Hacker News: meagher

CLI Framework for Agents and Humans

meagher — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:24:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/wevm/incur

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278077

Points: 2

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New comment by meagher in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

meagher — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:49:56 +0000

This was a worry for me when leaving my full time job in 2022 to work on open source. Our OSS project was able to pay rent, but was concerned about healthcare costs for my partner and me (NY state has extended COBRA coverage, but it's extremely expensive). My co-founder lives in Australia, which has free basic health care, so he was up for leaving his job before I was.

Taking the risk was one of the best decisions I've made, but if I had a chronic health condition/higher healthcare costs, probably would not have been comfortable.

New comment by meagher in "Angel Investors, a Field Guide"

meagher — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:37:09 +0000

I'm not questioning his investment abilities, just curious what he offers that is strategic (advice, dealmaking, etc).

Aside: Saquon Barkley's (pro football player) portfolio is insane https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/saquon-barkley-investment-p...

New comment by meagher in "Angel Investors, a Field Guide"

meagher — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:49:06 +0000

> Martin and Mike both advised strategic angels instead of friends and family to fill out the round, so that’s what we did.

How is Kevin Durant (pro basketball player) a strategic angel for a monitoring/observability company?

New comment by meagher in "Purposeful animations"

meagher — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:14:04 +0000

> Delight is overblown, in my opinion

Nerdsnipe perpetuated by other engineers/designers admiring it on Twitter. Nothing wrong with that, just shouldn’t pretend that most users care.

New comment by meagher in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

meagher — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:42:03 +0000

That would be great! Even if EV pollution is zero, cars still take up a lot of space in a city where space is very limited.

New comment by meagher in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

meagher — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:39:34 +0000

NYC doesn’t have a lot of surface parking lots.

New comment by meagher in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

meagher — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:10:02 +0000

Thanks for the correction. Updated.

New comment by meagher in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

meagher — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:02:50 +0000

> not sure why you think waymo would fight against that

If you were to pedestrianize 10% of Manhattan (or for example all of Broadway, which is being considered), then that’s less area for Waymo to operate and make money. To be clear, this is likely more of a long term issue.

New comment by meagher in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

meagher — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:59:14 +0000

It’s a step in the right direction, but they still pollute (heavy electric vehicles have a lot more tire dust) and take up a lot space (could close roads and build housing or just have more space for the millions of city residents that don’t have/use cars).

LTN still allow buses, emergency vehicles, deliveries, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Traffic_Neighbourhood

New comment by meagher in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

meagher — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:54:29 +0000

I’d believe it, but the fact that any pedestrians/bikers are killed/injured by cars in NYC is unacceptable.

New comment by meagher in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

meagher — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:48:00 +0000

This is great long term for having cars that follow traffic laws since human drivers in NYC are awful (kill/injure pedestrians, bikers, and other street users all the time).

Not so great for getting cars out of NYC and pedestrianizing more of the city/moving towards more “low traffic neighborhoods” as I imagine Waymo and other similar companies are going to fight against these efforts.

Edit: Lots of people talking about human drivers taking advantage of self-driving cars being more cautious/timid. Good news is that once you have enough self-driving cars on the road, it probably slows down/calms other traffic (see related research on speed governors).

New comment by meagher in "Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider"

meagher — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:37:02 +0000

Seems possible that on/off-ramps are leveled up in the next few years as Stripe and other large financial institutions all try to launch and dominate stablecoins.

New comment by meagher in "Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider"

meagher — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:53:43 +0000

Bit dated, but from my experience, yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291790

New comment by meagher in "Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider"

meagher — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:51:22 +0000

In 2018, Patreon almost got kicked off of Stripe because Mastercard objected to NSFW content (probably because of PACs and/or “moralizing busybodies”). Patreon booted most of the NSFW creators and OnlyFans scooped them up. OnlyFans is now significantly bigger than Patreon.

New comment by meagher in "Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others"

meagher — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:13:12 +0000

There used to be something like this at the Boston Museum of Science, where you created a fish (don’t remember if you drew it freehand and/or selected from different fish parts) and released it into the tank with other fish and predators.

New comment by meagher in "Six months into congestion pricing, more cars are off the road"

meagher — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:30:19 +0000

Does she pay for parking or benefit from the over 2M free parking spots?

New comment by meagher in "Six months into congestion pricing, more cars are off the road"

meagher — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:19:15 +0000

The Federal Highway Administration tried to revoke its approval for the program (some federal roads in the congestion relief zone). Still being litigated last I checked.

New comment by meagher in "Six months into congestion pricing, more cars are off the road"

meagher — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:16:37 +0000

Bike lanes and safety improvements for pedestrians aren’t causing congestion. Check out the data!

Here are some good jumping off points: - https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikestats.shtml - https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2025/vision-zero.shtml - https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/pedestrians.sh...

New comment by meagher in "Ask HN: In 15 years, what will a gas station visit look like?"

meagher — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 01:01:23 +0000

Not sure where you are, but hopefully we try harder to move away from cars in the US and adopt more rail (light, high-speed long distance, etc.) so in that world, they get replaced with housing or literally anything else.