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New comment by moss_dog in "My Agent Setup"

moss_dog — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:21:26 +0000

Thanks for the write-up! I'm interested in doing something similar. How are you sandboxing the agents?

New comment by moss_dog in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

moss_dog — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:57:07 +0000

What do you mean by "wrong"?

I reckon the actual color doesn't matter as long as it's blue-ish. There are no branding guidelines or anything. Even the size of the circle is unspecified, which IMO is a feature, not a bug. It's accessible :)

EDIT: I'm incorrect, there is a spec. Whelp! I still like my imagined more-flexible version of the flag.

New comment by moss_dog in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

moss_dog — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:16:10 +0000

Yes, Tiny Leaders is awesome!

My own lil custom 40 card format is actually explicitly designed to be backwards compatible with any existing commander deck! You can just take a deck, draft from it (or just split it down the middle after a good shuffle), give one of the decks to a friend, and start playing!

Some more info here (if a little self-promo is OK, as a treat): https://scry.fish/microEDH

New comment by moss_dog in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

moss_dog — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:16:20 +0000

Agreed. Playing the same pair of decks with a friend over and over is so fun -- you really start to learn the decks, and the early game becomes extremely tactical.

New comment by moss_dog in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

moss_dog — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:10:00 +0000

This is cool. 40 card decks are great! In addition to being physically ergonomic, I find 40 cards to be a fun deck-building size. With about 17 lands, you get 23 choices to make of what to include outside of that, which feels like a sweet spot between deck-building expressiveness and decision fatigue.

As an aside, I'm convinced that a big reason WotC (and FLGS) are pushing commander so hard is because 100 card decks means you get to sell more cards.

New comment by moss_dog in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

moss_dog — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:24:43 +0000

I think this comment is unnecessarily harsh.

To anyone confused (like me), the commenters above had opposite recommendations despite having similar opinions of the book.

New comment by moss_dog in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

moss_dog — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:28:20 +0000

Wow, I didn't realize Zachtronics made Infiniminer. Fascinating!

New comment by moss_dog in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

moss_dog — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:33:04 +0000

It's tagged nonfiction.

New comment by moss_dog in "I Simulated 38,612 Countryle Games to Find the Best Strategy"

moss_dog — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:30:17 +0000

Great read! Thanks for sharing.

New comment by moss_dog in "Willingness to look stupid"

moss_dog — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:20:27 +0000

Fantastic, thanks for sharing! I hadn't heard of this before. Very entertaining video!

New comment by moss_dog in "Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due"

moss_dog — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:02:04 +0000

Great explanation, thanks!

New comment by moss_dog in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"

moss_dog — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:09:35 +0000

It's interesting that you frame building bike lanes and reducing car speeds as "punishing drivers", seemingly ignoring that such changes enable micro-mobility users to commute to work safely.

New comment by moss_dog in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

moss_dog — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:41:39 +0000

That's Neko! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_%28software%29

New comment by moss_dog in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

moss_dog — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:03:55 +0000

I'm generally of the opinion that capitalization is not necessary in many cases, such as at the start of sentences. That's what punctuation is for :)

New comment by moss_dog in "Flying Around the World in under 80 Days"

moss_dog — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:35:45 +0000

Delightful read, thanks for sharing. The website design is very pleasant, too!

Also FYI the link to "Aves Æternæ" is broken.

New comment by moss_dog in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

moss_dog — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:41:54 +0000

I prefer xcancel in part because Twitter doesn't let you view replies etc when not logged in.

New comment by moss_dog in "Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf]"

moss_dog — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:04:59 +0000

Maybe Eco's "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1"?

New comment by moss_dog in "Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf]"

moss_dog — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:08:16 +0000

While we're Borges-posting, I recommend "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"

https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content...

New comment by moss_dog in "Google removes AI health summaries"

moss_dog — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:31:01 +0000

What's that?

New comment by moss_dog in "How I Left YouTube"

moss_dog — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:55:31 +0000

IIRC HN typically removes the "How" from article titles like these, presumably to avoid clickbait titles.