<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: liamwire</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=liamwire</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:59:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=liamwire" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by liamwire in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed, reaction from OP is concerning to say the least</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:48:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514501</link><dc:creator>liamwire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by liamwire in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bobby my good friend, nice to hear from you</p>
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<p>You've put a lot into this, that much is clear. However, this suffers from the usual problem of the era of abundant bespoke tooling: It's hard to figure out what this even <i>does</i>.  I read the README, the examples, and the scoring function, but I still couldn't easily articulate this in a meaningful way to a third person. If you want adoption, you need to solve for this first.<p>Your README's first few lines, which is as far as you should expect most people will go, mentions a 2-minute explainer video. But it's actually 45 seconds. Why say otherwise? Hyperbole, maybe, but to me it raises the question of whether any of this was QC'd by a human at all before publishing. If your headline marketing material is in question, I'm inclined to make assumptions about the rest of it as well.<p>Edit: I should add, I'm glad I didn't check out your website before commenting, because I probably would've been too intimidated to comment. My career and expertise wouldn't measure up to yours. I do stand by my thoughts though, I think we often get so deep into our own domain and needs that we can briefly lose sight of our average audience. I’ll try this out myself on a website repo I'm updating and share how it went later on.<p>Part 2: Using it went pretty well, in my case there wasn't much in the way of improvements identified, but it's a fairly simple static Astro site with minimal JS used to market a business, so there's far less surface area than this is maybe intended for. It looks like it works well. Tighten up the messaging on the repo and I think you've got a good tool.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:13:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394806</link><dc:creator>liamwire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394806</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by liamwire in "Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Inline it into a website's HTML to provide a low-res preview of an image as opposed to a blank placeholder or layout shift.</p>
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<p>For the uninitiated: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe</a></p>
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<p>Queensland allows residents to see the details of offenders in our local area, but you need to provide extensive ID to do so, and leaking that information is itself a crime. Daniel's Law was introduced in 2025 so this is pretty recent.</p>
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<p>What's depressing and shitty about Brisbane's weather?</p>
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<p>It takes an incredible stretch of the imagination to conflate colonialism with freedom, when the two couldn't be more at odds, definitionally.</p>
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<p>It'd be extraordinary compelling to genuinely have a unified mechanism to explain depression treatments, but I am not qualified to make heads or tails of the research. Wondering what the take of those with relevant experience is on this?</p>
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<p>You can use my phone number, +61 400 000 000 :)</p>
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<p>Sincerely, I’ll be thinking of you tomorrow. Best wishes with your treatment, give it hell.</p>
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<p>That seems incredibly prescient for accounts created before even GPT-1. Obviously broad data scraping existed before then, but even amongst this crowd I find it hard to believe that’s the real motivator.</p>
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<p>What an absurd take. If we use FLOPS as a crude measure, the Air would be comparable to the leading supercomputers of ~1999/2000. There's many reasons why that's a very poor comparison but ignoring the absolute insanity of the raw compute available in a pocketable, thin, battery-powered handheld that you can buy literally this week, is ridiculous. Modern smartphones are nothing short of sci-fi when compared to even recent living memory. We're simply used to them due to their sheer ubiquity.</p>
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<p>Air, as a product line, quite famously started with Jobs emphasising the thinness of the MacBook Air by pulling it from a paper folder. Taking what are ultimately marketing terms as literal face-value descriptors isn't particularly useful.</p>
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<p>If you take Apple's presentation at face value, most of the iPhone Air hardware is within the plateau, with the rest of the body being almost entirely battery. So it's not immediately obvious that even if they did do away with the bump, that there'd be a useable phone left over once considering the necessary reduction in battery size.</p>
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<p>Huh? GeForce NOW is a resounding success by many metrics. Anecdotally, I use it weekly to play multiplayer games and it’s an excellent experience. Google giving up on Stadia as a product says almost nothing about cloud gaming’s viability.</p>
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<p>I have to ask out of curiosity, why is your first comment made with one account, and the reply with a similarly-named alt?</p>
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<p>I thought the world had broadly moved onto the moment magnitude scale?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 10:41:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082126</link><dc:creator>liamwire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by liamwire in "What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Queensland, Australia introduced state-wide $0.50 public transit fares a year ago, and it’s been a raging success. Conveniently, this also eliminates the entire problem class of needing to calculate fares. Mind you, for those unfamiliar, QLD is a state 2.5x larger than Texas, 5x larger than all of Japan, 7x larger than Great Britain, and is bigger than all but 16 countries.</p>
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<p>Really? It’s always felt to me like it was app availability — for all the efforts, the app marketplace was a fraction of a fraction of the competitions’, and much like the network effects in social media, if you can’t catch up quickly, it can be almost impossible to ever do so. Haemorrhaging billions per quarter takes a strong stomach and a long vision, one that’s likely to put any executive’s tenure at risk. Nevertheless, it interesting to think what things might’ve looked like had Microsoft persisted another decade.</p>
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