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Re:ChatGPT Pro 500 on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:53PM (#49912827)
Can you recommend good and capable open models? Where does one go? OpenRouter or someplace else?
Re:Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:28PM (#49912551)
@dang does hn have any defenses against accounts like this one?
Re:Performance Improvements in .NET 11 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:41AM (#49740639)
I do all my dev in .NET on a mac, using Postgres and Sqlite only, so I don't relate to your experience at all. It's dead simple for me and I'm not even that good of a developer.
Re:Performance Improvements in .NET 11 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:40AM (#49740614)
I do .NET dev exclusively on a mac completely within Visual Studio Code and it's by far the easiest and most enjoyable framework and ecosystem I've had the pleasure of working in. I couldn't be happier with it.
Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:30PM (#49540393)
I'm a Plus subscriber using a Gmail address and still only see 3.6
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @10:13AM (#49536568)
I moved off my $200 max plan with Anthropic because of this. OpenAI gets it though.
And colon cancer is on the rise so now I have that to be worried about before my 40s.
Re:Htmx 4.0.0 has been released on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:05PM (#49486526)
Ah no worries. No SPAs for me, SSR all day.
Re:Htmx 4.0.0 has been released on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:04PM (#49486524)
Not my experience. I have large production apps that I'm able to maintain just fine with thousands of lines of JS.
Re:Htmx 4.0.0 has been released on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:04PM (#49486520)
I've only tried vanilla JS so far
Re:Htmx 4.0.0 has been released on Friday August 28, 2026 @07:29PM (#49485430)
Please don’t misunderstand my comment, I wasn't trying to diminish the brilliant work you’ve done on HTMX, which I’ve personally benefited from. I could have probably worded it better than I did. I'm also not saying you _did_ misunderstand it, only asking that you please don't. I was just sharing an observation that I realize is not everyone’s experience. I’m still a fan + supporter, even though I now reach for JS more often because the pain of writing it has largely disappeared. I’m still not a fan of it by any means, but LLMs have been a major mitigator. I'm always happy to see the HTMX updates when they come out.
Re:Htmx 4.0.0 has been released on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:56PM (#49481367)
All apps I build are server-side rendered. I'm not sure how your comment changes the the question I'm asking.
Re:Htmx 4.0.0 has been released on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:42PM (#49481124)
I've always been a fan and supporter of HTMX, but lately I've wondered how beneficial it is now that LLMs can generate JavaScript for us. HTMX was especially useful when I wrote JavaScript by hand because I appreciated its higher level of abstraction and simplicity. I also struggled to make it work with AlpineJS and eventually had to resort to plain JavaScript, which gave me finer control. Normally, switching to JavaScript would have been a hassle but since an LLM can produce it as easily as any other text, I’m less clear on HTMX’s advantage. I’ve been getting along fine without it. If computers didn’t write code for us, I would still choose HTMX, but now I find it hard to justify the trade‑off.
Most of what Trump does is illegal.
Re:PostgreSQL for Everything on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @10:01AM (#49361749)
I use SQLite for everything, and I'm perfectly happy with it. I'm aware of the concurrent writer issues, but at my scale it doesn't even matter.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:31PM (#48909350)
Haha that's awesome. Would love to hear more about your project. Share it on the boards if you want, I bet others would be interested too and you may be able to pick up a few new users! Hit me up anyway, always happen to swap notes, thanks for stopping by to check it out :]
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:26PM (#48901921)
I have a robust set of moderation tools built into the network and I check it several times per day. There is nothing automated setup yet because I don't need it. We have just under 200 members at the moment so this is working well. If the growth of the network ever outstrips my ability to moderate it effectively then I'll look at introducing new methods. So far, I've only had to delete 1 wall post and 1 thread, so it's very manageable.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Monday July 13, 2026 @10:35AM (#48893386)
Thanks! Hope to see you there when you get a chance. It works on mobile too, but it was made for the desktop first :)
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:59PM (#48887739)
Awesome, looking forward to seeing you on the boards. Yeah, we have a decent little group of active posters and we've been adding to that number slowly but consistently since I put it online a few weeks ago.

It's been fun and I've learned starting a community is a lot harder than it looks. Maybe I'll write a post on what I've learned sometime. TLDR and probably no surprise to most: making the software is the easy part.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:56PM (#48887721)
Thank you! That's the idea, and even though its been a slow burn, the conversations have been interesting and rewarding. One of the funniest proof of concept so far was, someone asked how to route a guitar body to fit a new bridge on a network with maybe a dozen active people at the time. Within like a day, a total stranger with an actual woodshop and eight spare guitars showed up with real technical advice and offered him a discount on one of the guitars. Maybe it was a fluke, but it really struck me, and there have been a number of small interactions since that one that really remind me why I loved the early web so much.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:13PM (#48887441)
https://quxnet.net/about

I made it specifically to bring back what was amazing about the old internet, and do it as authentically as possible. takes inspiration from old internet messageboards, usenet, bbs, and pubnix hosts. it has sealed mail, boards, an rss reader, built-in media player, custom profiles, a links directory, and quite a bit more.

it's just a little hobby art project for me but i've really appreciated talking to like minded people in a calm space.

Re:Grok 4.5 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @10:34PM (#48840290)
I would never touch anything fElon has had anything to do with. He is subhuman as far as I'm concerned.
Does it? Maybe. But I've grown weary of it. It feels like I'm in a relationship with a mercurial partner, never quite knowing where I stand.
I can honestly say that as a paying customer, I'm getting a bit tired of being jerked around by this company. It's on again, off again. Snip snap snip. And by the way, telling people there's a deadline so they all scramble to use their "Fable allowances" before being cut off, only to then be told "just kidding, here's 5 more days" without getting a usage reset is just another frustrating and disappointing customer experience.

Seriously, all OAI needs to do at this point is just release GPT 5.6, have it be a solid model and then not jerk it out of the hands of their customers, and they're going to eat Anthropic's lunch.

That's one unfortunate name
Re:Fable 5 Is Back on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @09:29PM (#48755320)
Yeah this is wild stuff. Seeing Anthropic free fall after building up such good will is shocking.
Re:Fable 5 Is Back on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @09:28PM (#48755304)
I think the 5 series of models suck kinda. I'm sticking with 4.6 for as long as I can. But GPT 5.5 fixes me up nice like too.
Re:Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:24PM (#48726140)
Hah! Got me. I knew what I did as soon as I saw your comment in my inbox.
Re:Show HN: Quxnet on Monday June 29, 2026 @04:56PM (#48725124)
I can't argue with a legit question and I suspect some others will feel the same. The answer (which you may not agree with) is that without a signup of any kind this would be a completely different thing. It wouldn't be a "semi-private network" for people who miss the old web or a community that rejects what's wrong with social media now. It'd be an open door anyone could pass through which would leave me no ability to moderate and basically nullifies the whole premise. The barrier is what lets it self-select. So the only rationale I can offer for why you should bother is if any of it resonates and you're curious whether you'd like it, come check it out. If not, no hard feelings here.

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