Not Found"

98codes — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:08:19 +0000

We do still need it. Any time to need to scroll through any extremely long list in order to find a single particular item, the scroll wheel beats the manual binary search of scrollscrollscroll... too far... scrollscrollscroll back... too far... etc.

I would, unironically, use a device that had that iPod interface as a music device until my dying day. Make it only able to stream from Apple Music, make me load up songs through USB -- I'll do it.

New comment by 98codes in "Claude Duet"

98codes — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:45:31 +0000

We had Slashdot in the late 90s.

New comment by 98codes in "Claude Duet"

98codes — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:44:33 +0000

The big difference is that when the web blew up, there were new players in every direction. Now, we get to hear from the same 3-4 companies over and over and over and over again.

It doesn't remotely hit the same way.

New comment by 98codes in "SimCity, but with Permits"

98codes — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:59:30 +0000

My immediate thought: "Ah, SimSeattleProcess"

New comment by 98codes in "Credit where credit is due"

98codes — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:41:33 +0000

You're telling me this author uses that many em-dashes in their normal writing?

New comment by 98codes in "My Gen-Z Intern Thinks Showing Up to Work Is Optional [video]"

98codes — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:00:03 +0000

I know enough about Shkreli to know that the intern is right.

New comment by 98codes in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

98codes — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:38:10 +0000

They do.

New comment by 98codes in "SynthID Detector"

98codes — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:49:02 +0000

It's worth nothing that this IS Google.

Given that it's an ad company, they want something to connect what you're doing to the rest of their data, and they couldn't possibly keep the old image search results there if they want people to use this.

New comment by 98codes in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

98codes — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:15:23 +0000

Just don't blame the user and/or their internet service when the service you're relying on inevitably goes down.

New comment by 98codes in "Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data"

98codes — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:18:29 +0000

It is definitely worth asking for a copy of those notes, verbatim, as-is from the automatic transcription, to check for errors while the session is fresh in your mind.

If your doctor is worth seeing at all, they will be glad for the corrections.

New comment by 98codes in "Borland Turbo Basic"

98codes — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:03:53 +0000

I graduated quickly from Borland Turbo Basic to Turbo Pascal, and really wish I'd bothered to hold onto all those old floppies. I do still have a Visual Studio / VSCode color settings file that matches the old look -- I used those colors for a good long time, longer than it took me to stop coding in all caps.

New comment by 98codes in "Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Fix One of America's Scariest Roads?"

98codes — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:57:32 +0000

Don't worry, nobody but Colorado is ever going to try to, or even think to, fix this one.

New comment by 98codes in "Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos"

98codes — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:29:09 +0000

> so there must be some market for it out there.

Not anymore, looks like.

New comment by 98codes in "Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com"

98codes — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:26:23 +0000

At home? Not really, no.

At work? I've got ADHD, so the idea of making a to-do list is fine but keeping it up to date was a challenge. I've created a set of agentic skills that comes through the last 36 hours of emails, meetings, chats, and gathers up all the work I volunteered to do (or was told to do), triages them across urgency/impact, and sorts them into Do/Defer/Schedule/Delegate piles.

Last, I created an app to give a UI to this data to see and act on it all, including a way to flag a to-do that was found and enter why I thought the status or categorization was wrong. On the next run, a review skill reads those comments, makes changes to the other skills accordingly, and sends me an email with details of the changes, and the commit I can use to roll back the change if I'd like.

I've been running it since April and while there were a lot of updates at first, I haven't had to flag anything for review in months, and I get to feel a whole lot better about managing my to-do pile.

I'm looking at open-sourcing it, but since I created it with work resources on work time, I need to jump through a few hoops first.

New comment by 98codes in "Don't Just Say Hello"

98codes — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:43:19 +0000

I've gotten "Hi" with zero other context from people of all backgrounds.

New comment by 98codes in "Doing Everyone Else's Job"

98codes — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:34:09 +0000

As someone that has done a lot of that work, can confirm.

New comment by 98codes in "Tell the speakers that you liked their talks"

98codes — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:40:47 +0000

I remember! Lanyrd was fantastic as someone that did a ton of community speaking before I ever did anything on a bigger stage.

New comment by 98codes in "List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games"

98codes — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:13:01 +0000

It's not a great defense if you ask me, unless they're counting on the judge not knowing the difference between owning a copy of something vs. the IP and license to sell the thing.

After all, Sony isn't selling the source code and IP for Resident Evil, they're selling a copy of the packaged software.

New comment by 98codes in "What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?"

98codes — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:26:34 +0000

It's not as if he's stopped working on Windows since 2000.

New comment by 98codes in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

98codes — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:19:25 +0000

When you can align hyperfocus with your most beneficial vector of productivity, it's like you can accomplish anything, in half the time thought possible.

Problem is, there is no good way to direct the hyperfocus demon. It likes what it likes, it wants what it wants, and that's that.

Medication helps to save a pile of willpower/spoons/executive function safely from the demon so that we can get things that need doing done.