Hacker News: ppetty

New comment by ppetty in "Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan"

ppetty — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:19:34 +0000

Wonder where this leaves folks who paid the annual rate? Here’s what Claude said:

https://claude.ai/share/1a4293bd-b2d4-41b7-a887-eb42b3ae8b6e

“ The standard answer here is no — Anthropic does not typically refund the unused portion of annual plans , and annual subscribers won’t see prorated refunds, retaining access for the full remaining period instead. That said, your situation is a bit different — you’re not just canceling, you’re canceling because a feature you paid for was removed. That’s worth contacting Anthropic support directly about. Their support team can check your refund eligibility , and this kind of material change to the plan is exactly the case where a support escalation could go differently than a standard cancellation. You can reach them through the in-app support messenger at support.claude.com or via the thumbs-down feedback button. I’d recommend explaining specifically that Claude Code was a factor in your annual plan purchase. ”

New comment by ppetty in "Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU"

ppetty — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:45:17 +0000

Is the historical aspect of the archive coincidental? It seems like Google archived ads; and those ads provided historical context. How does this information get supplemented by other historical data? I wonder if it will be relevant to know that an ad in the US talked about people eating their pets, not trying to be sarcastic it is a real part of history.

New comment by ppetty in "Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)"

ppetty — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 21:45:54 +0000

That’s awesome! I’m not a musician but just impressed by an app with great focus that stands the test of time. Makes me wonder why Apple doesn’t have an area for exactly this type of app; the opposite of Latest Apps.

New comment by ppetty in "My 16-month theanine self-experiment"

ppetty — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:43:40 +0000

I’m not sure, but seems like there should be a difference between someone conducting research while testing theanine versus someone just consuming theanine to battle anxiety. That’s probably been said in other comments in a more scientific way. But it also seems like consuming yummy hot tea that happen to have theanine would be another relevant method for comparison. Maybe placebo, theanine pill, and tea drink (or other naturally occurring food source)? It just seems like the tea or act of drinking tea and the time it takes might be relaxing??

New comment by ppetty in "Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition"

ppetty — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:08:12 +0000

Are Dell’s like this encompassed by that article? https://www.dell.com/en-us/search/linux … What about System76? It seems like the article makes blanket statements that might apply if you’re building your own desktop and expecting tons of software to work … for free.

Would it be right to use the above devices with no additional installs as a benchmark? And then just compare ongoing updates & upgrades to macOS & Windows.

It seems like all modern OSes ship with the core apps you really need. Yes, if they do that you might have some bloat; and need or want to uninstall. But maybe the best OS is as opinionated as the author…

New comment by ppetty in "ChatGPT now on chat.com"

ppetty — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:27:46 +0000

What if it’s not about marketing & more about new functionality? In another comment this was compared to Twitter changing to X … what if this is ChatGPT becoming a chat app for peers & with gpt? Or a social network? People share their GPT chats so maybe they want to be the chat platform… sound too bold? They did search.

New comment by ppetty in "Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns"

ppetty — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:55:55 +0000

I’m more surprised that it’s taken this long for a big bad tech company (or companies) to exclude software or hardware releases to the EU. No matter how much of a hit to their (very large) bottom line, Apple or any company should be welcome to skip the EU if they se fit to go that route. I'm not sure Apple’s really out of line to do this either [1] … aybe they’ll never completely pull out of the EU, but if they do maybe that’s also the goal of the EU: to get EU based companies a chance? All it takes now is for Apple to see pulling out as a win-win.

[1}: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/eff-tells-eu-commissio...

New comment by ppetty in "Apple's AI will erode human creativity one prompt at a time"

ppetty — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 01:42:33 +0000

Did Fast Company have a similar version of this for Google I/O, OpenAI’s conference, Microsoft’s Copilot+ unveiling, Alexa’s last big presentation?

Apple — all alone — is a threat to human creativity? Really? They’ve caught up to & exceeded the competition (or signed deals with some of them) and are now on the verge of clobbering creativity as we know it …

Mkay.

New comment by ppetty in "It's time to take phones away from students"

ppetty — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:40:40 +0000

… as I read each paragraph, an icon for for 3 social media sites follows me while I scroll. There might be a few entities to blame, but something seems off when a situation is implied to be dire and related to social networks ... and by the way please share this.

New comment by ppetty in "Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week"

ppetty — Fri, 31 May 2024 19:36:49 +0000

Regarding links in the article, it’s definitely lacking (as mentioned links like this: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...) but also why don’t articles like this offer a consistent set of alternate browsers like Firefox, Safari & all the Chromium derivatives (Brave, DuckDuckGo & Arc) that include ad blockers? I get that there’s a difference between those & the free choice to pick your ad blocker; but eventually everyone grows tired of the cat n mouse game. Why not help promote switching?

Almost all of these, for example, have desktop variants:

https://developer.apple.com/support/browser-choice-screen/

New comment by ppetty in "Show HN: Quadra – organize your tasks and notes beautifully"

ppetty — Thu, 30 May 2024 21:18:27 +0000

The user experience might work better with display:grid based css (instead of flex): https://codepen.io/paulgpetty/pen/VwOPRKJ/5aebb16e99bbea2f13...

New comment by ppetty in "Features macOS should copy from Linux"

ppetty — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:49:04 +0000

What is easier than Apple’s App Store to install & drag to Trash to uninstall. And, non-App Store downloadable dmg installers (and app update utilities available to 3rd parties — albeit not Apple’s updater). macOS is pretty easy.

New comment by ppetty in "HP Disables Printer Functionality Until You Install the HP Smart App"

ppetty — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:37:08 +0000

So I think a lot of people say that they’d rather print photos at a drugstore (or some other online service), which totally makes sense. But if you completely ditch printers at home, which kind of makes sense; where do you feel safe printing contracts & medical docs? Kinkos & the library don’t feel like good alternatives … Is there some place that is good / safe to do this??

Also, what if HP is actually intentionally getting all of use to hate printing on paper altogether? Maybe this is the biggest corporate tree-hugger event in the history of mankind. Nah, no way … it’s definitely money grab.

New comment by ppetty in "Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week"

ppetty — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 19:26:24 +0000

Next year, why then? Genuinely curious what keeps you hanging on. Seems like Google’s apps and services rise and fall like the tides, so why not now.

New comment by ppetty in "Nobody Told EV Owners How Quickly They Burn Through Tires"

ppetty — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 02:20:16 +0000

The math around cost of ownership is just vague for EVs. (Tires instead of oil changes mentioned in the article is worse than vague though, at least with respect to cost.) But even if there was good data — and there might be — long term ownership costs won’t be known for quite a while, for example what does a 300,000 lifespan cost? Which leads to another question: Isn’t EV a vague way to describe cars? What might be better is economy EVs vs luxury. Luxury car owners might expect to use up tread quickly, but cheap EV cars might come with different expectations even if those are wrong.

New comment by ppetty in "General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior with Data Brokers"

ppetty — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 21:24:36 +0000

I wonder if it’s possible to take a car offline or at what point it will become impossible to do so. Because if GM - and others can do this — there’s no doubt that at some point cars could be bricked unless they can phone home.

New comment by ppetty in "Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks"

ppetty — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 21:18:02 +0000

Hi @rahilb, this sounds very intriguing; but I have a question regarding the In-App Purchases: what do these do? Is the app a trial that eventually requires a subscription or lifetime purchase?

I think what Obsidian with recent changes to their sorage sync fees is actually brilliant. I paid $8/month for 50GB, then they dropped the storage to 10GB. So I’m getting a great deal for the same $8 compared to new users & now they have a very low-grade $4/moonth plan that probably works for a lot of people … maybe even me. But going from 50GB to 1GB for half teh cost has me locked in to an extent.

That said $9/year doesn’t seem crazy for this one feature but I’m reluctant to install this without knowing this in advance. Still surprised Apple doesn’t require these details upfront … but these details aren’t in the app store or site as far as I can tell.

New comment by ppetty in "Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location"

ppetty — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:28:51 +0000

Done, account deleted, and thank you for the heads up. Genuinely, thankful for that post and maybe the most important social network I’m a part of: Hacker News.

New comment by ppetty in "Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines"

ppetty — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 01:54:59 +0000

This is a typo right: "macOS dominance declines”? Or clickbait maybe? It doesn’t seem like macOS from its lowest figure mentioned in the article (~15%) to its highest (~21%) dominates. It seems like the room for growth for both Linux & macOS is huge, I like both of these underdogs and wouldn’t bet against either. But why that headline?

New comment by ppetty in "Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists"

ppetty — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 10:35:58 +0000

In terms of publishing by email … HEY by 37 Signals has a feature where each user has world.hey.com/username blogs based on emails from username@hey.com sent to world@hey.com … very easy low friction publishing. This has subscriptions & RSS built in and you can import subscribers.

Details: https://www.hey.com/world/

For example: https://world.hey.com/jason