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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

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Austria, Japan, CA

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thm··on Human Error Cripples the Internet (1997)
“Tens of millions of people are using the Internet, and very few of them know how truly complex it is.”

aged well.

thm··on I switched from Htmx to Datastar
Datastar's "Build reactive web apps that stand the test of time" tagline invites some skepticism.
thm··on Kiyonori Kikutake's Aquapolis
https://sealandgov.org/
thm··on MacBook Lid Angle Sensor
How often do we need to repost this?
thm··on I only use Google Sheets
And not to forget, you can run Doom and Tetris in them.
thm··on Kagi News
If you don't need/like links there is https://rawdiary.com/
thm··on Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol

  "users can now buy directly from Etsy sellers"
Can't wait to buy an AI-generated coloring book via AI.
thm··on Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
What Got You Here Won't Get You There.
thm··on Sampling and structured outputs in LLMs
JSON is still not available when you enable Grounding with Search.
thm··on How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts
Article forgot to mention variable fonts, so you should do something like

  @supports (font-variation-settings: normal) {
      body {
          font-family: "V-Font", regular fonts...;
      }
  }
thm··on Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room
I'm running one for news https://mozberg.com - not in my basement though.
thm··on [dead]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45194467
thm··on Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States
Unless they're declared as gift <$100 or sent via Express.
thm··on The beauty of a text only webpage
Plus https://briefingday.com
thm··on Programmers aren’t so humble anymore, maybe because nobody codes in Perl
…and sadly because they're already outdated by the time they reach the printing press these days.
thm··on Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree
Advertorial.
thm··on GPT-5-reasoning alpha found in the wild
99% of AI influencers are the same people who emailed you pictures as a Word attachment a year ago.
thm··on OpenAI to take cut of ChatGPT shopping sales in hunt for revenues
They seem to miss the point that even online shopping for the very items they showcase is an emotional and inspirational experience and not just a soulless transaction typed into a search box.
thm··on Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
Yes, but unlike AI & Crypto, Erlang came with little grift, slop and Show HN spam.
thm··on OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
When you run out of ideas, build a browser. And when you run out of principles, make it proprietary.
thm··on Gartner Predicts over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027
TIL: "agent washing"
thm··on The Effect of Noise on Sleep
Advertorial w/ PG name-drop.
thm··on Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux
https://orbstack.dev
thm··on Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/23/macos-tahoe-beta-2-menu...
thm··on MCP is eating the world
That Google Trends curve does/will look a bit like Smart Contracts.
thm··on OpenAI and Jony Ive's "io" brand has disappeared
It's not ironic, it's hubris.
thm··on BBC threatens legal action against AI startup over content scraping
Should say Perplexity in the title
thm··on Low-background Steel: content without AI contamination
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811732
thm··on After Pornhub left France, this VPN saw a 1,000% surge in signups in 30 minutes
Savoir-vivre.
thm··on Claude Code Is My Computer
Kind of reminds me of the days when people claimed they paid for their entire lifestyle in Bitcoin.
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