Hacker News: TheJoeMan

New comment by TheJoeMan in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

TheJoeMan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:17:25 +0000

Retrieval is $0.03 / GB, so more on the order of 10’s of dollars. This use case is offsite location of the 3-2-1 storage backup rule. I think this is an underserved market with current consumer-facing backup providers.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "How to get better at guitar"

TheJoeMan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:09:29 +0000

I think another aspect is regarding fundamentals. In order to stay engaged in the early years, you will skip over the minutia. But to achieve the next level, you must go back and drill the fundamentals, unlearning any bad habits in the process. Only then, once you’ve “learned the rules”, can you then surpass/break them.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

TheJoeMan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:12:29 +0000

A family member has uploaded a backup of all of the family photos to Amazon Glacial Storage, on the order of a few hundred GB, and gleefully sends me screenshots of the <$1/mo charges.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

TheJoeMan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:08:41 +0000

Even structural items can be made quite thin! There is a college design competition to make concrete canoes which can be 3/8" to 7/16" thick: https://www.concretecanoe.org/2008Triva/Florida2008DesignPap...

New comment by TheJoeMan in "Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)"

TheJoeMan — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:32:25 +0000

I scrolled with the mouse wheel and the origin drifts off screen.

Is there an open-source "cleanroom" re-implementation of the Parasolid kernel? I just like the way Solidworks does things vs. Autodesk.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "Windows native app development is a mess"

TheJoeMan — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:27:48 +0000

I think that would be a great article! For your specific app, I can see how the "super modern" sparse UI fits nicely, since the controls are nice and simple. However, for a more involved app knowing what possibilities there are to get the Windows 10 look would be nice.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "Windows native app development is a mess"

TheJoeMan — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:49:12 +0000

I’m still confused which frameworks are tied to which “visuals”. Ignoring the web-frameworks, do Win32 apps inherently look like Windows XP buttons or can they look more modern?

It might be nice if the article could add screenshots, a few of the Wikipedia links have a screenshot, but again I’m not sure if you’re limited to that UI or not.

I also like the carousel in the article showing the tray menus, but again not sure what they are each “built-with”.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "One Login, Two Platforms – Indeed/Glassdoor"

TheJoeMan — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:36:06 +0000

Some previous discussions about the dangers of Glassdoor post-acquisition:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789865

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32146082

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39705788

I also wonder if “linking” these accounts will trigger the Indeed ID verification flow.

One Login, Two Platforms – Indeed/Glassdoor

TheJoeMan — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:27:04 +0000

Article URL: https://about-us.glassdoor.com/site-us/onelogin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467339

Points: 2

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New comment by TheJoeMan in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

TheJoeMan — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:13:59 +0000

This is an interesting perspective, because from my point of view, the criminals ceasing their illegal activity would be a "win". Whereas, the alternative is the government knowingly allowing illegal activity to continue as they build their case with the goal of a "big bust" and larger jail sentences.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image"

TheJoeMan — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:25:32 +0000

Realizing I intentionally opened a png bomb made me chuckle, like what did I think was going to happen?

New comment by TheJoeMan in "WA income tax clears House after 24-hour debate"

TheJoeMan — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:21:09 +0000

Okay, that is good to know thanks for pointing that out.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "WA income tax clears House after 24-hour debate"

TheJoeMan — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:40:12 +0000

The "free" federal tax filing service I use in Florida, makes their money by charging for state filings. It will add an additional hour or two of effort to every resident of the state, even if they are below the state income threshold which is quite an externality.

Also, I would be wary bragging about buying your goods in Oregon, you technically may owe WA use tax https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/use-tax.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "I used pulsar detection techniques to turn a phone into a watch timegrapher"

TheJoeMan — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:53:21 +0000

Did you consider trying the iPhone accelerometer? Perhaps lay the phone face down on the table and then lay the watch on the back? Wondering if this would have higher or lower SNR.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

TheJoeMan — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:05:08 +0000

Not to mention, those same carbon emission regulations/targets they are lobbying/fighting against did not come about in a vacuum. The regulations were intentionally cranked up to "unachievable" levels for ICE vehicles from groups pushing other technologies.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "MacBook Neo"

TheJoeMan — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:55:55 +0000

I convinced my parents to get me a 2017 MBP for college, yes it was overkill for the day-to-day classes, but I ended up getting into iOS app development and was so fortunate to have a beefier-system. However, for a liberal-arts student the MBN appears to be a sweet spot.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal"

TheJoeMan — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:47:46 +0000

Part of the issue is that somehow you can buy just the "assets" half of a company and ignore the "liabilities" portion. And the assets include all the branding and brand name. So an essentially new copy of the previous company is made while fleecing all on the liabilities side.

For the bars that are being closed, they are less closed and more like abandoned remnants of the now-dead previous company. Perhaps the shareholders should just reclaim the abandoned items of value physically.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

TheJoeMan — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:55:18 +0000

I'm sorry for not elaborating. My original complaint is with Anthropic! The article is about how Anthropic's published "tips" are incorrect, but I am saying of course it's flawed because there is no way for the AI to already have latent knowledge about how to use itself since that wouldn't have been part of the internet/books/github training material.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

TheJoeMan — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:52:50 +0000

I'm sorry for not elaborating. My original complaint is with Anthropic! The 7-figure Anthropic engineers couldn't be bothered to write down how to use their tool. And there is no way for the tool to already have latent knowledge about how to use itself since that wouldn't have been part of the internet/books/github training material.

New comment by TheJoeMan in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

TheJoeMan — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:25:32 +0000

That first image, “Structure Prompts with XML”, just screams AI-written. The bullet lists don’t line up, the numbering starts at (2), random bolding. Why would anyone trust hallucinated documentation for prompting? At least with AI-generated software documentation, the context is the code itself, being regurgitated into bulleted english. But for instructions on using the LLM itself, it seems pretty lazy to not hand-type the preferred usage and human-learned tips.