Hacker News: montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=montagHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 18 Oct 2026 07:19:26 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"]]>Prefixing the title with “The” would make it a lot easier to parse.

]]>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:22:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024671montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024671https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024671<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Meta's Muse AI agent is building a dossier on you"]]>I sure hope it is. Otherwise I will switch to a product that understands me better.

]]>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:37:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985142montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985142https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985142<![CDATA[Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project]]>Article URL: https://github.com/eolix/photosuite/issues/77

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972730

Points: 193

# Comments: 125

]]>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:41:44 +0000https://github.com/eolix/photosuite/issues/77montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972730https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972730<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming"]]>In case the title is unclear, this is about gaming the specification, as in “gaming the system.”

]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:37:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638460montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638460https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638460<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "PageRank explained"]]>Really?? And not BrinRank?

]]>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:50:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451228montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451228https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451228<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Falstad Math and Physics Simulations"]]>Legendary

]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:53:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318518montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318518https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318518<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Playing with Georgia"]]>I was on board until “fake a medium weight”… faux bold is one of my pet peeves. How hard would it be to turn Georgia into a true variable axis font?

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:14:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150468montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150468https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150468<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"]]>Really cool. I can see some issues, like Starr King park turned into a lake for some reason, but it’s so much fun to look at. Do you have any way to patch errors and discontinuities at the tile boundaries?

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:11:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150439montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150439https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150439<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2"]]>I agree. The limitations forced composers to be economical and creative.

As for modern OSTs, I like VA-11Hall-A. Never played it though

]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:52:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148754montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148754https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148754<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"]]>Misled

]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:14:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129140montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129140https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129140<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "98.css"]]>I used 98.css as starting point for the Winamp theme in https://chiptune.app. It was very easy to modify and extend, thanks!

]]>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:43:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030347montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030347https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030347<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"]]>Hm. Underrated comment

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:27:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988049montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988049https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988049<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"]]>I thought -- was typically a separator for passing a list of arguments directly to some subcommand

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:08:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987592montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987592https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987592<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Show HN: ClipTunes, string together trimmed YouTube video clips"]]>This would be really cool for putting musical samples back-to-back. Like 50 versions of Paganini's Caprice No. 24 in 2 minutes.

I did a double take on the domain name, it's very similar to mine https://chiptune.app :)

]]>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:05:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938017montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938017https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938017<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"]]>That is a great analogy! I still remember the day my cousin explained that there was a whole internet outside of AOL…

]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:36:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912618montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912618https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912618<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed"]]>Agreed :) lots here to play with: https://chiptune.app?q=silpheed

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:44:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899328montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899328https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899328<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]>It’s pretty. Lots of people have anxiety around the big question. A tool like this can really help.

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:29:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887526montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887526https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887526<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]>Have you thought about building it as a plugin, e.g. for Jetbrains?

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:27:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887515montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887515https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887515<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]>Wow, that’s neat. Perfect for a hyperlight drifter style game.

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:26:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887507montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887507https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887507<![CDATA[New comment by montag in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]>Wow, nice.

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:21:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887482montaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887482https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887482