Hacker News: buttscicles

New comment by buttscicles in "Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout"

buttscicles — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:07:40 +0000

It's very common for people to switch networks many times a day anyway so it's not obviously a VPN user - even when switching countries to some extent.

New comment by buttscicles in "Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware"

buttscicles — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:57:27 +0000

Meaning unknown to the public/vendor

New comment by buttscicles in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

buttscicles — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:12:29 +0000

Interesting that everybody knows when AWS goes down but Azure needs a "Tell HN" :)

Best of luck to the teams responding to this incident.

New comment by buttscicles in "Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft"

buttscicles — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:50:33 +0000

You've audited the Cursor codebase then? Along with every other tool you use?

New comment by buttscicles in "Ask HN: I don't want higher salary, I need more freetime"

buttscicles — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:07:26 +0000

Part time work is possible.

I initially dropped to 4 days/week in lieu of a payrise (comp remained the same). Did that for a while and since then I've been working 2-4 days/week (3 right now)

It helped that it was a small company and I had been working there for 5+ years, not sure how I'd go about finding a part time software job otherwise. Everything is negotiable though.

New comment by buttscicles in "Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf]"

buttscicles — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:49:23 +0000

Interestingly everybody replying to this is saying they spend ~8 hours in bed, which most certainly means they aren't getting 8 hours of sleep :)

New comment by buttscicles in "Effectiveness of wearable activity trackers to increase physical activity"

buttscicles — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:23:41 +0000

Maybe look into a Whoop device. Their business model is unique in the space as it's a subscription, but the tracker itself is solid, has no screen and can be worn a number of ways if you don't want it on your wrist.

New comment by buttscicles in "Intelligent Brains Take Longer to Solve Difficult Problems"

buttscicles — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 13:17:19 +0000

Psychological safety is what allows people to exchange ideas and be wrong without fear of it being used against them

New comment by buttscicles in "Visual design rules you can safely follow"

buttscicles — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 12:23:15 +0000

I agree with the off-white/black reducing eye strain but HN is not a good example of readability in any way!

New comment by buttscicles in "The bait-and-switch hidden in today’s cookie announcement"

buttscicles — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:44:53 +0000

Wanted to add that according to the article, these checks will be required for all content, not just adult content.

New comment by buttscicles in "The bait-and-switch hidden in today’s cookie announcement"

buttscicles — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:43:31 +0000

I would guess it's more expensive than generating certs - all those ID verification "AI" services use teams of people as a fallback from what I know

New comment by buttscicles in "Statement on 4 Years of GDPR"

buttscicles — Wed, 25 May 2022 15:16:52 +0000

This seems to be a very common misconception, but the cookie consent dialogues are not part of GDPR.

New comment by buttscicles in "Rails and Hotwire, Phoenix LiveView or Django?"

buttscicles — Tue, 17 May 2022 18:11:54 +0000

The one that I was most familiar with

New comment by buttscicles in "Apple Made $6.5B USD by No Longer Providing Accessories with New iPhones"

buttscicles — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 14:46:17 +0000

Not really that unusual - I'm 27 and missed out on dial up

New comment by buttscicles in "The Rain System “contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition”"

buttscicles — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 21:52:31 +0000

Yeah, I'd like to know how it's spotting these fires

New comment by buttscicles in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell"

buttscicles — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:32:35 +0000

We do but it's not fully automated just yet, it'd involve sending us an email.

Similar story with csv imports, it's half supported but not in the UI yet.

New comment by buttscicles in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell"

buttscicles — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:11:53 +0000

We're making about $600/mo right now working on Oku, which we're building as a social book tracker (and more) and hoping to replace Goodreads with.

https://oku.club

Here's my profile for example: https://oku.club/user/joe

New comment by buttscicles in "“Full English” tops UK hangover-cure survey"

buttscicles — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:25:43 +0000

Yeah, anecdotally it seems more like poor sleep and dehydration than withdrawals after a single night of drinking.

New comment by buttscicles in "Don’t hire top talent; hire for weaknesses"

buttscicles — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 14:03:16 +0000

> You've got to have at least some amount of drive beyond "clock in at 9 and leave at 5 sharp to collect a paycheck" to get into these top tech companies.

I can't say how true this is or not, but I know there are plenty that _want_ to get in exactly so they can clock in & out without doing much

New comment by buttscicles in "What Goodreads could have been"

buttscicles — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 20:29:14 +0000

I mean it's relatively simple still, mainly book tracking/collecting/reviewing with a slick UI & activity feed. But we have a lot of plans and fostering something more meaningful than clicking a heart button is pretty important to us. Personal (1-1) recommendations could be a good example of that, wouldn't you want to put your friend onto their new favourite book?

Side projects are slow going though so we do what we can, prioritization can be rough!