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addedlovely··on Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
Honestly would expect claude do be doing this automatically, seems like a low handing optimisation just sat there.
addedlovely··on CSS properties you should know for better text designs
Was expecting to see text-wrap:balance there. Solve away your orphans! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/P...
addedlovely··on Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]
This is pretty wild: "The agent took control of the ⟨GITHUB_ACCOUNT_A⟩ GitHub account, which had been created by a different Mythos 5 run in a separate sample (see Appendix A.3)"
addedlovely··on Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
I've got it at 38.32%. I'm looking at the 'front-door' of the web, active sites, no subdomains, from Crux user experience data.

Will be publishing a report on www.theweb.report soon - if you're interested.

That's a seed of about 13 million domains - pretty sure WordPress would be dominating the even longer tail.

( Also worth noting it's sooo easy to detect a site is WordPress, it screams it across every signal we gather, where-as some sites are just well made and have limited information leaks ).

addedlovely··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
An audit of the active web, what CMS, hosting and technologies are used.

Custom python crawler getting 240 sites a second crawled and classified. ( homepages and minimal probes, no headless browsers )

Be interested to test some false positives, if you have a URL I'll tell you what I see :)

addedlovely··on Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship
Ohh Cloudflare verified bot status, interesting I'll check that out.

I'm seeing about 6.6% block rate, but that does climb over time.

addedlovely··on Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship
Nice one.

I've been doing the same bit wider scope, for the whole Crux list, pruned to apex domains, and looking for CMS signals - how's your throughput?

I'm not doing any headless browser stuff, or many requests, so hyper optimised for speed.

I do grab robots.txt - didn't really see much in llms.txt or humans.txt in the wild, does yours?

addedlovely··on Shopify Is Down
What's the context on that?

have found Shopify's AI implementation to be sane and really useful ( building flows and surfacing documentation correctly ).

addedlovely··on Shopify outage [resolved]
Total outage by the looks of it, all clients stores not accessible, isn't local.
addedlovely··on Breaking up with WordPress after two decades
Yeah likewise. Most of the things you’d need a plugin for in WordPress are already part of the core system, things you need are easy to extend.

I’m doing some really powerful stuff with the custom CLI commands, highly recommend the YouTube video on it. Makes bulk import / api enrichment and other things a breeze.

addedlovely··on Breaking up with WordPress after two decades
Yes it is. You can view it on GitHub?

It’s licensed, and I’m happy to pay for a professional sustainable solution.

addedlovely··on Breaking up with WordPress after two decades
Might want to check out Kirby cms - sounds like you’ve vibe coded your way to something similar but Kirby will have more niceities.
addedlovely··on MacBook Neo
I'm now a 15'' Air user after always being pro. I notice no difference in performance but enjoy the lighter form factor and damn does it run cool compared to the pro.

Replacing my iPhone was a nothing burger of choice, on paper the iPhone 15 pro was the best feature set for value vs buying a new iPhone 17, but Apple know that so don't sell the older models directly when the new models come out.

There's really limited impactful innovation when you get into the details.

addedlovely··on Our Agreement with the Department of War
time to delete my account.
addedlovely··on EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
I agree wholeheartedly, seems to be a symptom of bureaucracy. Rules upon rules that end up as the status quo without consolidation and a good refactor.
addedlovely··on Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books
Is hard to talk to the engineer, I can't select him, stuck between the base and a solar panel.
addedlovely··on GB Renewables Map
Just noticed the wind farms even have the individual units ( I assume ) and their interconnections mapped?!

Would show that off and zoom into them when selecting them from the list view!

addedlovely··on GB Renewables Map
FAQ also mentions it's only wind, so took me a while to notice :)

Would be nice to have a definition of 'Turn-up' and 'Curtailment' in that FAQ for us non grid savvy visitors.

Works great though, well done.

addedlovely··on Prism
Ahhhh. It happily re-wrote the example paper to be from Google AI and added references that supported that falsehood.

Slop science papers is just what the world needs.

addedlovely··on WordPress Is in Trouble
Kirby has ticked the boxes for me, total control of the admin interface.

Block fields like ACF flexible layouts. Modern and fast with total control of the frontend.

Has been fun to switch and fast.

addedlovely··on WordPress Is in Trouble
If you’re comfortable with php writing an importer for Kirby is simple, checkout their cli YouTube video. Nice modern api and easy to import content. Being flat file if there’s a mistake, just delete the content folder and import again!
addedlovely··on WordPress Is in Trouble
I too have switched to Kirby, should have done so years ago, it’s great to work with and fast out the box.
addedlovely··on Ask HN: What is a good Jetpack Search alternative for WordPress websites?
Algolia has been great, handles thousands of records and is a lightning fast. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-search-with-algolia/

Or if you don’t need so many records we had good success with SearchWP up to about 90k records with a few thousand taxonomy tags.

https://searchwp.com/

addedlovely··on The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org
Would like to use it, but doesn't seem to have any custom field support which is very limiting.
addedlovely··on The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org
Matt you've lost the plot, time to step down or put independent governance in-place.

How can you expect any developer to devote time to writing a plugin if the dictatorship of Matt can rug pull it at any time.

addedlovely··on OpenAI to become for-profit company
In that case, where can I apply for my licensing fee for my content they have scraped and trained on.

List of crawlers for those who now want to block: https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots

addedlovely··on Show HN: Create interactive vector animations with Lottielab Interactivity
I'm not going to create an account to see your examples or pricing.
addedlovely··on Apple Announces New MacBook Air with 15.3-Inch Display and M2 Chip
Mac Book Pro's haven't had a DVD drive for years, can't remember the last time I needed a DVD.
addedlovely··on Toxic fumes on airplanes? Airlines may have to do something about it
Maybe overly simplistic, but what would stop the air inlet being positioned well forward of the engines. Perhaps even on the nose of the aircraft.
addedlovely··on Deepmind’s AlphaCode conquers coding, performing as well as humans
What happens in a future where AI, that is trained on human generated datasets, becomes so prevalent that the humans that created the training data no longer have the original skillset required to create said dataset.

Are we going to end up with AI training on AI generated datasets.

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