Hacker News: fimoreth

New comment by fimoreth in "The Magic Roundabout of Seattle Area"

fimoreth — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:26:49 +0000

Agree, really thankful for those

New comment by fimoreth in "Kirkland Roundabouts"

fimoreth — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:17:10 +0000

Love it, you’ve got to do 132nd street next. Trying to exit south bound during rush hour is delightful

New comment by fimoreth in "Where did my taxes go?"

fimoreth — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:35:38 +0000

I always think as an individual I would like this. But at scale I worry it would incentivize each department to advertise themselves to the public, which seems to me like a waste of funds. I already dislike the reelection cycle (politicians incentivized to always be fundraising) and would hate to see that happen per department.

New comment by fimoreth in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

fimoreth — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:01:48 +0000

(1) playing with godot and building a Polynesian sailing rpg where you navigate waters by reading waves

(2) setting up MCP servers for Spotify and Substack that can pull what I’ve recently read / listened to. I want to try pulling transcripts and guest information to build myself a recommendation/follow system

(3) raising the sweetest little 5mo old

New comment by fimoreth in "How were gladiators portrayed in ancient Rome?"

fimoreth — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:33:28 +0000

Interesting, where would you suggest someone starts if they’ve never seen that side of the sport?

New comment by fimoreth in "Microsoft announces purchase of 315k tonnes of CO2 removal"

fimoreth — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 23:43:04 +0000

Direct Air Capture is slow, but I think is a better solution than the "don't cut down trees" offset that we've historically seen. I hope that continued investment in DAC leads to new solutions to make it more effective.

New comment by fimoreth in "Click (2016)"

fimoreth — Sat, 06 May 2023 16:01:14 +0000

I thought the StarWars telnet went offline? :/

New comment by fimoreth in "Canadian government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites"

fimoreth — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:07:18 +0000

I had to do similar things while in Canada. Trying to get HBO was impossible for someone living in a dorm.

New comment by fimoreth in "How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler"

fimoreth — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:08:19 +0000

Facebook and Twitter do not have the violent posts solved by any measure. But at the very least they make the gestures and put money towards trying to fix it.

Parler has been vocal that they have no plans solving it. If they had at least showed some vague plan to resolve it, they would have earned some sympathy.

New comment by fimoreth in "How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler"

fimoreth — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:48:39 +0000

(In US) I agree that business owners should never refuse people based on political opinions. I would be firmly against AWS/Google not willing to work with a company because it has conservative views.

In Parler's case, the issue isn't that they are conservative. The issue is that they refuse to take any responsibility for the hate and violence on their platform. John Matze had every opportunity to take responsibility for the content, but he was vocal that he would not do anything about it.

If I were running a cloud provider company, I wouldn't want anything to do with this behavior either. Who cares whether the users lean right or left - hate and violence are unacceptable.

New comment by fimoreth in "Launch HN: Doppler (YC W19) – Easily manage your env vars and secrets"

fimoreth — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:27:03 +0000

Sounds interesting, but could you explain to me why I should use this over something like Azure KeyVault?

New comment by fimoreth in "Ad Fraud on LinkedIn"

fimoreth — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:06:54 +0000

Those are very small sample sizes to make any assumptions from. 11 clicks for their test, and only 256 clicks for the larger referenced test. The larger test then makes a huge assumption in user behavior:

"So, arguably, a user who sees this ad and clicks legitimately on it will be looking to get a demo of the analytics tool we were marketing"

Uh, no. Just because the ad brought them to your site, doesn't mean the user wants to interact with your video. You got them there, you have to work to keep them.

New comment by fimoreth in "Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects"

fimoreth — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:49:04 +0000

Sure the tech isn't great, but you've made a really great community with great content. You shouldn't be ashamed of choices at all - tech doesn't have to be perfect to deliver on its goals.

New comment by fimoreth in "Every Google result now looks like an ad"

fimoreth — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:25:59 +0000

I also have one I submitted over the weekend. They haven't taken it down yet :). Mine is just geared towards my dislike of the favicons, not distinguishing the styling of the ads.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-google-s...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-google-search...

Source: https://github.com/Jtfinlay/gsearch-hidefavicon

New comment by fimoreth in "MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core"

fimoreth — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 19:58:34 +0000

> 1. Microsoft employee until they notice I'm hanging out on hacker news instead of replying to e-mails and "fix the glitch".

Shh, they might find us.

New comment by fimoreth in "Ask HN: What does the percentage next to posts mean?"

fimoreth — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 02:28:34 +0000

Also, why are some red & grey? Looks like it turns red at 50%.

New comment by fimoreth in "Ask HN: What does the percentage next to posts mean?"

fimoreth — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 02:25:19 +0000

That's what I was thinking as well. I refreshed the page repeatedly and saw the percentage fluctuate as the score only went up.

Not exactly a foolproof test though. I think you're probably still right.

New comment by fimoreth in "OnHub"

fimoreth — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:25:26 +0000

Ah, okay. Hadn't thought of that, thanks.

New comment by fimoreth in "OnHub"

fimoreth — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:21:39 +0000

I find it odd how it seems to be marketed to the general consumer, who usually won't need the high specs. What is the average person going to use USB on the router for?

I have a $200+ router myself, but would feel too restricted with the OnHub's single LAN port.

Still very interesting. Just wondering why the high price point and (imo) over the top specs.

New comment by fimoreth in "OnHub"

fimoreth — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:29:06 +0000

The Linksys: http://www.linksys.com/us/p/P-WRT1900AC/

Agreed, the specs between the WRT1900AC and the OnHub are strikingly similar. Even the advertised smart features.