Hacker News: DHPersonal

New comment by DHPersonal in "The return-to-the-office trend backfires"

DHPersonal — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:06:59 +0000

Why continue the cycle of finding a job and quitting it for solvable problems instead of staying and solving the problem?

New comment by DHPersonal in "I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless"

DHPersonal — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:52:17 +0000

Get off the slop or become the slop.

New comment by DHPersonal in "Put the zip code first"

DHPersonal — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:07:56 +0000

Address entries are the weirdest places of frustration. Business clients want Google Places to make address input easier. This user wants a single ZIP code entry to begin the process. Why is adding one’s own address manually that huge of a hurdle that we have to separate the user from the inputs? If there is one person in the world who should know my address, it’s me: why then put such an effort into building a site that takes away my ability to enter my address?

New comment by DHPersonal in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

DHPersonal — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:52:20 +0000

I only learn when I do things, not when I hear how they work. I think the teacher has the right idea.

New comment by DHPersonal in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

DHPersonal — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:11:16 +0000

That’s what I’m noticing about apples more and more these days: all of them are incredibly sweet like candy. The only variety I’ve found that seems suitable for regular eating ate the Granny Smith variety, but I hate their tough skins.

New comment by DHPersonal in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

DHPersonal — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:07:52 +0000

Parachute Backup is a tool I use: https://parachuteapps.com/parachute

New comment by DHPersonal in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"

DHPersonal — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:01:03 +0000

https://ghost.org — Open-source run by a non-profit headquartered in Singapore.

New comment by DHPersonal in "If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app"

DHPersonal — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:01:36 +0000

Do you also have the slow-motion bug where every second or so a frame or two gets dropped, resulting in stutters in the video?

New comment by DHPersonal in "Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix"

DHPersonal — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:24:08 +0000

What’s funny to me is how many hidden ramps are featured in that Mad Max 1 trailer :)

New comment by DHPersonal in "Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix"

DHPersonal — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:21:16 +0000

The fog you reference might just be a Hollywood Black Magic blooming filter placed in front of the lens.

New comment by DHPersonal in "AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B"

DHPersonal — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:45:59 +0000

Bending Spoons has taken at least one of the apps I’ve used and stuffed them full of subscription models in a pretty blatant attempt to wring as much money out of the existing user base before the app becomes obsolete.

New comment by DHPersonal in "Resurrect the Old Web"

DHPersonal — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:14:01 +0000

Browsers often present warning screens when visiting sites that aren’t HTTPS, which effectively blocks the site for any users unwilling to or unaware of being able to "proceed with caution."

New comment by DHPersonal in "The Mac app flea market"

DHPersonal — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:52:55 +0000

Before I used GitHub and got used to its interface I felt that the majority of repositories used as public-facing websites were the most confusing way to get releases. Why is the source code that seems to need some sort of tool or program to use sitting next to the installation program? Do I need all that extra stuff or can I just use the exe/app? Why is there not a page with a “download here” button that’s as plain and simple as other closed-source programs?

New comment by DHPersonal in "Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG"

DHPersonal — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:43:13 +0000

It still has plenty of consistency errors and issues for the devs. But even if they fix all the bugs, I still think the UI changes are regressive: now things are buried in even more icons; the menus warp, change color, and move in distracting ways; and text on button and menus have never been harder to read.

New comment by DHPersonal in "The Exodus from the Washington Post"

DHPersonal — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:00:56 +0000

I cancelled my subscription about the same time. The lack of an endorsement is best seen in the context of their choice of headlines and otherwise soft coverage of Trump’s increasingly dictatorial behavior. Taken out of context, it might seem innocuous and perhaps even admirable that no candidate was endorsed, but it’s in the comparison of being overly uncritical of Trump and then not advocating for Harris that gave all those subscribers a reason to cancel.

New comment by DHPersonal in "Learning Is Slower Than You Think"

DHPersonal — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:49:10 +0000

LLMs use em dashes because they were trained on content made by actual writers. Actual writers still exist and they still use em dashes.

New comment by DHPersonal in "Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels"

DHPersonal — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 01:07:13 +0000

Isn’t the point of labeling something as a “trauma” to be a signifier for the moment or behavior that affected you greatly and not something that meets an arbitrary level of awfulness, especially by way of comparison? Your father lost a brother, which is definitely certainly traumatic, but my grandfather lost a son. Does that equate to a greater trauma, therefore nullifying your father’s loss? I would say no! Comparing traumas means in my mind that nobody can ever heal because someone else will always have experienced something that was in some way worse.

New comment by DHPersonal in "Tesla's Cybertruck flop is historic. The brand collapse is even worse"

DHPersonal — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:10:29 +0000

What an odd way to form a question. You seem to already be doubting the answer before it’s been sent to you.

New comment by DHPersonal in "FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores"

DHPersonal — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:03:27 +0000

Maybe. For some reason it seemed like a more poignant reply at the time, but now I see it doesn’t add much to the conversation. :)

New comment by DHPersonal in "FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores"

DHPersonal — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:06:30 +0000

It sounds very familiar to a fundamentalist Christian, taught in either private or home schools that fostered that sort of thinking.