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New comment by threetonesun in "Claude Duet"

threetonesun — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:24:11 +0000

Pre-internet there was no way to hear about things "all the time". If someone released a product and a competitor came about it would be months, if not years, before the product existed and the marketing cycle made it to trade magazines.

Now every day there are 200 links to 200 new AI tools. The internet already made the signal:noise ratio tough, with AI it's getting cranked to wondering if there even is a signal among the infinite noise.

New comment by threetonesun in "Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation"

threetonesun — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:33:09 +0000

Glad to see we can keep the "every developer eventually builds a CMS" joke running for another two decades. I still think it's a bad idea to build your own, and I wouldn't put Drupal or Wordpress near the top of the pile for good ones anyway, but I'd still put them above any bespoke CMS I've ever seen.

New comment by threetonesun in "PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace"

threetonesun — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:53:18 +0000

Well, yes and no. Consider the upcoming Grand Theft Auto, it will require a Rockstar login and have some amount of online only multiplayer content, so sure AI could likely get around the login and reverse engineer the multiplayer servers, maybe, but for the majority of games that's not going to happen.

New comment by threetonesun in "PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace"

threetonesun — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:48:17 +0000

I would bet most PlayStation owners play online games and subscribe to PlayStation+ so I don't think you're describing a future state here so much as the current one.

New comment by threetonesun in "Transit rewards"

threetonesun — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:16:29 +0000

Did it? I always assumed the US train boom aligned with shipping companies more than land at the destinations, which is why even today cargo gets priority over Amtrak.

New comment by threetonesun in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

threetonesun — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:37:36 +0000

Fashion is a weird analogy because I can get stuff even from well known designers from places like Uniqlo with no logos on them. A better example is cars, where people are often happy to show off their status symbol logos, and will buy other things that go along with their car.

New comment by threetonesun in "Amazon blocks Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com"

threetonesun — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:12:07 +0000

This is already solved by the existence of hundreds of other stores that actually do some level of filtering and curation of products. I don't know why we want to play some cat and mouse game of getting an LLM to find the best toilet paper on Amazon versus just finding a reliable source of toilet paper to begin with.

New comment by threetonesun in "Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?"

threetonesun — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:08:37 +0000

I have not found the local/remote hand off to be very reliable either, so tasks that used to be almost instantaneous for Siri are now spinning to the point where I assume they failed. A simple 2 minute timer took almost 30 seconds to set the other day.

New comment by threetonesun in "How to Write with an LLM"

threetonesun — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:40:38 +0000

iA Writer's "Style check" feature can do 90% of this in real time.

New comment by threetonesun in "A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs"

threetonesun — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:31:02 +0000

I don't eat cereal and I can't think of the last time I ate at a restaurant that had pictures on the menu, but to your point I think there's still quite a huge gap between optimized and perfected version of thing that exists versus thing that entirely does not exist.

New comment by threetonesun in "CSS-Tricks in Limbo"

threetonesun — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:25:21 +0000

Tailwind is basically already EOL in its functional inability to support newer CSS features. Both of these projects seemed like the creator being fine with getting out with a nice paycheck, and that's ok by me, although it's unfortunate DO lied about how it would handle CSS Tricks going forward, and generally abandoned the tech writing aspect it was initially known for.

New comment by threetonesun in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

threetonesun — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:19:16 +0000

Depends, how many are scam/spam websites. Being the cheapest to setup/maintain usually comes with some negative side effects.

New comment by threetonesun in "Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires"

threetonesun — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:07:15 +0000

I've done that with "mild" Winter tires, really the thing full Summer tires excell at is removing water, which requires a center tread that's useless in snow. So if you don't get a lot of rain and it doesn't get too hot (some Winter compounds will get mushy and wear very quickly) they're fine. But really I've just described a Winter rated All-Season at this point, and you should buy those.

New comment by threetonesun in "Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster"

threetonesun — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:14:36 +0000

Applying the word "impossible" to leaving a white collar job seems like a stretch. Also the buyout was almost 2 years ago now, anyone still there must be either in dire financial straits or quite commited.

New comment by threetonesun in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

threetonesun — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:08:20 +0000

I do not have Bill Gates money but I think you're describing a friend more than a therapist. Finding anyone awake at 1AM is going to be hard, but even for Linus Torvald money you can find a therapist who will take a quick call in the morning.

New comment by threetonesun in "Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting"

threetonesun — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:15:10 +0000

Ah, sure, it's annoying but it's never giving new permissions you didn't give it before. And yes "revert to default" is probably not what's happening, but reverting to forcing a specific permission grant when the existing one was superceeded or replaced.

New comment by threetonesun in "Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting"

threetonesun — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:28:15 +0000

Reverting... to on? I've seen some stuff in Apple-land where I'm pretty sure it went back to the default option after an update but I've never seen anything get granted more permissions.

New comment by threetonesun in "iPhone Duo"

threetonesun — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:17:01 +0000

They sold at least a half million of them, surely not all to app developers trying them out. There's some market, I'm not part of it, maybe you aren't either. I'm sure there will be a Vision 2 some day, we're talking about a company that won't release a new Apple TV until they have a good reason even though everyone I know in THAT market wants one.

New comment by threetonesun in "iPhone Duo"

threetonesun — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:33:20 +0000

Both could be said of the iPhone Pro as well, which continues to sell and sell well. It's obvious to me there's a market for this stuff I'm not part of, same as the Vision Pro, and that's fine.

New comment by threetonesun in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

threetonesun — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:48:01 +0000

What's "funny" is that newer/modern CSS is often very clunky to write in Tailwind, or unsupported entirely unless you build your own selectors, but AI doesn't understand those well or how broad their support is, so getting AI to write good/modern CSS outside of Tailwind is pretty difficult. I suppose someone could make a new library that is for AI tools that focuses on the latest and greatest in CSS, but there's no market for it any more because AI would just steal it and generate UIs with it.