Hacker News: kylelibra

New comment by kylelibra in "Ask HN: Best Source for Desktop Backgrounds"

kylelibra — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:03:21 +0000

https://wallhaven.cc has a solid selection and some basic filters.

New comment by kylelibra in "Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism"

kylelibra — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:57:04 +0000

Yes...auto-correct failed me there.

New comment by kylelibra in "Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism"

kylelibra — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:58:34 +0000

This thing is extremely divisive on VC twitter: https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1330889261479043075...

New comment by kylelibra in "The Y Combinator Database"

kylelibra — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 02:08:28 +0000

What's the marketing angle for Snappr here?

New comment by kylelibra in "Uber launches rider loyalty rewards like credits"

kylelibra — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:01:19 +0000

I'm surprised it took so long for rideshare companies to launch this feature (Lyft's version will be unveiled in December).

New comment by kylelibra in "Bypass Paywalls for Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times"

kylelibra — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 02:55:00 +0000

I've always marveled that The New York Times can know exactly how many free articles I've consumed across different apps/entry points, but cannot ever keep me logged in.

New comment by kylelibra in "Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your Phone's Mic"

kylelibra — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 01:31:38 +0000

What is Facebook going to do about GDPR?

New comment by kylelibra in "Ask HN: Review my startup idea"

kylelibra — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 18:32:34 +0000

Immediate reaction: what prevents the social media players to cut off your source of data and just do this themselves?

New comment by kylelibra in "Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Says He’s Taking the Uber CEO Position"

kylelibra — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:41:35 +0000

Pretty interesting deep dive on what he did at Expedia: https://skift.com/history-of-online-travel/

New comment by kylelibra in "George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon"

kylelibra — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:26:53 +0000

Also highly relevant is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

New comment by kylelibra in "GIF Site Giphy Is Valued at $600M"

kylelibra — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:49:41 +0000

1B gifs served per day and 100 DAU.

Anyone have a guess at a business model to monetize on that sort of traffic?

New comment by kylelibra in "Guidelines for Edtech Products"

kylelibra — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 23:19:00 +0000

Seems like there is an opportunity for a company to be the certification layer verifying companies do these things and do them in a consistent way.

New comment by kylelibra in "Internet Attack Spreads, Disrupting Major Websites"

kylelibra — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 23:17:33 +0000

Can't recall ever seeing the NY Times embed tweets in a story, is this a first?

edit: apparently it's because I mostly read the site within the app.

New comment by kylelibra in "How to Pass the Product Manager Interview"

kylelibra — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 18:33:34 +0000

Start with this list: https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/50-articles-and-books-that-wi...

New comment by kylelibra in "Huge Backlog of Ships Waiting to Pass Through the Panama Canal"

kylelibra — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 22:35:05 +0000

If you are wondering why:

"A statement provided to us Friday from the Panama Canal Authority said that a high level of arrivals during the last in September coincided with schedule dry-chamber maintenance."

New comment by kylelibra in "How to Stay in Shape at a Desk Job"

kylelibra — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 20:10:17 +0000

TL;DR - Do pushups on the floor.

New comment by kylelibra in "How the Freightliner Reveal Was Projected onto the Hoover Dam"

kylelibra — Thu, 07 May 2015 14:46:29 +0000

60 projectors at 26,000 watts each were synchronized to create a single seamless image with a resolution of 4592 x 2048 pixels on a 420,000 square foot surface. Wow.

New comment by kylelibra in "Show HN: CSS Filter Effects"

kylelibra — Thu, 07 May 2015 14:44:23 +0000

These are cool, but seems like in cases where you want to blur something out on an image you should do so in photoshop on the actual image and not with css. Otherwise someone could just use element inspector to delete the blur effect.

New comment by kylelibra in "U.S. NSA domestic phone spying program illegal: appeals court"

kylelibra — Thu, 07 May 2015 14:39:03 +0000

Here's the actual decision: http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/NSA_ca2_20150507.pdf

Concurrence by Judge Sack: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/clap...

Here's what struck me as the most interesting comment from Sack - "Considering the issue of advocacy in the context of deliberations involving alleged state secrets, and, more broadly, the ʺleakʺ by Edward Snowden that led to this litigation, calls to mind the disclosures by Daniel Ellsberg that gave rise to the legendary ʺPentagon Papersʺ litigation."

New comment by kylelibra in "New York City Subway Ridership Jumps"

kylelibra — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:16:57 +0000

1.75 billion customers last year which is a 2.6% increase. It would be helpful to have the context of how much of the city's population has used the system over time. A quick google search makes me think this increase is far outpacing the population increases in the city.