Hacker News: 30minAdayHN

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?"

30minAdayHN — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:44:35 +0000

There is a huge assumption here that being an Entrepreneur, the only desire and success definition is to become well-off. Assuming your statement in good faith, it is not the only outcome. So offering Boggleheads strategy as an alternative or get the same outcome as Entrepreneurship is misinformed. I've come across a few friends when I shared I was building something or working for a startup, their immediate question was "Did you not get a job at Google?" :)

There are many people out there who enjoy building. Even if it gets very low traction and doesn't make them life changing fortune, people enjoy it. Along the way, they might make some money. Of course, there are also a lot of people who get on to this journey with the primary goal of making it big. We should not look at the "side-effects" and think that is the cause.

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

30minAdayHN — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:56:38 +0000

I switched away from Google to Duck a few years back. But I observed that I mostly do !g and end up on Google. I read similar comments from many others on other threads.

Recently I switched to Kagi and has been a very happy customer. I never visited Google after that. Only downside is the Search on mobile. You have to install an app and enable it as extension on safari. Logging in never worked and couldn't enable my premium Kagi on iPhone.

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

30minAdayHN — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:44:37 +0000

I've seen this in K-12 EdTech. Most of the companies are owned by PEs. Digital curriculum companies, Assessment companies, Auth companies (like Clever), etc. And these PEs have portfolio of them and keep expanding. Not saying good or bad, just an observation.

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Googlebook"

30minAdayHN — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:20:12 +0000

I recently heard from couple of Technology Directors at schools that they are looking to procure Macbook Neos replacing their Chromebooks. This might be a strategy to defend their Chromebook market in schools.

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

30minAdayHN — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:57:29 +0000

Hello late bloomers, 143370 here

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature

30minAdayHN — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:44:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684891

Points: 13

# Comments: 3

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

30minAdayHN — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:47:30 +0000

I think there is a parallel to what happened to watch market with Quartz crisis. The same way Quartz has led to decline of Swiss movements, LLMs are going to have a huge effect on developer market. I hypothesize that in future there will be a micro segment which care about quality, taste, exclusivity etc the same way the luxury watch makers found a niche. My perspective is that this "taste" or "quality" will not be a moat. Instead, it will be a niche where only a small segment would care about it.

(edit: typos)

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

30minAdayHN — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:00:28 +0000

I also enjoyed the TV series equally.

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Shipmap.org"

30minAdayHN — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:52:37 +0000

Exactly! I really loved the presentation. An interactive map with voice over, and at key moments zooming in, zooming out, coloring etc. Beautiful design. At the same time, not restricting the user. I was immediately glued.

I'm thinking that this can be a good pattern for photography portfolio sites. Voice over from photographer talking about his inspiration, walking through key memories, while letting the user browser around.

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "UniFi 5G"

30minAdayHN — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:14:06 +0000

I'm a Hacker News reader and relate with the community. At the same time, it's not like I've same interest and energy in every niche. For example, I might have interest in custom building my keyboards, but may not be in restoring an old router. It's not like HN users exclusively use Linux desktops and many of us prefer simplicity.

The point I'm trying make is that there is more nuance than a simple HN user stereotype.

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

30minAdayHN — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:32:27 +0000

I wish someone does something similar in India. Night time driving is a nightmare. Everyone runs on high-beam. The new class of motor-cycles are with super bright LEDs and riders put them on high beam. Night-time driving is a guessing game - you need to guess where the edge of the road is, if there is a bicyclist in between, etc.

At least in late 90s, there used to be a law to black out half the headlamp. Either that was no longer the case or it's not as vigorously enforced.

This is the classic case of tragedy of commons!

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Steam Frame"

30minAdayHN — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:54:19 +0000

I bought all my sim racing setup for my xbox. It was short-sighted but optimized for a quick decision. Now I feel like I'm stuck with it and can't upgrade the setup forward. Everytime I see these comments, it's one more nail in my wallet :)

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

30minAdayHN — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:04:41 +0000

We are building end-to-end accessibility compliance tool[1] that will take care of auditing, remediation, verification and generation of ACR/VPAT.

Because of the well bound nature of the problem space, we are able to unlock a lot of power from LLMs and put together a good end-to-end product that delivers the promise.

Still early days. I know there are lot of folks who care about a11y. I would love to chat and learn from your experience.

[1] https://workback.ai/

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

30minAdayHN — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:01:57 +0000

It's cool to see this. I once saw an X thread on this and hacked a dirty tool for it: https://x.com/priyankc/status/1893112673434222985

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

30minAdayHN — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:04:59 +0000

The fact that the author went out his way and styled it very uniquely displays that he does have taste :) It is just that your taste is different. Like another commenter pointed out, I liked the style (though I hated the pixelated font to begin with)

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

30minAdayHN — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:01:26 +0000

Is the author doing that over usefulness or doing that in addition to usefulness? Some people would also enjoy the journey with the tool, along with the results. Just because someone enjoys the 'taste' of the tool doesn't mean that they don't care about usefulness.

Also usefulness is very subjective too depending on the context and scope.

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Show HN: Bash Screensavers"

30minAdayHN — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:31:42 +0000

I encountered this in another project. This should hopefully fix it:

zmodload zsh/mapfile

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video]"

30minAdayHN — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:46:30 +0000

I completely agree with you. Though slightly tangential, what you called out also happens in startups and is a big learning for me. I wanted to fail fast. I thought I got it when read in a blog or a book. Similarly, building an MVP - feels amazing and I thought I understood it. Like you called out, many of the books, blogs or podcasts will present them in a flagrantly obvious way. As a reader, we often think that we understood it.

But in reality, these are very subtle. Understanding that what you are experiencing is a failure or what you are building is feature bloat is extremely hard. These aren't obvious moments. I call these micro signals. The skill is in fact developing the thinking muscle to pick on these micro signals and act on them.

Probably most of the "self help" fall in this category - very obvious when reading, but will fail to identify in reality. Internalizing is about understanding how these would manifest in reality (and be aware that these will be very very tiny signals)

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

30minAdayHN — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 03:52:05 +0000

damn - they are brutal and fun! they have already won me as a customer.

New comment by 30minAdayHN in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

30minAdayHN — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:44:29 +0000

Probably they are employing rage marketing? I used to follow this hotel in Ireland, I think, that used to post very aggressive comments against the reviews. It became a thing and people used to stay there just for it. I think there is a TV series recently in the same vein.