jgruber

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by jgruber 1mo ago
Agreed!
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by jgruber 1mo ago
Indeed.
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by jgruber 1mo ago
I make a real fact-checking effort. In this case, the developer (Godier) sent me a video of the app in action. It’s a real app. He couldn’t send me a TestFlight to run (he said) because TestFlight submissions are taking a week or longer to
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by jgruber 1mo ago
It's a little simplistic, sure, but I mean how much nuance do you expect me to fit into a HN comment? What I left out is Windows Mobile, which was Microsoft's attempt to extend the Windows hegemony to mobile devices. Here are Wind
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by jgruber 1mo ago
Just fixed the /painstaking/painstakingLY/ typo in this sentence. Thanks for quoting it here.
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by jgruber 1mo ago
No. It’s broader than that. The market forces are the entire realm of what’s possible, now and in the future. When Windows seemed entrenched forever, the platforms that eventually surpassed weren’t the competing desktop OSes (Mac and Linux)
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by jgruber 11mo ago
Same. The GPT5 “Robot” persona does what no custom “be terse”, “no fluff”, etc. custom prompt ever could. It actually makes ChatGPT terse and to-the-point and eliminates (or at least greatly reduces) fluff. I love it.
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by jgruber 1y ago
I’ll bet this will fix HN’s transparency issues.
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by jgruber 1y ago
No, but it did seemingly peak a decade or so ago and stay there.
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by jgruber 1y ago
“I have strong opinions about something I proudly admit I’ve never read” is quite the take.
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by jgruber 1y ago
This is fantastic, and I'm embarrassed I didn't think to do this year-by-year analysis myself. But then how do you square up the tepid response here to https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rott
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by jgruber 1y ago
My first retort would be: do you read HN because you think it surfaces articles that are trending in the world at large?
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by jgruber 1y ago
I don't get it. You think my "Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino" piece was not suppressed here on HN?
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by jgruber 1y ago
My thesis is that HN would like you to think their moderation is highly transparent, and it's very clear that the core HN audience believes that to be true, but that in fact it is not transparent at all. If the problem is with my wri
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by jgruber 1y ago
> Apple is know for stopping shipping pre-release hardware to people that are honest in their review and that might call out questionable choice. I've been doing this for a long time and I'm not aware of a single case where thi
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by jgruber 1y ago
How then do you explain DF ranking #3 from 2007-2021, but dropping to #78 from 2021-2025? Are you saying my writing was significantly more interesting and useful for the first 14 years but dropped off a cliff starting in 2021, and the keen
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by jgruber 1y ago
How is it hypocritical to hold the view that some places are intended to be open forums for comments from anyone, and others are not? Also, by not hosting my own comments, all public commentary on my writing is thus out of my control. I don
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by jgruber 1y ago
How then do you explain DF being HN's #3 personal blog from 2007-2021, but #72 from 2021-2025? Do you recall HN announcing a major algorithm change?
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by jgruber 1y ago
What exactly do you think my "tactics" were/are? I've only ever submitted one article of my own to Hacker News. This one.
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by jgruber 1y ago
But the only post on the recent submissions list that is actually marked "[flagged] is this one. If it's because enough high-karma users are clicking "flag", wouldn't they all show up as "flagged"? http
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by jgruber 1y ago
Correct.
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by jgruber 1y ago
> Case in point: just the other day, he equated the EU's rulings about Apple's ecosystem to the dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron. Rah, rah, Goliath! Sis boom bah! That was actually just over a year ago, and was in respon
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by jgruber 1y ago
So you think I was consistently at #3 “as much and as well” from 2007-2021, and declined to #72 “as much and as well” quality in the last 4 years?
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by jgruber 1y ago
How then do you explain DF being #3 from 2007-2021 and #72 from 2021-2025?
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by jgruber 1y ago
Me too.
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by jgruber 1y ago
How then do you explain DF being #3 from 2007-2021 and #72 from 2021-2025? It’s clearly not blacklisted, but clearly is shitlisted, no?
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by jgruber 1y ago
No.
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The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss(daringfireball.net)
479 points by jgruber 1y ago|276 comments
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by jgruber 2y ago
Stopped clock right twice a day, perhaps.
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by jgruber 2y ago
> there is great potential to have finally good documentation Yes, true, no good documentation has ever been written in Markdown. Good point.

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