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Really nicely articulated. It sounds like the author is a new parent; if so he's in for an incredible ride and I hope he keeps writing about it.

Same. I had a Garmin for about 6 months and I eventually just stopped wearing it and sold it. Knowing how many steps I took today, checking it several times a day to see if I was meeting my goal, knowing how many vertical feet I skied.. none of this data ended up meaning anything to me.

Reading some the comments on this thread reveals one of the main reasons why a campaign like this is necessary if you're Underwood. Huy Fong has achieved "category king" status in this space; most people don't know what Huy Fong is, that red sauce is called "Sriracha". Huy Fong knows quite well that as long as the sauce still comes in that bottle and tastes like chilis, 99% of their customers will still buy it. Making a dent in this segment beyond foodies and hot-sauce enthusiasts requires some guerrilla marketing and and public education.

The article addresses this, but doesn't really clear it up. First it says:

> But justice minister Baroness Levitt warned that cracking down on pornography depicting sex between step-relatives was complicated, because not all > relationships between step-relatives are illegal.

and then later:

> Lady Bertin said she was "mystified why it does not include step-incest", as she moved her proposal, which peers backed 144 votes to 143.

> She added: "Nearly all step-relations between step-parents and step-siblings is illegal.

> "This is because Parliament recognised the clear power imbalance in step family relationships within households, and also Parliament acted because step-relations are the most likely relationships in which child sexual abuse takes place.

I guess there must be some limited definition of these interactions which are legal.

And whatever Claude builds, it will run locally on port 3000. Always port 3000.

I also learned it back in 2004 and it was one of the single most useful skills I have ever acquired. My shoes never come untied anymore. Coaching baseball, when a kid's shoe comes untied, I re-tie it for them with the Ian knot. Life changing skill.

I try :)

I will say that over time I've adjusted to Spectacle. Having it pinned to the taskbar is a good approximation of having Flameshot in the tray. Also a nice thing about Spectacle is that the window persists after you take a screenshot so you can then initiate, for example, 'New rectangular region' and it will launch you back into sceenshot mode with a rectangle of the same dimensions as the one you just took -- making it well suited for iterating with an AI coding assistant where I give it a screenshot with examples of a bug, then re-send it another screenshot showing what still needs work.

I'm guessing you don't have multiple monitors :)

Man I hope this delivers. I haven't been able to use Flameshot for over a year since switching to Wayland because weird shit happens with my multi-monitor setup.

When I come into a new project and I find all this... "stuff" in use, often what I later find is actually happening with a lot of it is:

- nobody remembers why they're using it

- a lot of it is pinned to old versions or the original configuration because the overhead of maintaining so much tooling is too much for the team and not worth the risk of breaking something

- new team members have a hard time getting the "complete picture" of how the software is built and how it deploys and where to look if something goes wrong.

And yet many the same people who lament the tooling bloat of today will, in a heartbeat, make lame jokes about PHP. Most of them aren't even old enough to have ever done anything serious with it, or seen it in action beyond Wordpress or some spaghetti-code one-pager they had to refactor at their first job. Then they show up on HN with a vibe-coded side project or blog post about how they achieved a 15x performance boost by inventing server-side rendering.

> I do think there are particular aspects about US support for Israel, outside of humanitarian concerns, that lead to people being more critical about US involvement in the conflict.

Well, yes. If someone doesn't like Jews (and many many many people do not), that is the only "particular aspect" they need. The one good thing about antisemitism is that it's been around for so long that it's pretty easy to spot, even when the bigots try to swap some of the terminology around.

This is actually really useful!

The prompts generating the AI-generated content probably need some work. As an example, I clicked on the category 'Fintech' and randomly chose the entry 'Clarity Money'. Under its 'Market Today' the content included the line, "Players like Mint, YNAB, and new entrants using AI are leading the charge." This isn't really an accurate reflection of that space in 2026 (Mint was long ago shut down, apps like Monarch and Empower and Rocket Money are currently alive).

If this app stays up, do you have plans to keep the content up-to-date by periodically regenerating it?

Respectfully, you're making things up and adding the words "I think the impression most people have". That's motivated reasoning.

If you're actually interested in the geopolitics of this I suggest you just spend some time tonight reading about these relationships and their history.

> In none of those conflicts you mentioned does the US act as the main benefactor to the side causing excessive suffering.

The United States is far and away the Saudis' most important and pivotal ally. We almost single-handedly ensure their security and and diplomatic standing. Now, many believe the "side causing excessive suffering" in that conflict is actually the Houthis. I would be interested to know if you fall in that camp, while (it would seem) not feeling the same way about Hamas, as that would do a better job of making my point than I could ever do on my own.

> The activists want the excessive death and suffering to end in Palestine, and they want to avoid death and suffering in Iran.

And yet they are silent on the death and suffering in: Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Ethiopia, Congo, Myanmar, Libya. Just to name current active conflicts where people are dying, to say nothing of all the others that have flared up and subsided in my decades on this earth as I've watched "activists" ignore them all so they could hyper-focus on whatever Israel was doing at the time to protect its citizens and the Jewish diaspora. The word "exhausting" doesn't even scratch the surface of how it feels to deal with otherwise smart, educated people who roll around in this hypocrisy-laden dogpile.

You are more right than you realize. Around the time the US and Israel bombed the Iranian nuclear sites, I personally witnessed our local pro-Hamas protesters add 'stop bombing Iran' signs to their repertoire.

> The US doesn’t support the Iranian government.

The US does support the Saudi government, though, and the collective response from the concerned citizens brigade about their relentless 10+ year pulverization of Yemen has been... nothing.

More interesting, to me, is why the corporations that produce house-brand colas don't do this. While not exactly Pepsico, these producers have plenty of financial resources, plus the motivation to get their product as close to Coca-Cola and Pepsi as possible.

> I’d get tripped up over “wait, did I copy that, or just highlight it?”

I think I'm in this boat too. I use this feature, I'm accustomed to it, but throughout my day I am constantly forgetting whether something is in my selection buffer or my clipboard. Windows and Mac users just don't have this problem.

My interpretation was/is that they're both right. The word originated as 'wares with a Z' but once it was spelled that way it became natural to pronounce it 'ware-ez' but nobody thought you were unintentionally mispronouncing it. The in-joke continued on certain boards as 'warez' became 'Juárez'...

I don't doubt the trends cited in this article; it seems well-researched. However I will say that anecdotally, as the parent of two boys in the US, Nike's brand is still very strong. I have a 3rd grader who refused to let us buy him any sneaker brand other than Nike. When my older one was the same age it was the same thing -- all the cool kids were wearing fancy Nikes and we had to pony up. That seems to have faded for the older one in middle/high school though.

I'm in your camp but I go for the cheap VPS. Lightsail and DigitalOcean are amazing -- for $10/mo or less you get a cheap little box that's essentially everything you describe, but with all the peace of mind that comes from not worrying about physical security, physical backups, dynamic IPs/DDNS, and running out of storage space. You're right that almost nobody needs most of the stuff that AWS/GCP/Azure can do, but some things in the cloud are worth paying for.

Software-y people also have a way of being deliberately and performatively obtuse about their technology choices. This person's proclamation about not using any USB-A peripherals hits the same as when they feign surprise that any non-luddite would still have a use for printers, scanners, and fax machines.

I must be doing something wrong. When I last tried to use Codex 5.2 (via Cursor), no amount of prompting could get it to stop aggressively asking me for permission to do things. This seems to be the opposite of the article's claim, which is that Codex is better for long-running, hands off tasks.

I feel you brother/sister. I actually pay for Claude Code Max and also for the $20/mo Cursor plan. I use Claude Code via the VSCode extension running within the Cursor IDE. 95% of my usage is Claude Code via that extension (or through the CLI in certain situations) but it's great having Cursor as a backup. Sometimes I want to have another model check Claude's work, for example.

Personally I bit the bullet and went with the Max plan for Claude Code. After tax it costs me ($108) less than I earn from one billable hour. I have been punishing it for the last two months, it defaults to Opus 4.5 and while I occasionally hit my session limit (it resets after an hour or so), I can't even scratch the surface of my monthly usage limit.

I'm reading this thread's comments and a LOT of you are missing OP's point. OP is not describing the risk that your SaaS product is now easily cloned by your customers' internal devs (or startup competitors) armed with agents. The risk is that certain SaaS products (but not all) mostly exist to provide answers to end users' questions about data, answers that can now be obtained by providing the same raw data to an agent with a prompt.

As I'm sure you're aware, glyphosate is usually only appropriate as a weed killer on your property if you're looking to kill all vegetation in/around where you spray it. For example if you wanted to "nuke" your lawn by killing all the grass and starting over with new grass. It's a non-selective herbicide in this context, it kills everything.

If you've got some dandelions or thistle, and it's not out of control, the nice safe way is to pull them up by hand or, if they're between pavement cracks, pour boiling water on them.

Broadleaf weeds growing in your lawn that aren't easily hand-pulled can be killed with a selective herbicide like 2,4-d. Tough underground vine-style weeds like creeping charlie or wild violet will need a selective called triclopyr. Crabgrass is best killed by a selective called quinclorac. Yellow nutsedge requires a selective called sulfrentrazone or another called halosulfuron.

Selectively kill the weed infestations as best you can, get rid of the bad ones before they go to seed, and focus on the health of your grass -- in most parts of your lawn, healthy grass will out-compete weeds.