Hacker News: jypepin

New comment by jypepin in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

jypepin — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:44:06 +0000

I worked with Alex (founder of stainless) at Stripe and he's awesome. Happy for him and well deserved. Congrats Alex! :)

New comment by jypepin in "Starbucks: Location closures and elimination of roles"

jypepin — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:18:35 +0000

It's always funny to me how they are still insisting on customer experience and good coffee house. In the bay area most starbucks have become the burger king of coffee shops: housing of drunk homeless people

New comment by jypepin in "How fast is Go? Simulating particles on a smart TV"

jypepin — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:06:51 +0000

you should probably read the article then, it's pretty clearly explained

New comment by jypepin in "Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died"

jypepin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:34:17 +0000

Is his book "Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine...And Fighting It" worth a read?

New comment by jypepin in "Ask HN: Is it wrong not wanting career progression beyond senior?"

jypepin — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:20:06 +0000

nothing wrong, you do you and stick to what makes you happy :)

New comment by jypepin in "I think I need to go lie down"

jypepin — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 01:16:23 +0000

insane, I never thought that `toList.appendChild(item.closest('li'));` would MOVE the item. You learn something every day

New comment by jypepin in "The Future of How We Work Together at Roblox"

jypepin — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 20:08:09 +0000

I totally agree with the impact of spontaneous things happening when in person.

I had been working remotely for 8 years and really was 100% for it and advocating it. I recently joined a new job where I'm at the office 3 days a week, and I can definitely feel the difference both in the time it took me to onboard (compared to other remote-only onboarding I did) and the productivity / relationships / other gains from those days we are all in the office.

Those ad-hoc conversation happening around a desk, a white board, at lunch, do bring a lot of value that you never get while WFH. I can definitely see how some of my previous burn outs may have been prevented if I was not 100% remote.

Of course YMMV, but personally I can definitely see how a company may decide to get back to the office and it's definitely not all black and white where remote is better and omg the mean bosses are getting butts back in seats for more control.

New comment by jypepin in "John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)"

jypepin — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 22:24:35 +0000

the question is, when you "work" more, are you actually "working" more. I'm not advocating for either side, but I believe a few places that have moved to a shorter work week haven't seen lower productivity. Might be a sign that most people actually can't do ~40hrs of work per week.

New comment by jypepin in "Classic fountain pens"

jypepin — Tue, 02 May 2023 15:59:31 +0000

I'm surprised they don't mention Parker. At school in France in the 90s, that was the true classic.

New comment by jypepin in "10TB portable SSDs on Amazon UK are scams"

jypepin — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 23:02:41 +0000

Sorry, can someone explain what is happening here? What's wrong with those products?

New comment by jypepin in "Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?"

jypepin — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:30:14 +0000

I learnt ruby with Zed Shaw’s Learn Ruby the Hard Way. Was a really great experience!

New comment by jypepin in "An extensive tutorial on how to setup a Pi-Hole"

jypepin — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 16:24:23 +0000

That's good timing, because with the increase in the price for youtube premium, I started thinking that I wanted an alternative to watching youtube on my TVs without ads.

Does anyone know if using a pi-hole triggers ad-blockers popups on websites, and if yes, is it easy to deal with (either activate ads for specific websites, etc)?

New comment by jypepin in "Factorio for Nintendo Switch is now available"

jypepin — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:24:36 +0000

I've just started playing the demo yesterday and I'm hooked. Will definitely buy the game, but wondering on which platform. My laptop screen already feels a bit small - anyone has an experience playing on switch and thoughts on playing on handheld mode and/or using controls compared to keyboard/mouse?

New comment by jypepin in "Blink-182 tickets are so expensive because Ticketmaster is a monopoly"

jypepin — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:46:03 +0000

Yeah, high prices suck but I do agree and fail to see what, exactly, is wrong here?

Don't get me wrong, I don't like TM, I don't like monopolies and I don't like high prices, but... price = equilibrium between offer and demand, it's the basics of our capitalist society, and all this look like to me is that TM is doing a good job at figuring out the equilibrium price for their tickets?

New comment by jypepin in "The YC Summer 2022 Batch"

jypepin — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:09:22 +0000

> 19,000 applications from founders around the world and funded 240.

Damn that's a lot of applications to review. Is there any data in terms of quality of applications? Is there a big part of spams/very low quality applications or is everything pretty serious?

New comment by jypepin in "Using a Raspberry Pi as a Bluetooth Speaker with PipeWire"

jypepin — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 16:14:43 +0000

somewhat unrelated but I recently looked for a pi and it was sold out or the price tag was 10x the regular price everywhere, mostly because of the chip shortage. Am I looking in the wrong places?

New comment by jypepin in "Richat Structure"

jypepin — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 19:50:33 +0000

You can find it on google map and its scale looks very impressive!

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Richat+Structure/@21.16845...

New comment by jypepin in "Turn spreadsheets into website designs"

jypepin — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 19:58:55 +0000

it only appears on mobile tho, so i'm not sure what it's supposed to be...

New comment by jypepin in "Ask HN: What do you code when learning a new language/framework?"

jypepin — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 23:59:17 +0000

I really like building Conway's Game of Life. It's big enough that each time I still have to think about the solution and how to build it, but small enough that it allows me to recognize patterns and differences from a language to another.

New comment by jypepin in "Actual is going open-source"

jypepin — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 19:13:24 +0000

salaries in europe are much lower - but to be fair, I lived much better in amsterdam with 100k euro than SF with 150k