Hacker News: bisRepetita

New comment by bisRepetita in "Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?"

bisRepetita — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:02:50 +0000

If only there was no app stores... sigh... I would only download apps from the reputable company I like (myfavoritebigbank.com), trusting their brand and reputation for my security. If a client-side app can threaten their security, that's a weakness on their part.

And if a lone developer has a cool new idea, and its app is recommended by users I trust on an obscure specialized forum, then I'll decide to install their app from "coollonedeveloper.com".

If only we could invent some kind of "domain names" system that one would have control and responsibility over, instead of trusting some broken unscalable app stores...

New comment by bisRepetita in "Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business"

bisRepetita — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:38:06 +0000

I find this such a strange comment, to be able to reach such a conclusion so quickly without any idea what my side project is, how much passion I have put into it, and how much still have in me, with no idea how many people I've helped already with it.

Like Kyle writes keep showing up to make it a little better every day. Today again I will show up, but today I'll think of him and it will help me.

What's your passion project? How do _you_ keep the motivation every day? How long has it been?

New comment by bisRepetita in "Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business"

bisRepetita — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:13:49 +0000

Thank you so much Kyle for sharing all this. This is very inspiring. I will put a few more extra hours today in my project thinking about you.

I'd love to have some info about the hiring of Jon, anything you may feel like sharing, while I realize a lot of it is very confidential. For example:

- I am wondering how the working relationship got started since you write that he "spent a year contributing real value", and he was not asking for equity upfront. Did you hire him as contractor initially, did he volunteer his time?

- the structure of the deal with him, and of course the equity part, especially _if/while_ you are not planning to sell the business. Maybe you have some pointers on "possible deal structures" that you looked into without spilling the beans on the actual deal?

I know I am asking a lot, I hope it does not hurt to ask, so realistically I don't expect any answer, but any breadcrumbs would be so valuable/helpful! In any case, thank you so much already.

New comment by bisRepetita in "The Moat of Low Status"

bisRepetita — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:01:17 +0000

Yes. And this is very helpful. If you are young and you suck at something, more people will give you the benefit of the youth and envision you may improve. If you're old and you suck at something, many will think you're just old, and you just suck. "Don't hurt yourself!" So yes, not giving a shit is a very good way to make progress.

New comment by bisRepetita in "I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)"

bisRepetita — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:52:23 +0000

>it's comfortable to be homeless in a rich society

Do you know this first hand? Have you tried it?

New comment by bisRepetita in "I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes"

bisRepetita — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:47:12 +0000

Was it mandatory to be out of the streets, police enforced? Were the hotels free for the homeless population? Trying to figure out whether it was the increase of availability only, or combined of forced housing/low price point.

New comment by bisRepetita in "Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes"

bisRepetita — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:46:16 +0000

Hong Kong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_light_bus

New comment by bisRepetita in "Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator"

bisRepetita — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:17:36 +0000

>I'm not going anywhere, so you'll have two of us to put up with going forward :)

I thought that sctb was another one? No longer I guess?

New comment by bisRepetita in "Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence"

bisRepetita — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:56:33 +0000

I read that 9 European representatives, plus 12 assistants, plus 4 other members of the party were found guilty as part of a scheme to earn illegally EUR 2.9M for the party.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_des_assistants_parleme...

New comment by bisRepetita in "The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil"

bisRepetita — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:49:10 +0000

Then I'll claim Leonardo da Vinci almost did it with his aerial screw in the 15th century ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_aerial_screw

New comment by bisRepetita in "Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon"

bisRepetita — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:19:15 +0000

Kiplomo now has his sights set on the marathon, and said he will be resting until the London Marathon in April

I'd love to know what "resting" means for this guy practically.

New comment by bisRepetita in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"

bisRepetita — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:37:48 +0000

This is not so much than human are "really bad" at this. Here they're facing other human (scientists, psychologists, artists, marketers), computers, algorithms, spending all their waking hours devising scheme to make them addicted.

The C language may not help you much with clean memory allocation, but at least they are not using A/B testing and emotional appeal to coerce you into doing deadly memory management.

New comment by bisRepetita in "Quote Origin: I had exactly four seconds and Google had told me it wasn’t enough"

bisRepetita — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:07:30 +0000

Reminds me of the people who looked for time travelers, hoping they would have betrayed themselves through chronologically wrong Google searches or tweets.

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/google-search-fails...

New comment by bisRepetita in "How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”"

bisRepetita — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:07:09 +0000

Most iconic cheating I can think of is taking the subway during the NYC marathon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Ruiz

New comment by bisRepetita in "Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro"

bisRepetita — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 23:04:31 +0000

in full screen mode, even after people turn their phone 90 degrees, you have not much space for visible control on a 16x9 video.

New comment by bisRepetita in "Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro"

bisRepetita — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 08:23:56 +0000

> it obscures the actual content when you're interacting with the controls (a problem that's particularly acute on smaller screens)

What's the right trade-off here in your mind then? Leave the controls always-on/visible? On a small screen, it takes a lot of real estate (except in portrait mode), and small UI controls are a pain to use so you need to make them big enough. I struggle with this, I really don't know what is the right trade-off here.

New comment by bisRepetita in "Bees have an internal sense of time (2022)"

bisRepetita — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 08:40:55 +0000

And one still cannot in 2024 ;). Almost all red-eye flights go from east to west. There are none from Paris to NYC. There are some from America's west coast to Asia though, because those are super long flights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eye_flight

New comment by bisRepetita in "US spent more on health care in 2022 than 6 countries combined with universal"

bisRepetita — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:20:30 +0000

because if you are the single payer (govt), you can negotiate much much better rates.

New comment by bisRepetita in "Show HN: Construct Animate – our new browser-based animation tool"

bisRepetita — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:12:06 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by bisRepetita in "Show HN: Construct Animate – our new browser-based animation tool"

bisRepetita — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:04:23 +0000

Thanks for sharing this.

If I wanted to use one of those animations as overlay on a video I have (with transparency), what export would you recommend? Based on your intro video, is seems it would be a series of PNG, or is there some other option?