Hacker News: hallman76

New comment by hallman76 in "Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones"

hallman76 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:37:57 +0000

Go a step further and switch to Mint, T-mobile's pay-as-you-go subsidiary. I'm paying $180/year for a single line. I've been on mint for ~3 years now.

On Mint your traffic is routed with lower priority than T-Mobile's main customers. In practice, I have only experienced this at busy airports and an MLB game - where basically service dropped to near zero. This is in the Boston area. Obviously not ideal if you're in those conditions regularly. Otherwise it's been awesome.

If the service is of interest my referral code is below. It gets you a $15 renewal credit for joining. Will the winds of votes love or hate a referral code? Who knows! apologies if I'm out of bounds. (I don't understand why it's out of bounds)

[0] http://fbuy.me/vks2P

New comment by hallman76 in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""

hallman76 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:48:29 +0000

I inherited an S3 bucket where hundreds of thousands of files were written to the bucket root. Every filename was just a uuid. ls might work after waiting to page though to get every file. To grep you would need to download 5 TB.

New comment by hallman76 in "The death of partying in the USA"

hallman76 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:12:20 +0000

There is a nascent movement of families bringing back landlines for exactly this reason

New comment by hallman76 in "PDF to Text, a challenging problem"

hallman76 — Wed, 14 May 2025 02:32:51 +0000

We will never get back the collective man-decades of time that has been burned by this format. When will the madness stop?

New comment by hallman76 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

hallman76 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:48:06 +0000

TIL that there is a W3C WebMonetization spec - thanks for sharing.

Taking a look, it seems quite underwhelming[0] :( Lack of monetization on the web gave us the ad-driven content model that LLMs are now hovering up.

Have there been any other proposals for monetization?

[0] https://webmonetization.org/specification/

New comment by hallman76 in "Ask HN: Can we get a HN background color (dark mode)"

hallman76 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:34:36 +0000

For desktop folks, I use the Stylebot Chrome Extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmk...

I crank up the font size and set a serif font on the index page to make it easier to scan.

New comment by hallman76 in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"

hallman76 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 20:41:07 +0000

I had the same issue. Was able to use it to join via the discord app ("add a server").

New comment by hallman76 in "Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?"

hallman76 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:20:20 +0000

> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President

OP didn't give say politics had anything to do with it. Let them nerd up if they want to.

Centralization around specific platforms has plusses and minuses. Having alternatives drives innovation.

New comment by hallman76 in "Trump wants to change Gulf of Mexico's name to "Gulf of America""

hallman76 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:55:24 +0000

He's flooding the zone and media is once again failing us.

New comment by hallman76 in "Why I Write My Own Obituary Every Year"

hallman76 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:08:37 +0000

I really like this idea! Could you share more about your letters?

What sorts of things do you include? I assume different topics for different people. Do the loved ones know that these letters exist?

New comment by hallman76 in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

hallman76 — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 02:37:23 +0000

I'm pretty sure that the owners of Belmont Books in Belmont, MA also opened their store out of a love of bookstores & the community surrounding it. Best of luck to you! https://www.belmontbooks.com/ (no affiliation)

New comment by hallman76 in "From Gatsby gridlock to Astro bliss: my personal site redesign"

hallman76 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 01:12:02 +0000

Gatsby gets shit on a lot - which I think is a but unfair. I find it to be a solid, well-documented platform. It has some rough spots, but show me a platform that doesn't.

The author also complains that:

> I couldn’t build the site locally or upgrade dependencies, leaving it outdated since 2019

This is true of many things in the javascript ecosystem. In react/node/js-land you HAVE to invest in maintenance (and re-writes) or be left with a legacy codebase that just might not work one day if npm install fails.

New comment by hallman76 in "Use a work journal"

hallman76 — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:26:59 +0000

Mineis called README.md or notes.txt I use a similar hierarchical format - I use tabs for the hierarchy. I use markdown for most notes, but I find it somewhat incompatible with the tab-based note-taking that I prefer.

I share this in case there are others out there who work the same way. Let's band together to establish a tab-friendly Markdown variant!

New comment by hallman76 in "Figma Slides"

hallman76 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:50:51 +0000

Keynote has had real time collaboration[0] for years. It's great.

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/keynote/intro-to-collaborati...

New comment by hallman76 in "Codestral: Mistral's Code Model"

hallman76 — Thu, 30 May 2024 17:49:59 +0000

dumb question - why not create smaller language-specific models?

New comment by hallman76 in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"

hallman76 — Fri, 24 May 2024 13:07:25 +0000

> Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such

From a compliance POV what's an acceptable alternative? Would some unix variant be any more palatable?

New comment by hallman76 in "Show HN: React Bricks, The only headless CMS with true Visual Editing"

hallman76 — Wed, 01 May 2024 16:15:58 +0000

> Self hosted option? I'm sure that would drive people to adopt the likely great tech behind this.

It's a pretty compelling product. At my org we have a ton of components that we'd need to "brickify" to make them available in the editor. It's hard to justify the integration and maintenance effort with a SaaS. And hard give up the core of publishing to a 3rd party.

New comment by hallman76 in "How to commit part of file in Git"

hallman76 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:39:04 +0000

As does SourceTree. Also recommended.

New comment by hallman76 in "Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia"

hallman76 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:18:46 +0000

There's no lens of "good" or "interesting". Its just whether something is in wikipedia. This site is showing us that existence is wikipedia isn't that high of a bar to distinguish that something is actually interesting.

New comment by hallman76 in "jQuery v4.0 Beta"

hallman76 — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 03:32:34 +0000

Just in case folks aren't familiar, this site breaks down jQuery features into web standard code: https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/