Hacker News: xtiansimon

New comment by xtiansimon in "Claude AI Assistant for Microsoft Office"

xtiansimon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:59:06 +0000

How about ClaudeAi for Linux distribution system management? Hehe

New comment by xtiansimon in "DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public"

xtiansimon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:53:54 +0000

Not his house. Not his records. Get on board or get the bum out!

New comment by xtiansimon in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

xtiansimon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:50:15 +0000

Nice. Maybe a touch of 600 and 1200 wet/dry sandpaper (with some dish soap lubricant)?

New comment by xtiansimon in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

xtiansimon — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:42:50 +0000

We need more good faith debate on the topic of state vs federal government—-especially when it comes to public resources. I’m torn on states rights to manage their pressing issues. But I’m adamant on public lands staying public (though it seems clear we’re losing).

I can think of zero arguments which might persuade my house representatives in NY to care to stick their necks out on public lands and resources when the economy, transportation, mass deportation and war spending are priorities.

New comment by xtiansimon in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

xtiansimon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:13:47 +0000

> “Absolutely a lie, but I really don't GAF.”

I’ve been here and I’ll say I’d rather lose in logical argument, then win through lies. It’s so corrosive and people who know you either know this about you or will learn it. Turn back now while there’s still a chance.

New comment by xtiansimon in "People love to work hard"

xtiansimon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:44:47 +0000

> “…feels like an endless churn with no end in sight…”

Ha! Like trying to get Claude to make an interactive Marimo notebook.

New comment by xtiansimon in "When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality"

xtiansimon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:39:04 +0000

> “…tips the odds is justifiable.”

The slippery slope.

New comment by xtiansimon in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

xtiansimon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:32:10 +0000

And I’m reminded of The Dark Knight Returns (1986) graphic novel. There are grotesque parodies of talking head news anchors and even a caricature of then-president Ronald Regan. Situation all fracked up.

New comment by xtiansimon in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

xtiansimon — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:51:50 +0000

Ooh. I despise how YouTube removes videos from my saved videos list, “Unavailable videos were removed”. YouTube is crap.

New comment by xtiansimon in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

xtiansimon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:49:19 +0000

I see it’s possible to subscribe to RSS from the app, but I can’t find the link on the website.

New comment by xtiansimon in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

xtiansimon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:31:34 +0000

Seems clear to me MA is operating in his own reality bubble, and must carefully consider his intended audience. iIt seems he’s always selling.

I listened to a recent episode of the a16z podcast, and he’s talking like Steve Bannon. Only makes sense if he’s pandering to that group of business people who are following that line of politics.

“a16z's New Media Playbook“, https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/a16zs-new-media-playboo...

New comment by xtiansimon in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

xtiansimon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:20:06 +0000

Not sure I caught the author’s use case, but Markdown shines in the document space when you’re the author and user. It’s efficient and sufficient—lowest common denominator of ease of writing and formatting basic text.

And I say this while putting up with lousy Markdown rendering on a pet project (Django). Really needs a separate project which lets you massage the html to get the display looking it’s best.

New comment by xtiansimon in "Update on the eBay Scam"

xtiansimon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:02:29 +0000

> “We message back and forth on WhatsApp…”

Why would you message the buyer outside of eBay? That’s a recipe for having eBay flag you as a scammer.

New comment by xtiansimon in "Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model"

xtiansimon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:28:31 +0000

Were there published results from the project?

New comment by xtiansimon in "I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI"

xtiansimon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:39:31 +0000

I’m curious about the UI development. What sort of prompts did you give? Ie look like this or look like that? Or did you specify the qualities?

New comment by xtiansimon in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

xtiansimon — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:38:41 +0000

> “…getting blown to smithereens…”

Looney Tunes language like this projects an aura of un-reality further in the article, which I like even less.

New comment by xtiansimon in "Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry"

xtiansimon — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:56:48 +0000

> “These are just lazy developers…”

It appears the system is working as intended.

New comment by xtiansimon in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

xtiansimon — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:43:48 +0000

Huh. I don’t use vi-mode for more than jumping to the beginning or end of a line, which I like a lot.

New comment by xtiansimon in "Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk"

xtiansimon — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:23:11 +0000

I heard this on the radio this morning. The NPR story reported the danger as individual’s PII can be combined through the power of AI.

I remarked how curious it is that wondrous AI should be the technology people need to experience before they can imagine the dangers of Data Brokers and the Mother Of All Databases (MOAD).

New comment by xtiansimon in "Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build"

xtiansimon — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:04:05 +0000

Slightly Off-topic of Agentic...

Anyone recommend browser-base instant preview site for web ui design with more artistic/experimental preference?