People started treating HN as a tech subreddit. It’s Reddit crowd

As someone who looks at both regularly, HN is an order of magnitude higher quality than any tech sub on reddit.

If you visit /r/technology about 50% of the comments are calling for the deaths of tech ceos.

A subscription dumbphone? Sounds dumb, I can just buy a better dumbphone

Maps, Uber, WhatsApp, Spotify, Apple Music. How is that a "dump phone"? Just uninstall unnecessary crap and you get the same thing.

The subscription is for the phone service. Though it is true that you can only use this with their service.

So much in modern day consumerism is about "lifestyle" and signaling the lifestyle (to you and others). if you're not paying a sub for your lifestyle, are you really following that lifestyle?

I actually saw a little excerpt of a video interview that I failed to find to give you the link where he was asked about his current project. He showed a stack of cards that became Ada and talked about the main theme being passage of time

Ah, interesting!

Please add Helium

and Ungoogled Chromium

Helium rocks!

qutebrowser would be nice too.

I second this motion.

I third this motion.

pi, oh-my-pi, opencode - none of them have subsidized Claude though

Opencode can't lazy load skills, mcps, or agents and has limitations on context. It's a total nonstarter from my experience using it at work.

Fixed header isn't always a good thing, it can also be a mistake. Since content is the product, let the content take up all available space and use your browser navigation capabilities to navigate if necessary

Please look at the example that is literally on the front page of the lefthook website: https://lefthook.dev/

Ah ok the home page actually reminded me what the actual issue was. It can pass the list of staged files to the command but since it doesn't actually stash anything, it's not compatible with commands that don't accept a list of files. golangci-lint for example doesn't accept a list of files like this and will run on every single file in the repo. I don't know if this behaviour has changed in lefthook or golangci-lint now.

I recommend Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Not to have him cancelled in the first place. No need to pretend that doing something under the mob pressure is the same as doing something entirely willingly

Far, far more people have protested the positions of power held by (for example) Joe Rogan and Dave Chappelle. They ignored the cancellation attempts, and they're richer and more influential today than they were a few years ago.

"Cancellation" is a state of being famous enough that your controversial beliefs upset a large, loud number of people. In Eich's case, it threatened to have no effect on his career. He chose to change his career because of it.

Eich expressed his First Amendment rights, and other people expressed theirs in return. Why should either of them give up those rights for fear of offending the other?

Michael Hobbes, host of IBCK is guilty of those inaccuracies too. Here's him being fact checked regarding claims in the Maintenance Phase podcast: https://spurioussemicolon.substack.com/

I enjoy If Books Could Kill and I used to like You're Wrong About when Michael was on it. However, I have found on If Books Could Kill that they sometimes take the least charitable interpretation of something to ridicule it when a more charitable interpretation might find that there is more nuance than they are presenting.

I haven't listened to Maintenance Phase because it isn't really a topic that I'm all that interested in.

Yeah, I’ve seen those criticisms before and been convinced-enough that it’s contributed to my not bothering with that podcast. IBCK has been accurate enough when they’ve covered books I’m familiar with that I’m less worried about that being a problem with that show (though I’m sure they do sometimes get things wrong)