Hacker News: flog

New comment by flog in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

flog — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:27:20 +0000

I worked with both Alex (stainless) and Jarred (bun) at Stripe, and they were both notable for their high energy and output. I did find it amusing that Anthropic picked both the Xtripes up and wonder how many Xtripes at at Anthropic hiring their ex-coworkers.

Congrats to them both, and I'm not at all surprised! Great acquihires.

New comment by flog in "Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell"

flog — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:00:38 +0000

I'd love to learn how to build something like this, but unfortunately the code is unreadable.

If author could write a heavily commented version that would be amazing.

New comment by flog in "Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs"

flog — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:45:32 +0000

As a New Zealander who's had skin cancer, and lives under constant high UV rates because of the lack of an ozone above my country (and Australia, South America, South Africa), I'd really like it if Europeans continued to reduce/stop ozone harming emissions.

New comment by flog in "Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living"

flog — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:24:39 +0000

How do you actually do the manufacturing? What machines does one need to do something like this?

New comment by flog in "How to give a senior leader feedback without getting fired"

flog — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:02:11 +0000

This was one of the most exhausting aspects of working for a US company, especially as an H1B. Simply: just don't say anything, it wasn't worth it.

I'm from cultures where we bluntly call a spade a spade and pride ourselves on disdain for hierarchy. There's far less fear in raising concerns generally to anyone, but it's quite possibly because of the far better employment laws.

New comment by flog in "Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#"

flog — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 23:30:35 +0000

As a kid I spent summers working in the schools IT department in order to save up to buy VB6 (with a staff discount). This was not cheap back in the day!

New comment by flog in "Priced out of home ownership"

flog — Mon, 27 May 2024 23:27:50 +0000

NZ is maybe a poor example, as we do not have capital gains taxes on houses (or most things), and do tax foreign investments (via a ~1.5% annual wealth tax, so house flipping is tax-free money)

New comment by flog in "Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand"

flog — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 01:53:32 +0000

Kia ora from Tauranga

100%. There are 2 NZ employment markets. Those working for NZ companies in the $100k region, and those working for US firms for the $200+k region.

I've had an annoying time explaining this to past US employers when they present median values for NZ salary fudge factors.

New comment by flog in "Ask HN: How are the current layoffs affecting non-US developers?"

flog — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 01:36:45 +0000

Boom times for anyone in road building and construction, probably. It's been described as a billion dollar weather event on par with the Christchurch earthquake 10+ years ago.

New comment by flog in "Quiet, ultrathin AirJet solid state active cooling chips could replace fans"

flog — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 20:25:46 +0000

I wonder if they could reverse the flow direction periodically to flush it

New comment by flog in "Vanuatu has been knocked offline for over a month"

flog — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:17:05 +0000

I grew up in Vanuatu having those same experiences; swimming coral reefs, walking to the top of a volcano, exploring the jungles... etc

It is a world away from the suburban kid's lifestyle back in the US (or wherever; i'm from NZ)

Congratulations on taking the bold choice to move!

New comment by flog in "New Zealand plunges into recessionary spiral"

flog — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 19:29:29 +0000

Judging by my inability to get into any store at Westgate last weekend due to the crowds, I think we're still a while off "plunging". /anacdata

New comment by flog in "I made a site for 100% location independent jobs"

flog — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 16:42:25 +0000

The first job I looked at stated they were hiring "anywhere across the US", so this doesn't look like a very well curated list.

New comment by flog in "Apple tells employees to work at the office three times per week starting Sept"

flog — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 01:00:08 +0000

I left the US when Covid struck. No way was I sitting around there during all of this.

I took a 50% pay cut to move back to my home country, while producing the same output (and value)... the company directly benefited from that.

Now, if my company forced me back into an office I'd say no. I'd be on the market only for a remote role, still at a steep discount on US engineers. Why wouldn't a smart company take that offer?

WFH is not going away, but I suspect the FAANG will move away from it and the startups will capture the opportunity.

New comment by flog in "Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam"

flog — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:25 +0000

1Password?

New comment by flog in "Glassdoor not so anonymous"

flog — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 03:59:22 +0000

NZ is very well regarded for freedoms, literally topping the list https://freedomhouse.org/country/new-zealand/freedom-world/2...

New comment by flog in "Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific – research (2019)"

flog — Sun, 22 May 2022 22:16:57 +0000

The NZ sun is terrible. You feel the sun burning you as soon as you get outside. Burn time can be about 10 minutes on a sunny day, and maybe 20 on a cloudy day in summer.

In NZ we get about 4000 in-situ melanoma diagnosis a year. I was one of them a couple of years ago (at 37).

Wear sunscreen!

New comment by flog in "Exit interviews are a trap"

flog — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 22:29:33 +0000

Ditto. I assumed it was an opportunity to document any legally problematic reasons that drove you to quit so they could get ahead of them, or reinforce their case for firing you.

New comment by flog in "70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows"

flog — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 01:15:11 +0000

I guess what I was hinting at was the difficulty in filtering "remote" roles

New comment by flog in "70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows"

flog — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:17:57 +0000

Remote is such an overloaded term. Is it US/North America only? Is it equal work for equal pay globally?

I was someone who took the opportunity to relocate back to my home country when Covid struck, but had to take a near 50% pay cut to do so, despite doing the same work. I'm surprised this hasn't become more of a hot button issue within the community.