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New comment by nosecreek in "The first non-opoid painkiller"

nosecreek — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:12:57 +0000

Can confirm it is called acetaminophen in Canada

New comment by nosecreek in "Why is everybody knitting chickens?"

nosecreek — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:18:23 +0000

> It's an excellent hobby. I can explain more why if people are interested.

I'm interested in your why. It's something I've considered for a while but haven't actually started on yet.

New comment by nosecreek in "Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?"

nosecreek — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:12:20 +0000

Related question: what is everyone using to run a local LLM? I'm using Jan.ai and it's been okay. I also see OpenWebUI mentioned quite often.

New comment by nosecreek in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

nosecreek — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:29:13 +0000

Shameless plug for my own project (https://grocerytracker.ca/) since you're in Canada. Eventually I'd love for it to do what you're suggesting, but for now the closest thing you can do is create a basket for each store with the same items and then check each week to see which is the cheapest.

New comment by nosecreek in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

nosecreek — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:23:16 +0000

I’ve been scraping and tracking Canadian grocery prices for a few years, lots of ideas on how to do more with it if I had more time… http://grocerytracker.ca/

New comment by nosecreek in "Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector"

nosecreek — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:11:16 +0000

I’d be curious to hear more from OP on this as well. I’ve got my own price tracking site for Canadian groceries (http://grocerytracker.ca/) but my primary goal has been to get information in the hands of average Canadians so they can make informed buying decisions.

New comment by nosecreek in "Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector"

nosecreek — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:08:47 +0000

I’ve got a site with the price history aspect for Canadian groceries (http://grocerytracker.ca/), but the community groups/public lists idea is interesting. I definitely feel like there is a lot of potential in this space.

New comment by nosecreek in "Show HN: A Website You Can Only Visit Once"

nosecreek — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 15:46:43 +0000

Love the idea, very creative and well executed!

New comment by nosecreek in "Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright"

nosecreek — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 01:19:45 +0000

In Canada I think they are legally required to, but sometimes it can be frustrating if they don’t always compare like units - one product will be price per gram or 100 grams, and another price per kg. I’ve found with online shopping, the unit prices don’t take into account discounts and sale prices, which makes it harder to shop sales (in store seems to be better for this).

New comment by nosecreek in "Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright"

nosecreek — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 01:16:07 +0000

For sure, just replace the first dot in the url from my profile with an @

New comment by nosecreek in "Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright"

nosecreek — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 19:30:36 +0000

Absolutely! It’s made it difficult to implement some of the cross-retailer comparison features I would like to add. For my charts I’ve just manually selected some products, but I’ve also been trying to get a “good enough but not perfect” string comparison algorithm working.

New comment by nosecreek in "Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright"

nosecreek — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 19:05:58 +0000

Very cool! I did something similar in Canada (https://grocerytracker.ca/)

New comment by nosecreek in "AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them"

nosecreek — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:15:14 +0000

Interesting. I suspect I may have the same thing.

I also have poor vision without glasses, and I’ve always found that when I go swimming (and can’t wear my glasses) my hearing also gets significantly worse. Or at least the cocktail party problem gets worse, as my brain seems to get overwhelmed by every single background noise. I think some of this is explained by many indoor pools being big echoey spaces, but it still happens at outdoor pools as well. I suspect that when one sense (sight) is degraded, my brain tries to compensate by focusing on another sense (hearing), and the end result is even worse due to APD.

New comment by nosecreek in "Reddit is taking over Google"

nosecreek — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:08:30 +0000

Are there specific laws that deal with rate limits? Honest question - I get that something too fast could be considered DDoS, but so long as it’s below a certain threshold wouldn’t it be okay (not sure how said threshold would be determined)?

New comment by nosecreek in "Ask HN: Why isn't there a Rotten Tomatoes for consumer electronics?"

nosecreek — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:25:12 +0000

I know it doesn’t solve the problem for everyone, but many public libraries offer free access to Consumer Reports.

New comment by nosecreek in "Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager"

nosecreek — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:25:02 +0000

My favorite YNAB alternative is Buckets - https://www.budgetwithbuckets.com/ although especially if you don’t need auto-sync

New comment by nosecreek in "A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's"

nosecreek — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:01:45 +0000

Agreed on the stores. Cities/locations should be sorted by distance from your location.

New comment by nosecreek in "A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's"

nosecreek — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:01:11 +0000

No, but I’ll admit that is my biggest hesitation in promoting it beyond what I already do. Walmart has the most aggressive blocking (in general, I don’t think specifically directed at my site) and I haven’t been able to get new data from them since October I think. Otherwise haven’t had any issues.

New comment by nosecreek in "A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's"

nosecreek — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 20:58:39 +0000

If I had unlimited time I would love to. Unfortunately I can’t see it expanding beyond Canada anytime soon though.

New comment by nosecreek in "A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's"

nosecreek — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 18:23:26 +0000

Not for Big Macs, but if you’re interested I’ve been collecting Canadian grocery price data over the past couple of years here: https://grocerytracker.ca/