Hacker News: gallamine

New comment by gallamine in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

gallamine — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:26:16 +0000

You're monitoring all the available channels and then correlating them together?

New comment by gallamine in "Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture"

gallamine — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:57:10 +0000

Why do all the plans on the homepage have hip roofs?

New comment by gallamine in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

gallamine — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:41:11 +0000

I'm building a tool that helps small volunteer orgs. manage their property/facility. Something to replace the filing cabinet, text threads and email inboxes that get lost when your volunteer treasurer or retired admin moves on. Specifically building for my wife and I to take care of our house and for our small church who manages a building. The idea is you take a picture of the plumbers invoice, forward the insurance policy, or write down the last time the roof was inspected all in one place. Most CMMS are too heavy for a small org. and having "that one guy" setup a process is too brittle. https://www.myplacekeeper.com/

New comment by gallamine in "Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse"

gallamine — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:54:53 +0000

this is a circular reasoning fallacy

New comment by gallamine in "Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass"

gallamine — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:58:11 +0000

Hi! I got stuck in London. I walked around to a bunch of train stations at around 10PM on Monday night and there was nothing showing up in the timetables. Same for the next morning. I then walked to Portsmouth and the Portsmouth harbor also showed no boats. The API call was https://geo-racers.com/api/boats?from_id=43128&time=07:02&da... seems odd to me?

New comment by gallamine in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

gallamine — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:11:35 +0000

I was homeschooled. I'm doing the same with my children.

New comment by gallamine in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

gallamine — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:16:18 +0000

I'm building a site that tracks the price of power tool batteries (currently Milwaukee and Dewalt). It's been an itch I've wanted to scratch for a while so I would know when the battery was a good price vs. the Ah rating. The prices are scraped nearly daily and plotted on a price-per-ah vs. total Ah chart.

https://drillhound.com/batteries

New comment by gallamine in "'Bluey's World': How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a $2B Juggernaut"

gallamine — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:23:46 +0000

All my kids listen to those audiobooks on repeat. Narrated (and sung!) buy the author.

New comment by gallamine in "Ask HN: Are you a 40-year old software engineer without a job for > 1 year?"

gallamine — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:57:12 +0000

Does your employer call you a part-time worker or are you a consultant for those hours?

New comment by gallamine in "Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support"

gallamine — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:37:14 +0000

North Carolina has a school for the blind that was established back in mid 1800's. I believe they support all ages - https://www.governormorehead.net/

New comment by gallamine in "Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16"

gallamine — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:38:16 +0000

It's a state government restricting minors ...

New comment by gallamine in "Poverty is linked to poorer brain development but reading can help counteract it"

gallamine — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:54:56 +0000

Ive spent hundreds of hours reading aloud to my kids. It's a big investment but I believe it's almost certain you'll stumble upon something that will catch their attention. It's also about family culture - if you establish the habit of reading at a certain time of day (we do it after dinner / before bed) then it's easy to stick with that over turning to other things to fill the time.

New comment by gallamine in "How to drill your own water well"

gallamine — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 17:03:34 +0000

> There's water almost everywhere in the ground

In Arizona?

New comment by gallamine in "Why the Remote-Work Debate Stays So Heated"

gallamine — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:43:25 +0000

Can you elaborate? What is 'it's' that's already happened?

New comment by gallamine in "How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery"

gallamine — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 14:52:22 +0000

How would you rate the amount of financial disparity between yourself and friends/family?

New comment by gallamine in "How to make good small games"

gallamine — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:49:47 +0000

I spent hundreds of hours as a kid building small games like this with Klik n Play, then Klick and Create, which turned into The Games Factory and now lives on as Clickteam Fusion! It had a simple image editor and event based programming system that was accessible to a kid and still pretty sophisticated. Huge influence on my later programming career. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickteam

New comment by gallamine in "DocuSign to cut workforce by 9% as part of restructuring plan"

gallamine — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 17:44:22 +0000

I'd guess a significant portion are low(er)-wage technical support folks. When the partners at Hamlin-Hamlin-McGill can't remember their Docusign password they need someone to call.

New comment by gallamine in "Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device"

gallamine — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 21:21:10 +0000

I once had a buddy walk up behind me while I was at a urinal and smack the back of my head - one of the most infuriating things ever. Ever since I'm hyper aware of people behind me at the urinal.

New comment by gallamine in "CSVCHAIN - NFTs backed by CSV technology"

gallamine — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:19:27 +0000

they're in reverse chronological orders so Levine's was just added.

New comment by gallamine in "More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’"

gallamine — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:26:35 +0000

Honest question, but don't we still lack the denominator of the ratio:

  (people that have covid and end up in the hospital) / (those who have covid)

Instead, we're looking at the ratio:

  (vaccinated people who have covid and go to the hospital) / (unvaccinated people who have covid and go to the hospital)

But, those are different types of information.