Hacker News: amadeuspagel

New comment by amadeuspagel in "Fastpotify"

amadeuspagel — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:22:07 +0000

It's hard to think of a name worse then "spotify" itself, but fast "fastpotify" may be it.

New comment by amadeuspagel in "Bug Blindness"

amadeuspagel — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:03:06 +0000

> Almost nobody objected to my characterization of Google and Bing search results, but people told me that I was wrong about Kagi.

Paying for a product makes you defensive, especially if there are free alternatives.

Functional Finance

amadeuspagel — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:42:55 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_finance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483308

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Uniwidth Typeface

amadeuspagel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:19:10 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniwidth_typeface

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461083

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Parallel worktrees running all services on local branch domains

amadeuspagel — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:42:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jdtzmn/port

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404930

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by amadeuspagel in "Why Sheep Need Pigs in Sheepdog's Clothing"

amadeuspagel — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:25:13 +0000

> This seems to have happened in history; ideas proposed by lower status folks were less accepted until higher status folks reintroduced them

> For example, Richard Stallman’s software concept wasn’t accepted until rebranded as “open source”.

Richard Stallman graduated from Harvard and worked at MIT. If it was necessary to rebrand his ideas, it's certainly not because he wasn't elite enough.

> Semmelweis’s hand-washing was rejected until Pasteur and Lister’s reintroduction

Semmelweis’s results were already treated as obvious in britain during his lifetime, and Lister worked in that tradition.

New comment by amadeuspagel in "Impro is a handbook for running a cult"

amadeuspagel — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:38:25 +0000

The most important thing I remember from Impro is that we all have habits we adopted as children that we still use as adults, even though they no longer work.

'We Were Simply Animals'

amadeuspagel — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:13:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.equator.org/articles/we-were-simply-animals-turati

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114367

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Is There Any End to the Atlantic's "End-Ism" Fetish?

amadeuspagel — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:59:56 +0000

Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/article/212923/the-atlantic-magazine-endism-fetish

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873179

Points: 12

# Comments: 6

New comment by amadeuspagel in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

amadeuspagel — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:05:24 +0000

As far as I understand, the US taxes its citizens whereever they live (the third alternative I mentioned).

New comment by amadeuspagel in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

amadeuspagel — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:49:59 +0000

> My first company, Freshflow, is valuable enough that walking out of Germany would trigger a massive six-figure exit tax, on gains I have not even realised, purely for the privilege of leaving.

Without this "exit tax", every founder of a successful business would have a huge incentive to leave and to realize the gains elsewhere. It's not a tax for the privilige of leaving, but for the privilege of building a company. I can see only three alternatives to this:

- Abolish the capital gains tax entirely.

- Make defering it impossible. Force people to pay immidiately. No "exit tax", but people have to pay for unrealized gains.

- Tax people when they realize their gains in a foreign country.

New comment by amadeuspagel in "I don't want you to summarise the page"

amadeuspagel — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:44:22 +0000

A summary is always an expression of distrust: I don't trust the author not to waste my time so I need a summary. It's strange that a website would offer an AI generated summary of a text that it paid someone to write.

New comment by amadeuspagel in "In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words"

amadeuspagel — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:19:48 +0000

That's not a problem with the squiggles as a user interface, but with the software assuming that you speak only one language.

New comment by amadeuspagel in "Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards"

amadeuspagel — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:19:47 +0000

> The approval of draft rules by the economic committee of the European Parliament comes after three years of wrangling between the ECB and banks, which have been concerned about deposit outflows and lost revenues and sought to limit the scope of the project.

This kind of thing is why I'm optimistic both about Bitcoin and fiat currencies in third world countries like Brazil and India.

New comment by amadeuspagel in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

amadeuspagel — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:13:35 +0000

Could these things be turned interactive? Like a parallax effect when you move your mouse?

New comment by amadeuspagel in "Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file"

amadeuspagel — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:14:23 +0000

> Sadly, I don't know anymore what kind of web service that was.

I don't know that either, but I remember there were websites specifically for that purpose, where you could look up a file extension and what program to open it with.

New comment by amadeuspagel in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

amadeuspagel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:06:00 +0000

I didn't know that but now I did it.

New comment by amadeuspagel in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

amadeuspagel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:12:34 +0000

You're right to point this out, but it's still more annoying because you now have to remember that consciously, rather then seeing and feeling that you can just move your mouse to the edge.

New comment by amadeuspagel in "Wiki Spy"

amadeuspagel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:04:44 +0000

This scratches the same itch as same.energy and pinterest, but looks better, with everything cut out, with unique shapes. Truly, every page is its own image.

I love wikipedia, but I don't see why this idea should be limited to it. Why it shouldn't scrap the entire web for images and descriptions, like same.energy?

I'd also prefer it if the description showed next to the pointer, rather then at the bottom right corner.

New comment by amadeuspagel in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

amadeuspagel — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:48:16 +0000

Blaming immigration for not finding an apartment is very different from blaming immigration for not finding a job. Jobs appear almost automatically (if some basic economic conditions are met), apartments have to be built and permitted.

Blaming immigration for not finding an apartment is also different from blaming immigrants. Blame has a moral connotation, and certainly no individual deserves blame because he lives in an apartment that you'd like to live in, whether he moved from another country, another place in the same country or another district of the same city, or whether he was born in that apartment. But that doesn't mean that immigration can't make it more difficult to find an apartment if not enough apartments are built.