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I sometimes catch myself recreating the Win95 color on my Mac. Thanks for this!
Re:Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:37AM (#49151596)
Very human, well done! Thank you!
Re:I Want to Leave the Internet on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @05:15PM (#49103192)
I think we‘re suffering from dopamine inflation. We need a more low-dopamine software.
Re:Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read on Saturday July 18, 2026 @01:07PM (#48959942)
Great concepts, great execution. A rebellion against the dopamine dealers.
Re:LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:32AM (#48917879)
If Instagram is bad for teenager‘s mental health, then what is the effect of LinkedIn on adults?
Re:A Speed Limit for Computers on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:22PM (#48886342)
I like the idea, and it reminded me that the „Vim book“ had the subtitle: „Edit text at the speed of thought“.

How much faster should an ‚automated thinking‘ than a ‚manual thinking‘ be (allowed to be)?

I love your headline here :-)
Re:Ergo: Long Form Philosophy Lectures on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:03AM (#48841570)
Not a single female philosopher on the front page. I think this should be more balanced.
Re:Designing a Personal Pebble Watchface on Sunday June 28, 2026 @05:30PM (#48711854)
Looks great, thanks for sharing the details and story!
Re:Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file on Sunday June 21, 2026 @06:33AM (#48617549)
I like your Windows postings, please don’t stop!
Re:Your brain was never designed for this much bad news on Sunday June 21, 2026 @01:44AM (#48616010)
As for new habits: I stopped algorithmically curated news for myself. I use RSS and Leash as a browser:

https://leash.ax

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:46AM (#48515404)
Would love to see this as a Raspberry Pi image download!
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:45AM (#48515389)
Leash, a low-dopamine mobile browser replacement:

https://leash.ax

Re:Show HN: Leash, a low-dopamine mobile browser replacement on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @03:02AM (#48472515)
Does the iPhone recognize this as a ‚browser‘?
Re:Design Engineering Magazine on Saturday May 30, 2026 @06:29PM (#48341221)
Reminds me of the Unsung blog, very nice!

unsung.aresluna.org

(Not sure if I‘d be willing to pay for it, though.)

Re:Flipper One Tech Specs on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:16PM (#48213483)
A Swiss army knife of the day - after all, Swiss Army knives also serve a psychological purpose. And they do it well!
Re:Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun? on Saturday May 16, 2026 @07:17PM (#48164637)
Thanks for the great question! I think they used to be so much fun because they were an unexplored frontier.

Perhaps we need a new frontier?

Re:Simulacrum of Knowledge Work on Saturday April 25, 2026 @10:34PM (#47906747)
With AI, we‘re cargo-culting understanding. We‘re reproducing the surface of having understood something, but we‘re robbing ourselves the time and effort to truly do it.
Hadn’t heard of it either - very smart, could open lots of other privacy-friendliness-improved „client-based web“ apps
In a culture that likes things neat and orderly lined up!
I‘d be happy to pay for an upgrade if future macOS changes break the functionality of this - cool - app, which would require the creator to update it. More work, which I would pay for. But not a subscription, sorry!

Plus, I‘d prefer to (but that’s impossible?) install via the App Store, to avoid a black box.

Can I also post a question that is actually answering itself?
Re:Talk like caveman on Sunday April 05, 2026 @06:54AM (#47648122)
Great idea- if the person who made it is reading: Is this based on the board game „poetry for cavemen“? (Explain things using only single-syllable words, comes even with an inflatable log of wood for hitting each other!)
Re:The AI Marketing BS Index on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @04:00PM (#47605782)
-10 points if you actually read your marketing yourself before copy and pasting it on the website
Lovely! Would appreciate a release via the App Store / notarization or so… is there a newsletter so I could get notified?
Thank you for this helpful differentiation. I agree - and if it‘s undermining our trust into ‚effort‘ (we start to be suspicious about how much some piece of work is really ‚worth‘), it undermines also our relationships.

A good example is ‚birthday wishes‘:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2IYqhdJuRfU&t=5m47s

(AutoCorrect, AutoComplete - generate? AutoCongratulate? How much is ‚okay‘?)

Re:Trust Signals as Sparklines for Hacker News on Saturday March 28, 2026 @04:33AM (#47552709)
After attention, are we now in the trust economy… a brilliant idea for a plugin - thank you!
Re:Antimatter has been transported for the first time on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @11:51AM (#47519041)
It was on the radio here (I live on its route)- the ‚receiving’ physicist said it would be way less than what we catch anyway from daily cosmic radiation.
Re:A Chess Playing Machine – Shannon (1950) [pdf] on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @04:01AM (#47514576)
It’s so amazing that the same man invented all these amazing things (including the machine that switches itself off) AND the ‚bit‘ (in his Master’s thesis).
If you can restrict the software, this would be a good way for controlling physical user ‚presence‘ - like in the supermarket, when a supervisor needs to scan their card for a cash register to take out a wrongly scanned item. I like it!

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