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mercwear··on Steam Machine launches today
Falcon gaming computers start at $3K, I don't think Valve is after that level of consumer with this, it's more of a "Bring the console players into Steam" move imho.
mercwear··on Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
This reminds me of the mid to late 90's warez scene, all of the key crackers had neat interfaces like this.
mercwear··on OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
Here are some of the things I did with it while running locally: - Ask it to perform a scan of your local network and give you advice on output - Tell it to login to various computers and re-boot them (I have a few servers I host and setup openclaw to have a user on them) - Replace web search by asking openclaw

It's neat but the token use is pretty inefficient and security of course is a mess but it's been fun to play with.

I am messing with NanoClaw now and it's pretty much the same but only support Claude (uses code to do everything)

mercwear··on Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
I hope they hold off - going public tends to kill innovation and replace it with bureaucracy
mercwear··on Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views
I am thinking the same thing, and I do love the effect in iOS26
mercwear··on The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
Link to the video where he goes to get the tv (diff channel, same creator): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfZxOuc9Qwk
mercwear··on When stick figures fought
Some of these stick figure fight videos inspired me to make copies which lead to me learning flash which lead to my first dev job working in flash. Cool to see this throwback.
mercwear··on If you are reading this obituary, it looks like I'm dead
Maybe she liked to use AI.
mercwear··on If you are reading this obituary, it looks like I'm dead
Cool way to write up an obit, sounds like the world lost a good one.
mercwear··on Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos
It did for me: https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fuckupmy...

Seems to be an easter egg

mercwear··on Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos
Ohhh yeaaaa https://www.fuckupmysite.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fuckupmy...
mercwear··on Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office
Or maybe they just don’t feel like they need to state the obvious?

We all know some people slack off, they find ways to do it in office too.

mercwear··on Fair Pricing
I agree with your statement but your general calculation of growth is off imho, it should be: Growth = (New Customers Acquisition + Install Base Growth) - Churn This also assumes that churn = Customers that leave completely and those that downgrade plans

IB growth can fuel business growth, especially during times of low new customer acquisition and or high to moderate churn

mercwear··on Fair Pricing
This will come out in due diligence if the investor is not just throwing money at whatever moves.
mercwear··on Show HN: Cardstock- Free TCG Proxy Manager for Magic, Yugioh, & Pokemon
+1, I dont want to have to login to a simple service like this. The only value a login provides IMHO is the ability for the site owner to sell my info. Probably not the case here but never can tell and not worth the hassle when I can just use existing resources that work fine and require no login.
mercwear··on Show HN: Cardstock- Free TCG Proxy Manager for Magic, Yugioh, & Pokemon
WOTC has a (surprisingly) good proxy policy: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/proxies-poli...

TL;DR: Use them all you want for play testing but don't use them in events or for trading.

Edit: They DO want a watermark for proxy cards, not sure they enforce that much since most proxy sites make it optional.

mercwear··on Show HN: Cardstock- Free TCG Proxy Manager for Magic, Yugioh, & Pokemon
For MTG fans, checking out https://mtgprint.net/ may be worth a shot too. No login required and same results.
mercwear··on Wild Ball
1.17 Cash Me Outside https://imgur.com/a/zm44TpK
mercwear··on Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
Python script that reads the pixel color under my mouse and turns a set of smart lights to match that color.
mercwear··on Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world
Nice! The washing machine done alert is a great idea, I may steal that one =-)
mercwear··on Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world
What other automations do you have? This one seems so specific I am curious what else you have going on!
mercwear··on McKinsey Reveals: Leaders Are Wrong About Why Employees Quit
You can find a new job if you just start looking today, if you just "wait for the market to improve" you will always be behind the pack and feeling "stuck".
mercwear··on Just Let Me Do My Job
Oh, you and I 100% agree this is JUST marketing..
mercwear··on Just Let Me Do My Job
37 Signals is confusing... This is cool marketing, the play on the word slack is clever but I thought they were going to focus on moving away from a SaaS business model and this seems to (imho) focus on growing their flagship product which is still a SaaS app.

https://once.com/ for context on what 37 Signals view of the future of software was (is?) 11 months ago.

mercwear··on Moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us $230k per year
Who would have thought that vendor lock in results in absorbent spend!
mercwear··on Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee attendance
Seems like basic management to me, if I was operating a company of Amazon's size I would 100% want to have some form of attendance tracking, hourly or not.
mercwear··on FreeRDP: A remote desktop protocol implementation
Another good, free option is chrome remote desktop: https://remotedesktop.google.com/
mercwear··on A phone cleaning app makes $2M/mo on the App Store – The reviews show how
Thanks for commenting, I have no reason to not believe you so please take my comment as constructive =)

For context, phrases like "We'll take a look at" are what typically lead me to lean towards AI being part of the mix. There are other things about the article that did that too but they may be related to you working in a non-native language.

mercwear··on A phone cleaning app makes $2M/mo on the App Store – The reviews show how
This content feels like it was AI generated then edited by a human.
mercwear··on 37signals Introduces "Once" - Buy software one time
It's 100% not authentic. I have worked directly with one of the two you mentioned and it was an awful experience. The way they treated people around them (both people they knew personally and people at the company I worked with them at) was awful. Based on my experience with them I have never used another 37 signals product.
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