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New comment by performative in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

performative — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:57:05 +0000

as a new user of agents, i am realizing i'm using a strategy basically identical to level 0. is the typical approach to just make a CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md and start a new thread for each task or is it more complicated than that?

Fake Fans

performative — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:26:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wordsfromeliza.com/p/fake-fans

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633157

Points: 159

# Comments: 63

New comment by performative in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

performative — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:42:21 +0000

personally love collletttivo's necto mono: https://www.collletttivo.it/typefaces/necto-mono

New comment by performative in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

performative — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:56:49 +0000

i'm realizing i don't have a great knowledge base on like,, exactly how many people live in a suburb but would rather live in a city and vice versa. anything you can point me towards? you can make sure the whole state has access to the basic living amenities required to, say, do remote work effectively, but my gut tells me that a significant number of people are drawn to urban areas for the types of amenities only possible with higher population density

New comment by performative in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

performative — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:50:11 +0000

this is completely anecdotal, but there's a pretty cool trend i notice where urban places with reasonable renter economies tend to fall into one of three categories

1) "b- to c-tier" cities that build build build build build (austin, slc, phoenix)

2) de-industrialized cities that already have the housing stock (chicago, baltimore, detroit, pittsburgh, philly, worcester)

3) struggling smallish towns and cities that leaned into building better downtowns (there's a billion of em)

New comment by performative in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

performative — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:51:09 +0000

other than introducing public policy to encourage building more housing, i assume?

The Social Media Discoverability Problem

performative — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:53:27 +0000

Article URL: https://samranda.com/blog/social-media-discoverability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239573

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by performative in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"

performative — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:46:03 +0000

the burnout chunk got an agony-fueled chuckle out of me thank you

New comment by performative in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"

performative — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:44:34 +0000

that's really dope, but i'm not sure if it'll work out the same way nowadays. i think we're in a weird stage where momentum REALLY matters in a way that it didn't 10 years ago or 5 years down the line (probably)

New comment by performative in "Sizing chaos"

performative — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:57:38 +0000

a good supplement for this is the Articles of Interest episode on plus size clothing: https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/plus-sizes

New comment by performative in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

performative — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:24:39 +0000

Location: Worcester, MA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: React, Svelte, TypeScript, JavaScript, WebGPU, WebGL

GitHub: https://github.com/notsoli

Résumé/CV: https://samranda.com/files/sr-resume.pdf

Email: work@samranda.com

Web developer and UX designer with 1 year of experience in graphics, creative tooling, security research, and products/platforms with rich or unusual interactivity. I've built photo editors (mint.photo), social platforms (tile.music), domain-specific game engines (carddomain.mosaiq.dev), web tools, and data viz experiments.

New comment by performative in "Harvard President Faults Faculty Activism for Chilling Debate and Free Speech"

performative — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:12:22 +0000

we're getting too close to gamergate 2, mom i'm scared

New comment by performative in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

performative — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:04:12 +0000

eh, i'd rather have fun with rhetoric and do some light poking (even if it doesn't land sometimes) than nothing at all!

New comment by performative in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

performative — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:02:09 +0000

this is a very cute anecdote, thank you. my parents have three dogs, so i've had similar thoughts. i believe they're just truly used to the dead space in a day. it makes sense once i think about it, but it feels so far away

New comment by performative in "Moiré Explorer"

performative — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:33:55 +0000

ugh this is maddeningly cool

New comment by performative in "Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere"

performative — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:50:46 +0000

stack that cash with ur bros

New comment by performative in "Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere"

performative — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:30:54 +0000

superficially it makes me very happy that both strategies make very cute acronyms

New comment by performative in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"

performative — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:24:14 +0000

Location: Worcester, MA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: React, Svelte, TypeScript, JavaScript, WebGPU, WebGL

GitHub: https://github.com/notsoli

Résumé/CV: https://samranda.com/files/sr-resume.pdf

Email: work@samranda.com

Web developer and UX designer with 1 year of experience in graphics, creative tooling, security research, and products/platforms with rich or unusual interactivity. I've built photo editors, social platforms, domain-specific game engines, web tools, and data viz experiments.

New comment by performative in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"

performative — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:21:53 +0000

Location: Worcester, MA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: React, Svelte, TypeScript, JavaScript, WebGPU, WebGL

GitHub: https://github.com/notsoli

Résumé/CV: https://samranda.com/files/sr-resume.pdf

Email: work@samranda.com

Web developer and UX designer with 1 year of experience in graphics, creative tooling, security research, and products/platforms with rich or unusual interactivity. I've built photo editors, social platforms, domain-specific game engines, web tools, and data viz experiments.

New comment by performative in "A website to destroy all websites"

performative — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:08:59 +0000

first off: this is a beautiful article! but, it got me thinking about how many times i found an interest that would then become a core part of my identity by having a really cool piece of media relating to said interest essentially force-fed to me by algorithmic feeds. i got into rhythm games by seeing a livestream of osu! pop up on twitch, got into archival fashion by seeing a really incredible outfit on reddit, got into experimental pop by having clarence clarity's "no now" come across my spotify feed.

as someone who grew up in a fairly insulated & isolated suburb, i think those types of experiences were really important in turning me from an unconfident, kinda angry kid into the aesthetically-engaged, witty, openly-gay man w/ a pretty big breadth of creative interests i ended up being. i'm truly not sure if i would've turned out this way if most of the internet remained as undiscoverable as it was ~20 years ago.

though i have more appreciation for the slow web nowadays, where my identity is a bit more solidified, i still feel a pretty strong pull towards "the platform", and my visions for a healthier internet include it. but, that's about as far as i've gotten.