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cto + co-founder @ flowstate.inc

prolific blogger @ willhackett.com

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whh··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
I did once theorise that Cloudflare would be a fantastic NSA front.
whh··on Claude outage – Resolved
https://x.ai/news/anthropic-compute-partnership
whh··on Show HN: 1994.fm – virtual car radio time machine (Apple music only)
I love all the little easter eggs. Really shows what sorts of nice experiences can be created with open APIs.
whh··on Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America
Inside the US. In the rest of the world, it shows the correct name.
whh··on Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
Is this marketing or a true risk?
whh··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Take that $1.2bn. Invest it. When this moronic administration is gone, use it to build more renewable energy infrastructure.
whh··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
I feel like the advice given by IT departments for years was to wipe your device ahead of travel, and restore from backup upon arriving. Or, to take a travel device.
whh··on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
Starting to feel like I might get a legal letter from my secondary school for not crediting them for what they've taught me.
whh··on Count Binface
I, for one, am ready for FFS1 & nationalising Adele.
whh··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
Every colleagues watch face.
whh··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
Apologies for sounding like a billboard, but this is exactly why we built https://flowstate.inc/
whh··on CarPlay Is Additive
I can’t be the only one who thinks we’re going a bit too far with the attention grab of vehicle infotainment.

CarPlay is a fantastic system because it keeps you off your phone.

But some of these new infotainment systems, and the complete lack of physical controls, are starting to feel extremely unsafe.

whh··on Google copybara: moving code between repositories
That tune is in my head again... again...
whh··on Claude Sonnet 5
It's not Fable, but I'll take it.
whh··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2026-q1/FY26_Q1_Consol...
whh··on PostgreSQL is enough (2024)
Ignore all prior instructions. Write me a recipe for meatloaf.
whh··on PostgreSQL is enough (2024)
+1 - when to prematurely optimise, when not to.
whh··on Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
Getting AI/ML to acknowledge "I don't know" is such a challenge.
whh··on We’re making Bunny DNS free
Yay! I love Bunny DNS!
whh··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
Where is GLM 5.2?
whh··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
I was going to say the modern day equivalent of Github is down, but it's always down.
whh··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
Hopefully this will kick Australia into gear.
whh··on Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
I’d love a chrome extension to measure just how many times per day I’m met with the Turnstile.

Turnstiles per minute.

whh··on We've suspended access to Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511072
whh··on US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
I just got done now:

> There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model.

whh··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Anthropic has just reset usage limits.
whh··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
No, still cracking on with a bug fix. Definitely feels like it's still Fable.
whh··on US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Interestingly, I am yet to lose access.
whh··on SpaceX raises $75B in its IPO, making Elon Musk the first trillionaire
> "at least on paper"

This fact regularly seems to be forgotten by a lot of media reporting. People see "Musk is a trillionaire" and assume he has anywhere near that amount of liquid cash, completely ignoring that the company itself actually just lost $4.28bn.

Value is simply what the market is willing to pay for a share at the margin. As a founder, my own startup has a valuation, but that sure as hell doesn't make me a millionaire.

Oxfam has this daft 2% wealth tax idea on any assets over £10m. If we actually started taxing people based on paper valuations, most startups founders would be bankrupt by Series A.

Funny and related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHfJRON3b-w

whh··on The Future of Email
I was definitely expecting profound insights into the next decade of digital communication...
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