Hacker News: minton

New comment by minton in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

minton — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:44:45 +0000

> No body who has a choice is using Grok

The Grok app had over 100 million downloads in 2025, over 60 million active users, and generated $350 million in revenue. That’s a lot of people being forced to use it.

Beam on Mobile: Mob

minton — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:33:45 +0000

Article URL: https://genericjam.com/blog/mob-intro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212917

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by minton in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

minton — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:48:23 +0000

Digital currency can help control you. Imagine negative inflation based on your social score.

New comment by minton in "Ask HN: Is Claude Down Again?"

minton — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:40:59 +0000

Same. I have been using it all morning, no issues.

New comment by minton in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

minton — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:15:13 +0000

So you’ll just not use Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, or Android? In other words, you’ll just not use any computers? Seems nonsensical.

New comment by minton in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

minton — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:10:51 +0000

Not my experience. I have iPad Pro and I only use it for workouts. It sits on my workout machine and once or twice a week I try to watch a ~45 min episode while doing cardio. It’s always dead and needs constant charging. Never last more than 3 days without needing charging.

New comment by minton in "The Codex App"

minton — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:27:23 +0000

But Electron doesn’t hit that bar even

Purpose-Built AI for Nuclear

minton — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:20:57 +0000

Article URL: https://nuclearn.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770947

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by minton in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

minton — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:10:54 +0000

> Designed exclusively for tracking objects, and not people or pets, the new AirTag incorporates…

Interesting to call out that it’s not designed for pets. I know several people with AirTags on their pet collars.

New comment by minton in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

minton — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:03:30 +0000

Lots of things people might want to monitor for such as nail biting.

New comment by minton in "Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)"

minton — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:55:09 +0000

I’ve looked at jj, but couldn’t make sense of the proposed benefits. I always stage individual files and never the entire working directory, so I’m confused how it improves that over git.

New comment by minton in "The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car"

minton — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:39:39 +0000

> An IndyCar is heavier than a Formula 1 car: while a Formula 1 car weighs 1759 pounds / 798 kg including the driver, an IndyCar weighs 1700 pounds / 771 kg on road and street courses, excluding the driver.

This seems to contradict itself.

New comment by minton in "Imo.im – Instant Messenger"

minton — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:03:25 +0000

How are all these chat app funded?

New comment by minton in "Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore?"

minton — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:44:29 +0000

Isn’t idea of insurance at odds with the idea of a pre-existing condition? Like car insurance is a hedge against a crash. We don’t let people buy it after totaling their car.

We really need an alternative system to cover pre-existing and not force it into insurance.

New comment by minton in "Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man"

minton — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:30:59 +0000

I suppose they could take their enterprises with them. Removing jobs and taxes from the local economy.

New comment by minton in "Reverse-Engineering the LCD Display Interface of the Nest 2nd Gen Thermostat"

minton — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:31:40 +0000

I love the idea of this. Keep perfectly working things from being made obsolete artificially. They should look at the old Nest Protect next.

New comment by minton in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

minton — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:32:18 +0000

> At its core, Omarchy embraces Linux . . . makes a version of it that is accessible and fun to use for developers that don’t have a deep background in operating systems.

New comment by minton in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

minton — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:53:24 +0000

Maybe one company should not be able to decide which browsers we are allowed to use.

New comment by minton in "Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app"

minton — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:33:14 +0000

The zoomed in view is great if you’re commonly examining under magnification, but perhaps a slightly less zoomed view (or ability to switch between each) might make this more practical for common folks.

New comment by minton in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

minton — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:56:34 +0000

We are are migrating back to Docker org-wide after 5 months on Podman.