Hacker News: adminu

New comment by adminu in "'Nobody has done this before': Britain's beloved steam trains trial technology"

adminu — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:27:52 +0000

How does this cost 9m£? I mean, sure, it was exploratory, but come on, how do you spend that kind of money on sealing some components, adding an alternator and some sensors? What am I missing?

New comment by adminu in "'Nobody has done this before': Britain's beloved steam trains trial technology"

adminu — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:22:51 +0000

Sorry, but sticking your head out the window is one of the greatest perks of going on a heritage train. That really IS about the ambiance.

New comment by adminu in "Are Americans' perceptions of the economy and crime broken?"

adminu — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:57:23 +0000

@dang why is this flagged? Can we unflag it?

New comment by adminu in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

adminu — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:32:51 +0000

An oligopol often has some kind of moat due to anti competitive behaviour. E.g. the potatoe argument from the article, where McCain makes it hard to buy potatoes from anybody but them as they are part of a packaged deal.

New comment by adminu in "It's not a crime if we do it with an app"

adminu — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:30:37 +0000

> Then, there is a switch to the most traditional of businesses with the most traditional business models. Who, the author argues, are engaging in price gauging. In the second paragraph he claims that apps cause this inflation

He is saying that the traditional businesses use an app that allows for a legal way of price gauging.

> The last paragraph portraits a stunning lack of economic knowledge, as companies raising prices in line with inflation obviously would not lower prices after the source of the inflation is gone.

The author claims, that these companies raise prices more than inflation based cost increases in production would allow for.

Pusher: Channels EU cluster having intermittent issues

adminu — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:23:26 +0000

Article URL: https://status.pusher.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38265368

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Can You Customize My Startup's Login Page?

adminu — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:41:53 +0000

Article URL: https://ph-uhl.com/can-you-customize-my-startup-s-login-page/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37776605

Points: 50

# Comments: 50

New comment by adminu in "We don’t need a new Twitter"

adminu — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:50:05 +0000

That sounds interesting. Are you thinking about a comment system build into RSS?

I am interested in potential future RSS capabilities. Would you mind a chat about that? If so, please drop me an email, see profile.

Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

adminu — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 15:26:26 +0000

I am collecting my favorite internet rabbit holes on my website (https://ph-uhl.com/links/internet-rabbit-holes/) and went through my old lists but I think I lost a few of the good ones.

So I was wandering, what are your favorites? The stuff that you loose a night to, when finding it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36617492

Points: 54

# Comments: 26

New comment by adminu in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

adminu — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:10:32 +0000

Not regularly blogging but from time to time: https://ph-uhl.com

Emacs Password Management on Linux

adminu — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:12:10 +0000

Article URL: https://ph-uhl.com/emacs-password-management-on-linux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36404259

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by adminu in "BratGPT: The evil older sibling of ChatGPT"

adminu — Wed, 17 May 2023 12:27:02 +0000

> Me: Hm, I just found the switch to turn the servers off, that power you...

> BratGPT: A server error has occurred > INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR

Strange, I was bluffing...

New comment by adminu in "Car thieves using tech disguised inside old Nokia phones and Bluetooth speakers"

adminu — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:10:44 +0000

I wonder what the thieve does with the car after stealing. Will you always need that Nokia to start it or is there some kind if aftermarket for counterfeit keys?

New comment by adminu in "YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship"

adminu — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:43:36 +0000

Last activity in the repository shows today for me. Why do you think it is dead?

New comment by adminu in "Visual design rules you can safely follow"

adminu — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 09:59:29 +0000

Or not, that way GP learned something for life, so saves them time in the long run

New comment by adminu in "I wish Asciidoc was more popular"

adminu — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 19:17:13 +0000

Well, here comes the obligatory org-mode comment:

Org mode does most of that, too. And a lot more. And while you cannot use it in Github issues, you can in README files on Github.

New comment by adminu in "Ask HN: Is TypeScript worth it?"

adminu — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 09:24:28 +0000

I think stuff like this really comes down to getting used to and accepting.

I had the same views on code prettiers. I thought, aligning your code by hand makes you think about the structure. That you'd invest more time in making your code readable and thus it would be more readable.

When I first got to use prettier on a team and accepted it's value, the benefits I perceived were so vast, that my arguments seemed irrelevant in comparison.

New comment by adminu in "Ask HN: Is TypeScript worth it?"

adminu — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 09:19:35 +0000

Hoenstly, for production code, TS makes me sleep better. No matter how many tests you write, that one undefined object will get you at some point. TS helps to eliminate a complete set at compile time (as you know) and that's great!

Anecdotal evidence from my Haskell experience: If my Haskell programs compiled, they usually worked. Which is amazing. Powerful types for the win.

New comment by adminu in "Small Teams"

adminu — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 21:49:49 +0000

The ARR for BuiltWith is probably off[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10322265

New comment by adminu in "Post, the latest Twitter alternative, is betting big on micropayments for news"

adminu — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 16:32:09 +0000

Aren't there examples against this nowadays? E-Scooters are payed by the minute, even though not provided by monopolists. Mobile games with in-app purchases are very similar to micro-payments, too and power a whole industry.

The monopolist examples, like mobile and power companies don't translate well, as these companies provide services, that are continuously consumed, vs. one of purchases. For these companies, micro payments maybe don't make sense. But for lot's of other one of content, micro payments seem far superior over subscriptions.

To me, it feels, the article proves, that micropayments are crap if used for the wrong kind of products...