Hacker News: m4tthumphrey

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "Dopamine Fracking"

m4tthumphrey — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:54:48 +0000

So. Many. Commas.

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?"

m4tthumphrey — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:40:37 +0000

OP clearly meant that the AI players are not reading and/or honouring llms.txt of other websites when scraping.

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "The desperation of NYTimes"

m4tthumphrey — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:49:39 +0000

Semi linked:

I, like many others, play Wordle daily. When the page loads, there is a button to play todays challenge. Then, there is a very small delay (like 100ms) and suddenly a button to "View all games" appears, right where you would have tapped/clicked on the button to play the puzzle. To me, viewing all games is a way to "see what you could have" if you subscribed.

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "Apparently Google hates us now"

m4tthumphrey — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:05:07 +0000

No, I think "us" is apt, considering this will eventually affect all sites that rely on traffic from Google search, which is basically every text heavy site.

All we can hope for is that people will stop using search (after eventually having enough of the AI wave) for these sort of niche sites and will bookmark and access them directly in future. I don't have much hope.

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing"

m4tthumphrey — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:42:47 +0000

Crazy. I'm sure I paid around $40-70 back in 2016.

Honestly Plex has been wearing me down for years but I'm too lazy to move to an alternative.

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "SecurityBaseline.eu"

m4tthumphrey — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:28:58 +0000

I think (a public) phpMyAdmin in 2026 deserves a good bashing.

(I have been working with PHP for 20 years)

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "SecurityBaseline.eu"

m4tthumphrey — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:14:13 +0000

Came here to say this. Absolutely insane.

Why is phpMyAdmin even still needed/wanted in 2026? It's not exactly user friendly for a developer, let alone an average Gov employee...

World Cup tickets go on sale

m4tthumphrey — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:51:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce8lzj0rprpo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615283

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "Rank the 50 best Apple products"

m4tthumphrey — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:01:54 +0000

Cool idea but I am not old enough/have not have enough (any) interest in some of the older products, so I think a "skip" option would be cool.

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

m4tthumphrey — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:15:52 +0000

An airgapped TV I expect.

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

m4tthumphrey — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:43:05 +0000

GitLab isn't much better right now either unfortunately.

Stop spending money on Claude, Chipotle's chat bot is free

m4tthumphrey — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:54:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/s/rhT0uFqxYa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428987

Points: 34

# Comments: 3

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

m4tthumphrey — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:40:09 +0000

My partner and I were planning a West Coast trip for the World Cup this year for my 40th, but we decided to solely do Canada instead. Can't see how it won't end up being the best decision we've ever made.

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

m4tthumphrey — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:26:46 +0000

I can't edit nor be bothered to reply to all of the negative responses so I'll put it here.

Pretty much all of you missed the larger point. PHP was what allowed me to not work in retail forever, buy a forever house, never have to worry about losing my job (this may change in the future with AI) or being at risk for redundancy, having chosen to only work for small, "normal" well run profitable businesses.

Unless you're building a hyper scale product, it does the job perfectly. PHP itself is not a security issue; using it poorly is, and any language can be used poorly. PHP is still perfectly suitable for web dev, especially in 2026.

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

m4tthumphrey — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:02:43 +0000

Also the language that runs half of the web.

Also the language that has made me millions over my career with no degree.

Also the language that allows people to be up and running in seconds (with or without AI).

I could go on.

World Cup games in Boston at risk

m4tthumphrey — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:58:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7084751/2026/03/04/foxboro-fifa-world-cup-row/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247455

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024"

m4tthumphrey — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:14:06 +0000

You'll just see it within AI responses instead.

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "Elevated Errors in Claude.ai"

m4tthumphrey — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:24:01 +0000

Are you seeing a return yet? Semi-serious question.

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "Elevated Errors in Claude.ai"

m4tthumphrey — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:11:24 +0000

How are you spending that much?

New comment by m4tthumphrey in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"

m4tthumphrey — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:08:19 +0000

> Reminder. What passes for news today wouldn’t have registered for most people 100 years ago.

This is a great point.