Hacker News: matthewsinclair

CodeMySpec – Lovable for engineers who care about the code

matthewsinclair — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:06:10 +0000

Article URL: https://codemyspec.com/products/code-my-spec

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278053

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

matthewsinclair — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:22:14 +0000

I’ve had some pretty good results with Claude Code over the last 18 months or so, and “agentic engineering” (as opposed to “vibe coding”) is now very tightly integrated into my workflow. But it’s pretty easy to see how it can devolve to Dunning-Krueger-as-a-service if you don’t know what you’re doing. Which sadly appears to be the case far more often than it’s not right now.

New comment by matthewsinclair in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

matthewsinclair — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:39:06 +0000

Now we’re into a conversation about degree, and not principle. Yes, it could be small, applied like a sales tax a percentage of the spend on advertising. The idea would be to create a price disincentive to do it. Ultimately, it’s a form of digital pollution, so the less we have of it the better (in my view).

New comment by matthewsinclair in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

matthewsinclair — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:24:08 +0000

I know this is controversial, and imperfect, but the longer this crap continues the more right I feel about this as a solution:

What if we taxed advertising? https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0177-what-if-we-taxed-adver...

New comment by matthewsinclair in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

matthewsinclair — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:21:17 +0000

The enshitification will continue until morale improves.

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Extremely Low Frequencies"

matthewsinclair — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:04:43 +0000

As an Aussie, it’s always amused me that we managed to name a public swimming pool after a Prime Minister who (at least as the official story goes) died whilst swimming.

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Why Not Venus?"

matthewsinclair — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:58:32 +0000

I went back about 2 years ago and speed ran all of them. Somehow the sequels seemed substantially better than I remember them. In fact, on the first watch I was _so_ disappointed with 2 that I didn’t even watch 3. 20-odd years later, I had a very different (positive) experience. Not sure why. Maybe I was in a good mood.

New comment by matthewsinclair in "You can now run a full Linux operating system inside a 6mb PDF"

matthewsinclair — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:11:47 +0000

What? I thought the idea of running Linux in a PDF was pretty cool. Apologies if that bummed your day.

We Hacked BCG's Data Warehouse – 3.17T Rows, Zero Authentication

matthewsinclair — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:01:58 +0000

Article URL: https://codewall.ai/blog/how-we-hacked-bcgs-data-warehouse-3-17-trillion-rows-zero-authentication

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613902

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Linux Running in a PDF (2025)"

matthewsinclair — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:38:11 +0000

And here's the PDF: https://linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf

Linux Running in a PDF (2025)

matthewsinclair — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:34:11 +0000

Article URL: https://linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582792

Points: 85

# Comments: 22

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Siclair Microvision (1977)"

matthewsinclair — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:50:08 +0000

“Siclair” or “Sinclair”?

Prince of Arabia for the Flipper (Cf Prince of Persia)

matthewsinclair — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:32:27 +0000

Article URL: https://lab.flipper.net/apps/princeofarabia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552701

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix"

matthewsinclair — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:16:47 +0000

Congrats! Nice work. I’m a fellow “Phoenix |> Elixir” fan and built something similar here [0]. I’m still ironing the kinks out of mine, but I’ve moved all of my personal sites over to it and it’s been running for almost a year now.

[0]: https://laksa.io