m4tthumphrey (u/m4tthumphrey)

m4tthumphrey commented on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February bbc.com/news/articles/cjd... · Posted by u/smartbit

testfrequency · 8 days ago

I do not see the tourism industry mentioned here but I have to imagine that is a huge loss right now.

Most of the world is not visiting the US right now which means projects and planning that was made in anticipation for summer has probably been halted or heavily reduced.

m4tthumphrey · 8 days ago

My partner and I were planning a West Coast trip for the World Cup this year for my 40th, but we decided to solely do Canada instead. Can't see how it won't end up being the best decision we've ever made.

m4tthumphrey commented on Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise wikimediastatus.net... · Posted by u/greyface-

m4tthumphrey · 9 days ago

Also the language that runs half of the web.

Also the language that has made me millions over my career with no degree.

Also the language that allows people to be up and running in seconds (with or without AI).

I could go on.

m4tthumphrey · 8 days ago

I can't edit nor be bothered to reply to all of the negative responses so I'll put it here.

Pretty much all of you missed the larger point. PHP was what allowed me to not work in retail forever, buy a forever house, never have to worry about losing my job (this may change in the future with AI) or being at risk for redundancy, having chosen to only work for small, "normal" well run profitable businesses.

Unless you're building a hyper scale product, it does the job perfectly. PHP itself is not a security issue; using it poorly is, and any language can be used poorly. PHP is still perfectly suitable for web dev, especially in 2026.

m4tthumphrey commented on Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise wikimediastatus.net... · Posted by u/greyface-

Dwedit · 9 days ago

PHP is the language where "return flase" causes it to return true.

https://danielc7.medium.com/remote-code-execution-gaining-do...

m4tthumphrey · 9 days ago

Also the language that runs half of the web.

Also the language that has made me millions over my career with no degree.

Also the language that allows people to be up and running in seconds (with or without AI).

I could go on.

Posted by u/m4tthumphrey 10 days ago

World Cup games in Boston at risk nytimes.com/athletic/7084...

m4tthumphrey commented on Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024 growtika.com/blog/tech-me... · Posted by u/Growtika

spudlyo · 11 days ago

Franky, good riddance. The websites that had SEO optimized their way to the top of Google's search results for queries like "how to change DNS settings", "best free VPN", or "best wireless earbuds under $300" were generally terrible, and I can't say I'm sad that that creating that kind of "content" is no longer economically viable.

There were large categories of information had become extremely difficult to search for thanks to SEO optimized content farms like these. People switching to Reddit for discovery because of this search index pollution was a direct response to this. To me, LLMs feel like a return to the golden age of AltaVista and Google, where the Internet was a place you could reliably find the information you were looking for.

m4tthumphrey · 11 days ago

You'll just see it within AI responses instead.

m4tthumphrey commented on Elevated Errors in Claude.ai status.claude.com/inciden... · Posted by u/LostMyLogin

_zoltan_ · 11 days ago

I've spent more last month. Depends what you do.

m4tthumphrey · 11 days ago

Are you seeing a return yet? Semi-serious question.

m4tthumphrey commented on Elevated Errors in Claude.ai status.claude.com/inciden... · Posted by u/LostMyLogin

digitaltrees · 11 days ago

I have been using anthropic almost exclusively for a year, while trying other models, and this has literally never happened. I have NEVER experienced a downtime event. At most a random error in a chat but that is immediately solved on the subsequent request. I use the desktop app, the mobile app, the api with several apps in production that I monitor and reliability has never been an issue.

I pay about $1500 per month on personal api use fyi.

m4tthumphrey · 11 days ago

How are you spending that much?

m4tthumphrey commented on Ask HN: How are you all staying sane? · Posted by u/throwaway53463

boyter · 12 days ago

All of the above.

Stop reading the news. It makes you depressed or angry. Go hiking. Walk on the beach. Play with a dog or your children. Climb a tree.

Leave the slave slab phone at home, or delete every news and social app. Do not browse the web. Take a book and read.

It will be hard at first. Then it gets easier. Best thing I ever did.

Reminder. What passes for news today wouldn’t have registered for most people 100 years ago.

m4tthumphrey · 12 days ago

> Reminder. What passes for news today wouldn’t have registered for most people 100 years ago.

This is a great point.

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m4tthumphrey commented on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning arthurcnops.blog/death-of... · Posted by u/acnops

wewewedxfgdf · 25 days ago

It's better if you don't have to learn to program to make applications.

In the future it will seem very strange that there was a time when people had to write every line of code manually. It will simply be accepted that the computers write computer programs for you, no one will think twice about it.

m4tthumphrey · 25 days ago

Will programs even exist in the future? Surely the AIs will just take input and return output?

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