Hacker News: deanputney

New comment by deanputney in "Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities"

deanputney — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:42:20 +0000

Very nice, I like your approach and design.

Counting up would be preferred for me on some tasks. Sometimes the timesheet approach is needed, it'd be great if you could support both.

New comment by deanputney in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

deanputney — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:16:20 +0000

I've had a Combustion thermometer since they came out. The best uses for me are butterflied whole chicken on the grill and roasts in the oven. You can get extremely precise results and account for carry over cooking very easily. Huge leap in results.

New comment by deanputney in "The Artist Who Colored Ghibli"

deanputney — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:02:17 +0000

Animation Obsessive continues to deliver some of my favorite reads online. Well researched, detailed, and interesting. I'd wondered about the Ghibli colors, feels like that's not talked about much. Cool article!

New comment by deanputney in "Book prizes don't work how you think"

deanputney — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:57:19 +0000

Neither part of that quote mentions a quota for the longlists. Am I missing something?

New comment by deanputney in "Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents"

deanputney — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:25:18 +0000

Yeah, it's still up at this time. That's surprising that it's not being auto cleaned up.

New comment by deanputney in "Magnifica Humanitas"

deanputney — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:07:23 +0000

If you want an example of a sacrifice caused by regulation before technology had fully caught up, banning sperm whale oil in automatic car transmissions comes to mind: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/17/archives/transmission-pro...

New comment by deanputney in "On The Conflation of Money and Things"

deanputney — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:10:23 +0000

My mobile browser gave up it was so bad. Shame, it seemed like it could have been an interesting read.

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

deanputney — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:44:58 +0000

Wow, can't say I saw this one coming. Cloudflare has been putting out a lot of strong work lately. What percentage of their workforce is this?

New comment by deanputney in "United Wizards of the Coast"

deanputney — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:42:29 +0000

I’ve seen this done as a carve-out or exception that has to be explicitly documented. Trouble is that documentation is not presented as simple.

New comment by deanputney in "Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine"

deanputney — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:03:48 +0000

Wow that's nuts. What a great idea! I wonder how much of this the commercial flying probe machines can do already. Pretty cool to be able to have this on a home scale.

New comment by deanputney in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

deanputney — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:50:26 +0000

Here it is for those who haven't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZk2jV5gJbM

When I looked it up, turns out I've seen it too!

New comment by deanputney in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

deanputney — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:34:59 +0000

They are arguing that Trump is controlled by a foreign adversary and doing these things at their direction.

New comment by deanputney in "My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf"

deanputney — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:11:02 +0000

Love your watercolors! What a fun addition to a technical article :)

New comment by deanputney in "Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML"

deanputney — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:45:46 +0000

Curious why the CLI function is `mvd` instead of `mdv`?

New comment by deanputney in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

deanputney — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:33:05 +0000

If someone put on their website and voicemail that they were available for calls only from 8-10am (for example), or that they would return my call at that time, I'd make a point to call them then. It's reasonable that people are busy too.

New comment by deanputney in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

deanputney — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:45:12 +0000

They almost certainly already do. If you just look into Axon you'll see they have tons of cloud-based and AI products. Axon is the major player in police body cameras in the US.

New comment by deanputney in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

deanputney — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:51:47 +0000

Same. As far as I can tell, Ghostty is still in active development and unfinished. For regular use iTerm 2 is a complete product that can be relied upon.

New comment by deanputney in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

deanputney — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:56:06 +0000

I will say that having used the same starter word the whole time that has not come up yet, it's a little disappointing that it may now take even longer to appear.

New comment by deanputney in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

deanputney — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:33:41 +0000

It wouldn't shock me if multiple people came up with this idea independently. I've certainly experimented with it over the last couple years.

New comment by deanputney in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

deanputney — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:05:46 +0000

Glad to see you're doing this! I was wondering if the currency button could be changed. Defaulting to Euro is fine, but being able to switch that shortcut would be handy.