Hacker News: atarian

New comment by atarian in "Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?"

atarian — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:58:09 +0000

>I know I need marketing help but giving equity to someone I met online feels like a huge risk.

doesn't seem like you're risking much if your products are not getting any traction in the first place

New comment by atarian in "4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin"

atarian — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:18:06 +0000

Hopefully it’s real this time: https://www.vice.com/en/article/viral-free-potatoes-post-cos...

New comment by atarian in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

atarian — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:16:07 +0000

It has all the signs. Em-dashes. That distinct way of using short sentences to drive a point. Like this.

New comment by atarian in "Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass"

atarian — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 02:44:56 +0000

I bought a fire extinguisher recently but I’ve never used one. I have a faint idea of how it works and what kind of result I’d get based on what I’ve seen on TV. But if a serious fire ever breaks out I don’t even know if I’d even remember to grab and use it.

New comment by atarian in "Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network"

atarian — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:54:28 +0000

it’s amazing to me how we’re still discovering new pieces of the human body every year. you would have thought by now we’d have discovered everything

New comment by atarian in "Gold hits all time high"

atarian — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:07:08 +0000

Scarcity

New comment by atarian in "California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy"

atarian — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:02:19 +0000

And then China steps in to protect California from getting annexed by the United States.

New comment by atarian in "Show HN: A terminal emulator in pure PHP"

atarian — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:53:01 +0000

I was hoping for an actual desktop app powered by PHP, which would be really cool having PHP as a desktop runtime.

New comment by atarian in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco"

atarian — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:43:08 +0000

very cool, reminds me of watchdogs. where's the music from? it's very calming

New comment by atarian in "Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim"

atarian — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:58:00 +0000

i had the same workflow but now i use zed w/ tmux (tmux inside the zed terminal)

New comment by atarian in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

atarian — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:37:07 +0000

TikTok should just build out a PWA. That would be a huge fuck you to this whole situation.

New comment by atarian in "Doing Hard Things While Living Life: Why We Built Vade Studio in Clojure"

atarian — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:04:47 +0000

same just redirects me to login every time

New comment by atarian in "Tesla reports 1.1% sales drop for 2024, first annual decline in at least 9 years"

atarian — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:39:05 +0000

>The mainstream media narrative does shape general public opinion, even for the smarter folks

If that’s true then everyone should be hating Luigi Mangione by now.

Amazon checkout process hits technical snag during Labor Day sale

atarian — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 04:57:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/30/amazon-checkout-process-hits-technical-snag-during-labor-day-sale.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41406642

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by atarian in "Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria"

atarian — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:29:38 +0000

Have your plans changed with all the recent news about tattoo ink? Do you try to vet the ink?

When something that was working, suddenly doesn't work when demoing to others

atarian — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:36:15 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Vorf%C3%BChreffekt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41257861

Points: 52

# Comments: 50

New comment by atarian in "Parasite infection is associated with entrepreneurship (2020)"

atarian — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:27:34 +0000

Coming soon: Toxoplasmosis supplements

New comment by atarian in "In Reversal, Guinness Gives a Frenchman's Matchstick Eiffel Tower the Record"

atarian — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:14:02 +0000

what is this a tower for ants?

New comment by atarian in "Ask HN: What's the coolest non standard application of LLMs you've seen?"

atarian — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 08:28:29 +0000

Summarizing the legal terms for a new job offer

New comment by atarian in "Uniqlo's Automated Self-Checkout"

atarian — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 08:17:57 +0000

I’ve used this several times and every time it accidentally scanned items from the person next to me so it didn’t really impress me as much.