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New comment by brianbreslin in "New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS"

brianbreslin — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:58:06 +0000

Was this done by claude design? I'm seeing this pattern/style on every output by claude design lately.

New comment by brianbreslin in "Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?"

brianbreslin — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:17:16 +0000

The side that is most patient (e.g. the one likely to make money) is the one to start with. Once you build up enough on that side you can start being useful to the other side. The key is going to be whether or not this business model makes sense on unit economics too.

New comment by brianbreslin in "US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up"

brianbreslin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:50:37 +0000

feels like grift.

i'm sure I'll get downvoted for this comment, but it always feels like a way to enrich themselves.

New comment by brianbreslin in "Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests"

brianbreslin — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:53:37 +0000

My guess is he sees ICE hauling people out of even the courts when they were attempting to abide by the legal processes and will say f-it, why bother, its safer to not adhere. just my assumption of OP's intent.

New comment by brianbreslin in "Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players"

brianbreslin — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:36:01 +0000

wasn't tim ferris promoting one of these products years ago? was like a faraday cage for your nether region.

New comment by brianbreslin in "Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket"

brianbreslin — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:49:47 +0000

Is this a precursor to a viable alternative to any of SpaceX products?

New comment by brianbreslin in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

brianbreslin — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:55:46 +0000

Out of curiosity, why were software engineers carved out? Was this a punishment against the tech industry? With 45/47's administration there is always some either profit angle for his friends or retribution angle for something.

New comment by brianbreslin in "Cursor hits $9B valuation"

brianbreslin — Mon, 05 May 2025 19:38:55 +0000

Does this fundraising only make sense if cursor is planning to jump into the infrastructure side too? To do application hosting layer like Replit.

New comment by brianbreslin in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

brianbreslin — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:35:15 +0000

The oral semaglutide (sublingual dissolving) is like 10% as effective as the injected version. But it presumably could be given in higher doses to counteract that. I'd be shocked if the manufacturers aren't working on a more effective non-injectable version.

New comment by brianbreslin in "Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything"

brianbreslin — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:49:47 +0000

Getting lead out of our environments (housing stock, schools, etc) would do wonders to improving quality of life for so many people globally. Not just for those directly poisoned by it. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis

New comment by brianbreslin in "Ask HN: Small Ideas vs. Big Ideas?"

brianbreslin — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:51:30 +0000

You can build a $30k MRR business with 1% the effort you need to build a $30M MRR business. Once you escape a certain size/scale the day to day operations grow in scope. So do you want to deal with HR or payroll? Do you want to have to keep bringing in $100k worth of google ads traffic a month?

The question to think about is can the small idea potentially be big? Or is it a TAM limited scope? Don't forget there is horizontal vs vertical scaling to think about too.

New comment by brianbreslin in "Bench accounting services shutting down"

brianbreslin — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:47:38 +0000

Does Kick integrate with my existing quickbooks?

New comment by brianbreslin in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

brianbreslin — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:47:44 +0000

are you using lob to print/mail everything?

New comment by brianbreslin in "Solar power from space? it might happen in a couple of years"

brianbreslin — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:48:14 +0000

Surprised no one has mentioned the classic Sim City 2000 microwave power plants that tended to erupt into flames. [1]

[1] https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/Microwave_Power_Plant

New comment by brianbreslin in "Solar power from space? it might happen in a couple of years"

brianbreslin — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:46:53 +0000

forgive my ignorance on this q. I always assumed based on movies that the temperatures in space were very cold (like near absolute zero). So wouldn't putting a hot data center in space just dissipate heat? Do shuttles and space stations not radiate heat?

New comment by brianbreslin in "How Waffle House helps Southerners and FEMA judge a storm's severity"

brianbreslin — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:03:34 +0000

Who sued them over this? staff that had been endangered? waffle house seems to be proud of this WHI and mentions it on their website even. [1]

[1] https://www.wafflehouse.com/how-to-measure-a-storms-fury-one...

New comment by brianbreslin in "New study suggests nose picking could increase risk for Alzheimer's and dementia (2022)"

brianbreslin — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:31:31 +0000

How far away from a vaccine/treatment for alzheimers do we think we are? Or dementia? I'm using the term vaccine liberally here.

We know its linked to build up of amyloid beta proteins, does anything clear this protein away that we know of?

New comment by brianbreslin in "Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?"

brianbreslin — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:30:06 +0000

My team has been building custom software for a large german multinational shipping and freight forwarding company for 18 years now. Happy to chat, my email is in my username @ gmail.

Our client has tried what you're discussing several times. They are a bit bigger (10x) than your org, but never built up the software muscle in house despite hiring and firing entire teams to attempt to build stuff in house. We've handled one corner of their offerings for nearly 2 decades while all their other teams have cycled in and out of internal and external suppliers.

New comment by brianbreslin in "We created a fake delivery company to get a job"

brianbreslin — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:40:18 +0000

loved this story, wickedly creative. This type of creativity should be encouraged.

New comment by brianbreslin in "What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3?"

brianbreslin — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:51:27 +0000

Not to start a political argument, but I am genuinely curious what you would consider a livable wage for a person in say Bangladesh doing this work?