Hacker News: CitrusFruits

New comment by CitrusFruits in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

CitrusFruits — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:46:40 +0000

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/naturecalls-alarm-reminder/id6...

Two things to call out: the first is it does not work if your phone is on do not disturb or silent/vibrate. He's aware of this and it's a permissions thing you need an exception for. He's applied for the exception but it's unlikely he'll get it because it's supposed to be for stuff that's like life or death. I think for his usage he's OK with that, and he has spent a lot of time working on it the past months so he just wanted to ship it at this point. The second is that it's obviously paid. I think that's fine if he had gotten the permission unblocked but I'd be a little hesitant to recommend buying it right now.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

CitrusFruits — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:02:19 +0000

My dad was a software engineer when he was younger, but his skills atrophied over the decades as he worked his way into upper management and spent all of his non work time caring for the family. For the past 8 years or he's had an app idea for something he wants himself on his phone that he's been dying to make, but just didn't have the means to do it. He tried no code/lo code options, but they were just to limited in their API coverage. Finally though in the past 3 months he's been able to fulfill his own personal dream to make that app with an AI driven platform. He has been thrilled and I think he's done a great job developing it. It's an incredibly niche audience and he knows that, but just thought I'd share that for some people out there it's legitimately a dream come true to be able to make and publish an app, while still being clear eyed that it's not going to make you any money.

For those that are curious, it is an alarm app with natures sounds instead of dings and beeps or jingles. As he puts it "none of the other existing apps have good enough sounds or interfaces".

New comment by CitrusFruits in "Improving Composer through real-time RL"

CitrusFruits — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:05:56 +0000

I've been wondering how they've been able to be so generous with Composer usage with it still making business sense. Seems like this is the answer: presumably they think they'll have a competitive advantage in not just the UX space but the model space as well soon. It's a great strategy, but I do wonder if the moat will be big enough with how fast things are moving and how competitive the model landscape is.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

CitrusFruits — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:02:09 +0000

Yeah these are pretty common in the US, but they're just not ubiquitous. Many airports will still have a CT machine next to the old one and it just depends on what line you get out in.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

CitrusFruits — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:43:22 +0000

IIRC the 20k number depended on the 7k federal rebate that recently expired, so it will probably be more like 27k

New comment by CitrusFruits in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

CitrusFruits — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 02:32:16 +0000

I've worked at a couple of companies with pay scales on part with FAANG, as well as a startup that was extremely selective in hiring. We rarely looked at GitHub, and never used it as a in a situation where someone got hired. I could see a situation where someone had good open source contributions it might help them get noticed by a recruiter, but that's so incredibly rare and hard to discover that it's kindof the last place people look. Having a good GitHub profile can't hurt, but LinkedIn is still king here

New comment by CitrusFruits in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

CitrusFruits — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:46:44 +0000

Having been to both Indonesia and Myanmar, I can say confidently Burmese food is much better. The one exception is the dessert Martabak you can get in Java is to die for.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "How do you spot a Brilliant Jerk?"

CitrusFruits — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:52:47 +0000

I think Jerk might be too specific of a term. You probably just want to be looking out for someone you don't want as a coworker.

My goto question is to ask people what motivates them. There's a wide range of answers, but I usually find that what people disclose often helps me understand them better even if they may appear a bit like a jerk, and I can consequently give them more targeted feedback or coaching. I think spending 30 minutes to get to know someone is worth every second and can really help team cohesion and productivity.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation"

CitrusFruits — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:29:51 +0000

I think the idea is that perfect is the enemy of good here and that getting from 90% to 100% involves tradeoffs that aren't actually worth it from a language ergonomics point of view.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)"

CitrusFruits — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:54:57 +0000

165F is the safe eating temperature recommended for most meats here in the U.S.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)"

CitrusFruits — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 19:59:22 +0000

I have that exact same nightmare! The harder I press on the brake, the less it does, as if the brake power is following a logarithmic curve. Although I don't really know why I have that dream, no specific experience comes to mind.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "You can now disable all AI features in Zed"

CitrusFruits — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:11:32 +0000

At the time it was actually called "atom shell" iirc. Electron came from Atom.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad"

CitrusFruits — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:18:29 +0000

I think the 600MB part actually makes it harder to only install again when you need it.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "Ask HN: How to Deal with a Bad Manager?"

CitrusFruits — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 03:45:48 +0000

I had a bad manager at a previous job, although they were just more incompetent than actively trying to micromanage.

I managed to get onto another team by making connections internally. I think showing initiative, interest, and promise to another tech lead or manager in their area could go a long way.

That being said, even after switching teams I eventually left for another job and took a big pay cut for it, but was totally worth it for my sanity.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "Plain Vanilla Web"

CitrusFruits — Sun, 11 May 2025 18:21:15 +0000

I remember when web components first came out and there was some hype around them, and just being really confused on what they're actually good for. I think it's really telling that since web components came out there's never been a popular framework, website, or company that has heavily leveraged them.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams"

CitrusFruits — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:00:15 +0000

A lot of politicians are against surveillance too, they just get outnumbered. I think it's an unfair assumption to assume the parent comment is for surveillance legislation, especially if they're someone who frequents HN and are therefore more likely to be technically literate.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "Pixelfed Launches Kickstarter: Building Ethical Social Networks for Everyone"

CitrusFruits — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:00:58 +0000

I think the missed a big opportunity with this kick starter by not offering people anything meaningful when they back it. They easily could've included people's names in a credits in an app as a reward, or made some fun limited edition stickers or phone cases that can be produced for cheap. Right now the kick starter is just basically a donation page.

That all being said, they've raised $57k so far so good for them.

(Edit: spelling)

New comment by CitrusFruits in "Turn any bicycle electric"

CitrusFruits — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:10:06 +0000

I think readers of hacker news That find the original post interesting might enjoy this as well:

https://bimotal.com/

It's a different product for a different market, but a really cool idea and the people who have been working on it are super smart.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance"

CitrusFruits — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 06:16:26 +0000

If you want the same thing but not as sketchy you can check out Cursor. You pay them, so it's a little more transparent what they're getting out of it.

New comment by CitrusFruits in "Ask HN: Cheapest way to run a time-series database in cloud?"

CitrusFruits — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:17:07 +0000

If you're considering a VPS I'd also check out Hetzner. They only have Germany and Finland locations, but if latency isn't an issue (or if you're in Europe) you can get really good prices there.