Hacker News: lurn_mor

New comment by lurn_mor in "Googlebook"

lurn_mor — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:32:21 +0000

You can install ChromeOS on a Mac: https://chromeos.google/products/chromeos-flex/

It's a great stopgap OS for older hardware.

New comment by lurn_mor in "I replaced my freelance SaaS stack with 5 single-file HTML tools"

lurn_mor — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:52:32 +0000

I blogged about the shift to 'local only' web apps that seem to be proliferating: http://www.undr.com/understatement/2026/feb13_web_apps_work_...

With a future of ChromeOS Flex running on millions of older hardware, the browser is the new 'App Store'.

...and congrats on reducing your dependency on third party tools!

New comment by lurn_mor in "Stripe closed my account – no notice – my LLC was registered using Stripe Atlas"

lurn_mor — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:44:02 +0000

Bad actors are relentless and never ending.

New comment by lurn_mor in "Show HN: Single HTML opinionated Kanban board"

lurn_mor — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:58:56 +0000

No need to appease me. I am on the lookout for a Trello replacement, but may end up self-hosting or vibe coding my own. I have a dream of marrying plain HTML _details elements with _textareas where the _summary is an editable _input.

New comment by lurn_mor in "Show HN: Single HTML opinionated Kanban board"

lurn_mor — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:31:52 +0000

Cute! I like it. Snazzy design and looks good. I appreciate the design choices you made.

My only disappointment is the dreaded LocalStorage, and now your Kanban is limited to one machine/browser. Yes, backup often; Won't, human forgetful.

New comment by lurn_mor in "Show HN: ToolKuai – Privacy-first, 100% client-side media tools"

lurn_mor — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:15:14 +0000

Bookmarked and added to my arsenal of browser-based tools: http://www.undr.com/understatement/2026/feb13_web_apps_work_...

New comment by lurn_mor in "How to make a living as an artist"

lurn_mor — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:05:00 +0000

Worked for Bansky, to great success, I might add.

New comment by lurn_mor in "How to make a living as an artist"

lurn_mor — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:04:07 +0000

Everyone's a critic.

New comment by lurn_mor in "Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?"

lurn_mor — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:36:11 +0000

What AI did you use to write that?

New comment by lurn_mor in "Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]"

lurn_mor — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:07:37 +0000

Quite informative, and a laundry list of flavor names/chemicals that sound far more dangerous than they taste. Interesting find is vinegar, which might have offered a small germ-fighting benefit and given Coca Cola the 'medical' qualities it initially sold for...

New comment by lurn_mor in "I downloaded the german 8 pm news every day since 2014: Ask me anything"

lurn_mor — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:15:55 +0000

Forgive my ignorance, but how many times a day does the news come on in Germany? In the US it's nearly constant...

New comment by lurn_mor in "Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer"

lurn_mor — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:53:02 +0000

Very! I saw the distant galaxies spin.

New comment by lurn_mor in "I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains"

lurn_mor — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:03:39 +0000

www.awebsiteyouwillnevergoto.org

New comment by lurn_mor in "Taylor Swift buys back the rights to her master recordings"

lurn_mor — Fri, 30 May 2025 19:41:23 +0000

No doubt that's her motive, and it'll probably happen sooner than you imagine. I do not think her music will stand the test of time like the Beatles, however.

New comment by lurn_mor in "Tell HN: Namecheap pre-purchasing searched domain names?"

lurn_mor — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:26:31 +0000

Upvote for Porkbun, who clearly doesn't do this type of 'selling searches', as I have 2 or 3 domains in my 'register someday' list at PorkBun, and they remain unregistered years later...

New comment by lurn_mor in "George Foreman has died"

lurn_mor — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:01:04 +0000

I think most folk would gladly shorten their lifespan by decades for a million dollars today - the ultimate sacrifice for future generational wealth? Not that a million gets you anything substantial anymore...

New comment by lurn_mor in "Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack?"

lurn_mor — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:50:09 +0000

Ding! This exactly. Not every web page is best expressed in Markdown (or text for that matter). I post galleries of photos, weird web experiments, tutorials with inline photos, and other odd stuff that never fits in this 'automate my .md files to www' workflows everyone seems to love.

Write the html once, and it's good forever, really. Everything can be permalinked with authority. No reason to 're-render' your site again and again because you want to change the user interface - both of those are handled by CSS and JS.

You need to edit? Load up your FTP editor and work on the html file live, like a leet hacker! ...but I do succumb to using S3 due to its low monthly cost for hosting my 13gb 'personal' website. Too many hosted audio files...

New comment by lurn_mor in "Ask HN: How to turn off Gemini crap in Gmail?"

lurn_mor — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:51:27 +0000

They're making it a forced upgrade so they can charge more for email accounts. +$2/user/month is what they want for Gemini.

New comment by lurn_mor in "Ask HN: What do you look for in a work monitor?"

lurn_mor — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:05:27 +0000

I had this very issue. My old computers don't support the 4K monitor I bought (or at least, at a respectable resolution, and not stretched 1080p)

New comment by lurn_mor in "I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps"

lurn_mor — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 02:11:59 +0000

Easier, but more expensive in the long run.