Hacker News: Kkoala

New comment by Kkoala in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

Kkoala — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:47:59 +0000

Looks like a rendered scene yes

New comment by Kkoala in "Trust Signals as Sparklines for Hacker News"

Kkoala — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:49:11 +0000

This should have at least a basic description of how the trust signal works and is calculated

New comment by Kkoala in "Proof of Corn"

Kkoala — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:22:38 +0000

Interesting!

But where is the prompt or api calls to Claude? I can't see that in the repo

Or did Claude generate the code and repo too? And there is a separate project to run it

New comment by Kkoala in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

Kkoala — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:09:18 +0000

Nice, very cool!

Reminds me of https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/panorama-of-the-city-of-...

New comment by Kkoala in "The Startup Graveyard"

Kkoala — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:05:22 +0000

"Where $32.5B+ in venture capital was burned to ashes." isn't exactly a positive spin.

At least the copy seems AI-generated though, so I guess can't read too much into it.

New comment by Kkoala in "Video games can alter reality"

Kkoala — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:26:19 +0000

A similar thing happened to me, not with a video game, but with chess!

Started seeing a chessboard overlayed everywhere, and thinking what the next move for me and other "game objects" would be.

This was after just getting into chess and playing it many times a day, almost every day.

It was a very weird feeling. Luckily, it passed after a while. I stopped playing chess after a while too, and kinda been avoiding it since.

New comment by Kkoala in "How a mysterious epidemic of kidney disease is killing young men"

Kkoala — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:46:28 +0000

No, you can leave the sauna any time you want and go cool down, so there shouldn't ever be any damage done from the heat really. Unless, of course, you purposefully stay there way past being uncomfortable, but that's not really what a sauna is about

New comment by Kkoala in "Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal"

Kkoala — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:51:12 +0000

That sounds like the sensible reaction, at the time at least.

It's interesting to think about and realize how much things have changed now though, and how reliant people are on everything, and especially their tiktoks etc. working all the time.

Some of the panic is likely related to the war in Europe too, and especially the general talk about war

New comment by Kkoala in "Ask HN: Ways from the EU to the USA"

Kkoala — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:19:38 +0000

Without going into whether it's a good idea, or how the current administration and climate might affect things, these are some common options I have personally heard of:

- L1 visa: Get an internal transfer from a company that has offices both in the EU and the US

- H1B visa: Get hired by a US company and enter into a queue/lottery type of thing

- Green card lottery: Enter the annual lottery to get a Green Card to enter the US

- OPT visa + extensions: Graduate from an accredited college/university in the US

- O1 / EB-1 visas etc: Convince the immigration office that you have some extraordinary ability that would greatly benefit the US

- E2 visa and similar: Start a business in the US and invest a substantial amount of money into it

- New "Gold Card": Buy your way into the US with 5 million

Some of these also have different variations with slightly different requirements

New comment by Kkoala in "Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market"

Kkoala — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:06:14 +0000

Yeah Americans are going to learn that the hard way, if they haven't already

New comment by Kkoala in "Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market"

Kkoala — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 22:05:09 +0000

That's the long-term theory, yeah.

It's interesting to see how the U.S. could make it happen though, given that there is already a shortage of labor and materials. It will be a long, long road.

New comment by Kkoala in "The 2005 Sony Bravia ad"

Kkoala — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:18:22 +0000

Yeah, it might also mean that the suppliers just didn't have balls to restock into those machines

New comment by Kkoala in "X.com Is Down"

Kkoala — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:22:09 +0000

Good time to consider and try out alternatives!

Such as Bluesky

New comment by Kkoala in "Go European: Discover European products and services"

Kkoala — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:40:42 +0000

This is same as https://www.goeuropean.org/

> Why did you change your name from Buy European Made to Go European?

> We changed our name to better reflect our evolving mission and values. "Go European" encompasses a broader range of initiatives and activities that support European culture, tourism, and services, beyond just promoting European-made products.

New comment by Kkoala in "Show HN: Make your YC application stand out (Spring 2025 edition)"

Kkoala — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:14:52 +0000

Nicely executed joke! :D

New comment by Kkoala in "Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer – Perform code reviews on a canvas"

Kkoala — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:20:04 +0000

Maybe this is not for me, but I don't understand what it does

What do those groups and arrows mean?

New comment by Kkoala in "Stripe sent a duck image in layoff notices by mistake"

Kkoala — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 09:07:09 +0000

So many questions

Is there some meaning behind a duck, and specifically a "US-Non-California Duck"?

Stripe sent a duck image in layoff notices by mistake

Kkoala — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 09:05:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/stripe-layoffs-duck-email-error-2025-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42802175

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by Kkoala in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

Kkoala — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:22:36 +0000

My experience is that it serves you the content that you spent time watching and engaging with.

And it's quite easy to steer it towards a certain topic if you want to

New comment by Kkoala in "Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers"

Kkoala — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:34:02 +0000

Nice, congratz on the launch!

Submitted my product for tomorrow, excited to see how it goes!

Some feedback: - Could probably benefit from adding white-space: pre-line; in a couple of places, e.g. comments to support line breaks - The encoding issue mentioned elsewhere too, stuff showing up as like ' - Launched today should maybe be a bit more prominent, but maybe it also looks better once there are more products that just one.