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lanewinfield

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lanewinfield··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
Anecdotal, of course. Which states they going to? Do they compare to CA?
lanewinfield··on Show HN: Is It Greg?
i usually go to gcombinator for my greg updates
lanewinfield··on DaVinci Resolve 21.1
I've been thinking a lot about this across many different mediums, not just filmmaking, and I think it's one worth digging deeper on.*

What is lost when losing the (understandably annoying) process of the grind? By letting LLMs do the busy work, do you lose the opportunity to stumble into randomness? Do you lose the understanding of what is possible/interesting with the medium?

And do you end up in this derivative future where decisions are made by a system that was trained on all the previous uses of it?

Obviously that's fairly hyperbolic, but I have absolutely felt the pull of it all. When it decides to take a couple extra steps I didn't ask for creatively and I think "eh, that's fine."

*EDIT: I wrote this and looked back and this SOUNDS like an LLM wrote it. See what I mean??????

lanewinfield··on OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
GPT-404
lanewinfield··on Show HN: How much of Hacker News is about AI?
I expected this to call out the number of links that are obviously vibe coded, like itself!

If you see:

- ALL CAPS subheaders

- a light beige background

- burnt sienna anchor and/or highlight text

- a "• LIVE" (or really any pulsing • symbol with an ALL CAPS follow-up)

- tons of variation in font sizes (this one has 15 different text sizes!)

- more typically, a lot of overexplaining

...you know it's vibe'd, specifically with Claude!

lanewinfield··on Casio F-B100W-1A
you mean the first or the thirteenth.
lanewinfield··on 2026 Eclipse Webcams
Hilariously this is successfully tracking these cameras being overloaded with requests in real time.
lanewinfield··on Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
Perhaps there needs to be a plugin for these tools that uses your webcam to make you Point and Call (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling) for every single approval.
lanewinfield··on AI Agent – TRMNL
100%. I had one in my cart before I uncovered this stuff. Obviously people have a right to speak (and to buy the product), but it's too far for me.
lanewinfield··on A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?
Cost per kill ("CPK" in industry lingo) is a dark phrase that feels disturbingly within reach of some of these companies.
lanewinfield··on US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%
https://50centadjustedforinflation.com/

50 Cent is up 1 cent to 113 Cent.

lanewinfield··on Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
Thank you for sharing your story! I wish you continued success and I also hope that one day someone will share with you about how YOUR story helped them do something similar, just like the article did for you.

Also, Preston Thorpe (who Gavin mentions as inspiration) has an interesting story as well: https://pthorpe92.dev/intro/my-story/

lanewinfield··on Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI
Not to go off topic, but there's some similarities between that and the way that Hacker News is run/moderated. But I believe they've found a pretty ideal balance. Even though they occasionally annoy me with with fun things taken down, I understand the need to have some consistency.

Perhaps they need to take a page out of dang (and team)'s book.

lanewinfield··on Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data
comment of the year award
lanewinfield··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
Gemini 3.5 Flash's 2000 token clocks aren't bad. https://clocks.brianmoore.com/
lanewinfield··on Cursor Camp
Really putting the "fun" in "Neal.fun." Yet another amazing work by Neal Agarwal.
lanewinfield··on How a subsea cable is repaired (2021)
I've been attempting to buy a cross section of one of these cables for a very long time. Anybody got a lead on one?
lanewinfield··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
A bunch of ridiculous experiments with QR.

https://brianmoore.com/qrapps

lanewinfield··on Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs
hi, creator of the site here.

A LONG time ago, I was shared on a document with a brand font and was surprised to see it was a custom one. With a bit of testing, I realized I could pull it into a new document and that new document would then become "infested" with that font and allow me to use it anywhere else within.

I recently realized there must be even more fonts that exist that I don't know of, so (transparently, with the help of Claude,) I ran through a list of potential clients (some listed on Google Workspace's site, some I just assumed) and tested across many. This is the list I came back with.

lanewinfield··on X is selling existing users' handles
who wants to screenshot what's on the other side because I sure as hell am not paying to see it!
lanewinfield··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://brianmoore.com
lanewinfield··on Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window
I love how the site reflects the darkness of the screen in the youtube video. nice touch!
lanewinfield··on AI World Clocks
^ this! there's a lot of clocks to generate so I've challenged it to stick to a small(er) amount of code
lanewinfield··on AI World Clocks
nice. I restrict to 2000 tokens for mine, how many was that?
lanewinfield··on AI World Clocks
hi, I made this. thank you for posting.

I love clocks and I love finding the edges of what any given technology is capable of.

I've watched this for many hours and Kimi frequently gets the most accurate clock but also the least variation and is most boring. Qwen is often times the most insane and makes me laugh. Which one is "better?"

lanewinfield··on The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
that’s a good idea. in future versions, i might need to consider multiple renderings as different economists likely prefer alternative visualizations of 50’s monetary adjustments
lanewinfield··on The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
you bet. I pull it straight from the BLS.
lanewinfield··on The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
it's on a scheduled workflow with github actions that rebuilds the site on the 15th, 30 minutes after the data is released.

cron: '0 13 15 * *'

lanewinfield··on The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
hi, i made this. thank you for posting.

unfortunately due to the government shutdown, the BLS inflation data for September 2025 is delayed from October 15 (as it normally is) until October 24[1], so please check back then to see if he is >109 Cent.

assuming future stability, the site will automatically update on the 15th of every month.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/bls/092025-cpi-reschedule-notice.htm

lanewinfield··on Find SF parking cops
another riley walz banger!!!
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