As a user of Notes in the mid-late 90s, I found it suuuper annoying. Also, do you want a horizontal scroll bar when the content is too wide for the window? No problem, just turn on the option in the menu. (And then it will be there all the time, whether it's needed or not.)

I was administering a small Domino server and using Notes for email. I think it was the worst thing I worked on at the time.

I remember smelling the coal the moment I stepped off the plane. I was there for work a few times, unfortunately only in the winter.

If you have a camera and give it access to use it then it will work as a slitscanner. At least that's what happens on my laptop...

I don't close the door when I'm taking a crap because I have something to hide, I do it for privacy.

And whether people are breaking the rules or not, the more someone knows about you the easier it is for them to influence and manipulate you. (This is the basis of the online advertising industry.)

I think people who don't value privacy must not know what it is.

To build on your analogy, one could easily imagine a situation where there was no need to close the toilet door - because there's no-one around, or if there is, no-one cares about you taking a crap, and no-one pays any attention. In this case, 'privacy' is unnecessary.

(You, personally, in 2026 feel the need to close the door for 'privacy' because of some combination of societal programming, learned experience, personal psychology, choice, whatever.)

Some of my greatest joys in life have come from putting string replacement plugins on other people's browsers. I mostly just applied it to news sites.

s/big/super massive/g s/cardiac arrest/cataclysmic diarrhea/g

I mean, it's really endlessly entertaining. I'm wiping away tears just thinking about it.

Without some way to generate revenue, people aren't going to publish recipes (for Google to scrape into their AI.) Maybe we could live without more recipes being fed into the machine, but there are many other types of content that will suffer the same fate.

It would be nice to find something better than an ad-revenue driven web, but I'm not sure this is it. We'll find out I guess...

> people aren't going to publish recipes

Sure they are. I can attest that musicians will gladly publish their music even when no recompense is offered. Surely culinary artists are the same.

Some people will. The vast majority won’t. You are not playing for an audience, only for crawlers, so what is the point?

Those who won’t were doing it for the money. Those who continue are those who do it for passion, or those whose recipe is just a way to attract people to their business (e.g. kitchenware company). I don’t think it is necessarily bad, the quantity will decrease but the quality may even improve

I built a passion reference site. A large part of that passion came from knowing and talking to the people I was helping. One person emailing or saying thanks would later help power me through to create more useful articles. Enriching openai/claude/ms/google and no thanks from an individual, has disincentivized me from writing more.

Same here. People knew the website and it was immensely flattering to meet users in the wild. It motivated me to really sweat the small stuff, because people noticed. Now I'm just feeding the slop machine, and it feels pointless.

> Those who continue are those who do it for passion

Nothing kills passion faster than your only audience being an AI crawler.

We just won't get countless recipe websites where you have to scroll, scroll, scroll through slop about someone's day to read a scraped recipe that every other website has.

This is just disruption.

Does the current Google search results indicate that they will be any different?

It’s also not disruption if your product relies on the output of the industry it kills. What will AI train on when it destroys the economics of sharing information with others?

> your product relies on the output of the industry it kills

I disagree, Google doesn't rely on a massive amount of recipe websites; they rely on Google and exploit it.

More importantly: These recipes exist from many sources, not just the website that exploited Google to be first in their rankings.

From the HN guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

In this instance, the internet is more than top-ranking recipe websites.

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

I find many software developers are solution-oriented instead of problem-oriented. Because that's a common theme in my head it's what I see here, whether that's what was intended or not.

I believe that developers who orient their thinking/work around the problem they're solving instead of the solution they're implementing generally have a better outcome.

I wonder if that's what was happening with the artists in the study? The "successful" artists were really focusing on what they were trying to achieve, putting their time and attention into that?

(But then this ties into other comments here about the criteria for success. Maybe success in software problem solving doesn't correlate that well with success as an artist. I think success as an artist comes down to being considered an artist by the artist gatekeepers, who are some combination of other artists and people who fund artists.)

I had a great experience using Kaitai in a previous job. We were decoding proprietary binary messages from Teltonika OBD GPS trackers. The online editor, https://ide.kaitai.io/, is really nice for developing and testing your definition. You can store multiple binary files in local-storage and you get a nice detailed look at the data and how your definition is parsing it.

The All The Music project is something like that, but for melodies. They created all possible melodies of a 7 note diatonic scale and wrote them to disk as MIDI files, copyrighting them in the process. The melodies were dedicated to the Creative Commons Zero so that people could freely use them without worrying about being sued by someone else who had used that melody previously.

More details here: https://allthemusic.info/faqs/

SwearySkyscraper: A startup that develops novel and personalized swear words to help people better cope with pain, and integrates these swear words into a liquid damping system to stabilize skyscrapers during earthquakes.

Those silly architects never thought of this.

A building that requires human pain to stand? I guarantee you this is something at least a few architects have fantasized at length about. Like ours, it seems to be a profession that attracts outliers.

It is the opposite of the usual process, where workers on the field turn the architect plans into swear words.