<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: amotinga</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amotinga</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:13:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=amotinga" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>taking sabbatical from work (after getting laid off)
went to visit family in moldova. 
my nieces tell me there is no app to learn romanian online - this cant be true.<p>I do a bit of research and turns out this is mostly true, mostly these websites built for english speaking people, meaning you learn romanian - but starting from english.<p>at the same time I need to dig in into all the rails 8 goodies. 
also, I've been hearing about this cloudflare thing, and not knowing what's that about. 
also, heroku is shit now, so Im curious to try some new server, hetzner u say? - wonder what's that like.<p>kamal is a thing now, ok.<p>but coding is ... time and energy intensive, what is this vibecoding ppl talking about?<p>anyhow May 20th I sit down to "vibecode" an app - see what happens. 
one thing led to another and here we are<p><a href="https://vorbim.org/" rel="nofollow">https://vorbim.org/</a><p>found some romanian words ranked by frequency. 
found free open db of romanian words on dexonline.  
found google TTS to transform text to sound.
found that cloudflare has storage sooooo much cheaper than aws s3 (only one I used for decade) 
found that cloudflare has some neat useful features.
found that server at hetzner is pretty cheap and with ai easy to setup.
found that fable/opus are great at generating content (with some hand holding) 
found that AI now is stupid good at building / designing websites.<p>it was impossible for me to build something like this without second monitor and tweaking css for days/weeks. now? 
I just tell it make it pretty. god damn.  inspiring and disheartening at the same time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:28:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539238</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>what is DTC?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:05:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636244</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636244</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>  Location: Murrieta, CA | or Moldova | 
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: ruby on rails and all that entails.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amotinga/
  Email: andrew.motinga@gmail.com
</code></pre>
open to full-time, part time or contract.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:42:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053592</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42053592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it maybe time to look into curiosity stream I guess.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:03:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41626211</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41626211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41626211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read the entire thing. that doesnt happen often.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:12:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41554537</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41554537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41554537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Tell HN: I have the perfect job, why is it not enough?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>check out maslow pyramid of needs. you're on level 3. 
for me it goes something like:<p>1. body - food, water, shelter, sleep.  check
2. safety -  freedom, stability.   check
3. love and belonging:  friends & family.  check
4. self realization:  prestige, respect, achievements..  ????  that's your next step. 
5. the dream:  full complete realization of ones potential.<p>read up on this thing, check it out.<p>also maybe useful questions to ask:<p>1. how is my last month going to look like - how do I wanna die. invision it. 
2. maybe think. what would you do if you only had week, month, year to live? 
  maybe go do it? is it realy impossibly to do while paying mortgage? chances are it isnt.<p>also, maybe list things you like about yourself and things you dont like. wanna work on those you dont like?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:41:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32060006</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32060006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32060006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>offer remote work - I'm in</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:03:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31779234</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31779234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31779234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Russia began active preparations for disconnection from the global Internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>just did search here for this and found 2 more posts about russia testing this 3 and 2 years ago.  does anybody know if this is real?</p>
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<p>yes, site is down</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:44:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30456890</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30456890</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30456890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Ask HN: New web service idea that you would pay for?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>high quality coding school that lands you a job.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2022 18:34:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30419068</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30419068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30419068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>2 things why I dont bother interviewing:<p>1. very difficult long interview that I most likely won't pass
2. I only want to work remotely. driving every day few hours back and forth is very expensive in many ways.<p>When something changes about those I will think about it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 19:01:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30249384</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30249384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30249384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Ask HN: Besides a job or freelancing, how would you make money with coding?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>can you automate poker online? 
pretty sure you can build in strategy to win at microstakes</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2022 17:59:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039093</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Zillow seeks to sell 7k homes for $2.8B after flipping halt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>same. even though I make good living, buying house seems difficult - it's a lot of money for many years.  add closing costs and misc repairs, and owning appears to be quite expensive.  I wouldn't know what to do if at any point within next 10 years I lost the job.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:43:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29082939</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29082939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29082939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if you somehow managed to get 160k out of the bootcamp I would guess bootcamp is only part of why you got such an offer. you are extreme outlier.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:12:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996986</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>structure. assuming it costs 50k to develop curriculum and 1000 ppl take it price becomes 50 per person. more people take it, price if it (theoretically) has to move towards 0.
guidance. this one I can understand. having person always available to help out when something unexpected happens, which btw happens constantly is extremely helpful. this is def value added.<p>accountability. this one I'm not sure what you mean. meaning I invest 10k now I really have to make it work. yeah, unfortunately people tend to value expensive things more than free.<p>connections. yes, this is perhaps biggest selling point, the idea that they will place the student, or at the very least help significantly.<p>hmmm... I wonder if there is a way to quantify that. is it really ~ 1k/week to do all of that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:10:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996971</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>serious question: what does lambda school or any other bootcamp  provide that isn't available online already for free or cheap?<p>freecodecamp.org
theodinproject
limitless various courses.<p>curriculum is out there, /r/learnprogramming is very helpful, plethora of discords.  
what do they provide in 2022 that is worth ~10-20k?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:54:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996536</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996536</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>how is it going? do you have a lot of subscribers? any of them landed a job?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 01:25:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28995331</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28995331</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28995331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd like a ban button on a song. I like listening to various  genres when I work out depending on the mood, but as soon as I hear 'pussy' I want to throw my phone out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2021 03:42:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28893757</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28893757</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28893757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Remote OK Open Startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>30x500?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 15:51:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28879083</link><dc:creator>amotinga</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28879083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28879083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by amotinga in "Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I once read 'power of mediocrity' or something like that that I saw here on HN. that article talked about the fact that it's ok to do things just to enjoy them as opposed to getting better at them.<p>since then I don't worry about my rating anymore, just playing on lichess without loggin in, just to have fun.<p>I'm not improving much, but i have fun.</p>
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