Hacker News: NickDouglas

New comment by NickDouglas in "No Slop Grenade"

NickDouglas — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:35:32 +0000

Exception that proves the rule. You know what context that specific recipient needs from you. GenAI usually doesn't.

I Vibe-Coded the App of My Dreams and Only Lost My Mind Twice

NickDouglas — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:48:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/vibe-coding-dashboards-replit-lovable-09cc79b1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008729

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by NickDouglas in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

NickDouglas — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:13:19 +0000

Try "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury, but skip the terrible frame story. The actual short stories are beautiful literature and canonical sci-fi.

The Software on Your Phone Was Shipped by People Who Don't Use It

NickDouglas — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:43:27 +0000

Article URL: https://chrispirillo.substack.com/p/cpu-the-software-on-your-phone-was

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590955

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

What went wrong before anyone noticed

NickDouglas — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:44:27 +0000

Article URL: https://callitearly.substack.com/p/what-went-wrong-before-anyone-noticed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265526

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

When AI labs become defense contractors

NickDouglas — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:42:23 +0000

Article URL: https://philippdubach.com/posts/when-ai-labs-become-defense-contractors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262937

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by NickDouglas in "Ring owners are returning their cameras"

NickDouglas — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:02:19 +0000

You have now. "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash" is literally on the front of Hacker News.

Why I'm getting off US tech

NickDouglas — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:47:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.disconnect.blog/p/why-im-getting-off-us-tech

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43862509

Points: 32

# Comments: 27

The problem with Ello's promise not to sell your info

NickDouglas — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:49:16 +0000

Article URL: https://ello.co/waxpancake/post/oy73kFfDdhOPh8Jv9z9pFA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8370684

Points: 10

# Comments: 5

Graph of Flickr tags over time (most peak a few years ago)

NickDouglas — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:10:26 +0000

Article URL: http://slacktory.com/2011/08/flickr-is-dying-graph/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2892481

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by NickDouglas in "Merlin Mann: Better"

NickDouglas — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:43:42 +0000

I'm really glad I don't know the elephants upstairs.

New comment by NickDouglas in "My daughter was first sued in the womb"

NickDouglas — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:42:05 +0000

Within the next generation or so too, since the first notices were sent by postal mail.

New comment by NickDouglas in "Facebook Comments Epitomizes Everything I Hate About Facebook"

NickDouglas — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:21:44 +0000

That reminds me of this post on how Craigslist's business is being eaten away, and why it's taking so long (because of the critical mass needed to compete against its network-effect benefit): http://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-another-product-disrupted-and...

New comment by NickDouglas in "Facebook Comments Epitomizes Everything I Hate About Facebook"

NickDouglas — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:19:50 +0000

To only sort by date is simplicity.

To only sort by "relevance" as determined by friend-of-friend connections is needless complexity.

Drag-and-drop no-login image host

NickDouglas — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:38:29 +0000

Article URL: http://min.us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937781

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by NickDouglas in "Old Spice on Twitter"

NickDouglas — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:33:51 +0000

Tomorrow, the whole front page will be about feeling your face sting and going "Ow! Ow! Ow!" in front of your bathroom mirror.

New comment by NickDouglas in "Richard Stallman agrees to do an AMA on reddit"

NickDouglas — Fri, 28 May 2010 03:48:18 +0000

And even we privileged techies sometimes have to take our phones into the subway or onto a plane.

New comment by NickDouglas in "Justin Kan #1 on Business 2.0's Most Influential People List (and i am responsible)"

NickDouglas — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:35:55 +0000

Remember, you're talking about a magazine that misspelled "YouTube" on the cover of their last "Person of the Year" issue.

New comment by NickDouglas in "What do people want? How do I find out what people want?"

NickDouglas — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:37:08 +0000

But if you're coming up with zero ideas, adding three a day is an improvement. What you call "forcing yourself," I call every writers' room and recording artist contract.

I didn't write much good material until Valleywag made me write twelve blog posts a day. Only three or four were really good -- but that's three or four more good posts a day than I was turning out before.

New comment by NickDouglas in "All Transactions are based on Trust - Reddit Case Study"

NickDouglas — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:34:15 +0000

A new Reddit, not any existing one. Different name, different code, same principle.