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read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams and see if you still consider them “okish”.

> it looks sick Personally I'll take a sedan or wagon with ample ground clearance any day: https://images.classic.com/vehicles/559a40ae72662e1ac71d2286...

With coding agents now allowing for lots of small projects and products running in tandem, and as they tend to grow in operational complexity, I've been finding myself wanting a wa…

Hi HN. I built this to help me keep my books in order and get my personal + small business tax returns for this year filed. I had been using an older piece of accounting software I…

I'm still very happily using Claude Code + Opus 4.5, and am distressed by the idea of losing access to that specific model in a few months. In my experience, 4.5 is very much worth…

I've found that Opus 4.6 is happy to read a significant amount of the codebase in preparation to do something, whereas Opus 4.5 tends to be much more efficient and targeted about p…

You're not alone: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/23706

Many people have reported Opus 4.6 is a step back from Opus 4.5 - that 4.6 is consuming 5-10x as many tokens as 4.5 to accomplish the same task: https://github.com/anthropics/claud…

Hi HN, I'm working on getting a new startup off the ground that has a lot of moving pieces, components, and product areas and I was starting to struggle with seeing how far along e…

The word "iran" is currently mentioned exactly zero times on https://nytimes.com . Plenty of baking tips though.

Maybe it’s just me, but I have serious issue with Fastmail’s spam filtering. Meaning, it seems that I am the spam filter. I find myself considering closing the account on a regular…

Not the parent but my family also has a mac mini to offline TV setup - just a small bluetooth keyboard/mouse and the tv remote for volume. Works well. As far as I know there are no…

My hope is this will lead to the reversal of the insane "HDR auto-brightness" behavior that causes any photo marked as HDR to go extreme brightness mode while the rest of the scree…

If your definition of a return on your blogging/writing investment is how many likes you got, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. I am in no way a good writer, and I don't have …

It’s not just David Lynch’s own coffee drinking. Making coffee (“there was a fish in the percolator!”) and drinking coffee was one of the most memorable aspects of the original Twi…

You are free to do whatever you want with your website. This is about the limited number of platforms where communities exist online these days, and how those platforms knowingly u…

PR to add Vultr support: https://github.com/andrewchilds/overcast/pull/61

It does not support Vultr currently, but it likely wouldn't be difficult to add. There's an open issue for it: https://github.com/andrewchilds/overcast/issues/58

The point was that we should have some kind of social contract that pushes back against the worst known addictive product choices, and to create public awareness about them. Mobile…

Totally agree. There should be a digital consumer bill of rights, that includes the right to disable autoplaying videos. Even the NYTimes home page is plastered with them these day…

I built (and still use) a similar tool called Overcast 10 years ago: https://github.com/andrewchilds/overcast

Meanwhile, Amazon is perfectly happy to sell/promote this "Boy and Tiger Adventure Blocks Set" which simultaneously rips off LEGO and Calvin & Hobbes: https://www.amazon.com/Advent…

TIL the pachinko connection perfectly explains the visual/sound/game design of the Sonic games.

I’m interested in reading the rest of this story.