Hacker News: davidmurphy

New comment by davidmurphy in "Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection"

davidmurphy — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:50:48 +0000

CHM employee here. Always great to see CHM on HN. Glad folks are excited about this -- as are we! There's so much cool stuff in the Collection.

New comment by davidmurphy in "Amazon One palm authentication discontinued"

davidmurphy — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:38:35 +0000

download the Whole Foods app. It solely exists to display the QR code on startup.

New comment by davidmurphy in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

davidmurphy — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:22:34 +0000

I agree.

New comment by davidmurphy in "Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes"

davidmurphy — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:21:35 +0000

nope, been there as an entrepreneur where you have NO available funds when the Squarespace renewal hits.

It's a lot.

New comment by davidmurphy in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"

davidmurphy — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:04:12 +0000

Love to see this.

New comment by davidmurphy in "Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists"

davidmurphy — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 03:12:28 +0000

love this

New comment by davidmurphy in "Bill Atkinson: Polaroids Showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI [video]"

davidmurphy — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:49:29 +0000

As a CHM staffer who produced the Lisa@40 and Mac@40 events, I'm so gratified to hear these were as meaningful to you as they were to me! :)

So grateful to have you as a member. Don't miss our upcoming 1995 retrospective event focusing on Netscape's IPO and Windows 95 & Internet Explorer, on August 26! Should be a another fun nostalgic event: https://computerhistory.org/events/1995-the-internets-big-ba...

Oh, and I sat in on the interview with Bill Atkinson posted by OP and it's great to see this clip getting some love from HN. Our Oral History program is so awesome too. --David Murphy

New comment by davidmurphy in "VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech"

davidmurphy — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:12:03 +0000

Speaking personally, I find this utterly deplorable.

New comment by davidmurphy in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

davidmurphy — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:53:06 +0000

whoa!!

New comment by davidmurphy in "Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war"

davidmurphy — Sun, 11 May 2025 22:33:26 +0000

It's an absolute shame Apple killed their car project

New comment by davidmurphy in "Mac Themes Garden"

davidmurphy — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:38:35 +0000

As a lifelong Mac geek (I work for the Computer History Museum, where I organized our Macintosh 40th Anniversary and Lisa 40th events), I just want to say love this :)

The nolstalgia is real. Thanks for your hard work!

New comment by davidmurphy in "Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs"

davidmurphy — Wed, 07 May 2025 00:43:03 +0000

awesome. I shared this with colleagues at the Computer History Museum!!

"Hands off working COBOL code" –protest sign in NYC

davidmurphy — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:36:05 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1jsczrr/nyc_software_devs_against_doge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599878

Points: 50

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New comment by davidmurphy in "Tracing the thoughts of a large language model"

davidmurphy — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:22:35 +0000

On a somewhat related note, check out the video of Tuesday's Computer History Museum x IEEE Spectrum event, "The Great Chatbot Debate: Do LLMs Really Understand?"

Speakers: Sébastien Bubeck (OpenAI) and Emily M. Bender (University of Washington). Moderator: Eliza Strickland (IEEE Spectrum).

Video: https://youtu.be/YtIQVaSS5Pg Info: https://computerhistory.org/events/great-chatbot-debate/

New comment by davidmurphy in "U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say"

davidmurphy — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:03:54 +0000

Has anyone seen any indication the UK might be demanding similar backdoors in Signal?

Is Signal likely to be compromised too?

New comment by davidmurphy in "Hotline for modern Apple systems"

davidmurphy — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 10:04:39 +0000

so cool to hear how Hotline impacted you -- really cool.

New comment by davidmurphy in "Hotline for modern Apple systems"

davidmurphy — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 09:25:15 +0000

So cool to load HN and see this.

I was on Hotline's founding team in the 90s that joined with Adam Hinkley to promote and grow Hotline -- here's a press release I wrote for Hotline's appearance at Macworld Expo SF '98: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Hotline_MacWorld_Expo_1998 (That site has lots more Hotline related archival stuff at https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Category:Hotline )

Fun memories. We of course on the Hotline team used Hotline itself to keep in touch with each other around the world -- at that point, Adam in Australia and the rest of us across the US and Canada. Fun antics in the group chat. =)

It was a really fun time. At its peak Hotline went on to be used by millions, and even by companies like Apple, GM, and Avid. I particularly loved the Toronto Star quote that called Hotline "a major force in the online world" at the time.

These days I work for the Computer History Museum and have lots of Hotline stuff adorning my cubicle :) )

New comment by davidmurphy in "Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]"

davidmurphy — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:42:12 +0000

sweet! thanks for posting

New comment by davidmurphy in "ChatGPT Pro"

davidmurphy — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:25:04 +0000

Anyone who read "The Mac is not a typewriter" — a fantastic book of the early computer age — likely uses em dashes.

New comment by davidmurphy in "I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them"

davidmurphy — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:07:56 +0000

US didn't have it to my knowledge, so it was indeed a novelty when visiting Europe in the 90s to experience it.