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New comment by dmacj in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

dmacj — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:30:05 +0000

> Kagi is not only an ad-free subscription. It’s a mental budget booster.

Likely, the "It's not X, it's Y" phrasing is what probably rang the LLM alarm bells.

New comment by dmacj in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

dmacj — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:42:24 +0000

Are you seriously going to compare AI with shoes?

New comment by dmacj in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

dmacj — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:53:09 +0000

> The "elongation" of workplace artifacts resonated with me on such deep level

Well put. I generally skip AI-generated PR descriptions for this reason as they tend to miss the forest for the trees. Sometimes a large change can be explained by a short yet information-rich description ("migrate to use X instead of Y", "Implement F using pattern P") that only a human could and should write.

New comment by dmacj in "Show HN: Social Network for Corporate Cringe"

dmacj — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:46:23 +0000

"authenticity meets audacity." - I thought this is what blind was for?

New comment by dmacj in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

dmacj — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:12:19 +0000

That is reductive, why not call all everything CGI then? Or call CGI pixel art as well? As we’re talking about “art”, it’s necessarily going to be subjective, but pixel art has certain style aspects such as use of 2x1 lines (https://www.the-pixel-artist.com/articles/top-ten-things-new...). This is just an example, while I’m not saying that every convention must be met in order to qualify as pixel art, not having any doesn’t make a useful definition of a genre.

New comment by dmacj in "My role as a founder-CTO: year 8"

dmacj — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:21:41 +0000

I’m sure there are many other more meaningful options, none of which start with the word “buy”.

New comment by dmacj in "When stick figures fought"

dmacj — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:55:36 +0000

Loved Madness, surprised it didn’t get more mentions here. The combination of over the top violence, techno music and hints at a deeper underlying story is what made the series stick for me even more than Xiao Xiao.

New comment by dmacj in "FSF announces Librephone project"

dmacj — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:44:40 +0000

I think it’s referring to this line:

> It is very feminine and obviously doesn't work that well.

New comment by dmacj in "Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?"

dmacj — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:06:13 +0000

This looks great, thanks for sharing! I run a 1-person SaaS on the side and this would help me a lot with keeping it running. Glad to hear that you are able to full time on it.

New comment by dmacj in "Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better"

dmacj — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:46:20 +0000

What was the DB migration required for those particular columns?

I presume this was not the only time such a migration needed to be done to add columns. Is it possible that as new features emerge, new columns and migrations will need to be done anyway and one more or less migration would make less of a difference on the grander scale?