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Re:Nine killed as small jet crashes on Florida street on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:17AM (#50337961)
I too have been unable to listen or watch much. I saw a clip of the initial impact and the post-impact destruction. This stuff is rare to witness, and frankly the world has enough trauma to deal with already. We don't need to gruesome images of the aftermath distributed around the web. I'm also unable to listen to the audio. It's just not for me.

Yesterday I saw some post on Threads where some guy vibe coded / recreated the flight path and ATC / pilot convo moment by moment in 3D. Incredibly poor taste, and I'm disappointed this is considered 'normal'.

This is super cool and I look forward to sharing with my art friends. One piece of unsolicited feedback: it is really nice to focus on a particular image in the gallery, but when I'm done, it puts me back in normal cursor mode and I have to click to 'step inside' again. Minor annoyance. Otherwise really neat.
Re:Two and a half years without a gallbladder on Saturday September 26, 2026 @01:55AM (#49853622)
if you are having pain in your abdomen, get it checked out. if you have gallstones, get the surgery. eating fatty foods after can be "consequential" to say the least. but it beats the pain.
Re:Attention is all you have on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:41AM (#49802125)
I once came across the concept of a “day list,” and it’s helped me reduce similar habitual distraction/procrastination. It’s like a to-do list, but reframed as “these are the things I could do with my time. Not must.” I describe each item in the simplest possible way, even if it represents a complex task.

Of course, I still use task managers, calendars, and notes apps, and they’re useful in their own ways. But physically writing a day list with pen and paper reliably keeps me on track. If I start to drift, I look back at the list and it brings me back.

Your mileage may vary.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:55PM (#49702984)
signed up last night. its simple but super useful. not sure if im the average customer but i can see myself using this for a handful of things.
Re:iPhone Duo on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:02AM (#49644969)
I just got the z fold 8. I'm finding vibe coding much more appealing in tablet mode with the extra horizontal real estate. Chat on the left, browser preview on the right. Before, vibe coding away from my desk has always been a PITA. This is actually useful.
Re:Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream on Monday June 08, 2026 @04:25PM (#48451391)
might take too long depending on the job. but it would be a really nice option
Re:I design with Claude more than Figma now on Monday June 08, 2026 @11:58AM (#48447060)
Designer here. There is a lot of pressure at the startup I work at to use AI for everything so we can 'move faster'. Often working with vague requirements. Given leaderships inexperience building software, having something to look at and point to is helpful for sussing out requirements and edge cases.

Figma is still my preferred canvas. Figjam is still great for rough wireframes, flows, and agreeing on data models with my eng counterparts.

But Claude accelerates the divergent early stage 'exploration' work. Unfortunately we don't take the time to properly validate the concepts with customers. Again in the name of 'moving fast'. They will learn eventually I guess.

I'm getting off-topic. Claude is super helpful. As time passes I'm doing more and more work with it. But sometimes taking my design system and pushing pixels is genuinely faster when there is an obvious solution, opposed to ensuring Claude has all the right context to solve a relatively simple problem.

All depends on what I'm working on really.

Same goes for me - in my teens and early twenties, I listened to plenty of music with lyrics while working. By the time I got into my mid/late twenties, that changed. Now I more or less exclusively listen to electronic music (jungle / dnb / downtempo / idm).

Music helps me get into a flow, but it has to be pure vibe and rhythm. Lyrics definitely distract from the task. Family and peers find it odd that I don't really listen to or seek out music with lyrics.

I can enjoy it, just not what stimulates me at this point.

Re:Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:25PM (#47603008)
Not defending the body-shaming, but I imagine the reference to his large head is meant to be a double entendre. Figuratively, a massive ego. Literally, a big head.
Re:The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @04:53PM (#42130467)
only had the chance to see him once before. he is one of my favorites. his cosmic twilight sets from tipper and friends events are killer.
Re:America’s Obsession with Self-Help on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:29PM (#27752478)
How does one discern between productive and unproductive forms of self-help?
Re:Cary Grant's LSD Therapy in the 1950s on Monday February 24, 2020 @05:32PM (#22409145)
There are "NBOMe" compounds though, such as 25I-NBOMe, which may easily be sold as LSD or "acid" to the unsuspecting. LSD should be colorless, odorless, and tasteless, whereas NBOMes are known for their metallic and bitter taste.

"If it's bitter, its a spitter"

There's definitely a gap here. I've attempted to use Google Maps while cruising or walking around a new city and glance at what's around me every few blocks, but I certainly crave something that's going to recommend new places for me to check when I am traveling.

Considering Google has so much location history of its users, along its Places data, one would think that creating a recommendation engine for travelers would be fairly trivial for them. I would not be surprised if they are already working on this.

That said, I would enjoy and potentially prefer an alternative solution to one they could provide.

This exactly. One needs to establish trust with these people, as they have almost always dealt with some form of trauma one way or another - either physically, emotionally, psychologically, etc.

When this stuff is made into a process, it becomes robotic and the empathetic, human element of it is taken away from it.

These people need someone to listen and understand, not necessarily someone to shove anti-psychotics and whatever else caretakers are told to do.

I'm not saying drugs don't help, but it's best when trust is established, and one can help the patient see why the drug is necessary at the time.

That has always been my problem when seeking help for my psychological issues. I'll see a GP or a specialist, get a prescription, they may go over the mechanism of action with me if I push them to, but otherwise I'm told to take 2 every day and report back in a month.

I'm a lab rat. Not a patient. See why these people have trouble getting help? They don't feel like patients getting treatment.

Re:Mathematicians becoming data scientists on Monday February 27, 2017 @01:05AM (#13742244)
You might be more expensive than some of the youngins too. Just a possibility. I'm sure there could have been something else but new kids on the block often take less than they can.
Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:23PM (#13525165)
Thank you for mentioning this. I wish people understood this better.
Re:Speed Up a WordPress Website in 8 Steps on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:22PM (#13525158)
Ever used the WP-API? It is a REST API and you can bypass the native templating system and even the WP admin entirely. There are plenty of people are building web apps with WP/WP-API as the back-end. WordPress is a lot more than it used to be.
Re:FDA Agrees to New Trials for MDMA as Relief for PTSD Patients on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @07:54PM (#13076104)
I second erowid. Fantastic resource.
Re:Ask HN: Why has nobody built a better Wordpress? on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @04:31PM (#9814934)
This is my first HN comment - I must be the only WP developer who reads Hacker News or something. Let me preface this by saying I'm not going to be repeating what's already been said about non-technical user friendliness.

WordPress was my gateway in 2008-9 to web development. back when I was still a graphic design student. I started off hacking away at themes with my extremely limited HTML / CSS / PHP knowledge back then. Shit, my Google-fu was't really even halfway decent then.

Today, thanks to the large community of developers working on the core WordPress project every day, and the sheer number of bug fixes, security updates, and new features that get added with each release -- there's absolutely nothing to compare it to. It runs nearly a quarter of the entire internet.

And now, with the upcoming release of the JSON REST API as a part of core, developers will be able to take advantage of using WP as a data backend (read: users still control their content), while using the API to build applications with modern tech like React or Angular.

Just my two satoshis.

Edit: I'd also like to point out that several (not all) hacks come from popular themes and plugins that are created by 3rd party authors / sources. Some of these are not available on the wordpress.org theme and plugin repositories, and usually this is due to not following certain standards. I would blame most successful hacks on brute force attempts against sites with admins who leave their username as the default admin and have incredibly weak passwords. I would also venture to say most of these hacks come from through exploits in third party code or out of date code, which users often fail to update.