Hacker News: fratlas

New comment by fratlas in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

fratlas — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:48:09 +0000

Nudies jeans are worth the premium (ish) price, and have lifetime free repairs. Extremely comfortable too. Going on 5 years in my current pair

New comment by fratlas in "Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge"

fratlas — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:29:52 +0000

Pexels is still very free, and seems to be high quality.

New comment by fratlas in "Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s"

fratlas — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:24:17 +0000

People want to spend less time on a task. Whichever tool succeeds at this will win.

New comment by fratlas in "Sora is here"

fratlas — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 02:26:16 +0000

just use a canva template

New comment by fratlas in "Apple acquires Pixelmator"

fratlas — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:04:42 +0000

Canva left the buy once affinity model untouched, and are an ethical company.

New comment by fratlas in "Tell HN: Vimeo's free trial is predatory"

fratlas — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:44:48 +0000

They're a desperate company on the decline

New comment by fratlas in "Figma Slides"

fratlas — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 01:15:41 +0000

Try Canva whiteboards. You can embed an inf canvas into slides

New comment by fratlas in "Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records"

fratlas — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 01:56:06 +0000

True, but consider grid electricity prices increasing over those decades too.

New comment by fratlas in "Ask HN: Shift in the job market here to stay?"

fratlas — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:38:31 +0000

I don't think that prevents people from bootstrapping a great product

New comment by fratlas in "Ask HN: Shift in the job market here to stay?"

fratlas — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:34:31 +0000

I mean, TikTok and ChatGPT came up extremely quickly. BeReal grew rapidly. People can and still do build disruptive software.

New comment by fratlas in "Show HN: ChatGPT Plugin that semantically searches Google Maps"

fratlas — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:09:19 +0000

This is so underrated. There's a huge need for a better Yelp

New comment by fratlas in "Apartment rents fall as new supply hits market"

fratlas — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 02:38:41 +0000

Not true as of late - there is a construction slowdown, so even lower grade houses in rural areas with no services are going for unattainable prices. 700k for Albury is insane. We have a supply issue.

New comment by fratlas in "NopeCHA: Captcha Solver"

fratlas — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:12:21 +0000

Maybe the solution is to look for problems where human's imperfections are identifiable

New comment by fratlas in "Wells Fargo mortgage staff brace for layoffs as U.S. loan volumes collapse"

fratlas — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 05:10:02 +0000

> you lost out on a literal once in a lifetime opportunity

I don't think anyone can make claims like this, lots of people made the right decision by not buying into an inflated market with job instability around the corner. I think the correction is needed, any people who didn't overextend will be fine if they intend to stay put for 5-15 years.

Ask HN: Is OpenAI working on the next DALL-E yet?

fratlas — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 04:51:52 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32260604

Points: 1

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New comment by fratlas in "Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years"

fratlas — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 23:15:07 +0000

In my experience it was less emotional than in person auctions I've attended. I knew my limit and stuck to it, there was no agent talking me into bidding higher.

New comment by fratlas in "Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years"

fratlas — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:48:18 +0000

There are new systems to bid online, and over the course of a week. Much less stressful, no emotion and heat of the moment bidding. Nothing wrong with open bidding, all about the techniques used in person.

New comment by fratlas in "Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years"

fratlas — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:18:20 +0000

A designed process, very efficient at extracting the maximum price out of a stressful situation. It's a sad state of affairs in Australia right now.

New comment by fratlas in "Ask HN: Who here has been successful buying a small business or tiny project?"

fratlas — Thu, 20 May 2021 02:27:55 +0000

Would you be comfortable doing an intro? Looking for this exact skillset for an ambitious project

New comment by fratlas in "How Facebook encodes videos"

fratlas — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 03:32:44 +0000

Yes, the x264 params are all useful. It's selecting the optimal combination for a given use case that presents a challenge. Vimeo's video quality (and therefore filesize) is much higher than FBs, because their use cases are completely different.