Hacker News: jvergeldedios

New comment by jvergeldedios in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

jvergeldedios — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:40:44 +0000

There is line that connects gov't subsidies in wealthy countries for the last 50 years funding private R&D to poorer countries being able to afford it. Arguably the poorer countries don't get to make the "decisions based on economic reality" in favor of solar without the subsidies in wealthy countries happening first. There is also an argument to be made that the R&D isn't finished and it still makes sense to subsidize it to drive the cost down further.

New comment by jvergeldedios in "Ask HN: Bitbucket 503?"

jvergeldedios — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:42:54 +0000

Down for my team as well. They just updated the status page:

https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/incidents/bvc0xy1vlfg...

New comment by jvergeldedios in "Tell HN: Ublock Origin stopped working with Youtube"

jvergeldedios — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:09:04 +0000

Hey that worked, thanks!

New comment by jvergeldedios in "Tell HN: Ublock Origin stopped working with Youtube"

jvergeldedios — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:53:00 +0000

Yep also happening to me on Firefox w/ uBlock Origin turned on.

New comment by jvergeldedios in "Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks"

jvergeldedios — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:01:43 +0000

Even more interesting is the small establishments that skipped over credit cards straight into Venmo/Zelle.

New comment by jvergeldedios in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

jvergeldedios — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:11:59 +0000

So you're erecting a straw man and attacking that. My assertion is that policing in the US has structural issues that need to be addressed. I disagree that it's helpful to remember that it could be worse as evidenced in other countries. That's irrelevant to the original assertion.

Also the argument that there are proposals on how to address structural issues in policing that you deem "ridiculous nonsense" is a straw man that does not address my assertion.

New comment by jvergeldedios in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

jvergeldedios — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:06:27 +0000

I also have a feeling their definition of "attack" would differ from mine.

New comment by jvergeldedios in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

jvergeldedios — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:57:28 +0000

I've never understood the "be happy you're not in authoritarian Russia" type of argument for papering over the shortcomings of circumstances here in the US. Like, ok? Why are we comparing ourselves to places that are worse? Shouldn't we be striving to make things better relative to our own ideals and standards?

New comment by jvergeldedios in "I'm dialing back my LLM usage"

jvergeldedios — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:37:12 +0000

> you're essentially the new guy on your own project

Holy shit that's the best description of this phenomenon I've heard so far. The most stark version of this I've experienced is working on a side project with someone who isn't a software engineer who vibe coded a bunch of features without my input. The code looked like 6-8 different people had worked on it with no one driving architecture and I had to untangle how it all got put together.

The sweet spot for me is using it in places where I know the exact pattern I want to use to solve a problem and I can describe it in very small discrete steps. That will often take something that would have taken me an hour or two to hand code something tedious down to 5-10 minutes. I agree that there's no going back, even if all progress stopped now that's too huge of a gain to ignore it as a tool.

New comment by jvergeldedios in "Ask HN: Is anyone else finding it impossible to use SMS in new apps?"

jvergeldedios — Thu, 01 May 2025 01:43:26 +0000

Does Amazon make any of this any easier?

Ask HN: Is anyone else finding it impossible to use SMS in new apps?

jvergeldedios — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:44:09 +0000

I'm trying to prototype an app that uses SMS as a channel for inviting other users to events (similar experience to Partiful). This is what the experience has looked like so far:

I signed up for Twilio and got a local number

I build my Twilio integration and in testing I find that my messages are getting blocked until I submit a campaign for "10 DLC" compliance

I paid $15 to submit a campaign for 10 DLC compliance

Two weeks later my campaign was rejected and I had to resubmit and pay another $15

One week later my campaign was "approved" and I could start sending SMS

Messages start working, but some of them are getting filtered with a vague "Your message content was flagged as going against carrier guidelines" error

I reach out to support and a few days later they suggest some changes to my messages to comply with carrier guidelines

I make the changes and I'm still getting the same error

And now I'm kind of dead in the water. The prototype has been code-complete for about 4 weeks now and I'd love to get some users in to test it. I could fall back to email but since this is going to be targeted largely at mobile users SMS would be the best experience. I just didn't anticipate this level of friction to even just send SMS to myself to test.

Is anyone else having this experience? Are there any alternatives out there that I'm overlooking? Or is this just the state of things now?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43837148

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by jvergeldedios in "Why the Law Against Business Bribes Is Good for Business"

jvergeldedios — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:14:44 +0000

Wouldn’t that just be fraud against the shareholders of company B by the management of company B?

OmniAI: A unified Ruby API for integrating with AI providers

jvergeldedios — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:02:25 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ksylvest/omniai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43369883

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

Tell HN: AllTech IT Solutions using scammy AI sales bot

jvergeldedios — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:13:32 +0000

This is a great example of how not to deploy LLMs for your business.

I've been getting 6 calls a day, every weekday from this company. They use a really annoying AI that is set up to call back repeatedly until you pick up. I was able to get the bot to connect me to a live person and figure out that the company is this one: https://www.alltechsupport.com/ based in Birmingham, AL and their CEO is Jim Reichard.

This is really bad and annoying behavior from a company and I want to see if anyone else has been getting these calls from them, or share other companies doing this kind of crap.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42770757

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by jvergeldedios in "David Lynch has died"

jvergeldedios — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:45:56 +0000

I mean we get wind. But that usually comes right before fire.

New comment by jvergeldedios in "The Getty makes nearly 88k art images free to use"

jvergeldedios — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:13:13 +0000

This isn't a Getty Images initiative, but rather being run by the Getty Museum which is under the Getty Trust. My partner actually works on some of these systems at the Getty and you're right, it's daunting. The sad part is that the Getty gets to do these kinds of things only because it's one of the best endowed institutions on the planet with funding to pay researchers/archivists/developers to do this work. There is so much more that is locked away at large, medium, and small institutions that would be available for the public, but just isn't because of lack of funding.

New comment by jvergeldedios in "What I learned at Gitlab that I don't want to forget"

jvergeldedios — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 03:26:06 +0000

Except, of course, this upcoming Jan 2[0].

[0] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/federal-...

New comment by jvergeldedios in "Heroku 22 Stack"

jvergeldedios — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 05:18:36 +0000

I really like the pipelines feature in Heroku. Being able to automatically deploy to a staging environment from main and then be able to promote that exact slug to production is pretty cool. I’ve yet to find a tool that has replicated that experience or something like it without getting in the weeds with Docker.

As far as I know it’s not possible to have separate environments where you’re guaranteed a bit-for-bit match going from staging to production in Render. You have to build for each environment, which if your builds are deterministic should be fine, but I’ve definitely seen that go haywire where you find out your build is in fact not deterministic in some subtle way.

New comment by jvergeldedios in "How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay"

jvergeldedios — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 06:36:28 +0000

But doesn't what you're describing reinforce the author's point? Tech firms in Canada aren't paying high enough wages to keep talent in their pool in order satisfy profit milestones rather than pursuing growth. That's the exact difference in mindset the author points out.

New comment by jvergeldedios in "What Happens at a Firearms Training for Teachers"

jvergeldedios — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:16:30 +0000

I should have been more clear. That was the point I was trying to make. Anyone I've talked to about using firearms for home defense likes hollow points because of the damage they do to a home invader, not how much safer the rounds are because they stop.