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New comment by smithcoin in "Ten Years of Franz"

smithcoin — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:35:06 +0000

I used Franz and then went it went freemium I used ferdi for a while. I like using Zen browser and it’s based on Firefox

New comment by smithcoin in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

smithcoin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:07:59 +0000

Another comment reminded me that there is a similar one called You Should Have Left.

New comment by smithcoin in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

smithcoin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:06:03 +0000

The faster you read House of Leaves the better the meta-experience.

New comment by smithcoin in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

smithcoin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:03:45 +0000

I swear I used to see shorts or reels with a Kevin Bacon version of the House of Leaves story

New comment by smithcoin in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

smithcoin — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:32:06 +0000

Good luck! You might not find anything out tomorrow, but it still might work in the long run.

New comment by smithcoin in "Leave Me Behind"

smithcoin — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:16:45 +0000

> how a tool that allows you to be 100 times more productive

Because we don’t agree on this premise

New comment by smithcoin in "Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm"

smithcoin — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:04:29 +0000

Do you think we’ll get it before or after Tesla FSD?

New comment by smithcoin in "Boats crash/break and can kill their passengers when falling certain distances"

smithcoin — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:01:51 +0000

Matt Parker from Stand-up Maths analyzed the "Minecraft boat-drop mystery," in this interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei58gGM9Z8k

Fake Ledger app on Apple App Store linked to $9.5M crypto theft

smithcoin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:23:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theblock.co/post/397388/fake-ledger-app-apple-app-store-crypto-theft-bitcoin-tron-solana-zachxbt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769305

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by smithcoin in "RubyGems Fracture Incident Report"

smithcoin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:56:00 +0000

I read the article but I’m out of the loop enough to not understand Shopify and 37signals piece in this can you clarify? Is there another place I can be pointed to with that background information?

New comment by smithcoin in "How A Spartan Revolutionized Baseball"

smithcoin — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:45:51 +0000

When the Cubs signed Aroldis Chapman I went to the first game where he came out of the bullpen and I will never forget the entire crowd looking at the scoreboard and reacting every time he hit 100 miles an hour. Now every team has somebody that hits 100. It blows my mind people can throw a baseball faster than I drive on the interstate.

New comment by smithcoin in "Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem"

smithcoin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:43:44 +0000

When I was younger I remember a point of demarcation for me was learning the 4chan adage “trolls trolling trolls”, and approaching all internet interactions with skepticism. While I have been sure that Reddit for a while has succumbed to being “dead internet”. This thread is another moment for me- I can no longer recognize who is a bot, and who has honest intentions.

New comment by smithcoin in "I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]"

smithcoin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:04:26 +0000

VRAM goes vroom vroom.

I emailed him the video from OP and he mentioned they’ve done some collaboration. I’m assuming there’s a retro programming discord that I’m not worthy of.

New comment by smithcoin in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

smithcoin — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:21:48 +0000

I posted something similar the other day, but at this point it is too little too late. Using windows feels like actively submitting to a hostile user experience.

I look back fondly to the time I had using my Dell XPS when WSL first came out, they had me hooked. I've been using MacBook Pro for about a decade now and I can't even fathom going back to windows. Every time I open the start menu I feel personally attacked.

I used to obsess over reading xda developer forums and playing around with my android phone. I would laugh at the "sheeple" using apple products for not being customizable and giving away their freedom.

At this point in my life "it just works" is good enough and no longer a point of ironic derision.

New comment by smithcoin in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

smithcoin — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:15:13 +0000

I am convinced that nobody at Microslop uses any of their products.

New comment by smithcoin in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

smithcoin — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:01:00 +0000

I just assume a lot of product managers have never used their products anymore, and it shows across the industry.

Have you ever tried to play Xbox live after not being signed in for a long time?

Have you ever tried to use smart search terms in the Amazon search box?

Have you ever tried to use these tv channel apps on a Roku?

Do Fridgeaire reps own their own appliances?

I’m just convinced people don’t use their own products where the people that use them and care are so few and far in between things are only getting enshrined.

New comment by smithcoin in "How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers"

smithcoin — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:39:21 +0000

Nobody tells you how much it hurts, but it’s worth it (just in the increase in dental hygiene alone in my case).

For some reason now it’s assumed these were some kind of injection molding, but it makes perfect sense that it’s 3-D printed.

New comment by smithcoin in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

smithcoin — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:00:16 +0000

I saw this posting from here the other day about how it’s meta wanting to pass the buck to OS and browser vendors a la Section 230: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313125244/https://old.reddi...

New comment by smithcoin in "2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March"

smithcoin — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:58:20 +0000

Cutting layers of bureaucracy not replacing with AI

New comment by smithcoin in "Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered"

smithcoin — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:32:51 +0000

I grew up recommending windows to everybody I knew for most of my early life. I’ve had my boomer dad on Linux mint for almost a decade. Any time I am asked for a recommendation I cannot say to buy a Mac fast enough. Yes they are overpriced but the build quality to me is worth it. The windows 11 start menu is user hostile, I seriously can’t believe people use that day to day. I’m old enough to remember when they called it Micro$oft -unfortunately Microslop is going to stick (the author is right about the two settings apps). When was the last time you think an exec at MSFT played an Xbox or described using teams as “pleasant”?

“Adobe and Office run better on Mac, change my mind”