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New comment by htunnicliff in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

htunnicliff — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:59:53 +0000

> I read the Fogbank story and recognized it immediately. Not the nuclear material. The pattern. Build capability over decades. Find a cheaper substitute. Let the human pipeline atrophy. Enjoy the savings. Then watch it all collapse when a crisis demands what you optimized away.

> In defense, the substitute was the peace dividend. In software, it’s AI.

New comment by htunnicliff in "$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents"

htunnicliff — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:08:12 +0000

Canonical article source: (paywalled) https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/laptops-tablets-schools-gen-z...

New comment by htunnicliff in "Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature"

htunnicliff — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:27:31 +0000

Have any public library systems ever tried to partner with Standard Ebooks to help improve the discoverability and accessibility of classics for ebook users?

It would be neat to see those editions show up in when browsing collections in apps like Libby or Overdrive (at least in the U.S.).

Feature request: allow workflow configuration in sub-folders

htunnicliff — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:09:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/18055

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44249071

Points: 3

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Welcome to the Essay Meta

htunnicliff — Sat, 31 May 2025 04:13:26 +0000

Article URL: https://davekasten.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-essay-meta

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44141815

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

FTC could have amended Pepsi case

htunnicliff — Sat, 24 May 2025 02:27:17 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/BalanceCrafting/status/1926048422114562154

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44078301

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Apple F**Ks Around with Court Order, Finds Out

htunnicliff — Tue, 20 May 2025 21:38:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/apple-fks-around-with-court-order

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44046184

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by htunnicliff in "Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover"

htunnicliff — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:06:47 +0000

I’d love to know more about the pattern of keeping each book in individual repos, rather than in a singular repo.

New comment by htunnicliff in "Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts"

htunnicliff — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:37:30 +0000

    I also modified a script I've been using for a few years to patch pylsp so it can now see uv script envs using the "uv sync --dry-run --script " hack.

This sounds like a really useful modification to the LSP for Python. Would you be willing to share more about how you patched it and how you use it in an IDE?