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New comment by MikeNotThePope in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

MikeNotThePope — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:58:50 +0000

As a spoon designer, I have had some difficulty finding work lately.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

MikeNotThePope — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:40:52 +0000

“Do as I say, not as I do.”

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

MikeNotThePope — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:10:49 +0000

One of my relatives used to be a psychologist who did work in psychiatric facilities. He told me about a woman who was rather petite with multiple personalities. One of her personalities was a bug & burly type with anger management issues. When this personality got physical, it took several orderlies of notable size to restrain her.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

MikeNotThePope — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:53:58 +0000

Nearly all air molecules were once part of a dinosaur fart.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use"

MikeNotThePope — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:08:16 +0000

Why is there an AI chat window on my GitHub homepage? I just wanted a list of my repos!

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

MikeNotThePope — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:02:59 +0000

That’s because Patriots are typically upped, now downed.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

MikeNotThePope — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:16:59 +0000

Yes, thanks for noticing. I fixed.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

MikeNotThePope — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:48:27 +0000

If I had to guess, LinkedIn would be primarily searching for extensions that violate their terms of service (e.g. something that could be used to scrape data). They put a lot of effort into circumventing automated data collection. I could be wrong.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

MikeNotThePope — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:30:58 +0000

I can tell you exactly what it cost for me. I took the helicopter from Gorakshep, the highest/last town on the EBC trek, to Lukla, the crazy airport people call the most dangerous one in the world. For me, a 255 lbs / 115kg guy, 2 Nepalis that are each half my size, a pilot, and our not-that-heavy hiking gear was 2000 USD in October of 2024.

Pics/video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBTpLGtydZW/

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

MikeNotThePope — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:22:39 +0000

To be honest I'm surprised insurance is offered at all. I did the EBC trek a couple years ago. The temptation to take a helicopter down was real & I didn't have insurance.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

MikeNotThePope — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:41:39 +0000

I presume if Elon sets up a CDN, the IP will be 20.20.20.20.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

MikeNotThePope — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:54:10 +0000

I was referencing https://www.neobrutalism.dev/ and https://www.retroui.dev/ and slopped my way through it. A lot of it was just asking Claude Code "is this a proper design system?", then I kept doing that until it didn't have anything useful to add. Now I'm using my that as the template for understanding such things in more detail.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

MikeNotThePope — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:30:42 +0000

I was talking to one of the people who works at a big agentic coding tools. If I recall correctly, he was talking about how they use the tool to build the tool. I was complaining that all of the websites/frontends I make look pretty weak, and I'm amazed they get much slicker looking UIs with the same tool. He showed me that one way they do it is by having an extensive UI library of components/graphics/whatever, and also mentioned that the folks build their UIs know how to prompt/use the tool because it's backed by years of UI development knowledge & superior resources. I realized I didn't have any of that, and it actually made me feel better.

Last week we I was struggling to go from vague prompt to a OMG-it's-so-nice-looking web app, I remembered that example above and then decided to create my own component library, which I did in a couple days: https://www.substrateui.dev/. I was actually super happy that I was able to accomplish that, and then I realized I wanted to better understand the content that I had vibe coded into existence. So now I'm recreating that design system step by step w/ Claude code, filling in gaps in my knowledge & learning a bit about colors, typography, CSS, blah blah blah. It's actually a lot of fun because I'm able to explore all of the concepts and learn enough to build a front end that doesn't suck & is good enough for my use case without getting stuck for days on trying to center a stupid div by hand or play whack-mole-fix-something-and-break-something-else when trying to clean up AI slop.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

MikeNotThePope — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:45:17 +0000

This was maybe 20 years ago. I was looking for a job as a recruiter and just called him. He referred me to an HR rep and I did get an interview from it. Didn’t get the job, but hey, I got a shot!

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

MikeNotThePope — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:34:25 +0000

He has an army of people that would read his emails. A truly important one should get read.

You could always try calling, too! I cold called Marc Benioff at Salesforce and he actually picked up the phone.

Show HN: Substrate UI, my "teaching myself front end development" design system

MikeNotThePope — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:23:02 +0000

Hi all, this is my first whack ever at making a design system. I didn't even know what a design system was a week ago.

2 questions:

- what do you like about it?

- what don't you like about it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553565

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware"

MikeNotThePope — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:27:10 +0000

Completely off topic. I went solo hiking in Azerbaijan in August of 2022, heading towards some hilltop castle thing I saw on Google Maps. Along the way I met some locals who invited me to join them. We got to the castle around midday and I was preparing to walk back to my car alone, and they all strongly advised against it. They said it was dangerous and invited me to go camping with them, which was pretty fun as they gave me my own tent, food, etc. While at the campground, one guy pulled out his phone to show me pictures of the local wildlife, including a big ol' brown bear. I was too stupid to think about what might eat me out in the woods alone, as I lacked the instinct to check for man-eating predators having grown up in an area where I didn't need to worry about such things.

Anyway, now I think about bears before solo hiking.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

MikeNotThePope — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:22:03 +0000

They are also organic, all-natural, and fat-free! And renewable on geological timescales.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

MikeNotThePope — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:59:26 +0000

If I had to guess, which I do, I'd say that it's not a big deal that an adversary capable of threatening an aircraft carrier knows where it generally is. What is a big deal is knowing precisely where it is when an undetected projectile needs pinpoint accuracy moments before blowing a big hole in it.

New comment by MikeNotThePope in "Marketing for Founders"

MikeNotThePope — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:42:51 +0000

Yes, I was curious about the creatives. You're doing a lot, so I was just curious where you were choosing to spend your time.