Hacker News: ipince

New comment by ipince in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

ipince — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:23:56 +0000

> When I'm bored, I just whip out my balls and start having a play. And people watch, and sometimes join in.

Nice.

(I'm sure the author did this intentionally)

New comment by ipince in "Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust"

ipince — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:26:28 +0000

This seems to prevent your keys from being exfiltrated through prompt injection. But if your agent could've been prompt injected into giving out keys, then it can also be prompt injected into using the services it has (fake) keys for to the attacker's benefit.

New comment by ipince in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

ipince — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:17:11 +0000

MIT does this. Every class starts 5 mins past, and also ends 5 mins early.

We did this at Google too while I was there (only the started 5-mins past part). It works really well.

No need to change the Calendar events though. It's just implicit that we'll start 5-mins past. (Or, well, explicit in MIT's case).

New comment by ipince in "Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans"

ipince — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:09:38 +0000

It's not only at groceries stores, it's everywhere. For example at TSA security line and (sometimes) when boarding flights at the gate. You can (and should) exercise your right to opt-out every single time, before that right is taken away. Omg I sound like Richard Stallman... anyway, he was right all along.

New comment by ipince in "Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions"

ipince — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:41:33 +0000

But, moving to a new house doesn't necessarily mean you have to sell the old house. In fact, since you got such a good deal on the first house, you can probably rent it our for a profit, and said profit can help you pay whatever you need to pay to be able to move to a new house that's more expensive, yet similar in quality.

New comment by ipince in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

ipince — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:50:00 +0000

> which I can't say about any other SEA language

maybe this doesn't qualify as "south east asian", but Korean is very easy to learn how to read too. It's not latin alphabet, but you only need to learn 20 symbols, and then everything is phonetic! you can have a lot of fun "reading" all the signs after you study a bit on the plane. Not as many loan words though

New comment by ipince in "Pixel 10 Phones"

ipince — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 03:19:55 +0000

I agree the current models are all too big. I'm still using a Pixel 4 mainly because I don't want a bigger phone (oh, and free Google Photos storage of course).

New comment by ipince in "TODOs aren't for doing"

ipince — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:24:40 +0000

But the second example there shouldn't be a TODO then, but just a NOTE (or regular comment).

New comment by ipince in "First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV"

ipince — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:13:47 +0000

Pope Bobby Frank I

New comment by ipince in "FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices"

ipince — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:36:33 +0000

This is awesome. There's more to do, but it's a step in the right direction. This law should really apply to all merchants in all industries, as the original 2023 proposal stated (allegedly). Still, I'll take it.

New comment by ipince in "A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class"

ipince — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:58:57 +0000

What is "unlikely" about this?

New comment by ipince in "Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app"

ipince — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 02:56:32 +0000

I read your comment and your blog post and I still don't understand what happens when I put a link to a sheet in the text box and click Go.. what happens? You say your inputs and outputs are all in the sheet.. ok.. what does the button do? Are you just calling some API and giving it the sheet as the input, and then writing the output of the call back to the sheet? So then these Single Button Apps are just API endpoints that you're calling with sheets instead of json or, say Postman (if you want a nicer UI)?

I think I'm failing to see the point here :-/

New comment by ipince in "Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app"

ipince — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 02:46:27 +0000

Very opportune! I'm just building an app that needs to interface with some sort of spreadsheet. I was going to use Airtable because their API is just better than Google Sheet's, even though I kinda prefer Sheets. I'll give this a try this weekend and see how it goes!

New comment by ipince in "CitizenX: Invest in Citizenship"

ipince — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 04:36:18 +0000

It really depends. In some cases, it is actually an investment, either in a company or in real estate. But the real estate may come with requirements, like specific areas in which the property must be, or with restrictions on selling it. In other cases, you can "donate" to a government-managed fund. In that case it's not really an investment cause you'll never see that money again.

New comment by ipince in "Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel"

ipince — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:06:07 +0000

Autopay is evil. I have nothing on autopay.

Instead, I have a monthly reminder to pay my bills every month, with a list of all the bills/sites that need to be paid. There's 11 things in the list, but not all of them have a balance every month. I do this towards the end of the month (instead of at the beginning of the month), so that I can include rent in it too, and pay _everything_. It lets me see whether my spending is creeping up and gives me an opportunity to cancel useless stuff. It doesn't take long (5-30 mins depending on how detailed I'm being).

New comment by ipince in "Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel"

ipince — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:01:02 +0000

Well, you don't have to check it _immediately_. I think as long as it's visible and you see in O(days) it would serve its purpose.

New comment by ipince in "Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language"

ipince — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:29:07 +0000

I was surprised by that too, but I don't think it makes sense at all. I'm curious as to what those categories are based off.

New comment by ipince in "Deep Learning Digs Deep: AI Unveils New Large-Scale Images in Peruvian Desert"

ipince — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 02:06:38 +0000

These are the geoglyphs the paper identified:

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S03054403230005...

New comment by ipince in "Show HN: Jellylade – Turn your screenshots into posts"

ipince — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:05:47 +0000

Can't really use it on mobile :(

New comment by ipince in "New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem"

ipince — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:12:47 +0000

Ok, but those triangles aren't equilateral but isosceles :)