Hacker News: chadhutchins10

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

chadhutchins10 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:04:16 +0000

have you been able to reconcile with your parents? thank you for sharing

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "AI Is Too Big to Fail"

chadhutchins10 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:42:12 +0000

that's been going on for decades, rinse and repeat

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "The PS3 Licked the Many Cookie"

chadhutchins10 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:02:09 +0000

The PS3 failed?

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "A guide to reduce screen time"

chadhutchins10 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:01:49 +0000

Ha, I do the same for most advertised things. It is as advertised. I've easily gained back more of my time than the $59 that it costs. Game changer if you make a habit to "brick" your phone every morning.

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "The guide to reduce screen time"

chadhutchins10 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:47:08 +0000

You probably see it enough already in your ads, but this has been the most effective app blocker for me: https://getbrick.app

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

chadhutchins10 — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:01:55 +0000

For humans to have any reasonable presence somewhere else in our solar system (moon, mars, etc.) we need the ability to launch tons (literally tons) of stuff to orbit and to the destination. and we need to launch it often to do anything in a reasonable amount of time. the only way to do that is to make reusable launch systems. SpaceX's Falcon 9 has aced that for satellites (see Starlink and everything else they've launched). The Starship launch system is capable of launching a significantly larger payload, ~20 times more. What they demonstrated yesterday is that a launch system that is capable of getting us anywhere in the solar system can be reusable. Huge accomplishment.

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "An n-ball Between n-balls"

chadhutchins10 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:14:59 +0000

Anyone else click just to slide some animations?

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "Show HN: I built an animated 3D bookshelf for ebooks"

chadhutchins10 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 19:06:35 +0000

Brandon Sanderson ftw!

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel"

chadhutchins10 — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:05:43 +0000

How does the scroll wheel work? Is it mechanical or it has some connection/interface with the software?

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes"

chadhutchins10 — Mon, 13 May 2024 19:35:54 +0000

We've done it. Now let's re-engineer our apps to use error codes for 200 responses and get free S3 usage.

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7"

chadhutchins10 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 01:43:31 +0000

Now explain it to me like I'm in a cow level.

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python"

chadhutchins10 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:23:44 +0000

I wish this were talked about more. Quantum computing is the biggest long-term threat to crypto imo. What's the plan once elliptic curve cryptography can be broken?

There will be a point in time where there are just a few quantum computers that can break everything before the general public has access to quantum computing. Can crypto work in that scenario? Normal computers wouldn't be able to work with the beastly algorithms a quantum computer could handle.

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "Nest Outage for Apps, Thermostats, Protect, and Live Feed"

chadhutchins10 — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:49:02 +0000

Now my wife will have to walk to the thermostat instead of text me it's too hot in the house.

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query"

chadhutchins10 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:27:20 +0000

One of the best use cases for this is say you have a backend/internal system and you want other things to start interacting with it. Instead of having to write the api to interface with it, you can just use something like this and with little effort you have an api and can talk with the database.

New comment by chadhutchins10 in "Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query"

chadhutchins10 — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:24:45 +0000

DreamFactory is basically a paid service for this sort of thing. They support something like 20 types of databases (among many other data sources). They have a lot of features that make the exposed api be good enough long-term. https://www.dreamfactory.com