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New comment by stack_framer in "First Principles Thinking"

stack_framer — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:51:12 +0000

And yet, continuing your analogy, she made an amazing discovery this way.

New comment by stack_framer in "GitLab Outage"

stack_framer — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:21:59 +0000

It was not updated immediately. I was seeing 503s for a solid 15 minutes while the status page was all green. This is also their second outage today:

https://status.gitlab.com/pages/history/5b36dc6502d06804c083...

New comment by stack_framer in "I don't want the details"

stack_framer — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:40:32 +0000

> Understanding an issue is not the same as fixing it. A good explanation can make things worse.

I couldn't disagree more. "A problem well stated is a problem half solved."

New comment by stack_framer in "Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain"

stack_framer — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:57:05 +0000

“A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”

— James 1:8 (KJV)

New comment by stack_framer in "GitHub is having trouble counting things"

stack_framer — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:10:32 +0000

The same counting problem exists with GitHub issues. I notice this every time I close an issue, and the count of open issues is still one higher than the actual number (until I reload the page).

New comment by stack_framer in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

stack_framer — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:42:25 +0000

How do you stay motivated to do this?! I've tried to start my app in React Native multiple times, but it always sucks, so I finally started learning Swift. I'm already not sure how I'll stay motivated to learn Kotlin too, and rebuild the whole app again.

New comment by stack_framer in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

stack_framer — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:45:13 +0000

This looks cool, but my least favorite things about Finder are not actually related to finding things. I prefer column mode, but:

1. When I right click, I can't create a new file of any kind. I can create a new folder—sometimes (see the next point).

2. If the folder is full, it's virtually impossible to right-click an empty spot to create a new folder. You have to scroll all the way to the top/bottom and right click the very narrow spot between the folder and the header/footer.

New comment by stack_framer in "The revolt of the reader"

stack_framer — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:04:13 +0000

I work with a guy that I swear is addicted to LLMs. He uses them for literally all communication, often dropping mountains of text for design specs that could have been written with half the words. Even on a 1:1 Zoom call, he'll type things into Claude and then read me the response! It's infuriating, and I've told him on a number of occasions, in as many polite ways as I can, that I would prefer to speak and work with him instead of Claude, but he just can't break the addiction.

New comment by stack_framer in "Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript"

stack_framer — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:55:33 +0000

The pronunciation of "Vercel" near the end of the "Typebase in 100s" video was VER-cel, with the emphasis on the first syllable, instead of ver-CEL with the emphasis on the second syllable.

Was the video generated by AI?

New comment by stack_framer in "The Amazon tax"

stack_framer — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:23:52 +0000

I understand the point. I simply argue that it's an ill-conceived point, based on various definitions of the word "entitled":

1. qualified for by right according to law

2. having a right to certain benefits or privileges

3. having a right or legitimate claim to something

No company is qualified for sales according to law, or has a right to sales, or has a legitimate claim on sales. Sales must be earned by besting the competition.

No company is "entitled" to any sales.

New comment by stack_framer in "The Amazon tax"

stack_framer — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:08:13 +0000

"...the maker of the best air fryer now has to bid on ads as well, if only to protect the sales they were entitled to in the first place."

No company is "entitled" to any sales.

New comment by stack_framer in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

stack_framer — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:46:52 +0000

Nope. I made the one-time payment for Brave Origin.

New comment by stack_framer in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

stack_framer — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:49:02 +0000

I just use Brave. I haven't seen a YouTube ad in years.

New comment by stack_framer in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

stack_framer — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:03:12 +0000

I bet some students who pass will face a mental health issue from not knowing whether they passed with an A or a C-.

New comment by stack_framer in "Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language"

stack_framer — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:20:19 +0000

Based on the comments here, are we really supposed to believe that the following actually happened?

1. The v0id_isgood HN user impersonated the actual creator of Wyzer and posted this Show HN.

2. The v0id_isgood HN user then left the credentials to his HN account in the Wyzer discord.

3. Now the real creator of Wyzer is apparently using the v0id_isgood account to answer questions here?!

What's going on? This whole thing feels like a really strange hoax.

New comment by stack_framer in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

stack_framer — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:42:53 +0000

Ironically, in synchronous conversations, the same co-worker is constantly going on about how swamped he is, and how he's being pulled in so many directions.

Apparently, it takes a lot of time and work to manage all those AI chat bots.

New comment by stack_framer in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

stack_framer — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:14:38 +0000

The useless suggestions are exhausting. One of my co-workers uses Claude for all asynchronous communication, including Slack messages, Jira comments, code reviews, and emails.

Every single message from him, literally every time he communicates, it's a massive wall of text, overflowing with scope-creep suggestions like nothing I've ever seen before. It's impossible to ask him a simple question and get a simple answer.

And this seems to be a broader trend with AI in general. It's getting more and more difficult to retain some semblance of brevity with AI tools. I'm constantly asking them to "be brief," and "only answer the question I asked," and "don't provide more information than I requested," but they keep churning out more than I want in their responses.

It looks like a subtle attempt to use up more tokens.

New comment by stack_framer in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

stack_framer — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:06:37 +0000

I'm building a family game server that will host web-based games on my local network (although I'm thinking about using something like Cloudflare Tunnel to make it available on the internet).

The first game I'm building is the card game Phase 10, and I'm done with phases 1-7. After that, I'd like to build Carcassonne, and maybe Jeopardy.

New comment by stack_framer in "Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text"

stack_framer — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:47:53 +0000

I like the idea of being able to specify the prompt, as a reminder of what you wanted to copy to the clipboard at that point.

I've created a new issue for this (it's similar to an idea I already had):

https://github.com/rob-johansen/textile/issues/75

New comment by stack_framer in "Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text"

stack_framer — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:42:46 +0000

I'm certain everything Textile does could be handled by bash scripts, or any other script flavors / languages / tools. So, yes, Textile is supposed to be a more convenient way to do it.