Hacker News: amanzi

New comment by amanzi in "Intercom changes name to Fin"

amanzi — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:18:32 +0000

Fin/Intercom: "Fin is defining the AI era of customer experience"

Zendesk: "AI-powered service platform"

Freshdesk: "AI-powered platform for modern customer service"

Where are the companies that are proudly promoting "human powered" customer support?

New comment by amanzi in "New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS"

amanzi — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:41:41 +0000

Why do you need a toggle for "Active" services? Surely a curated list would remove services that are no longer active? My issue with this list, and many others like it, is that they appear to have very little curation and just turn into a dumping ground of links to any service. e.g. there is almost 50 services listed as "PaaS or CaaS" - are all of these really "awesome"? Same with the "Self-Hosted PaaS" section - how much curation has been done here? Some of them don't even appear to fit in this category.

New comment by amanzi in "How to disable Firefox's new emoji picker"

amanzi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:24:45 +0000

Sounds like the real problem was that 1Password had hijacked the same keyboard shortcut that other Gnome apps use for the Emoji picker. For me, "Ctrl + ." was being used by two different extensions: Raindrop and Multi-account containers. I deleted these shortcuts since I would *rather* have the Firefox emoji picker. :-)

New comment by amanzi in "How to disable Firefox's new emoji picker"

amanzi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:21:38 +0000

Check this article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-extension-shortc...

For me, "Ctrl + ." was being used by two different extensions: Raindrop and Mult-account containers.

I deleted both of these shortcuts since neither were useful for me. I'd much rather have the Firefox emoji picker respond to "Ctrl + ." in the same way as other Gnome apps.

New comment by amanzi in "The race to build the next WordPress"

amanzi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:33:16 +0000

Interestingly, when you're typing in Notion I didn't see any em dashes. Is there some post-processing happening that's converting the hyphens to em dashes? e.g. the following paragraph appeared to have just regular hyphens when you typed on the Loom video:

          
            The difference is subtle but significant. Apache is a web server — it can host and
            run any web application, for example one written in PHP. Whereas WordPress sits a layer
            above; in fact it typically runs on Apache. What makes it a better analogy for the
            "agentic workload" is what you do with it — or rather, who and how uses it.

New comment by amanzi in "Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents"

amanzi — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:14:46 +0000

I think this has been around for a while, if it's the same thing I'm thinking of. It started out as an opinionated fork of Django, but appears to have now been rebranded to jump on the agent hype-train. Not sure if I'm in the minority, but I'm now less interested in this given its focus on agents.

New comment by amanzi in "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"

amanzi — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:14:04 +0000

Nice. And this should be fully supported on Linux too, I hope.

New comment by amanzi in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

amanzi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:00:46 +0000

Yep, I remember downloading a beta version of what would be eventually released as Windows Server 2003. The beta version was called Windows .Net Server 2003.

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

amanzi — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:41:46 +0000

So this is just a "similar" CMS to WordPress in that it has themes and plugins, and you can publish pages, posts, tags, categories, etc. But there are lots of similar CMS out there, and this one isn't "compatible" with WordPress since you obviously can't just take a WordPress theme or plugin and install it in your EmDash site. So I don't even know why the focus on WordPress here - this is just yet another CMS that offers similar features.

New comment by amanzi in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

amanzi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:44:34 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I really need to look into these feature flags some more to understand how they work. I noticed that the Inter font has similar flags too.

New comment by amanzi in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

amanzi — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:16:26 +0000

I've been a long time Fira Code user, but recently switched to Maple - I love it. Mostly because of the "single storey" `a`, but that's just a personal preference of mine.

New comment by amanzi in "Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?"

amanzi — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:04:19 +0000

I hope it goes bust soon. I need to buy some RAM and an SSD for my PC...

New comment by amanzi in "Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?"

amanzi — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:03:11 +0000

Except the price of personal computing is skyrocketing due to the build out of these data centres! I'd love to build a personal computer to run local models, but it's just not affordable any more.

New comment by amanzi in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

amanzi — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:50:03 +0000

And you want to add an unreliable, non-deterministic LLM into the flow too?

New comment by amanzi in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

amanzi — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:14:51 +0000

That doesn't justify what's going on here. Why is Microsoft endorsing the use of pirated materials.

New comment by amanzi in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

amanzi — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:51:14 +0000

I agree with the previous commenter - I hate Discord for all the same reasons. But you said: "That's because you're not in the target market. And I guess not interested in the space." and this is the bit that frustrates me... I must be the target market because several services I use try to get you to use Discord for support, and some will only provide support via Discord.

New comment by amanzi in "Claude Code for Infrastructure"

amanzi — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:39:27 +0000

Why would you not put a description like this on your actual website? Your homepage does not explain anything about what this actually does. Are you really expecting infrastructure engineers to install your app with a bash command after only providing the following information?

    Claude Code for infrastructure. Debug, act, and audit everything Fluid does on your infrastructure.

    Create sandboxes from VMs, investigate, plan, execute, generate Ansible playbooks, and audit everything.

New comment by amanzi in "Some notes on starting to use Django"

amanzi — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:08:26 +0000

I learned about the VACUUM INTO command through the following guide on how to backup your sqlite database: https://litestream.io/alternatives/cron/

New comment by amanzi in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

amanzi — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:17:41 +0000

See this for something that might help your Wi-Fi issue. https://gist.github.com/gornostal/192e2ae29af3da1baeea384d0f...

I had the same problem on my new Yoga laptop with Fedora and an Intel BE200 Wi-Fi card.

New comment by amanzi in "Announcing the Beta release of ty"

amanzi — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:09:05 +0000

"pyx" is their first commercial offering: https://astral.sh/pyx

I agree though. Hope this is successful and they keep building awesome open-source tools.