thm

38,971 karma · joined April 19, 2008

Mostly known among your parents for creating the infamous Popurls and Twidroyd (Very first Android Twitter app). Idealab alumni.

Later biztoc.com (With Mark Cuban, acquired by ProRata)

Still running upstract.com

thomas.me

x.com/thomas

Austria, Japan, CA

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thm··on Fox to buy Roku

Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/fox-roku-deal-f6e564f9?st...

thm··on Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet

AV was something your uncle used - the OGs searched on Northern Light.

thm··on Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump

The discussion revolves around the equivalent of taking nutrition advice from Coca-Cola's blog.

thm··on Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump

Why did we start treating Cloudflare (a public, for-profit company) as the undisputed authority on anything related to the network layer of the internet in the first place?

thm··on How Online Sleuthing Helped Catch the ‘Google Insider’ on Polymarket

Gift Link: https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/how-online-sleuthing-...

thm··on Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

So, Web 2.0 is finally over now?

thm··on Ferrari shares fall after carmaker unveils first electric vehicle

I think they designed the app first.

thm··on Ferrari Luce

It looks like someone designed the app first, then Jony Ive panic-wrapped a car around it.

thm··on The Art of Money Getting

For a more recent pop-culture version, I'd recommend Felix Dennis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18749286-how-to-get-rich

thm··on Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines

You could add OrbStack to the comp. table

thm··on Codex for Almost Everything

Am I the only one who sees screen recordings of AI agents as archaic as filming airplane instruments to take measurements?

thm··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

Hybris.

thm··on 12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit

By now, Google is smart enough to not even index this garbage.

thm··on The Epic 50-Year Story of Apple, Told Through the WSJ Archive

Gift Link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-headlines-that-tell-the-50-year...

thm··on Digg is gone again

https://flipso.com might be an alternative.

thm··on I'm Sick of This AI Shit [video]

It's bots listening to bots.

thm··on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/04/cloud_hosted_openclaw...

Kill it with fire - Analyst firm Gartner has used uncharacteristically strong language to recommend against using OpenClaw.

thm··on Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling

https://archive.is/gFUry

thm··on jQuery 4

Okay, your turn, script.aculo.us & Mootools.

thm··on Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML

Eternal HTMX September.

thm··on Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

I'd make that (non-Super) Mario Bros. -> SM RPG with the SA-1 Chip

thm··on Cloudflare error page generator

You can, on the $30 plan - you can give it a hidden url on your current domain and it will cache & serve that content.

thm··on Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products

Just remember what SPJ said what the problem with Microsoft is.

thm··on YouTube Creators Find a New Consumer for AI Slop: Babies

https://archive.is/i1boL

thm··on Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

As mentioned 7 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811732

thm··on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030

"Google is excluded entirely"

thm··on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

Day One Twitter user; built the very first API app and the first Android client. Launching a "competitor" next month - Keep an eye on https://flipso.com

thm··on Look, Another AI Browser

This weird solution of storing representations, and not the actual events/data can't age well.

Like flying a plane but instead of logging flight data digitally, you film the cockpit gauges with a camcorder.

thm··on AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

Or https://rawdiary.com

thm··on [dead]

That's clearly an AI piece.

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