Hacker News: deweller

New comment by deweller in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

deweller — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:46:37 +0000

Has anyone found the answer to this yet?

> What is the benefit of using the Copilot Pro+ at 39$/month instead of using the Copilot Pro at 10$/month and paying for extra usage?

New comment by deweller in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

deweller — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:09:25 +0000

A "few seconds" to pay in bitcoin? So the captain is supposed to be watching for a response via email with his finger hovering over the pay button? Is the recipient address static? Surely they would use unique payment addresses if they have any hope of obfuscating payments.

This all sounds more like a TV show script than an actual thought-out plan to me.

New comment by deweller in "Show HN: Trackm, a personal finance web app"

deweller — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:36:48 +0000

I use YNAB. I thought about building my own now that AI coding make this feasible. But the moat that I can't cross is the integration with my bank accounts. Plaid and the like are too expensive and don't cater to one-off users like me.

Has anyone been able to find a personal financial data provider that has a reasonable price?

New comment by deweller in "Tell HN: Tired of Generic Long Form A.I Posts"

deweller — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:22:15 +0000

I think the OP is differentiating between direct human-to-human communication and building software.

New comment by deweller in "Tell HN: Tired of Generic Long Form A.I Posts"

deweller — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:20:33 +0000

While I applaud this effort for flagging AI slop generators, I would caution users to not always ignore your "foes".

Reading opposing viewpoints is so important and is becoming a lost art in our society. I encourage you to understand and empathize with people you don't agree with. It will help all of us in the long run.

New comment by deweller in "Where I'm at with AI"

deweller — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:16:53 +0000

The second half of that argument was not in this article. The author was just relating his experience.

For what it is worth, I have also gone from a "this looks interesting" to "this is a regular part of my daily workflow" in the same 6 month time period.

New comment by deweller in "Deploying to Amazon's cloud is a pain in the AWS younger devs won't tolerate"

deweller — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:45:31 +0000

AWS Amplify was supposed to solve this. It is built on the AWS CDK. But I found it too clunky and slow and gave up on it.

These days I use SST (https://sst.dev) which is built on top of Pulumi. I find this to be a manageable infrastructure-as-code solution for AWS deployments.

New comment by deweller in "Show HN: Decentralized Bitcoin Incentives via QR Codes"

deweller — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:55:37 +0000

Sybil attacks are very difficult to mitigate while maintaining privacy and decentralization. I see a nod to anti-gaming in this proposal, but it does fully address this.

Why did you choose Bitcoin for this? Other blockchains can have significantly lower fees and allow the distribution of application-specific reward or governance tokens.

New comment by deweller in "Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?"

deweller — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:51:24 +0000

An important feature of (some) crypto stablecoins is that they function like cash.

Cash is fungible. And cash in my wallet is not subject to being frozen like a bank account.

One can argue the merits of a digital cash for society. But a crypto-based digital cash is fundamentally different from a digital bank-based payment system.

New comment by deweller in "Secret changes to major U.S. health datasets raise alarms"

deweller — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:37:49 +0000

The title implies that the data was manipulated. What happened was column headers were renamed without an official entry in the changelog.

Most of these changes were the column heading “Gender” renamed to “Sex.”

New comment by deweller in "Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists"

deweller — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:38:47 +0000

This is an interesting example of an AI system effecting a change in the physical world.

Some people express concerns about AGI creating swarms of robots to conquer the earth and make humans do its bidding. I think market forces are a much more straightforward tool that AI systems will use to shape the world.

New comment by deweller in "Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks"

deweller — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:00:47 +0000

Cryptocurrency transfers are irreversible, publicly verifiable and pseudonymous. For a privacy focused application, these attributes make crypto a better choice than USD and the traditional banking system.

New comment by deweller in "Remix Breaks Up with React"

deweller — Fri, 23 May 2025 15:21:44 +0000

According to this post, Remix v3 aims to not build on top of React:

> We're simply struggling to build something that feels like React did when we first found it.

> That's why Remix is moving on from React

> Remix v3 is a completely new thing. It's our fresh take on simplified web development with its own rendering abstraction in place of React.

> Inspired by all the great tech before it (LAMP, Rails, Sinatra, Express, React, and more), we want to build the absolute best thing we know how to build with today's capable web platform.

New comment by deweller in "Standard Chartered apologizes for $120K Bitcoin price call, 'may be too low'"

deweller — Thu, 08 May 2025 16:05:09 +0000

The technical term is "monetary premium".

Gold has a utility (or industrial) value. But that value is significantly lower than the actual price. The rest of the price of gold is monetary premium.

I say Bitcoin's large network, censorship resistance and worldwide adoption give it some base utility value. The rest is monetary premium.

I do agree with your sentiment. Stablecoins (UDSC, etc) are predictable and are much better suited for actual spending.

New comment by deweller in "DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show"

deweller — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:53:39 +0000

Is a public post from a cybercrime ring credible evidence?

I get that the potential connection may warrant more investigation. But I don't see any real evidence of anything in this article other than they were a customer of DiamondCDN for an unknown amount of time.

New comment by deweller in "Bitly injecting ads into shortened links"

deweller — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:10:53 +0000

Links from non-paid users will get an interstitial.

New comment by deweller in "It's Time to Switch to OpenTofu"

deweller — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:02:26 +0000

I found https://sst.dev/ to be a developer friendly experience. It is built on top of Pulumi.

I just pay the AWS costs under my own account and nothing else.

New comment by deweller in "Why aren't we all serverless yet?"

deweller — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:45:47 +0000

For anyone here struggling with AWS Amplify or AWS CDK - I recently discovered https://sst.dev/ for serverless deployment.

It doesn't solve all problems (tt isn't a CRUD framework) - but it does make the developer experience much better as compared to Amplify.

New comment by deweller in "Looking to marry someone with $1M+ of short-term capital gains for tax savings"

deweller — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:01:42 +0000

Does it really work like this? Can you marry someone in December and get all of the tax benefits, and then divorce the next year?

New comment by deweller in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

deweller — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:57:20 +0000

As a layoff strategy, I would expect it to be counterproductive. The people most likely to quit skew toward high-performing individuals who feel confident in their ability to get a remote job elsewhere. And vice versa.