Hacker News: StayTrue

New comment by StayTrue in "Iguanaworks has closed and our products are no longer sold"

StayTrue — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:08:37 +0000

If you offered me schematics and PCB designs for a tool I desired, I might be /more/ inclined to give you money just to support you. Nothing to do with my ability or interest in DIY (I also design and sell electronics).

New comment by StayTrue in "Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in"

StayTrue — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:28:42 +0000

Don’t worry too much. I’ve incorporated in AB and BC. Neither is difficult to setup or maintain. My regulatory burden amounts to about one weekend of effort per year including corporate tax filings. That’s a baseline. Harder if you employ a team (not just subcontractors) or in regulated industries where you might have environmental compliance or similar.

New comment by StayTrue in "Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016)"

StayTrue — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:41:43 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20251230193736/https://www.gkbrk...

New comment by StayTrue in "I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13"

StayTrue — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:59:47 +0000

I bought the first AMD Framework 13 at launch. It just works and I’d buy it again.

To me their software story is compelling. To use the wording of the article, I like that I can be a weirdo running Linux on a laptop and not be a fringe use case. I had no interest in either of their supported distros but their support forums had the necessary hints needed to get a different distro up and running (plugging in newer firmware from the Linux kernel git).

I like that they’ve given some support to the FreeBSD community and I’d like to run that on a future Framework.

New comment by StayTrue in "Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams"

StayTrue — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:16:26 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595269

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads

StayTrue — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:11:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45834840

Points: 59

# Comments: 9

New comment by StayTrue in "[dead]"

StayTrue — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:04:43 +0000

Not only has he tanked the brand, he thinks he deserves $56B for his efforts. And if he doesn’t get it, he might reallocate his attention elsewhere lololol.

New comment by StayTrue in "Canadian Devs Are Backing Out of Attending GDC"

StayTrue — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 22:46:38 +0000

Do you feel an injustice has been perpetrated against you? The Canadian attitude towards admission vis a vis DUI convictions predates the first Trump administration by a lot.

OTOH Victoria schoolchildren used to do cross border field trips. They ended the practice during the Trump Muslim ban to avoid trauma to kids.

New comment by StayTrue in "EU to impose counter tariffs on $28 billion of US goods"

StayTrue — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:22:03 +0000

You could be right. There are stories about Trump voters being hurt by his cuts and still feel it’s for the greater good.

On the other hand some of these elections are won by narrow margins. Most Trump voters didn’t sign up for pain (not personally, they only voted to harm others). Pain may influence their votes in the future or motivate their legislators to contain the executive branch.

New comment by StayTrue in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

StayTrue — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:00:03 +0000

Canada’s largest newspaper published an opinion piece [0] calling for the cancellation of F-35 purchases. The article calls out source code availability in its argument.

[0] https://archive.is/2LLkO

New comment by StayTrue in "Bye, Prime"

StayTrue — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:26:37 +0000

I’ve canceled Amazon Prime free trials a couple times. Never noticed any difference in shipping speed with Prime so paying for it never made sense. Perhaps it varies by location (I’m not in a major center).

New comment by StayTrue in "US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report"

StayTrue — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:20:54 +0000

My reaction to this comment is surely Canada or Mexico is the greatest ally of the USA. But, indeed, that may no longer be true under Trump.

US congressional panel urges Americans to ditch China-made routers

StayTrue — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:42:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congressional-committee-china-urges-americans-ditch-tp-link-routers-2025-03-05/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43274346

Points: 16

# Comments: 7

China to publish policy to boost RISC-V chip use nationwide

StayTrue — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:00:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-publish-policy-boost-risc-v-chip-use-nationwide-sources-2025-03-04/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43254689

Points: 16

# Comments: 0

New comment by StayTrue in "Breaking into apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone"

StayTrue — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 01:13:57 +0000

Yikes – this GenXer remembers being told the tools found in my account were grounds for expulsion but the meeting ended with employment.

New comment by StayTrue in "How to Debounce a Contact (2014)"

StayTrue — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:44:11 +0000

Agree. Helped me (a software guy) when I needed it. Automatic upvote.

New comment by StayTrue in "BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt (2021)"

StayTrue — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:54:10 +0000

Technical debt has become a meaningless term.

New comment by StayTrue in "Ghost artists on Spotify"

StayTrue — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:27:07 +0000

I just migrated my playlists from Spotify to Apple Music. Cobbling together the scripts to do that (without paying a third party service) was hard.

New comment by StayTrue in "Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup) Buzee – A file search application"

StayTrue — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 18:39:53 +0000

I assume it’s intentional.

New comment by StayTrue in "Raspberry Pi 500 Review: The keyboard is the computer, again"

StayTrue — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:36:20 +0000

Is the Pi 500 fanless? Do I read that correctly?