Hacker News: montag

New comment by montag in "Working on Products People Hate"

montag — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:41:03 +0000

It's a fatalistic attitude. Some kind of is/ought fallacy. This is why we need precepts like "Focus on the user and all else will follow."

New comment by montag in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

montag — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:49:55 +0000

Well this was prescient... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582220

New comment by montag in "Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio?"

montag — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:35:54 +0000

You might enjoy this: https://mattmontag.com/audio-listening-test/

New comment by montag in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

montag — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:33:18 +0000

Gonna see if I can implement https://chiptune.app in an actual TUI with this.

New comment by montag in "Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026"

montag — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:13:50 +0000

Shout out to Digsby as well. Similar app from around the same time period.

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

montag — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:02:03 +0000

Haha. That was wonderful to the very end.

New comment by montag in "Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking"

montag — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:29:36 +0000

Wasn’t it George Orwell who said “writing is thinking”?

New comment by montag in "Bugs Apple loves"

montag — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:27:57 +0000

This is cute and I hate stubborn Apple bugs as much as anyone. But these $100 billion figures should be weighed against the hypothetical trillions that Apple has contributed to humanity.

New comment by montag in "OLED, Not for Me"

montag — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:49:46 +0000

I guess we need a font rendering engine for arbitrary subpixel layout...

New comment by montag in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

montag — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:02:54 +0000

This is the biggest mistake, imo. The snowflakes should disappear immediately...

New comment by montag in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

montag — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:39:57 +0000

I disagree completely.

New comment by montag in "Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy"

montag — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:06:27 +0000

Generalizing a bit, aren’t we? I never heard this version of the rhyme

New comment by montag in "Backing up Spotify"

montag — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:01:05 +0000

I don’t understand how the parent comment is downvoted yet this is not. “Stealing is ok because stealing is already a thing”… come on, now

New comment by montag in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

montag — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:27:49 +0000

You're too generous. I feel like the entire production run of this ring could be equivalent to a single discarded washing machine. This law is hamfisted.

New comment by montag in "Memories of .us"

montag — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:41:54 +0000

I didn’t realize how far these had fallen out of fashion. I maintained http://kenn.cr.k12.ia.us for a time, and it was so hard to remember that domain (scarcely easier than an IP address) until I tried to understand it. It’s now kennedy.crschools.us.

New comment by montag in "Nano Banana Pro"

montag — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:53:32 +0000

this way is better. Burn in public, burn much faster.

New comment by montag in "Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use"

montag — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:48:17 +0000

If anyone from APA.org is listening, this website is really bad on mobile

New comment by montag in "How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one"

montag — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:34:51 +0000

The Klax port for Game Boy Color (1999) contains a hidden wedding proposal. It took Mike Mika's girlfriend 3 years to find it

https://tcrf.net/Klax_(Game_Boy_Color)

New comment by montag in "Users only care about 20% of your application"

montag — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:00:27 +0000

I like to call these "windshield wipers." Rarely used yet essential.

New comment by montag in "Find SF parking cops"

montag — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:29:05 +0000

Good Lord this is cool, gorgeous Nokia UI