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Terry Pratchett's Study

My comment on Terry Pratchett's Study — Hacker News. Terry Pratchett once wrote about the concept of "horizontal wealth". Vertical wealth is where you spend money on rich people stuff - yachts and suchlike. Horizontal wealth is where you spend more money on the things you liked before you got rich: https://chibuikeani.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-price-of-happin... But horizontal wealth means not letting your increased income dictate your tastes. You like books and now you have money? Buy more books! Change those catenary bookshelves for good hardwood ones! In my case, build a library extens

Simon Willison · EN

The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford

My comment on The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford — Hacker News. OK, this comment convinced me to give that a shot. Here's a thing I made in Three.js this morning - a Nudibranch themed Faberge Egg: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/Hidden-Reef-Egg... (77KB) I just asked Claude (Opus 5.5 Medium running in regular Claude Chat) to port that to Vanilla JS, in the same thread where it had built it, and got this: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/Hidden-Reef-Egg... (98KB) They aren't identical - you can see what Claude said about that in the transcript (I don't full

Simon Willison · EN

How I Built an AI-Powered Hacker News Book Recommendation Site in 2.5 Hours

Karpathy built HackerTube in about 2 hours with Claude Code. I rebuilt it for books with Cursor. Here's my honest time, cost, and everything that broke.

Hacker Noon · EN