Hacker News: hackily

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

hackily — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:02:15 +0000

I'm building a coupon matchup aggregator for my mom, who knows her way around digital coupon clipping and rebate programs like ibotta, but struggles with juggling all the coupon bloggers that she follows

https://matchupnews.com/

I'm working on the filtering logic so she more easily find the posts she cares about

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hackily — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:04:43 +0000

https://archive.ph/XZMjY

New comment by hackily in "Millions may rely on groundwater contaminated with PFAS for drinking water"

hackily — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:18:07 +0000

Is that a 5 gallon plastic jug?

New comment by hackily in "Standing desks may be bad for your health, study suggests"

hackily — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:07:06 +0000

Oh deer... I use a laptop stand for my posture so I'm not hunched over. It's trickier when traveling but I recently discovered collapsible stands that I can bring with me

New comment by hackily in "Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported"

hackily — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 15:23:54 +0000

I think you were unaware, but light sweet crude is a term referring to a type of crude oil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_crude_oil

New comment by hackily in "OpenAI COO thinks AI for business is overhyped"

hackily — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 20:57:47 +0000

So, a search engine, then!

At my former company, they used a product to search across Google docs, confluence docs, help desk tickets, Amy source of tickets and documents they could get their hands on. It was actually quite useful!

New comment by hackily in "Ask HN: What is your experience with Nano-Hydroxyapatite toothpaste?"

hackily — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:48:50 +0000

I use apagard premio, came across it while doing research a couple of years ago (4-5) on nano hydroxyapatite. I've never really had problems with my adult teeth and I continue to not have problems, so at the very least, in my case, is not any worse than fluoride toothpaste. My dentist loves my teeth :D she told me whatever I'm doing, don't change a single thing.

New comment by hackily in "Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?"

hackily — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 04:32:29 +0000

I was laid off a month ago, senior frontend engineer. I've reached out to my network and have been talking to various startups, but it seems like most of the bigger companies do not want to bite.

Compounding that is my desire to keep working remotely, or somewhere local to the DC metro area, so many of the same opportunities that would be available to me in the Bay area, had I remained there, are closed to me, because they're using a hybrid model.

I'm not in much of a rush, and I'm hopeful that I'll find interesting work with some startup.

New comment by hackily in "NLRB rules that employers can't require laid-off staff to waive labor law rights"

hackily — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 01:42:14 +0000

Could an employee receive severance and still be able to sue to determine if there was a WARN act violation or discrimination of federally protected classes?

New comment by hackily in "Ask HN: Did the latest round of tech layoffs focus mostly on remote workers?"

hackily — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 07:33:32 +0000

I was laid off, along with many of my remote coworkers, and coworkers in satellite offices. The CTO was internally heard saying that he believed remote does not work for eng.

Uber Freight cuts 150 jobs, about 3% of the unit’s head count

hackily — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:27:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/uber-freight-cuts-150-jobs-about-3percent-of-the-units-headcount.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34515802

Points: 1

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New comment by hackily in "Ask HN: What's You Life's Work?"

hackily — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:40:06 +0000

That's so great to hear!

I went to high school with someone who took a path like yours - his parents were not sure about his ability to live a comfortable life going into pro Dota. But I'm so glad you folks are able to do what you love and make a good living.

New comment by hackily in "Show HN: Ask our algorithm and real financial expert anything about your money"

hackily — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 20:14:28 +0000

Disclaimer: Early user of Uprise, signed up after I heard about them from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31370775

I'm a big fan of Uprise as a concept - financial literacy isn't something that is taught in schools in the US, but it really should be.

More on topic to the thread: As context, I'm interested in buying a house so I have the money for the down payment held with VMFXX for the moment. What other ways could I consider holding a sum of money in a relatively liquid way?

New comment by hackily in "Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules"

hackily — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 15:00:50 +0000

But what are the side effects of blocking a response causing inflammation, which was meant to signal that repairs are needed in lung tissue?

New comment by hackily in "Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans"

hackily — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 06:59:52 +0000

Could it be the heat from your light? What kind of bulb do you use?

Out of curiosity, what are you doing with the light off? Just sitting in the dark?

New comment by hackily in "Capital One enters enterprise B2B software, new data management SaaS"

hackily — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 03:03:23 +0000

Having used to work at Capital One within Shared Tech, I worked with a lot of really brilliant engineers who could easily have been working at FAANG. That being said, they didn't pay as well as FAANG so a lot of us moved on.

I'm not surprised at all by this move, there's a lot of solutions at Capital One that can be monetized. The company is so large that there's redundant solutions concurrently developed by different teams, inevitably someone was going to work the bureaucracy to start selling SaaS

New comment by hackily in "Ask HN: How do I stop this Facebook stalker?"

hackily — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:23:56 +0000

I believe blocking a user via Facebook messenger presents an option to defriend the user as well.

New comment by hackily in "Enclave: An Unpickable Lock"

hackily — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 03:44:29 +0000

Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/538/

New comment by hackily in "Free stuff makes us irrational"

hackily — Sat, 14 May 2022 17:51:31 +0000

It's interesting to note that the effect of some good being free holds its power if we know that the good is not usually free.

It would be interesting if the article had more research on what the emotions of users when they come across a paywall. For example, I get irrationally upset when I see a paywall, even though I logically know that content writers deserve to be paid.

The fact that less than 20% of Americans will pay for news almost certainly makes the subscriptions more expensive for the percentage of users who will actually pay. Does the price affect how upset someone gets? I know for me, I don't even look at the price, I never intended on paying since I've been conditioned to expect articles to be free.

New comment by hackily in "People Are Dating All Wrong, According to Data Science"

hackily — Thu, 12 May 2022 19:51:22 +0000

What's shocking is that similarity in values don't seem to be a predictor of happiness in a relationship.

Could it be that for those in relationships with differences, if the difference were significant enough, they merely wouldn't be in a relationship at all, and wouldn't be in the sample data?