Hacker News: lucasmullens

New comment by lucasmullens in "Installing every* Firefox extension"

lucasmullens — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:49:44 +0000

For some reason that metal pipe sound was a meme a few years ago, a picture of a pipe and that sound has 5 million views on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDLmYZ5HqgM

New comment by lucasmullens in "Stop talking"

lucasmullens — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:22:56 +0000

How is something "obviously AI" for being written how you, a human, used to write?

New comment by lucasmullens in "Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians"

lucasmullens — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:47:07 +0000

Some people like me are running a company and are still picking out their tech stack. I don't like Microsoft, and that absolutely affects how likely I am to use their services. My situation might not be that common but PR surely still matters some.

New comment by lucasmullens in "Claude Code Checkpoints"

lucasmullens — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:30:28 +0000

Hey, so it's a bit obvious you vibe coded this, which makes me not want to trust it. Some red flags:

- The Apple icon is a literal apple and not the Apple logo.

- You've got 2 Mac download buttons that do the same thing right at the top, surely one of those is a mistake.

- "Watch it in action" is positioned poorly and fails to be a header for the video. Too close to the button above it.

- "Automatic version control" is not what a checkpoint is? "Version control" means git to almost everyone.

- Privacy link is a fake placeholder.

- "See It In Action" looks like you meant to add images and just forgot?

- You named this like 5 things. The website title is "Checkpoints for Claude Code", the domain is "Claude Checkpoints", the UI website title is just "Checkpoints" as if its a standalone brand, the contact email link uses "checkpoints-app.com", and finally you call it "Claude Diff" in the App Store description. Oh and the HN submission is a 6th one, "Claude Code Checkpoints".

Cool project though, sorry to be so critical.

New comment by lucasmullens in "Claude for Chrome"

lucasmullens — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:48:27 +0000

It has a big banner that says "Research preview: The browser extension is a beta feature with unique risks—stay alert and protect yourself from bad actors.", and it says "Join the research preview", and then takes you to a form with another warning, "Disclaimer: This is an experimental research preview feature which has several inherent risks. Before using Claude for Chrome, read our safety guide which covers risks, permission limitations, and privacy considerations."

I would also imagine that it warns you again when you run it for the first time.

I don't disagree with you given how uniquely important these security concerns are, but they seem to be doing at least an okay job at warning people, hard to say without knowing how their in-app warnings look.

New comment by lucasmullens in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

lucasmullens — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:15:30 +0000

Come on, don't be mean. Imagine saying this in person to someone who just told you they got scammed. "You're just extremely gullible" is just so mean...show some empathy.

New comment by lucasmullens in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

lucasmullens — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:11:07 +0000

I'm pretty sure the comment wasn't a joke? I saw the stream last week, it was very impressive use of AI, I didn't realize it was AI until he started talking about doubling crypto.

What about the bio is satirical? I'm pretty sure that's sincere too.

New comment by lucasmullens in "Bye Bye iOS 17 Private Browsing"

lucasmullens — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:32:57 +0000

You're sharing your own tweet, is that allowed on HN?

Either way consider just posting the text or using a platform other than X, because without logging in I can't read it (without using the xcancel.com version someone else posted).

New comment by lucasmullens in "Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools"

lucasmullens — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:11:38 +0000

> But with coding models they ignore context of the codebase and the results feel more like patchwork.

Have you tried Cursor? It has a great feature that grabs context from the codebase, I use it all the time.

New comment by lucasmullens in "Google turns Android into a desktop OS in 5 steps"

lucasmullens — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:50:56 +0000

The "How" got dropped off the title, it's an article explaining what this guy wants, not an article saying Google turned Android into anything.

New comment by lucasmullens in "One Million Checkboxes"

lucasmullens — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:32:19 +0000

Took me a while to remember the name, it was Habbo. The swastikas are mentioned on the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbo

New comment by lucasmullens in "One Million Checkboxes"

lucasmullens — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:42:17 +0000

Honestly that was one of my first thoughts when I saw this, someone is going to draw one of those. People love trying to be offensive in something that barely allows communication. I remember seeing some MMORPG that had no chat where players would log in and just stand in the shape of a swastika.

Makes me wonder if it's reasonable to write an algorithm to detect that.

New comment by lucasmullens in "Show HN: Chess Twist"

lucasmullens — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 21:56:04 +0000

It might be worth considering just changing the rules for the pawn to deal with this. It's hard to tell what it means to move "forward" on a board like this, even after understanding the indicators.

Maybe pawns could just move horizontally/vertically and attack diagonally, regardless of color?

New comment by lucasmullens in "X is justifiably slow (2022)"

lucasmullens — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:29:08 +0000

I remember learning that you get about 100ms for a basic UI interaction before a user perceives it as slow. And you get about 1s for a "full page navigation", even if it's a SPA, users are a bit more understanding if you're loading something that feels like new page.

Getting under 100ms really shouldn't be hard for most things. At the very least it should be easy to get the ripple (or whatever button animation) to trigger within the first 100ms.

New comment by lucasmullens in "Google Console closed testing requirements are awful"

lucasmullens — Thu, 30 May 2024 05:12:50 +0000

If you're using Flutter, you can start with just the web app. Flutter for Web is definitely not as good as Flutter for iOS/Android, but it's decent, and the web itself is far easier platform to publish on. Then, if people like the app, you can bother jumping through all those bureaucratic hoops and get it on iOS/Android natively.

New comment by lucasmullens in "The Bulma CSS framework reaches 1.0"

lucasmullens — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:49:40 +0000

It’s a Google naming convention. Internationalization (i18n) and accessibility (a11y) are the main two you’ll see.

New comment by lucasmullens in "The road to hell is paved with asphalt"

lucasmullens — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:01:49 +0000

> 99 percent of reclaimed asphalt pavement being put back to use

Can't that be interpreted as them just not reclaiming asphalt they can't reuse? Genuinely asking, since things like this are often optimally worded for good publicity.

New comment by lucasmullens in "Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews"

lucasmullens — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:22:13 +0000

That's like being okay with a candidate Googling the answer during an interview. Not unheard of, but unusual. It seems hard to test someone's knowledge that way.

New comment by lucasmullens in "Las Vegas Sphere reports $98.4M loss; CFO quits"

lucasmullens — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:13:38 +0000

Don't most successful venues use Ticketmaster?

New comment by lucasmullens in "Apple Cancelled Jon Stewart Because Tech Executives Were Afraid of the Truth"

lucasmullens — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:10:30 +0000

This one is quite bad though, and generally articles with clickbait titles aren't worth reading imo, since there's likely less sensationalized article on the topic somewhere else.