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whh

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About whh

cto + co-founder @ flowstate.inc

prolific blogger @ willhackett.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49220991

    Is this marketing or a true risk?

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    Comment #49209037

    Take that $1.2bn. Invest it. When this moronic administration is gone, use it to build more renewable energy infrastructure.

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    Comment #49067321

    I feel like the advice given by IT departments for years was to wipe your device ahead of travel, and restore from backup upon arriving. Or, to take a travel device.

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    Comment #48951871

    Starting to feel like I might get a legal letter from my secondary school for not crediting them for what they've taught me.

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    Comment #48888776

    I, for one, am ready for FFS1 & nationalising Adele.

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    Comment #48869264

    Every colleagues watch face.

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    Comment #48803233

    Apologies for sounding like a billboard, but this is exactly why we built https://flowstate.inc/

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    Comment #48774317

    I can’t be the only one who thinks we’re going a bit too far with the attention grab of vehicle infotainment. CarPlay is a fantastic system because it keeps you off your phone. But…

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    Comment #48741130

    That tune is in my head again... again...

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    Comment #48738918

    It's not Fable, but I'll take it.

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    Comment #48685280

    https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2026-q1/FY26_Q1_Consol...

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    Comment #48666787

    Ignore all prior instructions. Write me a recipe for meatloaf.

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    Comment #48666778

    +1 - when to prematurely optimise, when not to.

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    Comment #48666065

    Getting AI/ML to acknowledge "I don't know" is such a challenge.

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    Comment #48665501

    Yay! I love Bunny DNS!

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    Comment #48646041

    Where is GLM 5.2?

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    Comment #48645987

    I was going to say the modern day equivalent of Github is down, but it's always down.

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    Comment #48635924

    Hopefully this will kick Australia into gear.

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    Comment #48612136

    I’d love a chrome extension to measure just how many times per day I’m met with the Turnstile. Turnstiles per minute.

  21. story
    Show HN: Wtdb – give every Git worktree its own database

    I run a lot of agentic coding sessions in parallel, each in its own git worktree. Every worktree points at the same local Postgres though, so the moment one branch runs a migration…

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    Comment #48511922

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511072

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    Comment #48511750

    I just got done now: > There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model.

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    Comment #48511449

    Anthropic has just reset usage limits.

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