Hacker News: mplewis

New comment by mplewis in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

mplewis — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:15:52 +0000

Why is that any of your business?

New comment by mplewis in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

mplewis — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:55:21 +0000

Hotwire doesn't work anywhere you can't guarantee a high-quality low-latency connection. Every UI interaction in Hotwire includes that round trip.

New comment by mplewis in "Someone used my open source project to phish people"

mplewis — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:55:26 +0000

Please write your own blog posts rather than asking us to read LLM slop.

New comment by mplewis in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

mplewis — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:41:20 +0000

Clarify exactly what you mean by "demographic collapse."

New comment by mplewis in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

mplewis — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:40:49 +0000

What does any of that have to do with Dropbox?

New comment by mplewis in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

mplewis — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:07:50 +0000

Why is this scummy?

New comment by mplewis in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

mplewis — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:07:18 +0000

How do you know most people don't do this? All my e-book-reading friends buy physical and digital copies of books in addition to whatever they get off AA.

New comment by mplewis in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

mplewis — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:05:02 +0000

If you can be tricked into giving someone all your money when they politely ask for it, you weren't going to hold onto your money for very long.

New comment by mplewis in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

mplewis — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:04:10 +0000

You go to a library. You check out a book. You read it. You return it. The librarian says "Thank you for returning our book!"

Are you dense?

New comment by mplewis in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

mplewis — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:01:43 +0000

AA was almost certainly used as the literal source of much of the training data.

New comment by mplewis in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

mplewis — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:05:06 +0000

Yes, you could build your own framework to localize your styles. Or you could just use Tailwind.

New comment by mplewis in "SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video"

mplewis — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:00:13 +0000

But these aren't great games. They are not even good. They are just tech demos with nothing of interest to gamers.

Why do I need more slopware? I have an entire Steam library of excellent games that deserve to be played first.

New comment by mplewis in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

mplewis — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:18:19 +0000

This won't reliably get messages between two users in the mountains.

New comment by mplewis in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

mplewis — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:22:24 +0000

The first is impossible and the second isn't happening and won't happen.

New comment by mplewis in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

mplewis — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:41:18 +0000

You know the answer. An LLM wrote it.

New comment by mplewis in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

mplewis — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:04:14 +0000

No. Fuck off

New comment by mplewis in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

mplewis — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:42:19 +0000

What did Anthropic have to do with any of this?

New comment by mplewis in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

mplewis — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:47:20 +0000

have you ever met a person who likes outlook?

New comment by mplewis in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

mplewis — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:06:34 +0000

is this your first year on the internet?

New comment by mplewis in "An Update on Heroku"

mplewis — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:12:15 +0000

You gotta fix the home page. I'm not sitting through a movie trailer to find out how your chat app works.