Hacker News: duncangh

New comment by duncangh in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

duncangh — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:40:36 +0000

Reminds me of the poem / song “All I wanna do”

"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die" Says the man next to me out of nowhere It's apropos of nothing, he says his name is William I'm sure he's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy And he's plain ugly to me And I wonder if he's ever had a day of fun in his whole life We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday In a bar that faces a giant car wash The good people of the world Are washing their cars on their lunch break Hosing and scrubbing as best they can in skirts in suits

New comment by duncangh in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

duncangh — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:24:29 +0000

Can we get the link to that TikTok? lol

Also what do you think about goose

New comment by duncangh in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

duncangh — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:02:46 +0000

I have a question about markdown on MacBook Pro. You know the preview feature - I think it’s called quick quicklook - how can I get that to work for markdown? I’ve associated .md files to always open with my IDE, but they still don’t render with the preview which is a mild annoyance. In my IDE i do use an extension to render the Md so that could be why and I could understand why recursive invocation may not be exposed at or available to the preview extension level. But any suggestions?

New comment by duncangh in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

duncangh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:10:46 +0000

It’s kind of interesting that this happens so shortly after they proudly announced how easily they would’ve able to migrate all systems from Microsoft and US firms. Maybe next year will be the year of the Linux desktop

New comment by duncangh in "Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games"

duncangh — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:52:38 +0000

I love this - watching the hurricanes game right now! Autorefresh would be nice and then it looks like a small bug in the faceoff percentage as they both say 100% which shouldn't be possible at any point in the game. Also would be sick to be able to enter the team and roster detail page from within the game detail page. But I love this so much and appreciate you for building it :D

edit the face off percentage is still a little off it's updated to show this 87% - 67%. Also followed you on twitter and github.

New comment by duncangh in "Cal.com is going closed source"

duncangh — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:45:03 +0000

Lmao I love this flavor of the ‘tism that always surfaces in hn comment threads exactly like this. Like moths to a flame

New comment by duncangh in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

duncangh — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:51:59 +0000

Good news: this cat and mouse game is keeping some of our brothers / sisters in software employed at FAANG. I feel like the girl from the kombucha reaction gif weighing both sides in this back and forth rally lol

New comment by duncangh in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

duncangh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:28:02 +0000

This is my favorite type of interaction to see when browsing HN. I feel like this respectful mosh pit of ideas and practitioners is uniquely rad. Thanks for the serendipity dopamine this Sunday

New comment by duncangh in "Layoffs at Block"

duncangh — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:22:01 +0000

Chopping block

New comment by duncangh in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"

duncangh — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:20:03 +0000

hacker smacker smacked down

New comment by duncangh in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"

duncangh — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:17:46 +0000

Probably because we all start cyber bullying every model when they give us code that doesn’t work. Sorry, Claude - please don’t nuke us.

New comment by duncangh in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

duncangh — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:47:44 +0000

This is incredibly resonant

New comment by duncangh in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

duncangh — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:35:10 +0000

Dyslexic and also a prolific screen reader user myself. +1 and thank you for mentioning something that often gets (ironically) overlooked

New comment by duncangh in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

duncangh — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:26:39 +0000

This verbose mode discussion has gotten quite verbose lol

New comment by duncangh in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

duncangh — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:50:16 +0000

Driving and living in Atlanta after living in Charleston and Raleigh felt like transitioning from a modern cooperative society to an island of cannibals. The amount of aggression needed to change lanes largely regardless of attempts to signal good faith and politeness is baffling. Driving is a fascinating ritual with vastly differing norms across regions. It would be interesting to learn if anthropologists have studied this

New comment by duncangh in "Procedures for Repair of Potholes in Asphalt-Surfaced Pavements"

duncangh — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:01:15 +0000

I like Atlanta’s solution even better: after becoming egregious enough sloppily bolt down a much too tall metal plate over the pothole and those that have proliferated nearby. Cross fingers and hope they won’t coalesce as a sink hole and as with everything else: “Go Dawgs”

New comment by duncangh in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

duncangh — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:43:04 +0000

the type of screw head really doesn't make a difference when I'm hammering them into the wall, I've found xD

New comment by duncangh in "Show HN: I'm building an AI-proof writing tool. How would you defeat it?"

duncangh — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:38:42 +0000

10,000 chimpanzees with typewriters. Do you accept telefacsimile submissions? I’ll try to train them to use appropriate cover letters

New comment by duncangh in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

duncangh — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:22:17 +0000

They should’ve named him tom instead of Claude in homage to Ten second Tom from fifty first dates

New comment by duncangh in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

duncangh — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:10:00 +0000

We’re moving away from hardware and into software and longevity in this discussion but wrt “apple leads the industry in supporting older devices with software updates” i would point out that Red Hat is probably more of a beacon / industry leader here as the main promise of RHEL is 10 years of support and updates. But again we don’t ship hardware so I see the narrower sense that you’re making but still would like to push back on the idea that giant companies cannot continue to keep complicated legacy code bases secure and functional about 2x longer in most cases than what Apple has done