Hacker News: MontgomeryPy

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Saab has unveiled its A3 collaborative combat aircraft concept"

MontgomeryPy — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:17:31 +0000

And I have the 9-3T in driveway as daily driver :)

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Trump considers renaming Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' as trade war escalates"

MontgomeryPy — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:53:22 +0000

Next he'll put Canada on Double Secret Probation, that should do it facepalm

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Bonnie Tyler has died"

MontgomeryPy — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:14 +0000

Did not know! Before my time I guess.

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Bonnie Tyler has died"

MontgomeryPy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:48:16 +0000

A big driver of cassettes then was the write ability, unlike 8 tracks. You could borrow your friend's new vinyl album, pop in a new cassette tape on your hi-fi, and record a copy of the album to the tape. Of course the Walkman then made listening to your new album fully portable.

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "The AI Marketing Backlash: Why 'AI-First' Brands Are Starting to Fall Flat"

MontgomeryPy — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:54:02 +0000

Same with the 'doing AI right' Netflix example for me. Showing me the same exact recommendations in each tray but in a different order isn't helping.

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588"

MontgomeryPy — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:15:54 +0000

Yes. There is an Iberian connection that explains Irish folks with dark features, but that would be from Neolithic farmers migrating there 5000 years earlier.

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588"

MontgomeryPy — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:45:30 +0000

Aka Black Irish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Irish_(folklore)

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Flavor Graveyard"

MontgomeryPy — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:55:42 +0000

Agreed that was a good one. They used so much Kahlua that it caused the price of Kahlua liqueur to rise at liquor stores because they were buying so much of it. So they stopped the flavor.

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Van Halen test"

MontgomeryPy — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:11:00 +0000

DLR tells the story at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_IxqdAgNJck

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "U.S. midterms have a cyber problem, but it's not at the ballot box"

MontgomeryPy — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:58:08 +0000

Fortunately the gas pump is a primary news source for a lot of people and it doesn't lie!

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Boston and Bermuda"

MontgomeryPy — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:07:28 +0000

Yes, back when Brador beer was available! That was the main draw for me and friends when we were that age :)

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Boston and Bermuda"

MontgomeryPy — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:03:48 +0000

Also in greater Boston and had the fortune to do a family trip to Bermuda in that era. One more possibility not mentioned in the article is that Bermuda could have also 'lost its crown' as a popular destination for New Englanders because it was simply promoted less. I don't think the island cluster is as dependent on tourism revenue as maybe it once was in 70s.

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

MontgomeryPy — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:50:56 +0000

You could just put your website content behind its own chat interface. The crawler would just see a form input for a prompt.

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain"

MontgomeryPy — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:58:58 +0000

What a blast from the past. I completely forgot that I was a The World customer way back when.

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

MontgomeryPy — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:09:57 +0000

2001 affected tech mainly, so a lot of folks went to other industries still hiring. And 2008 affected other industries more than tech, so the inverse.

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers to Use AI. They're Enforcing It"

MontgomeryPy — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:18:24 +0000

Ha, resonates for me. I wonder if a solution is to pitch the APIs (or an MCP) to customers at the same cost as cloud solution and tell them to vibecode away on top of it. I guess that's IaaS.

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Nepal's Mountainside Teahouses Elevate the Experience for Trekkers"

MontgomeryPy — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:56:02 +0000

Just another 80s trekker passing along a hello. I had the same experience as you describe nearing the top of Kala Patthar. Trekked outside of Pokhara too but did not do the circuit. Maybe we passed along the trail though ;)

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "AI and the Next Economy"

MontgomeryPy — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:06:55 +0000

The comments on early Google circulating value resonate. As a web developer then it was great to add free Google services that enhanced my site/shared revenue (e.g site search, adsense, maps, analytics, etc). It's what I see really lacking in OpenAI's centralized approach. They've extracted all my old site data for their use but have offered no complementary value in return. Which is what this article speaks to in part.

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Jimmy Cliff has died"

MontgomeryPy — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:10:34 +0000

RIP Jimmy. ...one of the rare cases of a cover song being better than original imo. I Can See Clearly Now at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHxhQPOO2c

New comment by MontgomeryPy in "Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona"

MontgomeryPy — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:36:10 +0000

Along these lines I wonder how many people have been able to do triathlons for multiple decades (started in their 20s and still doing in 60s). This impressive woman started late and wondering if that gave her an advantage relative to joint stress...i.e. if you only get so many years