Hacker News: carabiner

New comment by carabiner in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

carabiner — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:09:03 +0000

I think it's good. I've definitely seen resource inflation exactly that OP is alluding to in enterprise. A desire to have some huge cloud based solution with AWS, spark bla bla when a python script with pandas in a cron job was faster.

New comment by carabiner in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

carabiner — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:45:54 +0000

In Mexico you have quincenaras with like 500 people and a dress that's worn for 1 day that costs like $2,000.

Jim Whittaker, first American to summit Everest, dies at 97

carabiner — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:04:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/jim-whittaker-wa-mountaineer-who-was-first-american-to-summit-everest-dies-at-97/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695583

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by carabiner in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

carabiner — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:35:29 +0000

This is what humans should be doing with their lives, and not spending 8 hours/day staring at screens. I'm so serious.

New comment by carabiner in "How to get better at guitar"

carabiner — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:34:44 +0000

Is there any quick test I can do to see if I can innately determine tones like this? If I fail said test, I can know that I'm not cut out for guitar.

New comment by carabiner in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

carabiner — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:20:40 +0000

He's absolutely right, and that's not just insightful, that's prescient.

The Extinction of the Junior Engineer

carabiner — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:49:50 +0000

Article URL: https://michaelnovati.substack.com/p/the-extinction-of-the-junior-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663426

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by carabiner in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

carabiner — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:56:59 +0000

Look at this series of tweets from her:

> One interesting observation I’ve noticed is a lot of top founders did oddly strong at math from a young age.

https://x.com/kocalars/status/2027076198002553159

Nauseating.

New comment by carabiner in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

carabiner — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:27:55 +0000

Bye-bye tweet from founder: https://x.com/kocalars/status/2040262537166618887

Notably YC hasn't wished them a farewell.

Delve removed from Y Combinator

carabiner — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:37:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/delve

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634690

Points: 509

# Comments: 313

New comment by carabiner in "'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic"

carabiner — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:02:19 +0000

90% of modern memes, internet culture, and therefore a huge proportion of current pop culture, originated on 4chan.

New comment by carabiner in "Matlab Alternatives 2026: Benchmarks, GPU, Browser and Compatibility Compared"

carabiner — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:47:09 +0000

Always with the purple and blue.

New comment by carabiner in "Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)"

carabiner — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:05:04 +0000

Su-27 fighter cockpit is known for its turquoise paneling that supposedly is to promote calm.

New comment by carabiner in "China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000"

carabiner — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:19:46 +0000

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305736

No idea why a story about a YC company was flagged.

New comment by carabiner in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

carabiner — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:51:14 +0000

Nukes are the same as knives, just different in magnitude. Should one have special rules?

New comment by carabiner in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"

carabiner — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:57:06 +0000

Why are they like this... There are elite cultures that just live and don't bother anyone. Israel isn't one of them.

New comment by carabiner in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

carabiner — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:56:54 +0000

The permanent underclass permeates everything.

New comment by carabiner in "FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall"

carabiner — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:34:02 +0000

That would get in the way of Arstechnica's hyper liberal bias. I eat raw cheese because it tastes good. It's common in France, like in reblochon and Brie de meaux. There aren't mass deaths in France because of this.

New comment by carabiner in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

carabiner — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:21:54 +0000

Ya but op's anecdote is cute and funny.

New comment by carabiner in "Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people"

carabiner — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:05:36 +0000

To be clear: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/nx2yoe/a_guide_...