Hacker News: needcaffeine

New comment by needcaffeine in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

needcaffeine — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:20:29 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by needcaffeine in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

needcaffeine — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:20:24 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by needcaffeine in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

needcaffeine — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:54:13 +0000

I'm working on https://www.OnetimeFax.com - it's a way to send and receive faxes for a flat fee without needing to subscribe to anything.

Version 1 was a script I wrote for myself to fax the courts a jury duty deferral during covid lockdown, and then during my parental leave I productized it.

New comment by needcaffeine in "Nvidia won, we all lost"

needcaffeine — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 02:29:10 +0000

What RTS games are you playing now, please?

New comment by needcaffeine in "Show HN: I built a browser-based tutorial for learning RAG for LLMs"

needcaffeine — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:10:18 +0000

VERY COOL! I joined the waitlist.

New comment by needcaffeine in "American founders and tech workers: Call your Congressperson ASAP"

needcaffeine — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:56:01 +0000

Wow, thanks for making it so easy for me to know who to call and what to say. They answered the phone in 1 second (seriously), I told them what I wanted to say, and they recorded my name and that was it.

New comment by needcaffeine in "Leaked Slack all-hands meeting reveals a ‘strong culture clash’ with Salesforce"

needcaffeine — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 05:24:39 +0000

Is the joke that every one of those is an acquisition?

New comment by needcaffeine in "Google launches Health Studies app"

needcaffeine — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 06:31:23 +0000

I look forward to seeing this on https://killedbygoogle.com in a few weeks.

New comment by needcaffeine in "Why I believe the US has herd immunity in some states"

needcaffeine — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:10:49 +0000

Preprints.

New comment by needcaffeine in "Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?"

needcaffeine — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:31:23 +0000

At a previous job they refused to give me database access and instead insisted I ask them whenever I needed any columns added/altered, however I did have access to the code to do my job and...mysql root credentials were committed to the repo.

To keep the charade up I sent one of every 20 requests to them to do for me.

New comment by needcaffeine in "Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account?"

needcaffeine — Tue, 26 May 2020 03:42:34 +0000

And easier deletes if customer X wants all their data deleted!

New comment by needcaffeine in "6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far"

needcaffeine — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 12:57:33 +0000

This was an excellent exchange that I learned a lot from. Thank you both.

New comment by needcaffeine in "Ask HN: What do you use tools like IFTTT or Zapier for?"

needcaffeine — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 04:27:41 +0000

I watch some running race registration sites with Zapier and when it tells me that they are open I go register immediately so I can have a low bib number.

New comment by needcaffeine in "Security Update"

needcaffeine — Fri, 17 May 2019 01:59:09 +0000

Because if they didn't, they'd get criticism about not doing so right away. Also...GDPR?

New comment by needcaffeine in "Lawyer's Led Zeppelin Complaint Is a Work of Art (2014)"

needcaffeine — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 19:45:19 +0000

What is the right way to redact a pdf?

New comment by needcaffeine in "24 Amazon workers sent to hospital after robot accidentally unleashes bear spray"

needcaffeine — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 12:52:19 +0000

“accidentally”

New comment by needcaffeine in "Stripe has democratised online payments and reshaped the digital economy"

needcaffeine — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 19:55:27 +0000

Not to take away from your point, but Braintree and Braintree-owned Venmo were acquired by PayPal in 2013.

New comment by needcaffeine in "Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS"

needcaffeine — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 02:28:23 +0000

https://www.netlify.com/

New comment by needcaffeine in "Show HN: Progress Bar OS X. How much % of a year/month/day has passed in menubar"

needcaffeine — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:02:03 +0000

I love this. This is what I'm using now!

New comment by needcaffeine in "Ask HN: Who do you trust most with your data?"

needcaffeine — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 02:10:09 +0000

I sync my photos, iPhone backups, and documents to iCloud Drive.

My documents folder is backed up by Google Drive.