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tnoleton Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

aha, that explains the podium. Thanks for enlightening me. Kudos to Railsconf.

tnoleton The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week

That's quick. The Slack App review takes 10+ weeks.

tnoleton Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

Is this visual style Fable or Astra. I see it everywhere now. It’s the new black and purple

tnoleton Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B

Why would it be a typo? Miro was doing $600M ARR, some of their customers were paying them $100k+ a year. That is totally normal. It would be weird if they did not have such customers.

tnoleton Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B

Overheard: "The Italian exit"

tnoleton Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B

For remote companies, it is quite useful and really a white board replacement. We use(d) it for customer research, retros, design exploration, architecture diagrams, data modelling and a ton more. Figma (Jam) is way too designer focused.

tnoleton Bending Spoons Agrees to Buy Miro for $1.36B

Hmm, did not know Miro was in the sh*tter. Seemed to be quite the market leader there. Maybe overvalued and couldn't get the revenue up?

tnoleton No Man's Sky Cosmos

Exactly sums up my experience. Bought it day one. Still bores the hell out of me.

tnoleton Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

Shingy, from “Everybody in the club getting Tipsy”?

tnoleton Dutch Train Map Simulator

Netherlands is ninth on this list by the UN, but that includes (even tinier) countries like Monaco, Luxemburg and Belgium.

So I guess the NL is about top 5-ish in the world density wise

https://w3.unece.org/pxweb/en/CountryRanking?IndicatorCode=4...

tnoleton From Hamburg, with Love: The History of VST [video]

Remember when this came out. Coming from trackers like Screamtracker and later Impulsetracker this was amazing.

tnoleton Postmortem of a British Startup: Tract

About 6% to 10% increase in housing cost due to immigration in the UK since 1990. Total increase ~150%. So marginal impact.[1]

But nice populist dog whistle.

1: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-and-hou...

tnoleton Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers

https://nitter.net/a_green_being/status/2076598897779020159#...

tnoleton Ableton Extensions SDK

Totally unrelated, but it's still interesting that a lot of the key music software was / is created in either Berlin (Ableton, Native Instruments) or in / near Hamburg (Steinberg of Cubase — now owned by Yamaha — and Emagic of Logic — now owned by Apple). There must have been something in the air.

tnoleton Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit

Regardless of the business. Their website design is :chefs-kiss https://mistral.ai/

tnoleton Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

Hashicorp comes to mind. From ~$90 at IPO, cratered to $25 and then taken private again by IBM

tnoleton Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data

This is XML without the < and >

tnoleton Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?

Actually the opposite: they came into their prime after the acquisition. Probably not due to Salesforce, but still.

tnoleton Learnings from Building an AI Root Cause Analysis Agent

Are you pulling in any big assets / artifacts?

tnoleton Cloudflare acquires Astro

Refreshing to see an acquisition (acquihire?) that just plainly says they were not able to monetize.

tnoleton Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

100% the most original and truly scary hard SciFi from the last year.

tnoleton Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing

I just fed the above into Claude Code and it one-shotted this in 5 minutes. Already doing $3B ARR after lunch.

tnoleton Nano Banana Pro

Jules, Vertex...

tnoleton Google Antigravity

After using Google AI studio, Google Vertex, and Google Gemini Chat I honestly can't wait to use Google Antigravity!

edit: Also Jules...

snark off:

I think the Google PMs should have coffee together and see if all of this sprawl makes any sense.

tnoleton Launch HN: JSX Tool (YC F25) – A Browser Dev-Panel IDE for React

Interesting that this is now a venture-scale company, according to YC.

tnoleton Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook

Saw it on Twitter and was interested. But from the video and demos I immediately did not understand why Notebooks and Notes are two tabs? In my mind, a Note is IN a Notebook, not some separate adjacent item...

tnoleton A stateful browser agent using self-healing DOM maps

This is, as far as I understand, self healing ONLY if the name of a CSS class changes. Not for anything else. That seems like a very very very very narrow definition of "self healing": there are 9999 other subtle or not so subtle things that can change per session or per update version of a page.

If you run this against let's say a typical e-commerce page where the navigation and all screen elements are super dynamic — user specific data, language etc. — this problems becomes even harder.

tnoleton Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report

Why do you have an accountant? Or a lawyer? It's the same thing. Corporations don't have all skills in house for a ton of things.

I was an IT consultant. A big energy company wanted to go to the AWS cloud. Their folks were too busy and had no experience. We (my consultancy company) already had the knowledge.

Consultants don't only give advice. In many cases, they also do the work. But advice is also a "product". If your in-house team does not have the knowledge or time, you hire a consultancy firm.