Hacker News: aren55555

New comment by aren55555 in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course – 16k+ courses, free, no signup"

aren55555 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:42:13 +0000

Would be sweet if it also had membership status (private/public/etc)

New comment by aren55555 in "Diagram as Code"

aren55555 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:27:09 +0000

I personally have been using mermaid for sequence diagrams and flow charts: https://mermaid.js.org/

DaC seems nicer for infra

New comment by aren55555 in "Ask HN: Should I use React for a personal portfolio?"

aren55555 — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 22:46:56 +0000

If you are using this project for learning you may want to consider something like Astro: https://astro.build/

It will enable you to dabble in building different pages/routes in different frameworks very easily.

New comment by aren55555 in "Show HN: Git Heat Map – a tool for visualising git repo activity for each file"

aren55555 — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 02:38:53 +0000

After cloning, I had to change the perms of the .sh files, install flask via pip and hope for the best. I wasn't sure what Python version to use, I used some 3.x. It would be really nice if this was fully containerized and I could launch in docker/podman.

Also I wasn't sure how to get the colors :shrug:

New comment by aren55555 in "Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt"

aren55555 — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:13:38 +0000

As an ex-Googler I believe they also use the data collection to "improve" products such as the Pixel phones. For example, they can compare the # of iPhones purchase receipts (emails accumulated from Apple, Amazon, Best Buy, etc) to the # of Pixel purchases. They compare this kind of stuff YoY and to Google's equivalent products and can build a pretty accurate picture of market adoption.

Typing [Generic] Go

aren55555 — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:23:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ch403rkrspomw0v/AG%20-%20R%20Griesemer%20-%20Typing%20%5BGeneric%5D%20Go.pdf?dl=0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25061129

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by aren55555 in "Google's Area 120 project “Orion Wifi”"

aren55555 — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 22:01:51 +0000

Not yet, but stay tuned.

My 3080 day experience with my 2010 MacBook Pro

aren55555 — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:24:23 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@aren55555/they-just-dont-make-em-like-they-used-to-6c0c919df8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080404

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by aren55555 in "1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack"

aren55555 — Sun, 13 May 2018 03:29:13 +0000

Netflix recently released a 6 part documentary series titled "Wild Wild Country" that follows the sequence of events leading up to this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Wild_Country

New comment by aren55555 in "Cost of iPhone X in 1957"

aren55555 — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 03:52:44 +0000

In the mid 50s silicon transistors started to replace vacuum tubes. I assume tubes were at their cheapest in the late 50s. I'm not sure why the article uses '57 in particular though.

New comment by aren55555 in "Hunting for a Canadian Legend: The Avro Arrow Jet Fighter"

aren55555 — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:53:02 +0000

After the Avro Arrow project was cancelled a number of the employees involved joined NASA to assist in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. It's a shame that the same kind of "brain drain" occurs to this day. Canada produces a lot of talented people and many of them head South.

Crystal 0.14.1 released

aren55555 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 08:41:10 +0000

Article URL: http://crystal-lang.org/2016/03/21/crystal-0.14.1-released.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11342903

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Nest opens up its smart home technology to other companies

aren55555 — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:04:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/1/9428139/nest-weave-smart-home-communication-protocol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10310799

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Nest partners with Yale on lock design

aren55555 — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:02:39 +0000

Article URL: http://www.cnet.com/news/nest-partners-with-yale-on-lock-design-announces-nest-cam-api/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10310791

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by aren55555 in "Phoenix 1.0"

aren55555 — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:54:16 +0000

FWIW the URL should probably be updated to http://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-10-the-framewor...

http://www.phoenixframework.org/blog seems to point to the most recent post.

Elixir 1.0.5 released

aren55555 — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 20:31:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/3eb938a0ba7db5c6cc13d390e6242f66fdc9ef00/CHANGELOG.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9814927

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by aren55555 in "Ask HN: How come restaurants are still using food menu full of text?"

aren55555 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 07:48:45 +0000

Probably because a physical menu actually takes less time to select a meal from. In the worst case, if every restaurant had their own menu app/site think about how long it would take a newcomer to install/navigate then figure out how the UI worked.

Plus you would still need to have physical menus as backup for those customers that don't have smartphones, are out of battery, etc.

I've seen some sushi spots have their menu on an iPad; and it worked pretty well. However, personally I also enjoy the conversational aspect of placing an order with a human server (with the interaction influencing the value of my tip).

This virtual menu concept brought this article to my mind: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/07/vira...

Google Helpout is shutting down

aren55555 — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:35:51 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/helpouts/answer/6167468

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9045578

Points: 14

# Comments: 3

New comment by aren55555 in "Show HN: PSequel – a free PostgreSQL GUI Tool for Mac OS X"

aren55555 — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 01:52:11 +0000

brew cask install psequel

A new day for Google Calendar

aren55555 — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 18:00:39 +0000

Article URL: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-new-day-for-google-calendar.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8552296

Points: 357

# Comments: 129