Hacker News: badestrand

New comment by badestrand in "Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets"

badestrand — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:27:23 +0000

I think this is just a matter of visuals. His videos that are doing well show many beautiful things. Just looking at the thumbnails and the view counts gives that away already.

New comment by badestrand in "Why most product tours get skipped"

badestrand — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:08:46 +0000

You can just have a bell icon that displays a little red (1) so the users know that they have a message/notification that they can, but don't have to, read.

New comment by badestrand in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

badestrand — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:37:44 +0000

As a counterpoint, I have a website that generates a few thousand dollars per month and sometimes I improve bits about it but sometimes I also don't touch it (or its emails or anything) for a year.

New comment by badestrand in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

badestrand — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:28:56 +0000

There was always lots of "normal" entrepreneurship, where people opened a small shop and sold something. You didn't need to do a 0.1% job to succeed, success was mostly normal-distributed.

Internet businesses by contrast have a power law distribution. Meaning if you perform average you will end up with just $100 per month. The potential upside is infitite though.

The outcome of the average business person is very different between physical and online business.

New comment by badestrand in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

badestrand — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:08:13 +0000

For me it _can_ be faster to code than to instruct but it takes me significantly less effort to write the prompt than the actual code. So a few hours of concentrates coding leave me completely drained of energy while after a few hours with the agents I still have a lot of mental energy. That's the huge difference for me and I don't want to go back.

New comment by badestrand in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

badestrand — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:39:18 +0000

By that logic we have to get rid of mail-in voting as well because there could always be a sledgehammer guy standing next to someone in their own home.

New comment by badestrand in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

badestrand — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:54:49 +0000

What does it exactly mean, digital community infrastructure?

New comment by badestrand in "The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup"

badestrand — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:30:23 +0000

For me it's their speed, yes. I only run 0-3 at a time, and often the problem at hand is very much not complex. For example "Take this component out of the file into its own file, including its styles." The agent may take 5 minutes for that and what do I do in the meantime? I can start another agent for the next task at hand.

Could also be a bug hunt "Sometimes we get an error message about XYZ, please investigate how that might happen." or "Please move setting XY from localstorage to cookies".

New comment by badestrand in "Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]"

badestrand — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:43:17 +0000

Good points.

About adoption I want to add that at some point a whole generation will turn 16/18 (legal driving age) and just not do a driver's license anymore because they will buy an autonomous car anyway. And IMO from that point on adoption will be very fast.

New comment by badestrand in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

badestrand — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:33:57 +0000

Money can't just "go" somewhere, it needs a reason first, at least for book-keeping. I mean, VCs can get their invested capital back but on top of that, how would that money be transfered? $20B is a lot and for sure the VCs will not just write an invoice of $18B for consulting services.

New comment by badestrand in "Show HN: Real-time system that tracks how news spreads across 200k websites"

badestrand — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:29:36 +0000

The devil really is always in the details.

New comment by badestrand in "We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner"

badestrand — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:43:19 +0000

I have a website with hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors running on a single Hetzner machine since >10 years (switched machines inside Hetzner a few times though).

My outage averages around 20 minutes per year, so an uptime of around 99.996%.

I have no idea where you see those "huge outages" coming from.

New comment by badestrand in "Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers"

badestrand — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:47:00 +0000

This has nothing to with the dates being in the future and only with convention and labeling the field correctly.

And in the table example you don't need the "where", because it's obviously in the restaurant's timezone.

New comment by badestrand in "Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers"

badestrand — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:40:32 +0000

I am so glad that so many people in this thread confirm how bad the native date pickers are; i thought I was alone.

Just picking the year is so difficult already on both Android and iOS as well as desktop Chrome, so a custom widget is immediately 100x better.

Yes, in theory it would be best to display the native picker because in theory it has a great UX, but in practice the native browsers' implementations are mostly just really, really bad, for whatever reason.

That's what I really dislike about the linked article - it doesn't even check the native implementations for their quality but just argues as if they are great.

New comment by badestrand in "A startup’s quest to store electricity in the ocean"

badestrand — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:53:36 +0000

To be honest, I find it a bit hard to understand even from the video. The top part doesn't look like it has any container at all.

New comment by badestrand in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

badestrand — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 06:59:55 +0000

Technically yes, but it costs thousands per year for upkeep and again thousands plus 1-2 years of time to shut it down again.

New comment by badestrand in "Next.js is infuriating"

badestrand — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:18:54 +0000

I agree, I don't understand the hate in this thread.

And I think their paid hosting was actually really good, up until they switched their $20/month plan to a whatever-it-may-cost and we-send-you-10-cryptic-emails-about-your-usage-every-month plan. That's when they lost me, not because it got more expensive but because it became intransparent and unpredictable and annoying instead of carefree.

New comment by badestrand in "Claude for Chrome"

badestrand — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 08:26:49 +0000

The problem of resource distribution is solved by money already.

If I can't pay for the robots, I am not getting them. And if I buy my robots and you only get a dishwasher then you can afford two nice vacations on top while I don't.

You don't lose anything if I get robots.

New comment by badestrand in "We need a new theory of democracy – because this version has failed"

badestrand — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:53:09 +0000

I want to disagree about voters mostly following their peers. In my opinion the votes follow the values and from your example, you can predict a person's stance on gender idiology from their stance in immigration simply because both derive from the same underlying value (in this case probably how progressive vs conservative this person is). And generally of course people with the same values flock together.

New comment by badestrand in "We need a new theory of democracy – because this version has failed"

badestrand — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:28:25 +0000

They are conservative and have a few idiots and extremist people in their ranks yes, but that doesn't make the party as a whole extremist.

I never heard about their women-workspace-denial.

And being against marriage of homosexuals was the majority opinion from the beginning of time until around 10 years ago so you can hardly count that as extremist.