Hacker News: joewhale

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

joewhale — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:56:16 +0000

My wife hates clutter and the junk that we've accumulated the past few years because of our two children receiving junk toys.

I built a simple wish list app that anyone can create a wish list and share without the need to create an account. Great for birthdays, evergreen lists, Christmas, etc.

whichwishlist.com/

New comment by joewhale in "Libre Barcode Project"

joewhale — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:21:13 +0000

fyi code 39 barcodes are outdated because of the lack of check sums and leads to false positives.

New comment by joewhale in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

joewhale — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:44:09 +0000

how do you define social media?

New comment by joewhale in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

joewhale — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:22:06 +0000

these are what self help books are.

New comment by joewhale in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

joewhale — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:57:21 +0000

do most people use llms to chat about politics?

New comment by joewhale in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

joewhale — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:51:21 +0000

that describes me but i would never say i'm a "superhuman". I feel like i'm a boring glue guy.

New comment by joewhale in "Honda is killing its EVs"

joewhale — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:52:29 +0000

I just leased a Prologue

New comment by joewhale in "MacBook Neo"

joewhale — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:12:23 +0000

compatable with polishing cloth https://x.com/aaronp613/status/2029206219802722595?s=46

Apple is second to none in supporting legacy products.

New comment by joewhale in "Flightradar24 for Ships"

joewhale — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:17:48 +0000

Kpler acquired them and it's not consumer friendly anymore. They are focused on enterprise accounts only now.

New comment by joewhale in "Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice"

joewhale — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:20:19 +0000

That’s what a bot would say to fit in.

New comment by joewhale in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

joewhale — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:27:59 +0000

One factor is that people are obsessed with removing any friction in their life that stands in the way of whatever they believe makes them happy at the end of the day. Which for a lot of the US is just being alone and unbothered with a TV or a phone.

Having responsibilities and caring for others is actually good for the human soul. Being inconvenienced is a part of real life.

I’m not trying to convince everyone that they need to have a kid. But from my experience, having kids provides a very deep and satisfying purpose. Not the only purpose. But it does provide one. And it helps cut through the craziness and hurt and vanity of this world.

New comment by joewhale in "When someone says they hate your product"

joewhale — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:36:08 +0000

You’ll also great some of the greatest feedback from them too.

New comment by joewhale in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

joewhale — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:57:38 +0000

Would you be open to sharing more? I’m a Christian, and I’d love to hear from your perspective.

New comment by joewhale in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

joewhale — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:23:13 +0000

Merry Christmas! I’ll be installing NextDNS profile on both my parents iPhones!

New comment by joewhale in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

joewhale — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:09:24 +0000

Reddit marketing to relevant subreddits might help!

New comment by joewhale in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

joewhale — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:57:33 +0000

why couldn't Anthropic simply use Claude Code to write Bun over the weekend??

New comment by joewhale in "Claude Opus 4.5"

joewhale — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:43:34 +0000

What specific output would you ask Gemini to create for Sonnet? Thanks in advance!

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

joewhale — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 03:11:10 +0000

i'm currently unemployed but i have experience as a CSM and account manager for multiple companies (all have used Salesforce) if you ever want feedback or bounce ideas.

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

joewhale — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:53:18 +0000

Using a popular analysts rankings

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

joewhale — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:14:30 +0000

Best of luck. I've known so many people in my circle deal with infertility and miscarriages. Hope you succeed.