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New comment by ecedeno in "Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month"

ecedeno — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:22:47 +0000

A single, non-discounted, one-way train ride between the two biggest cities, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, costs €20,20.

The promotional price of this subscription is only a few euros more expensive than the existing unlimited subscription for weekend train travel (i.e. 6:30 PM Friday to 4:00 AM Monday), which costs €39,50. You can pay €4 extra for a 40% discount the rest of the off-peak hours.

With that discount, my commute (Haarlem <=> Amsterdam) costs €3,30 each way. A single trip to work a month makes the promotional subscription better value.

New comment by ecedeno in "Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS""

ecedeno — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:52:36 +0000

Your example produces very distinguishable results. e.g. if Array.first finds a nil value it returns Optional.some(.none), and if it doesn't find any value it returns Optional.none

The two are not equal, and only the second one evaluates to true when compared to a naked nil.

New comment by ecedeno in "Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff"

ecedeno — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:55:52 +0000

Isn't Google Cloud Run a PAAS?

New comment by ecedeno in "What are unrelated cost of switching to Linux you know?"

ecedeno — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:12:07 +0000

If this is a concern, you could use a VM without network access to make the backup

New comment by ecedeno in "Google is winning on every AI front"

ecedeno — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 15:16:53 +0000

I assume they mean the profits in the past couple years are dwarfed by the losses that came before. Looking at the company's entire history, instead of a single FY.

New comment by ecedeno in "Gumroad’s source is available"

ecedeno — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:19:09 +0000

The founder does. See: https://x.com/shl/status/1908090697984426227

New comment by ecedeno in "Ask HN: What would you do with $1000 in AI credits"

ecedeno — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:46:18 +0000

> They expire in 24 hours

8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep and 2 hours of regular daily tasks. That leaves 6 usable hours.

> What would you use them for?

Nothing, probably let them expire.

> How would you maximize the return from the AI credits?

Given the time constraints, the expected result is nil with some stress as a bonus. By doing nothing, I achieve a local maximum of nil with no stress.

> Would you use them for charitable uses?

This sounds interesting. Is there any charitable organization that could benefit from receiving some credits that need to be used ASAP?

New comment by ecedeno in "Node.js, Pipes, and Disappearing Bytes"

ecedeno — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:34:57 +0000

> node -e "process.stdout.write('@'.repeat(128 * 1024)); process.stdout.write(''); process.exit(0);" | wc -c

That's missing the part where it waits for the last write to flush before exiting.

New comment by ecedeno in "Ask HN: Why do ActivityPub and Nostr not encrypt an "event" content and metadata"

ecedeno — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 19:55:53 +0000

What would be the usecase for publishing events in a social media protocol (i.e. ActivityPub) with no information?

New comment by ecedeno in "What do you think will happen after Google site reputation abuse spam policy?"

ecedeno — Fri, 03 May 2024 01:34:45 +0000

"Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184673

New comment by ecedeno in "Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million"

ecedeno — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 15:14:01 +0000

> Walking

This is why

New comment by ecedeno in "New study measures grammatical complexity of languages"

ecedeno — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:50:38 +0000

Wikipedia has 17 indigenous languages for Brazil alone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Brazil

New comment by ecedeno in "Apple’s strict on App Store rules but gives WeChat a free pass (2020)"

ecedeno — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:39:42 +0000

That's not exclusive to that app. Being able to update the app without going through the App Store was one of the big selling points of React Native a few years back. Apps are not allowed to download native code, however.

New comment by ecedeno in "SwiftData"

ecedeno — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:12:42 +0000

I doubt iOS 17 will be adopted faster than previous versions. For one, they are dropping support for multiple device generations this time.

New comment by ecedeno in "Iceland long term visa for remote workers"

ecedeno — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 16:43:48 +0000

They already have an income requirement. How does this contribute to better enjoying a good quality of life?

New comment by ecedeno in "Tell HN: Salesforce is mandating RTO 3 days/wk for all employee"

ecedeno — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:16:02 +0000

Or, more in line with recent bs terms: Quiet-firing

New comment by ecedeno in "Source code for Dutch DigiD app released under Dutch Open Government Act"

ecedeno — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 12:19:23 +0000

What’s your concern here?

New comment by ecedeno in "Stripe’s real pricing: a primer"

ecedeno — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 11:56:52 +0000

“+33c per transaction”

For a B2B SaaS this likely represents a minuscule percentage of the revenue. For a $5/month subscription, this fee alone is more than 6%

New comment by ecedeno in "Ask HN: Why ICANN Domain Names Are Owned via GoDaddy?"

ecedeno — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 22:16:34 +0000

Because they registered/transferred them to GoDaddy.com

New comment by ecedeno in "A global house-price slump is coming?"

ecedeno — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:44:15 +0000

What percentage of the audience do you reckon can outright buy houses with cash in the area where they live?