Hacker News: daanavitch

New comment by daanavitch in "New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing"

daanavitch — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:29:40 +0000

If you have an Android phone you can use Gadgetbridge which is an alternative app to sync your smart devices. It keeps all data on your phone. They support lots of devices, I use it with my Garmin smartwatch and I'm a happy user.

New comment by daanavitch in "A down detector for down detector's down detector"

daanavitch — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:08:53 +0000

Unfortunately this website relies on Tailwind's CDN for styling, which in turn is deployed on Vercel, which in turn is mostly hosted on AWS.

New comment by daanavitch in "A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper"

daanavitch — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:31:54 +0000

The Nexstand is the most popular alternative, it's around 30 dollars.

New comment by daanavitch in "The Virtual Blender Camera"

daanavitch — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 09:33:10 +0000

Would it be feasible to create a videogame that uses these techniques or would it be too slow to render?

New comment by daanavitch in "Engineers develop water filtration that removes “forever chemicals”"

daanavitch — Mon, 01 May 2023 05:50:26 +0000

This is the one I have: https://stiebeleltron.ph/product/stiebel-eltron-glacier/ I think this particular model is only available in Asia though.

New comment by daanavitch in "Engineers develop water filtration that removes “forever chemicals”"

daanavitch — Mon, 01 May 2023 05:06:49 +0000

I have a multi-stage water filter setup at home that pumps the water through mineral balls as the last step to re-introduce healthy minerals that were removed during the reverse osmosis process. Because it's true, RO water is not suitable for long-term human consumption because of the absence of healthy minerals.

The Missing Missing Reasons

daanavitch — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 10:17:40 +0000

Article URL: http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728562

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by daanavitch in "Escaping the Dark Forest"

daanavitch — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 05:42:33 +0000

Chainlink Labs is also doing research in this area: https://blog.chain.link/chainlink-fair-sequencing-services-e...

New comment by daanavitch in "Escaping the Dark Forest"

daanavitch — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 05:39:07 +0000

'Yield farming' has been very popular the past few months. Compound Finance was the first to kick off the hype by giving away their governance tokens to people that used their platform. You can compare it to Facebook giving you some of their stock by being an active user.

The end game of those governance tokens is for them to control the whole platform, so absolutely no changes can be made to the platform without being voted in by the token holders. All of this is enforced trustlessly on the blockchain through smart contracts. As a token holder you really own part of the platform.

This is a very powerful concept, so a lot of people are interested in buying those governance tokens outright. So what you can do is put your money in one of those platforms, receive governance tokens and sell them to people that want to buy them outright. You can make quite good money doing this.

Now a lot of projects popped up that basically had nothing to offer, yet people were still buying their governance tokens, meaning you could still make money by putting your money in there and selling those tokens to those people quick before those tokens became worthless, basically an advanced game of chicken.

So what I'm saying is not all of those 'stake your money and receive tokens' are outright scams. There are some very legitimate projects being built that give away governance tokens. Uniswap comes to mind, the most popular decentralized exchange, doing over half a billion in volume yearly. There's of course a lot more nuance and not everything works as it should yet, but there's a lot of interesting stuff being built every day.

New comment by daanavitch in "Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained"

daanavitch — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 13:51:58 +0000

That whole website is an iframe with donation buttons and ads overlaid. The original url is https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

Extinction: Amazon and the End of the American Entrepreneur

daanavitch — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:37:58 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@jacksoncunningham/extinction-amazon-and-the-end-of-the-american-entrepreneur-8c2645f38976

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22310806

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by daanavitch in "South Korea's smartphone addiction camps"

daanavitch — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:29:04 +0000

I'm a European and I just left Korea after living there for a month. I was absolutely shocked how addicted Koreans seemed to be to their smartphones. I had so many people bump into me because they were watching videos while walking around, on public transport pretty much everyone was staring at their screen, even older people were playing those mundane mobile games. Sure, pretty everyone around the world is addicted to their smartphone nowadays, but I've never seen it as bad as in Korea.

New comment by daanavitch in "Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says"

daanavitch — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 03:40:23 +0000

You can even buy a "Super boost", which costs $30. It will show your profile to more people for 3 hours.

Thomas Cook collapses, stranding 150k UK holidaymakers

daanavitch — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 02:42:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/22/thomas-cook-in-last-ditch-talks-to-avoid-collapse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21045550

Points: 309

# Comments: 278

Lump of Labour Fallacy

daanavitch — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 14:33:19 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20977368

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How is it like to be a dev in Iran

daanavitch — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 21:11:37 +0000

Article URL: https://shahinsorkh.ir/2019/07/20/how-is-it-like-to-be-a-dev-in-iran

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20493699

Points: 745

# Comments: 417

New comment by daanavitch in "Libra White Paper"

daanavitch — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:26:03 +0000

>Initially, the association (and validators) will consist of a geographically distributed and diverse set of Founding Members. These members are organizations chosen according to objective participation criteria, including that they have a stake in bootstrapping the Libra ecosystem and investing resources toward its success. Over time, membership eligibility will shift to become completely open and based only on the member’s holdings of Libra.

So it's not going to be Facebook's centralized servers, but Facebook + their friend's centralized servers. There are some vague promises, but this will start out just as centralized as Facebook Credits.

New comment by daanavitch in "Libra White Paper"

daanavitch — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:39:35 +0000

>The reserve allows users of the system to enjoy a relatively stable medium of exchange from the start. At the same time, it also represents a centralized function. For the network to be fully permissionless, the association will have to explore ways to further distribute and decentralize the reserve, including automating the verification of the assets in the basket and the process of minting and burning of coins. Increasing market competition in the custody and management of the reserve will also be explored to improve the efficiency of this service, and the costs it imposes on users and custodians over time.

So this coin will be backed by a centralized reserve, and you would have to trust Facebook that the coins you own are backed by real money, with no way of verifying this. Tether works the same way, and they are just creating money out of thin air without actual dollars backing them up. I'm curious how Facebook will decentralize this reserve, or if they will even do this in the first place.

New comment by daanavitch in "I Sell Onions on the Internet"

daanavitch — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:44:55 +0000

How do potential customers find you? Do you do spend a lot on marketing?

New comment by daanavitch in "Editor.js – Block Styled Editor"

daanavitch — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 21:36:52 +0000

I would love to read an article like that! I'm very curious how the architecture of the new CKEditor 5 compares to younger alternatives like ProseMirror and Draft.js.