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Re:Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997 on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:01PM (#50250069)
This brings back memories! My first personal website used that orange gradient with the 3D text for the logo (my name).
Looks good - thanks for sharing.
Is this a hosted solution? Open source?

I can't tell from your website how you are solving this problem: "I think bloggers should have control over their own blog."

Re:Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:03PM (#50189808)
Airbnb includes the cleaning fee (and other fees) in the advertised price. I just checked our own listing and it shows the total cost.
Re:Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:58PM (#50189770)
For us, we charge the same cleaning fee whether you stay for 1 night or 7 nights. So I don't know how we can incorporate that into the nightly fee without either over-charging or under-charging for cleaning. Having it listed separately keeps it consistent and clear to guests.
Re:Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:30PM (#50189538)
I've been an Airbnb host for the last 3 years. We've never expected guests to do any cleaning or washing of dishes (although it's always appreciated when they do!) We charge a small cleaning fee to cover the costs of cleaning our studio which only takes an hour. We also have maintained a really high rating over the last few years (currently at 4.96). I would hope that other rentals that have ridiculous rules and high cleaning fees would suffer from average ratings?
Re:Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:59PM (#50186766)
Oat is another new, minimal framework that has just reached v1: https://oat.ink/
Re:Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:53PM (#49851664)
I was skeptical, but this looks genuinely useful. I can already think of some use-cases for this, e.g. a spreadsheet I was working on recently had a list of user, and then a comma-separated list of software apps they were using. It was a bit of a nightmare to parse, but the example in the article would definitely help with filtering the list.
Re:Claude's Load-Bearing Seams on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:59PM (#49824376)
I'm confused - is this meant as satire? The blog author's other posts also look like they are generated by an LLM, so I'm not even sure if the author is trying to be funny or serious?
Strange - I had the opposite experience. The more I learned about Jev the more interesting I thought it was. This Syntax video got me excited about developing with Jev: https://youtu.be/QbYBRjOaGOo?si=Up0QbW8tWCZQzZR4
Re:My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:02AM (#49533229)
Not surprised at all - just making the point that getting a model to run isn't that impressive if it runs at a few tokens per second.
Re:My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:57AM (#49533191)
That's useful thanks. Also, looks painfully slow!
Re:My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:45PM (#49529874)
No mention of the performance of the models? I'm able to load a bunch of different models on my little mini-PC with 16GB RAM, but the performance is terrible. I always wonder what performance people are getting with local models that they find is acceptable?
I agree with Mitchell's original post: "stay frosty with AI", and I disagree with response that says "the houses are better". I'm assuming that Mitchell was saying you should treat all AI code with caution, and the more I work with AI-generated code, the more I agree with this sentiment. Even the frontier models (Fable, Opus, Sol, etc) all make fundamental errors from time to time, and if you're not keeping your eyes open these are easy to miss.

Just the other day, I got Fable to help generate a sign-up flow for a Django app. It looked perfect to me, and like the Twitter post linked to, I looked at it with marvel and delight. But I got Sol to review the code and it spotted some fundamental issues with the flow that would have let bad actors enumerate accounts and log in before their account was verified - both of which were supposed to be checked.

To continue with the analogy, yes we can "will houses into existence", but unless we've checked the bricks and the foundations, these houses can easily crumble into rubble.

Here in NZ, what Trump has been doing in the Middle East is having a huge impact on policy, especially with the upcoming elections this year. Trump has reminded us (and I imagine many other countries too) that relying on other countries for fuel is fraught with danger. EV sales have spiked here, and all of the political parties are scrambling to come with electrification policies. So for NZ at least, I definitely agree with the OP comment about Trump's influence.
I was initially surprised that Gruber was so invested in the "quality" of AI-generated text, which in my mind is an oxymoron. But really, Gruber's interest here is with the EU. This forms part of his ongoing attacks on the EU, all because they have been forcing Apple to align with regulations.
Even the website looks AI generated. Lots of cards with hover effects, icons in square boxes, the button shapes and behaviours, and just the general look and feel has Claude written all over it.
Re:OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:24PM (#49265312)
Nice - I've been considering re-subscribing to OpenAI to try out their new models. This is just the push I needed. Looking forward to trying it on Fedora 44.
Re:Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper on Sunday July 26, 2026 @04:47PM (#49062243)
That looks like an interesting game, I'll bookmark it. But no - it appears to be a different concept.
Re:Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper on Sunday July 26, 2026 @04:21PM (#49062028)
This is very similar concept to "0h h1" https://0hh1.com/ which I've been playing every day on Android for a couple of years now. I had never considered it to be a reverse minesweeper.
Re:Zoom is now Chrome only on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @07:25PM (#48999760)
Worked for me - I was able to join the test meeting from Firefox 152 on Fedora 44 and on Windows 11.
Re:Show HN: I made email signatures less boring on Monday July 20, 2026 @10:15PM (#48987291)
Nothing says authentic more than AI slop in your emails... These signatures are a good signal for people I wouldn't want to do business with.
Re:FrankenMarkdown on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @09:00PM (#48826134)
Who is the target market for all these AI-slop projects that keep getting shared on HN? Who is really going to incorporate this into their project?
Nice website, but would be great if you could include filters for which operating systems these apps support.
Re:There's still no point in gigabit broadband on Sunday June 07, 2026 @05:06PM (#48438543)
"is there a real difference in waiting 7 minutes rather than 3.5?" Yes - that is a real difference! Halving your waiting time when downloading large files is a meaningful difference.
Re: on Thursday June 04, 2026 @08:04PM (#48406357)
You might want to mention this is Mac-only
Re:Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @12:56AM (#48275172)
Looks like a car from "smart". Not too far removed from the smart #3.
Re:Intercom changes name to Fin on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @08:18PM (#48129488)
Fin/Intercom: "Fin is defining the AI era of customer experience"

Zendesk: "AI-powered service platform"

Freshdesk: "AI-powered platform for modern customer service"

Where are the companies that are proudly promoting "human powered" customer support?

Re:New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @05:41PM (#48029006)
Why do you need a toggle for "Active" services? Surely a curated list would remove services that are no longer active? My issue with this list, and many others like it, is that they appear to have very little curation and just turn into a dumping ground of links to any service. e.g. there is almost 50 services listed as "PaaS or CaaS" - are all of these really "awesome"? Same with the "Self-Hosted PaaS" section - how much curation has been done here? Some of them don't even appear to fit in this category.
Re:How to Disable Firefox's New Emoji Picker on Thursday April 30, 2026 @06:24PM (#47969042)
Sounds like the real problem was that 1Password had hijacked the same keyboard shortcut that other Gnome apps use for the Emoji picker. For me, "Ctrl + ." was being used by two different extensions: Raindrop and Multi-account containers. I deleted these shortcuts since I would *rather* have the Firefox emoji picker. :-)

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