Hacker News: clusmore

New comment by clusmore in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

clusmore — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:07:34 +0000

The issue is that the investors will want a return on that $17M at some point, so they're going to need to charge money for something eventually. If the revenue model is not obvious now, that only means they'll be pressured into something non-obvious later.

New comment by clusmore in "Car Seats as Contraception"

clusmore — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:37:12 +0000

I also think that modern car seats are one of the main factors driving the adoption of unnecessarily large cars, which have far worse safety outcomes in crashes for everybody except the people inside them.

When I was growing up in the 90s with 2 siblings we had a small hatch. When I had my second child we had to upgrade from a small hatch to an SUV because we simply couldn't fit a car seat behind the driver. Even now, I'm not sure if a third would fit.

Sure, the SUV itself and the extra padding on the car seats might make my children safe in collisions with other big cars, but if we were all still driving hatches then maybe none of that would be necessary.

We are in the stupidest arms race.

New comment by clusmore in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

clusmore — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 03:28:09 +0000

I am an Australian Instagram user in my 30s. When setting up my profile a few years ago I set the birthday to some fake date near my real age. At no point, including when the ban went live, was I ever asked to prove my age through any means. Nobody I know has either (noting that everyone I've asked is an adult).

New comment by clusmore in "The $LANG Programming Language"

clusmore — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:11:39 +0000

There is also shownew and highlights at least, I think maybe a few others still

New comment by clusmore in "Partnership with News Corp"

clusmore — Thu, 23 May 2024 12:18:54 +0000

I suppose both companies are well known for confidently stating absolute nonsense as fact, so it's a match made in heaven.

New comment by clusmore in "Prince of Persia – how jumping animation was made"

clusmore — Sat, 18 May 2024 07:31:50 +0000

The link doesn't work for me as I don't have an X account, but you can see more in this Ars Technica interview with the X poster: https://youtu.be/sw0VfmXKq54?si=4YBBaqoOEKvs3iuN

New comment by clusmore in "Tell HN: I Don't Want to Use Email as a Password"

clusmore — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:49:55 +0000

A lot of companies have started doing this because a compromised account can be used to attack the service (logged in sessions avoid rate limits) or other users (spam). They aren't necessarily trying to protect you.

New comment by clusmore in "Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating"

clusmore — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:23:05 +0000

> The growth mindset is incredible for expanding when your product is in its early ages. But there should be a "sustain" mindset at some point. First you push to grow the market, or your market share. When returns on your efforts become diminishing, you push to improve how much you earn of each customer/each sale. At some point there should be a mindset that our company is worth X dollars, and we should sustain that.

Kent Beck calls this the Explore and Extract phases (with the middle phase being Expand). I'm not sure if you had this talk in mind as you were writing your comment, but if not I think it'll resonate with you.

[1]: https://youtu.be/YGhS8VQpS6s

New comment by clusmore in "Casio G-Shock time sync radio"

clusmore — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 22:57:10 +0000

Note that an integer offset is insufficient. For example, Australian Central Standard time is +9:30 and Australian Central Western Standard Time is +8:45. I have a Seiko watch with a similar feature to this and I don't think it would work well in either of these timezones.

New comment by clusmore in "Has anyone worked as an Engineer while living in a van?"

clusmore — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:18:41 +0000

Related: "A new chapter – full-time working from a van in a forest" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26284635

New comment by clusmore in "Show HN: Calculate the Cost of Your Meetings"

clusmore — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 23:04:44 +0000

Would be interesting to combine this with staff headcounts to estimate the cost of an all-hands.

New comment by clusmore in "Show HN: Link Bento – Make a link lunchbox that you can send to your friends"

clusmore — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 08:07:36 +0000

An example of what the page will look like would be great!

New comment by clusmore in "Ask HN: What (programming) skills will still be relevant in a year?"

clusmore — Fri, 19 May 2023 23:02:22 +0000

1 or even 5 years is nothing. Aside from maybe individual frameworks, nothing will completely die within such a short timespan.

New comment by clusmore in "Application Migration Services"

clusmore — Sun, 07 May 2023 11:13:21 +0000

This is a stock standard job for any one of thousands of software consulting companies.

New comment by clusmore in "Ask HN: What is the reasoning behind Stackoverflow login fragmentation?"

clusmore — Wed, 03 May 2023 03:20:21 +0000

signal:noise

New comment by clusmore in "Ask HN: Are there any free email providers in 2023?"

clusmore — Wed, 03 May 2023 01:45:17 +0000

It's not free, but you can register multiple domains to a single Fastmail account. So I pay Fastmail for my personal email hosting, and any side projects can reuse this same account at no additional cost.

New comment by clusmore in "Ask HN: What are you opinions on bad posts in your blog?"

clusmore — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 22:39:07 +0000

https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...

The key to writing good content is just writing lots of content. Some, maybe most, will be crap. That's fine, just don't promote the bad ones.

I recently read the entire Joel on Software archive and realized that the vast majority of posts are fairly uninteresting, but from over 1,000 posts he has a handful of classics and promotes those through the reading lists.

New comment by clusmore in "Who should we blame for slow softwares?"

clusmore — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 21:11:03 +0000

Have you tried turning animations off? The setting should be in the Accessibility section somewhere. When you open an app from the app drawer, there is that little animation where the app icon grows, the screen fades to white/black, and then the app display fades into view, which all adds up to about 100-500ms. If you disable the animation it should open almost instantly.

New comment by clusmore in "Ask HN: How do you organize posts on personal website?"

clusmore — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 21:54:24 +0000

I like Joel on Software's reading lists. Basically tags but only for a very small subset of posts which are very good, hand-curated with purpose.

As for "older posts may still updated", I suggest don't do this, unless your site really is more like a wiki than a blog. It's annoying for readers to have to reread old posts and try to spot the difference, it means they can't bookmark a post they like and send it to friends without fear it might change. It's annoying for you because you will end up obsessively trying to perfect old posts. I prefer the approach of just writing a new post if you think you have a substantial amount of new/different information to add, and then you can also show what changed and why. This also means you can go back through your archives and see how your thoughts have changed over time.

New comment by clusmore in "Implementers, Solvers, and Finders"

clusmore — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:14:29 +0000

You've left the door open for a product management finder solution implementer. You figure out what problem to solve but you must use AI/Blockchain/Kubernetes to solve it.