Hacker News: kulor

New comment by kulor in "Ferrari Luce"

kulor — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:36:49 +0000

Kudos to Ferrari trying to stay modern with a collab with one of the best industrial designers of the moment. But this feels antithetical to Ferrari, it's bland and utilitarian where they should be channeling flair and evocative designs.

OpenAI changes deal with US Military after backlash

kulor — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:05:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rz1nd0egro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231205

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by kulor in "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"

kulor — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:00:57 +0000

I've recently re-instated a Photoshop subscription and its now part of my core AI generated asset workflow. AI is fantastic at art direction but it needs minor adjustments to make it production ready. E.g putting real screenshots in with correct placement, smoothing, editing out artefacts etc. I can't imagine the lengths I'd have to go to to instruct an LLM to do these tasks with words.

New comment by kulor in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

kulor — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:36:17 +0000

We've recently been without water in the UK for 5 days (water company failings). I've come to appreciate mains water and how its utility is hard felt by omission for toilets, washing & cleaning. Immensely grateful to have it back now.

New comment by kulor in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)"

kulor — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:24:40 +0000

Hi, it's not an exact science but i'd take it to mean a max 2 hour train journey. Else days have to be cut short to account for transport faff.

New comment by kulor in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)"

kulor — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:23:52 +0000

OnCare | Mid level software engineer | Remote but close to London for occasional meetups | https://www.weareoncare.com

We need help building & evolving features to help care agencies run their operations better. Everything we do to improve operational effectiveness for care agencies leads to a better quality of life for everyone involved. We have extremely big ambitions and are building at a rapid pace towards them.

* We need a full-stack engineer with a leaning towards the backend

* Seeking someone who knows how to design and maintain complex systems to a very high quality bar

* You are AI aware with a desire to get into the weeds of prompt and pipeline engineering

* We're Django on AWS with React for interactive interfaces

* We focus on quality, not quantity

* Profitable & independent with lofty long-term aspirations

* The process: 30 min alignment call, time-limited sensible coding test, 1 hr meet the stakeholders Zoom, offer

* You: someone who wants to apply your skills to meaningful problems, cares about your craft, has strong engineering skills and enjoys personal development.

Apply by expressing your interest to james @ weareoncare com with a CV/Linkedin and a "cover letter" that gives me an idea what you're looking for and how you could be a good fit.

Recruiters: you do a sterling job of connecting people but we only deal with direct applications.

New comment by kulor in "Bored of It"

kulor — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:47:36 +0000

Is this intellectual fatigue not part of all paradigm shifts? Semi-serious question.

New comment by kulor in "A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor"

kulor — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:48:57 +0000

Apply Chesterton's Fence principle and assume there are (hopefully) comments in the real code around why this has been put in place

New comment by kulor in "End of the road for Google Drive in Transmit"

kulor — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:27:43 +0000

Having recently had an infuriating experience with an Android app submission, it seems there's a horde of people in a similar jam, running the senseless bureaucratic review process gauntlet: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1ck1wyp/did_goo...

New comment by kulor in "The million-dollar mystery of milk.com"

kulor — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:11:51 +0000

interestingly bq.co.uk redirects to diy.com though that doesn't mean they own it

New comment by kulor in "The million-dollar mystery of milk.com"

kulor — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:07:37 +0000

This triggered following a shallow rabbit hole through their history. It's a nice double meaning to incorporate their initials (Blimie & Herman) and heritage in one brand name.

New comment by kulor in "The million-dollar mystery of milk.com"

kulor — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 10:53:35 +0000

An example of a premium domain that confuses me is diy.com. Owned by B&Q. Sure it's a good vanity flex but at the cost of your brand name?

The same brand predicament must be true of whatever prospects milk.com has.

New comment by kulor in "Foundations: Why Britain Has Stagnated"

kulor — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 13:43:58 +0000

Similar points were covered in the recent Tyler Cowen podcast with Tobi Lütke[1] regarding economic stagnation in Canada & Germany (relative to the US).

The UK has a cynical view on progress, likely leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy. The US seems to have a contrasting view with an optimistic by default outlook.

1. https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/tobi-lutke/

New comment by kulor in "Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)"

kulor — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:10:25 +0000

I call this program in one's head "suspended comprehension" as it has a degree of transience and fragility that requires effort to resume where you left off.

New comment by kulor in "Ask HN: How do you manage registration spam?"

kulor — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:07:52 +0000

I don't suppose it's a problem that can be fully solved; just an ongoing arms race. The hardest part is not deterring genuine users at such a decisive consideration stage.

Ask HN: How do you manage registration spam?

kulor — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:52:54 +0000

I've been running digital marketing on a few projects and all seem to suffer from many "spam" signups.

I can only assume the main intent is to find exploits with email and billing systems but there's a long list of other nefarious activity that could be at play.

I've set up a custom tool to monitor and prevent suspicious signups (looking at email deliverability, light identity checks and some AI with tuned prompts). Captchas don't seem to cut it as abusers don't seem to be bots.

Is this a problem other people are facing and if so how do you manage it, if at all?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41529333

Points: 23

# Comments: 25

New comment by kulor in "Ask HN: Where are the part-time remote coding jobs?"

kulor — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:22:59 +0000

A bit of a curveball I spotted was professional skill marketplaces like https://www.bark.com/en/gb/software-development/ which, when on the platform, you'll find people posting their esoteric software dev requests which could lead to some interesting gigs.

You can use PHP, jQuery and SQLite to build 40 startups [video]

kulor — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:51:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtjKbXKqbg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41324294

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kulor in "Microsoft shelves its underwater data center"

kulor — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:17:37 +0000

Without knowing the security measures in place, it strikes me as a ripe vulnerability to any determined nefarious actor to destroy or infiltrate this submersible data centre.

New comment by kulor in "Docker Is Having an Outage"

kulor — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 22:22:44 +0000

"Full Service Disruption" for Docker Hub Registry acknowledged at the time of writing