Hacker News: mplewis

New comment by mplewis in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

mplewis — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:05:30 +0000

Emergency notifications, mainly.

New comment by mplewis in "I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold"

mplewis — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:41:35 +0000

Tesla is the bad guy too.

New comment by mplewis in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

mplewis — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:34:46 +0000

The $10 plan is worth it.

New comment by mplewis in "GPT-6 built this earth exploration site in 5 prompts"

mplewis — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:42:55 +0000

they did not, in fact

New comment by mplewis in "GPT-6 built this earth exploration site in 5 prompts"

mplewis — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:41:35 +0000

yeah, but is any of this true?

New comment by mplewis in "Shopify moves back to Native from React Native"

mplewis — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:47:04 +0000

React is still king.

New comment by mplewis in "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"

mplewis — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:12:55 +0000

Ask George Lucas.

New comment by mplewis in "The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)"

mplewis — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:19:43 +0000

The intended usage was crypto mining. You bought a 4U of these in a rack of 12 blades.

New comment by mplewis in "The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)"

mplewis — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:18:06 +0000

My monitor doesn't have a DisplayPort port.

New comment by mplewis in "The asteroid currently hitting front end web development"

mplewis — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:49:01 +0000

you can literally do that to chatgpt

New comment by mplewis in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

mplewis — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:11:55 +0000

you people are always mixing up the legal thing to do with the right thing to do

New comment by mplewis in "AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link"

mplewis — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:41:19 +0000

"Everything I don't like is communism"

New comment by mplewis in "AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link"

mplewis — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:41:05 +0000

you're not making a good argument for privatization lol

New comment by mplewis in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

mplewis — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:38:55 +0000

Can someone at ERSC please fix the issue preventing back/forward scroll gestures from working on the site?

New comment by mplewis in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

mplewis — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:23:42 +0000

> Apple does not have a psyops division cooking up ever more elaborate ways to seed demand

Most companies have that division. It's called marketing.

New comment by mplewis in "Tracking Costco gas prices"

mplewis — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:25:41 +0000

Sounds like you're the one making this political.

New comment by mplewis in "Fences, Not Sandboxes"

mplewis — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:31:02 +0000

Every time Steve goes deeper into the AI whirlpool his engineering practices slip further from good.

New comment by mplewis in "Fences, Not Sandboxes"

mplewis — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:25:13 +0000

Anthropic doesn't actually mind if you use multiple subscriptions

New comment by mplewis in "Fences, Not Sandboxes"

mplewis — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:24:38 +0000

ok, but when steve made gas town, it didn't actually do anything but build more gas town.

New comment by mplewis in "Kobo can run apps now"

mplewis — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:13:01 +0000

Pretty insulting to not mention Koreader anywhere in your Claude-written marketing copy.