Hacker News: daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=daxaxelrodHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:37:40 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"]]>Anyone who thinks modern data centers don’t use recirculated water can safely have their opinions summarily discarded.

]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:38:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123711daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123711https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123711<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"]]>Use rectangle and this will never be a problem for you.

https://rectangleapp.com/

]]>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:19:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582075daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582075https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582075<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"]]>It’s real, my friends and I all pay premiums every month, we’ve put aside $1100 so far. Work on it nights and weekends with one of my fellow policy holders. Feedback would be super appreciated.

]]>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 03:49:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419164daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419164https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44419164<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"]]>Insurance is negative NPV. Trying to make it NPV neutral by giving people tools to self-insure. Starting with an app that lets you self-insure your phone with friends and family.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/open-insure-self-insurance/id6...

]]>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:42:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416698daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416698https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416698<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform"]]>I don't want to track any of this myself. I want to walk into a gym, have some cameras follow me around, and have it analyze what I did while I was there, including statistics over time.

]]>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:56:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310474daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310474https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310474<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Show HN: Double – Design and invest in your own stock index"]]>Love 4.

]]>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:04:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41249410daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41249410https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41249410<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Ask HN: Resources about math behind A/B testing"]]>Growthbook wrote a short paper on how they evaluate test results continuously.

https://docs.growthbook.io/GrowthBookStatsEngine.pdf

]]>Sat, 10 Aug 2024 13:32:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41209355daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41209355https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41209355<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Add Depth of Field to Screenshots"]]>Just to answer some questions I'm seeing from other comments, this is built with three.js. Think of it as a 3d scene with an image rendered on a 2d plane and the camera has certain gaussian blur applied to a section of it. He's using orbit controls for the zoom in/out and for the ability to pivot the image.

]]>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:33:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087315daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087315https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087315<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison"]]>I'd be upset if my bank used my checking account to fund Alzheimer's research.

]]>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:15:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858008daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858008https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858008<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Moore's Scofflaws"]]>Tangent but "Your margin is my opportunity" was originally a Sam Walton quote when he was building the 5 and dime stores. Bezos was deeply inspired by early Walmart and Sam.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/walmart

]]>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:11:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39446958daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39446958https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39446958<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "We are investigating reports of degraded performance"]]>Interesting perspective, disagree on one central tenant. Even though Github holds production code, it is not production. Built artifacts and the machines running those artifacts is production. When Github goes down, which it rarely does, it just means developers cant sync for a couple hours, no different than if someone works offline. The temptation to increase internal devops complexity should not be an automatic immune response when a service goes down, it comes with all sorts of hidden costs.

]]>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:09:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38134324daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38134324https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38134324<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Singapore: Right to own a car costs $76,000. And that doesn't include the car"]]>Right? I always feel worried about getting a contact high through the second hand smoke too.

]]>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:53:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779375daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779375https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779375<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Launch HN: Dittofeed (YC S22) – open-source customer engagement platform"]]>Neat, thanks!

Also something that irks me is that all these platforms design DAGs as journeys. Journeys are fine but they're inherently value capped. A user is only supposed to go through an onboarding journey once or a memorial day sale journey once.

What I really want as a mobile app dev is loops. I want to be able to say "Run this every day, send a user a push or email at 10am. wait until 6pm. if the user hasnt opened the app yet, send another push based on a different template".

Currently we have a whole ass subproject dedicated to defining these flows. whats worse is that its hard to ab test flow and impossible for anyone non technical to set up a loop. Please build this, we'll pay you sweet sweet MRR if you do.

]]>Wed, 24 May 2023 19:51:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36063102daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36063102https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36063102<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Launch HN: Dittofeed (YC S22) – open-source customer engagement platform"]]>In your demo I tried to create a message template but email go auto selected vs a "Choose your channel" flow that I expected. Cool tech though!

]]>Wed, 24 May 2023 19:16:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36062733daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36062733https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36062733<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Launch HN: Dittofeed (YC S22) – open-source customer engagement platform"]]>Curious why?

]]>Wed, 24 May 2023 19:14:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36062716daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36062716https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36062716<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs"]]>Or another yc company Growthbook

]]>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 06:25:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34704827daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34704827https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34704827<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Amazon job cuts: Read the memos"]]>Tech workers at the New York Times have unionized. Not sure what kind of result's they've achieved.

https://nytimesguild.org/tech

]]>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:53:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34454740daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34454740https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34454740<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm"]]>Every single manager I’ve had continued to be a solid IC. The only difference is that they had a larger portion of the vote when we decided what we wanted to work on but we were all in the trenches together.

]]>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 03:47:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32421347daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32421347https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32421347<![CDATA[Rejected.us]]>Article URL: https://rejected.us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32392541

Points: 57

# Comments: 22

]]>Mon, 08 Aug 2022 23:53:55 +0000https://rejected.us/daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32392541https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32392541<![CDATA[New comment by daxaxelrod in "Unity is laying off hundreds of employees"]]>Duolingo uses it for their in app ads.

]]>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 21:16:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31938716daxaxelrodhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31938716https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31938716