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New comment by mckean in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

mckean — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:14:50 +0000

Oh I see, yeah I'm actually experiencing the same on mobile. I'll add some trims and remove line breaks for validation. Also include the stats and reconstruct them before submission so only the text needs to be pasted. thx for the feedback!

New comment by mckean in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

mckean — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:14:53 +0000

The thing is no matter what you do it's always extra work. There are similar projects that provide sdk's that you can integrate. The goal for this project was to create something simple and to make it a topic.

Thanks for checking it out :)

New comment by mckean in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

mckean — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:35:25 +0000

ummm just tested, works: A simple way to prove that a piece of text, a post, a message, was written by me.

Yes, the burden should not lie on the author, and you could argue it's not even relevant. Still, the default has shifted and there's a refreshing feeling when you're forced to choose your own words.

This is not perfect. You can still find ways to have a machine write a text into this box. But what's guaranteed is the time: writing a message takes the time a human would actually need.

At the very least writtenhuman.com is a statement that the problem it's tackling is real. One with the potential to become a global crisis.

(plausibility 100/100 · mean 58 wpm · peak 108 wpm · cadence 4.5 keys/s · duration 2:56)

New comment by mckean in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

mckean — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:28:49 +0000

yeah the thing that isn't clear you need to include the stats part in the brackets.

New comment by mckean in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

mckean — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:17:19 +0000

A simple way to prove that a piece of text, a post, a message, was written by me.

Yes, the burden should not lie on the author, and you could argue it's not even relevant. Still, the default has shifted and there's a refreshing feeling when you're forced to choose your own words.

This is not perfect. You can still find ways to have a machine write a text into this box. But what's guaranteed is the time: writing a message takes the time a human would actually need.

At the very least writtenhuman.com is a statement that the problem it's tackling is real. One with the potential to become a global crisis.

(plausibility 100/100 · mean 58 wpm · peak 108 wpm · cadence 4.5 keys/s · duration 2:56)

Verified human · www.writtenhuman.com/v/m7h8asjd

New comment by mckean in "FUTO Keyboard"

mckean — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:18:34 +0000

Checkout heliboard: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

New comment by mckean in "Posiship – positive relationships – tracing API as a service"

mckean — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:33:58 +0000

The project started out a bit more ambitious (creating yet another tracing app), I guess it was good that from the 20 people who wanted to contribute only 2 were left actually doing work, so we had to make it as simple as possible. I hope others will create SDK's so other devs can easily integrate it into their apps.

New comment by mckean in "Posiship – positive relationships – tracing API as a service"

mckean — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:28:29 +0000

The goal of this is to spark discussion about everyone creating their own app at the moment. I want to explore the idea of existing applications enabling such a feature (opt in of course).

Posiship – positive relationships – tracing API as a service

mckean — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:26:05 +0000

Article URL: https://devpost.com/software/posiship-positive-relationships

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22736312

Points: 4

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