Hacker News: alexanderchr

New comment by alexanderchr in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

alexanderchr — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:25:35 +0000

Case in point.

New comment by alexanderchr in "2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March"

alexanderchr — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:46:30 +0000

You'd calculate return on investment based on invested capital, not on expenses, so this does not follow.

New comment by alexanderchr in "U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies"

alexanderchr — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:58:22 +0000

They are not even trying to hide it anymore.

New comment by alexanderchr in "Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI"

alexanderchr — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:37:00 +0000

Yes this reads like vacuous AI slop and and the **randomly bolded** text everywhere is a **dead giveaway**. At this point it's becoming a stronger signal than em-dashes.

New comment by alexanderchr in "Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3"

alexanderchr — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:55:23 +0000

Home ownership is and would continue be taxed in box 1, so that’s not even superficially the reason for carving out real estate.

Box 3 on real estate only come in play for home 2+, and rental properties.

New comment by alexanderchr in "Czech police forced to turn off facial recognition cameras at the Prague airport"

alexanderchr — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 02:46:06 +0000

Border guard was wrong. UK used passenger records from transport companies to determine when someone left the country, not face recognition.

They do however use face recognition when you take a domestic flight from an international terminal. Then they take a photo of you just before security and compare that when you board. To me this seems like an overly complex solution to a problem that would normally by solved by having a domestic section of the terminal, but I’m sure they had their reasons.

New comment by alexanderchr in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

alexanderchr — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:23:14 +0000

I’d say all (useful) software is modelling some domain.

New comment by alexanderchr in "Instagram's new 'Friend Map' feature puts your privacy at risk"

alexanderchr — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:10:14 +0000

Something like ten years ago Facebook messenger would by default add the user’s location to every message visible to the recipient. And even worse, unless you disabled this feature, it would give away the distance from you to all your contacts, even ones you had never even had a conversation with. In real time, so someone could easily use it to triangulate you. Meta is a very creepy company.

New comment by alexanderchr in "Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year"

alexanderchr — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:42:33 +0000

Agreed that it makes no sense to restrict that kind of road to 30km/h, but to be fair most cities that have moved to 30km/h would have excluded that road. Even Amsterdam left the main throughfares at 50km/h: https://www.amsterdam.nl/30-km-u-in-de-stad/

New comment by alexanderchr in "Never write your own date parsing library"

alexanderchr — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:59:57 +0000

Maybe I’m missing something but then what is 30 days after Christmas? 25389?

New comment by alexanderchr in "The U.K. closed a tax loophole for the global rich, now they're fleeing"

alexanderchr — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 23:47:15 +0000

I believe most, if not all, European countries tax residents on worldwide employment and capital income.

New comment by alexanderchr in "Are we the baddies?"

alexanderchr — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:12:24 +0000

> Especially on the discounters here in EU (especially Ryanair / Easyjet), i'm the only one in the non-priority queue, everyone else is in the priority queue. This used to of course not be the case; you paid extra and was in first. Now i'm usually in before 2/3th of the prio queue. Which is just weird.

That’s because the ”priority” queue for those carriers is really a ”paid for a proper carry on”-queue. But the airlines realised that they could brand it as a priority queue to make the upcharge to bring a bag more palatable. You’re not spending €40 just to bring a bag that used to be included in the ticket, you also get to feel more important. At least the first time until you realise 2/3rds of the plane is also important.

New comment by alexanderchr in "The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly (2018)"

alexanderchr — Fri, 02 May 2025 17:55:10 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule...

New comment by alexanderchr in "Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions"

alexanderchr — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:14:08 +0000

Interesting, never heard of this service being provided here (EU), not even sure it would be legal, but makes sense. Apparently they get the information from credit card/mortage applications.

The overemployed crowd is two steps ahead though: https://old.reddit.com/r/overemployed/comments/10el4ll/remov...

New comment by alexanderchr in "Fake job seekers are flooding US companies that are hiring for remote positions"

alexanderchr — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 14:16:33 +0000

What kind of background check would reveal all previous employers? Where I’m from a background check usually consists of checking one or two (candidate provided) references and possibly googling their name for red flags.

New comment by alexanderchr in "Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design"

alexanderchr — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:06:35 +0000

MacOS developers have solved this problem pretty neatly:

https://support.apple.com/en-qa/guide/mac-help/mh27474/mac

New comment by alexanderchr in "Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?"

alexanderchr — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:11:08 +0000

Yeah I understand where you're coming from. I'm just saying that the tax authorities might not see it that way, and you can end up in really tricky situations unless you have sveral layers that cover you from responsibility. Hence my recommendation to keep the company structure simple even if it means more bureaucracy.

New comment by alexanderchr in "Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?"

alexanderchr — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:39:23 +0000

Be really careful with this unless you know what you’re doing. Setting up a foreign entity that only collects revenue and pays royalties is a known trick and will be looked at very closely by tax inspectors. Worst case they will consider the foreign entity artificial and tax it as if it was a local company.

My recommendation would be to keep things simple with a local company, and start worrying about complex structures once you have enough revenue for it to make sense.

New comment by alexanderchr in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

alexanderchr — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:45:43 +0000

would be some very wishful reading!

New comment by alexanderchr in "H3: For indexing geographies into a hexagonal grid, by Uber"

alexanderchr — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:51:12 +0000

Let's say you are looking for the closest gas station. One that is in the close corner of a "diagonal neighbour" would be closer than most points in the "edge neighbours". So if you want to find something nearby, you'd usually want to look at all 8 neighbours. The hexagonal neighbours look more like a circle centered in the original hexagon, thus more convenient for that purpose.