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New comment by m4houk in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

m4houk — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:19:47 +0000

They do have that option to customize its personality. One of the choices is to have it be robotic and straight to the point.

New comment by m4houk in "Slow social media"

m4houk — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:26:47 +0000

At the exact same time that Instagram launched, another platform that is also almost exactly what this post describes also launched: Path - and it's long dead, too. The author's views represent such a tiny minority that is not worth the required effort to build and maintain a platform for. Let's not forget network effects. You might love this utopian platform, if it were to exist, but good luck convincing everyone you care about to move over with you. You may as well then just use a journaling app if you're talking to yourself.

The largest social platforms right now are hardly showing any signs of slowdowns. The market signal is clear: this is what most people want and are fine with.

Perhaps a journaling-focused platform where social is a second-class aspect might succeed. You're documenting things for yourself anyway and if friends happen to see them and engage with them, that's an added bonus. Network effects would not matter here. In fact, this is how I used Path back in the day. I intentionally kept no friends on it and started using it like a journal, recording my thoughts, adding photos and checkins.

New comment by m4houk in "Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio"

m4houk — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:57:00 +0000

I love this. As a former XP user, here are some pedantic inaccuracies you've got:

- The taskbar tabs are slightly off from how they looked in the real XP (must be the borders? It's the same issue with the windows as well).

- The close/maximize/minimize buttons never had hover transitions

- By default, desktop icons didn't have any hover effects in the real XP

- I'm surprised you didn't recreate the XP mouse cursor!

- IE6:

    - The address bar didn't show progress
    - The buttons in the toolbar at the top never had any transition effect on hover

New comment by m4houk in "Visualize Your Python Code"

m4houk — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:33:19 +0000

I hacked together this tool for visualizing codebases (only Python for now).

P.S. Performance isn't the best with large graphs, so be wary of trying to load a huge repository because your tab will probably freeze up :)

P.P.S. My apologies for mobile users but the site isn't designed or optimized for smaller screens yet.

Visualize Your Python Code

m4houk — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:33:19 +0000

Article URL: https://shapeofyourcode.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45069068

Points: 1

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New comment by m4houk in "GPT-5"

m4houk — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:08:33 +0000

For starters, GPT-4.5 just vanished from the menu for me. It was there before the announcement.

New comment by m4houk in "GPT-5"

m4houk — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:05:15 +0000

It's already available in Cursor for me (on the Ultra plan).

New comment by m4houk in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

m4houk — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 06:38:57 +0000

> Instagram only allows video upload via their app which I can understand (compression and etc)

You can upload videos from the web now; even Reels.

New comment by m4houk in "LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation"

m4houk — Thu, 15 May 2025 07:27:47 +0000

I once built something like this for fun as a side project.

You can highlight some text in a chat and fork the chat to talk about that text selection, so the LLM has context of that along with the previous chat history and it responds in a new chat (entire chat history up to that point from the parent chat gets copied over - basically inspired by the Unix `fork`).

Your text selection from the parent chat would get turned into a hyperlink to the new child chat so you can always get to it again if you're reading the parent chat.