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Self-plug but Handmade Cities [0] is grassroots organizing that prefers not to spend its time with stuff like this.

Join a local meetup!

Back online for me ~2 hours later. Jesus.

UPDATE: "We have identified a critical cooling failure in our Frankfurt datacenter. We are currently in the process of shifting traffic to our backups sites."

abnercoimbreon Proton Global Outage

I can't access anything right now. Blocked from my files in Proton Drive. No emails. Nothing. Can't work at all.

abnercoimbreon AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

Huh, I stand corrected too!

abnercoimbreon AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

Can't believe I'm correcting you on HN, but MILFs and DILFs are a thing. (Granted you'll need the appropriate genes and gym fitness.)

abnercoimbreon AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

> It's had a huge impact on the petit bourgeoisie.

I always heard it as "petty" bourgeoisie and was a bit confused. Now I get it.

abnercoimbreon YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is 'not healthy'

Interesting, thanks for the additional context!

abnercoimbreon Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC

Yeah I didn’t think twice about clicking the header to read the docs. Standard practice.

abnercoimbreon Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

Paying for Kagi Ultimate. Never going back to "free" search engines.

abnercoimbreon Read the novels and forget everything else

I drink it all in. It enhances the art for me while making sure I sharpen my own ethics (“don’t ever wanna believe the B.S. this person did.”)

abnercoimbreon GoatCounter

Nice! I've been shopping around lately. Landed on GoAccess [0] although one could argue they're not necessarily the same thing.

[0] https://goaccess.io/

abnercoimbreon This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

Also why is he putting the company on blast but also sounding super duper grateful to them?

abnercoimbreon Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers

Well that's no different than vegans. We "need them" to preach obnoxiously because cars are presumed indispensable.

Vegans gave us the Impossible Burger, which I'll eat instead of regular burgers when available. What might anti-car people trigger as a positive?

abnercoimbreon Ethics Is the Skill That Matters Most Now

Someone paid a chef to make a fancy pizza, then told his friend "look what I made!"

The author's message would've landed if he demonstrated human authorship. Like this blog post [0] attaching a notebook page or my own [1] video proof.

[0] https://vinxis.moe/posts/writing-2026-07-15

[1] https://abner.page/post/are-we-harold-bloom/

abnercoimbreon Ethics Is the Skill That Matters Most Now

And this article is largely LLM-generated. Is that ethical?

abnercoimbreon Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

Tell me more about Emby. Solid replacement?

abnercoimbreon Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe

Yeah that’s the infamous curse of knowledge.. it’s quite hard to imagine oneself as a beginner again (although the skill can be learned.)

abnercoimbreon Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

Imagine the cost involved for this though: I know you know my proof is genuine. Are we saying we’ll soon efficiently automate the generation of believable video evidence… for blog posts?!

abnercoimbreon Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

> This has the happy flipside that anyone who would like readers to classify their article as high-status rather than low-status can apply the judo move of simply writing it themselves.

I really really hope more people take up pen and paper! My last blog post [0] came with proof-of-work attached.

[0] https://abner.page/post/are-we-harold-bloom/

abnercoimbreon Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

Goes the other way around too: many many employees didn't care about layoffs or the less fortunate until [complete this sentence].

abnercoimbreon A native graphical shell for SSH

Lovely writeup! I'll bookmark this for my own research.

My terminal's "clickity clackity" features [0] are local to the machine so I lose graphical-ness as soon as we remote in somewhere.

That's starting to change a bit with offline replay [1] where the native GUI and TUI work in tandem to unlock some rewind. But there's quite a road ahead and I love seeing others experiment properly. (Terminals are massively underserved.)

[0] https://terminal.click

[1] https://terminal.click/posts/2026/06/tui-stability/#:~:text=...

abnercoimbreon Steam Machine launches today

> I'd love that console-esque experience for my primary gaming PC as well.

So does the typical gamer who's not a nerd like GP. I'm not framing it as an insult, more like a reminder: we infamously ignore the power of brands and sensible defaults chosen for you.

abnercoimbreon Steam Machine

Oh yeah I remember reading that in a book about botnets. Valve can only do harm reduction here, but calculating actors will seep through.

abnercoimbreon Steam Machine launches today

Spamming account creation won't work, because accounts need to have been created in April or earlier. They also verify address, payment method etc. to reduce double-dipping.

abnercoimbreon Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

> Just that the devs are better at marketing than others.

I will "quietly" self-plug Terminal Click [0] because Ghostty and TC have discussed their differences in the past (check out the Media page.)

I'm definitely not ready to do splashes of any kind, because what Ghostty lacks in novelty Terminal Click lacks in polish.

[0] https://terminal.click

abnercoimbreon If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort

My last post [0] has proof-of-work: video evidence of my physical notes. How many people are willing to draft a complete essay on pen and paper first?

[0] https://abner.page/post/are-we-harold-bloom/

abnercoimbreon Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job

Dana should’ve repeated the lie before companies started blowing past their annual AI budget and began to panic.

abnercoimbreon Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

> And the form is not unlike Paddle's verification. You need a company, EIN, samples of what your texts will look like. Massive pain.

In defense of Paddle (I use them for my own livelihood), they're on the hook for remitting sales taxes to ALL the governments where your customers might reside. They also manage customer disputes, chargebacks, refunds etc. I always redirect support emails to Paddle.net [0] which does the trick 99% of the time.

Stripe or PayPal are nothing like that. They're just payment platforms.

Since Paddle takes on so much liability, it seems reasonable to ask for a lot of initial paperwork from its sellers.

[0] https://paddle.net

abnercoimbreon GTA 6 Developers Unionize

I've met people whose lives were almost destroyed due to games. This is true. I've also met those whose lives were transformed positively by it (no, not Pokemon.) They run the whole gamut.

I'll concede an email app doesn't produce that kind of wide-ranging effect on humans.