Hacker News: moondowner

New comment by moondowner in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

moondowner — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:13:50 +0000

DE & EE should have a double taxation agreement.

https://www.fin.ee/en/double-taxation-agreements

New comment by moondowner in "Japanese symbols that speak without words"

moondowner — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:21:51 +0000

That's the case in Europe in general, yes.

New comment by moondowner in "Japanese symbols that speak without words"

moondowner — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:15:19 +0000

"no gives a fuck" is a bit dramatic

there are memes about zabka on social media as well (i've personally seen some on insta and tiktok), maybe not in the same scale, but there are.

New comment by moondowner in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

moondowner — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:27:59 +0000

`buys` sounds like they have just purchased BD, should be `takes full control` or something similar.

New comment by moondowner in "Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?"

moondowner — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:14:28 +0000

Many similar cases accross Europe.

Visited Lisboa last summer, the building where I booked an apartment was not even there in Google Maps, satellite image data was showing a leveled site with some dumpsters.

Just checked and the images are still the same old ones...

New comment by moondowner in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

moondowner — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:49:14 +0000

> Western Europe and the US built their economy in Poland, because the labor is educated and cheap. > There are almost no globally competitive Polish companies.

Same issue in all southern and eastern European countries.

New comment by moondowner in "Russia Poisons Wikipedia"

moondowner — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:45:18 +0000

Nation states have been editing history related pages on Wikipedia for ages, it has never been a reliable source of information on some topics.

New comment by moondowner in "Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf"

moondowner — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:39:13 +0000

was *

https://www.foundry.com/news-and-awards/foundry-winds-down-m...

New comment by moondowner in "Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase"

moondowner — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:00:03 +0000

Switched from Spring Boot to Ruby on Rails 3 years ago.

I expected to see some new Spring 'tricks' in this post, but it's pretty much regular things that people might do in larger codebases.

New comment by moondowner in "“This is not the computer for you”"

moondowner — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:26:35 +0000

> He is going to open GarageBand and make something that is not a song.

As a kid I just loved playing around in Reason (1 or 2?) and making strange sounds and just flipping the racks around and trying to connect the cables in any jack possible, to see what happens.

I would open one of the demo songs, to 'learn' how these racks were wired, and then experimented.

Good old memories.

Kids nowadays need those type of experiences too.

New comment by moondowner in "We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years"

moondowner — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:17:14 +0000

> The homeless centre told them Ronnie needed an address to get a job, Rob said, but "to get an address, you need a job".

> "That's the Catch 22 that loads of homeless people are in."

Breaking this systemic barrier would make life easier on a lot of people.

New comment by moondowner in "Be Careful with GIDs in Rails"

moondowner — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:01:46 +0000

Any popular Rails apps that use to_global_id?

New comment by moondowner in "SmartTube Compromised"

moondowner — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:15:31 +0000

Sometimes people download it because there's no alternative. E.g. the YT app is not available in the play store in their country on that specific hardware, so the only way to be able to view YT is to use an alternative app like this one.

New comment by moondowner in "Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding"

moondowner — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:29:10 +0000

Is there a similar guide/document for Claude Code?

Crystal – Multi-Session Claude Code Manager

moondowner — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/stravu/crystal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44939057

Points: 3

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New comment by moondowner in "I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again"

moondowner — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:10:53 +0000

Affiliate links have been here for three decades; (AutoWeb.com doing it since 1995)

New comment by moondowner in "Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on the project (2024)"

moondowner — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:33:36 +0000

I remember when ZTE Open was released in Europe in 2013, it was a decent Firefox OS phone.

The downside for me was that it didn't feel premium.

Compared to the 2012 HTC One S that I had back then, which was very slim, with aluminum finish and great screen, it didn't stood the chance.

NTT Docomo, popularizer of emoji, ends support after 26 years

moondowner — Wed, 21 May 2025 21:48:57 +0000

Article URL: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Telecommunication/NTT-Docomo-popularizer-of-emoji-ends-support-after-26-years

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44056628

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by moondowner in "Nokia Design Archive"

moondowner — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:54:53 +0000

No mention of my fav Nokia of all time, the N9; also no mention of MeeGo and Maemo

New comment by moondowner in "Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion"

moondowner — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:02:34 +0000

I've been using Rancher Desktop as an alternative to Docker Desktop, https://rancherdesktop.io/ on macOS and Windows, it's pretty solid.

It has some kinks to work out but I got it working with IDEs too (e.g. the Intellij IDEA Docker Compose integration to work with it).

What I also like is that existing scripts and etc that use the docker-compose cli work with Rancher Desktop too, as it uses nerdctl https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl