Hacker News: mthoms

New comment by mthoms in "Show HN: GeoChess – open-source geography strategy game"

mthoms — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:59:37 +0000

I played about 8 rounds and I still don't understand the goal.

New comment by mthoms in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

mthoms — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:30:55 +0000

Yup. I remember Google making this exact same promise with AdWords and then slowly but surely rolling it back, quarter after quarter and year after year.

New comment by mthoms in "Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode"

mthoms — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:47:45 +0000

Thanks, that was poorly worded.

New comment by mthoms in "1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored"

mthoms — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:46:16 +0000

The original scans are also available.

New comment by mthoms in "Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode"

mthoms — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:39:39 +0000

It would be great if an LLM could be trained to generate interpolated images between the 10m intervals of the full disk geocolor product. The animations would be fantastic.

I've got about 2.5 years worth of that imagery if someone knows a good way to do this on a budget.

New comment by mthoms in "Collection of Digital Clock Designs"

mthoms — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:36:29 +0000

This is cool. I'd love to see a collection like this for date representations. Anyone?

New comment by mthoms in "Show HN: Onboard-CLI, a LLM powered and AST-based tool to visualize codebase"

mthoms — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:53:19 +0000

I watched the 1:30 video and didn't see a single code visualization. Not one.

The closest was a "visualization" of a single, unconnected node that can be moved around — all by its lonesome self — on a canvas. For some reason.

New comment by mthoms in "OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase"

mthoms — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:53:28 +0000

We need to make an effort to distinguish “this is a thing for humans” vs “this is a thing for bots” in our naming IMHO. In that respect, “open wiki” is not such a great name. “Agent Wiki” or similar would be better.

Without such a qualifier, “wiki” carries a strong connotation of (usually collaborative) human involvement. That’s literally what it’s famous for.

Thats just my $0.02 on the naming. I definitely think it’s a worthwhile idea. All the best.

New comment by mthoms in "Trump made more than $1B on crypto deals, part of 2025 windfall"

mthoms — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:21:11 +0000

That’s just what was officially disclosed.

New comment by mthoms in "The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"

mthoms — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:11:27 +0000

How many of those other groups have openly lobbied for war? I have no doubt there are a few others TBH. The oil industry comes to mind.

The point being, it's not just the amount of money at play. That's only part of it. But you know that.

New comment by mthoms in "The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"

mthoms — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:54:18 +0000

Well it's also bad when it's done by highly trained medical experts in a modern hospital as part of gender affirming care.

It's only when performed as part of a pre-medieval ritual in unhygienic conditions by non-professionals in front of a crowd of gawking onlookers that it is totally fine.

New comment by mthoms in "Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane"

mthoms — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:08:35 +0000

You’re right, I don’t see it. I can’t even imagine being against people coming together for a common cause.

What a miserable world that would be.

New comment by mthoms in "Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane"

mthoms — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:02:29 +0000

I'm old enough to remember the 1980's when people largely adopted a strikingly similar "new religion" that advocated for a free South Africa.

The Free Tibet "religion" was also a huge thing for a while in the 90's.

There are countless other examples. All with varying degrees of success.

The point is, there's nothing new about people being passionate about human rights. It has absolutely nothing to do with... well... whatever "degrowth" is.

New comment by mthoms in "Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor"

mthoms — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:38:39 +0000

This is a key point. I don't know if you can still edit your submission, but I think this would be helpful to mention up front. I'm looking forward to testing this.

New comment by mthoms in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

mthoms — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:12:02 +0000

It’s the same logic behind the Trump tariff regime: “We love capitalism and free markets, except when we’re losing at it”.

New comment by mthoms in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

mthoms — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:58:12 +0000

Given that Grok is selling all of the compute capacity from its flagship data centre out to a direct competitor sorta speaks for itself.

Does it mean they are out of the race? I have no idea, but things don't look great.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986

New comment by mthoms in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

mthoms — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:43:03 +0000

Same problem here.

I sure wish 1Password + Fastmail would let you generate them within the 1Password app without requiring a browser sign-up page in the middle.

New comment by mthoms in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

mthoms — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:29:47 +0000

That's a weird way of saying there hasn't been an election in 20 years.

New comment by mthoms in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

mthoms — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:24:51 +0000

>Many countries use census data to target (or even round up and murder) specific groups of people by religion, ethnicity, etc.

You were asked to back up this claim but haven't cited an example of any country currently "using census data" to "round up and murder" people.

Is China currently using census data to do horrible things? Are other countries? Maybe. I have no idea. I wouldn't be all that surprised TBH. You may be correct for all I know.

But that's not the point... The point is that you made a very specific claim and you still haven't provided any specific examples or evidence.

New comment by mthoms in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

mthoms — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:02:41 +0000

Of course. But the specific claim you made was about many countries currently using census data to "round up and murder" some "specific groups of people by religion, ethnicity, etc."

I'm not arguing that you don't a valid point - broadly speaking. You do.

But you made a very specific claim, and that was what was being questioned. That's all.