Hacker News: themikesanto

New comment by themikesanto in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

themikesanto — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:17:29 +0000

Clicked into an article about nuclear weapons and was thinking "wow, the quality of this article is horrible" before I realized it was Simple English Wikipedia. I didn't even know that was a thing.

New comment by themikesanto in "Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation"

themikesanto — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:04:07 +0000

You can do the same thing with any install script you might come across today.

New comment by themikesanto in "Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation"

themikesanto — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:03:07 +0000

I would think that the common bash scripts we already have would provide an agent better context for installation than a markdown file, and even better, they already work without an LLM.

This is a "solution" looking for a problem.

New comment by themikesanto in "DeskHog, an open-source developer toy"

themikesanto — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:06:49 +0000

Yes, please do!

New comment by themikesanto in "A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network"

themikesanto — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:28:32 +0000

Google loves wreaking havoc on web standards. Is there really anything anyone can do about it at this point? The number of us using alternative browsers are a drop in the bucket when compared to Chrome's market share.

New comment by themikesanto in "The Moped King"

themikesanto — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:38:56 +0000

The Scooter King*.

Mopeds have pedals.

New comment by themikesanto in "POTUS Tracker – Executive Orders, Presidential Schedule, Signed Legislation"

themikesanto — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:40:34 +0000

Looks like the answer was 18 minutes.

New comment by themikesanto in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

themikesanto — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:11:45 +0000

This is a hardware reveal trailer. Nintendo likely released this because of all of the recent leaks, which have put their 3rd party accessory vendors in a weird position. More details will be revealed at the Nintendo Direct on the 2nd.

New comment by themikesanto in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

themikesanto — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:59:28 +0000

Yes

New comment by themikesanto in "Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine"

themikesanto — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:08:42 +0000

All of the products you described are just tools that build HTML/CSS for you.

New comment by themikesanto in "Ask HN: Front-end bait and switch?"

themikesanto — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 22:10:37 +0000

That button conversation is way too real. Front end dev here, and I've probably spent at least 20 hours this year just in meetings about fonts.

I hope you find what you're looking for.

New comment by themikesanto in "Proposed rule would ban airlines from charging parents to sit with children"

themikesanto — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:54:12 +0000

Is this a novelty account? The comment + username makes it feel like it, but I'm not used to seeing this type of poster on HN.

New comment by themikesanto in "OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show"

themikesanto — Thu, 23 May 2024 14:13:30 +0000

Alert

New comment by themikesanto in "Apple TV+ Cornered the Market on "Prestige Dad TV""

themikesanto — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:49:51 +0000

They seem to have stopped training new astronauts in the later seasons. I can't believe Ed is still a character, let alone in command of a mission in deep space. I agree the whole show has gone off the rails since season 2.

New comment by themikesanto in "Responses to unicycling"

themikesanto — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:56:08 +0000

That's called body language, dude. It's a different kind of communication, brother!

/hulkhogan

New comment by themikesanto in "What made Apollo a success? (1971) [pdf]"

themikesanto — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:37:16 +0000

This is an urban legend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen#Uses_in_the_U.S._and...

New comment by themikesanto in "Show HN: Recompyle – A JavaScript developer-friendly console / debugger"

themikesanto — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:20:14 +0000

I don't think I would ever use this project, and I especially would not pay for it.

From scanning the website and documentation, it seems like a less useful debugger than currently available open source tools. I really have no idea what this project is trying to achieve.

and then there's this:

> Yes you need an account to use recompyle.

> The account is used to validate the license. Nothing more.

> The only thing send to our server is a hash of your "machineId"

> The App run on you computer, your code is private and not send to our servers.

> No analytics or error tracking.

You expect me to simply trust your word that this debugger won't do anything nefarious? Not a chance.

New comment by themikesanto in "Wikifunctions"

themikesanto — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 20:50:11 +0000

How do you propose the functions should run if you don't have JavaScript enabled?

New comment by themikesanto in "Ask HN: How do I assess my seniority level?"

themikesanto — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:24:04 +0000

If they wanted to ask ChatGPT they could have done that themselves. I looked at your profile, you've just been taking generated responses to various threads and using them to self promote.

New comment by themikesanto in "Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)"

themikesanto — Fri, 26 May 2023 15:42:15 +0000

Do you know which other payment methods people use to buy drugs? All of them.