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dang commented on Flaneur; A handful of beautiful things   flaneur.ink... · Posted by u/samcgraw
samcgraw · 9 hours ago
Hi HN!

I've come to think that in the future, the bottlenecks in the development lifecycle will mostly be related to the decisions of Product. In other words, if nearly everything is cloneable by Claude, CRUD is no longer a moat.

So: in the "efficient cloning market" hypothesis, everything able to be eaten by mimesis, who pushes the limits of "craft and beauty"?

Therefore, I've been wanting to grow in my sense of taste: having a palate for beautiful things and letting more of my life be characterized by their presence.

To that end, I built Flâneur; it's a simple site / newsletter that delivers a handful of beautiful things from museum archives across the world. It's very simple, but I found it to be a delight to work on and use.

Do have a look and send me your thoughts. Cheers! sm

dang · 5 hours ago
It looks nice! but newsletters can't be Show HNs (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) so we've taken that bit out of the title.
dang commented on Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock   github.com/jim11662418/ES... · Posted by u/tokyobreakfast
RupertSalt · 6 hours ago
You do not have an atomic clock. Seiko does not manufacture “Atomic Clocks” for the $30 shelf in Target. You (and others here) don’t seem to know what an atomic clock is, or how it works, or what it costs!

Your Seiko is a radio clock. It’s probably got a crystal or some other normal timekeeping gadget, and the external WWV signal is decoded to properly set it.

“Atomic Clocks” are marketed to ignorant consumers who blithely use the term when the only external source is a radio station. The Stratum Zero clock may be atomic, but the caesium is not to be found on your nightstand.

No caesium atoms would be found in your Seiko, bro.

dang · 6 hours ago
Can you please make your substantive points without swipes? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you know more than someone else, that's great! By all means, share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. Just please do it without putdowns.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

dang commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
christopher8827 · 4 days ago
Careful - I applied to this role and the founder (I assume) ghosted me mid-way.
dang · 13 hours ago
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867336. Please see the rules at the top, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46860043 for more explanation.
dang commented on Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail   bbc.com/news/articles/c8d... · Posted by u/tartoran
dang · 14 hours ago
You both broke the site guidelines very badly in this thread. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are, or how large the gap between you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang commented on Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail   bbc.com/news/articles/c8d... · Posted by u/tartoran
komali2 · 16 hours ago
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dang · 14 hours ago
You both broke the site guidelines very badly in this thread. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are, or how large the gap between you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang commented on Eight more months of agents   crawshaw.io/blog/eight-mo... · Posted by u/arrowsmith
dang · 15 hours ago
Related. Others?

How I program with agents - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44221655 - June 2025 (295 comments)

dang commented on Art of Roads in Games   sandboxspirit.com/blog/ar... · Posted by u/linolevan
cheschire · a day ago
That is an interesting interpretation of my question.

Notice how in the continued thread after receiving confirmation that they were not just making up a story as many do, or otherwise living in an area of the UK that is not GMT, I immediately switched to asking for confirmation about their point about simcity.

Could you help me understand how digging is personal attacks?

dang · 15 hours ago
Your comment implied that the other person was lying.
dang commented on Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally   discord.com/press-release... · Posted by u/dm
ChrisArchitect · 18 hours ago
dang · 16 hours ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
dang commented on GitHub Is Down   github.com/... · Posted by u/albelfio
remram · 17 hours ago
dang · 16 hours ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
dang commented on Vouch   github.com/mitchellh/vouc... · Posted by u/chwtutha
fcantournet · a day ago
This looks like a fairly typical engineer's solution to a complex social problem: it doesn't really solve the problem, introduces other issues / is gameable, yet unlikely to create problems for the creator. Of course creator answers any criticism of the solution with "Well make something better". That's not the point: this is most likely net negative, at least that is the (imo well supported) opinion of critics. If the cons outway the pros, then doing nothing is better than this.
dang · a day ago
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

u/dang

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"Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it—the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both sides. It is the psychologist's job to make possible the acceptance of such an idea so that the richness of the varieties of experience, whether within the unit of the single personality or in the wider unit of the group, can come to expression."

Marion Milner, 'The Toleration of Conflict', Occupational Psychology, 17, 1, January 1943

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