Hacker News: pmdr

New comment by pmdr in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

pmdr — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:03:13 +0000

I like vanilla CSS, but agents in my experience seem to deliver more uniform results when using tailwind.

New comment by pmdr in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

pmdr — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:41:38 +0000

I was merely hinting at protests being called peaceful by the media when they clearly weren't. Not saying they weren't justifiably so.

New comment by pmdr in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

pmdr — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:03:40 +0000

As long as it's a mostly peaceful prostest, you're also allowed to set a few cars on fire and loot local businesses.

New comment by pmdr in "Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished"

pmdr — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:49:01 +0000

Drug patents are much more short-lived and there's arguably more money invested in drug discovery than in, say, writing a fiction novel. IMO copyright should be limited to 20-30 years. Not that LLM labs care anyway.

New comment by pmdr in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

pmdr — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:28:12 +0000

Because the alternative we were promised (bsky) is much, much worse than X, albeit at the other end of the political spectrum.

New comment by pmdr in "Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%"

pmdr — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:29:09 +0000

I wish websites would stop messing with the scrolling behavior.

New comment by pmdr in ".name Termination"

pmdr — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:33:09 +0000

> I had history with Verisign and did not trust them.

I don't know what that history is, but did it really make a tld used by only 22k people more appealing?

New comment by pmdr in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

pmdr — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:34:10 +0000

Should've just named them both Guardrails 5.1 and be done with it.

New comment by pmdr in "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope"

pmdr — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:16 +0000

Musk used to be reddit's darling. People's newfound hate for him seem to cloud their judgment and make them forget what made Musk their darling in the first place.

New comment by pmdr in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

pmdr — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:13 +0000

How much longer until such use is deemed unwanted by our AI overlords?

New comment by pmdr in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

pmdr — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:35:34 +0000

I've come to the same conclusion. Some believe that grownups shouldn't care about RAM prices going up.

New comment by pmdr in "Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?"

pmdr — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:49:35 +0000

> open HN

> ignore all posts about MCP

> ignore all posts containing "agent"

> also ignore everything frontier labs bragged about hacking this week

> ignore AI psychosis posts praised as being the future

> check out everything else

> close HN

New comment by pmdr in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

pmdr — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:31:55 +0000

I found Opus to be a lot lazier than GPT. It's still the case with Opus 5, even when I tell it to be thorough and fix every bug it encounters, it still gives me a list of things "deliberately" left unfixed and no reasonable explanation as to why.

New comment by pmdr in "Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload"

pmdr — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:43:33 +0000

There's a reddit thread from 9 years ago with people complaining the site blocking crawlers and thus not being indexed by search engines. So I'm not sure what they consider "overload." At this point they should dump the db on thepiratebay.

New comment by pmdr in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

pmdr — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:22:50 +0000

The only winner here is Cloudflare. Nowadays they have 30s wait screens for residential IPs they don't like. It's things like this that make me quit the internet altogether.

New comment by pmdr in "What Happened to Talenti?"

pmdr — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:23:11 +0000

They should pivot to AI.

New comment by pmdr in "Less Coffee, Better Sleep"

pmdr — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:06:14 +0000

Since quitting caffeine 10 months ago I've found it difficult to fall asleep as I seem to have a lot more energy in the evenings. Also, decaf is probably impossible to get in a Swedish workplace, people give you a concerned stare whenever you ask for it.

New comment by pmdr in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

pmdr — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:12:27 +0000

Nowadays you have to get past Cloudflare to even see headlines.

New comment by pmdr in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

pmdr — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:03:10 +0000

> It's not like ads weren't a thing 20 years ago. Pop-up windows were particularly bad.

Google pretty much declared war on those back then, providing reasonable-looking ad formats that could be integrated discreetly on the page (and as far as I remember, they had a limit of how many banners you could show). I really wish we could back to that. Now they serve animated/video ads.

New comment by pmdr in "New York sues Kalshi, says its prediction markets are illegal gambling"

pmdr — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:12:28 +0000

They are gambling, and the more we pretend they're not, the more damaging it will be for society.