Hacker News: nthdesign

New comment by nthdesign in "Payphone Go"

nthdesign — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:39:24 +0000

I second this! I'd love to have this for PA or NJ.

New comment by nthdesign in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

nthdesign — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:08:29 +0000

I agree 100%. When I purchased my Steam Deck, I was actually surprised that it was so easy to switch between Steam profiles. Last year, my wife and I tried Apple Vision Pro. While we aren't the target audience for a $3,500 headset, we might be tempted at $1,200. But not if each of us needs to buy our own.

New comment by nthdesign in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

nthdesign — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:57:11 +0000

Agreed. There is a wide price difference between running a managed AWS or Azure MySQL service and running MySQL on a VM that you spin up in AWS or Azure.

New comment by nthdesign in "Miami, your Waymo ride is ready"

nthdesign — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:48:12 +0000

I was at a conference in Phoenix in November and took seven Waymo trips during my stay. Four of those were fairly long (20-minute) trips. I preferred Waymo to the Uber/Lyft experience because it felt private. It was just me and my colleagues in the car, no strangers. It also felt futuristic and novel, which I'm sure will wear off. We experienced no weird or erratic driving, with one minor exception... Waymo always followed the speed limit. On a major road where the speed limit was 40mph, other cars were zipping around us at 55mph+. And, one parking lot had 5mph speed limit signs posted. As you can imagine, Waymo was the slowest vehicle in that parking lot by a wide margin.

New comment by nthdesign in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

nthdesign — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:35:06 +0000

I've used the minio-go client library for about a year now. I don't see anything in the minio-go README or elsewhere to make me think it will no longer be supported. In fact, the most recently merged PR was yesterday. There are some other Go S3 clients, like https://github.com/kelindar/s3, but I don't know if any other Go S3 clients have the complete set of features that minio-go has.

New comment by nthdesign in "It's not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world"

nthdesign — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:14:52 +0000

I've struggled with weight my entire life (I'm in my forties). Back in 2019, I lost 80 pounds. I carefully regulated my calorie intake to 1,800 per day. I discovered I have an absolutely terrible sense of portion size, and absolutely never feel "full" or satiated. I also made it a point to close all three Activity rings on my Apple Watch every day. I felt better, I had more energy, and I was able to enjoy more things in my day-to-day life. Even with all of those positives, a series of difficult life events during the first year of COVID took me out of my routine, and I haven't been able to bounce back. I would like to try a GLP-1 to see if it could give me a boost in the right direction again. I have no interest in being on it, or any medication, forever.

Thankfully, I've never been addicted to anything other than food. I never liked alcohol, nor did I get any positive feeling from it. So, I don't drink. I've never been enticed by drugs, so I've never used them. I went to Atlantic City once, but have never gambled another day in my life. Being spared from these other addictions isn't a matter of my amazing willpower. I'm simply not drawn to those addictions. Nor do I think that people who battle those addictions simply have a lack of willpower. I believe it's much deeper than that.

I agree that celebrating a medication as a cure-all solution is problematic. But, I don't think that's what most people think about GLP-1s. I think most most people simply want, and deserve, a little help in a difficult and complex world.

New comment by nthdesign in "Meta Movie Gen"

nthdesign — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:59:34 +0000

My kids both have creative hearts, and they are terrified that A.I. will prevent them from earning a living through creativity. Very recently, I've had an alternate thought. We've spent decades improving the technology of entertainment, spending billions (trillions?) of dollars in the process. When A.I. can generate any entertainment you can imagine, we might start finding this kind of entertainment boring. Maybe, at that point, we decide that exploring space, stretching our knowledge of physics and chemistry, and combating disease are far more interesting because they are real. And, through the same lens, maybe human-created art is more interesting because it is real.

New comment by nthdesign in "Scale of the Universe"

nthdesign — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:56:18 +0000

Neal Agarwal (Neal.Fun) did something similar a while back with cool WebGL effects. https://neal.fun/size-of-space/

New comment by nthdesign in "Amtrak adds more service throughout the US Northeast Corridor to meet demand"

nthdesign — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:22:04 +0000

I recently booked an Amtrak trip for my family from Trenton, NJ to Kissimmee, FL for a Disney vacation. There are 7 of us, so we qualified for a decent discount. It ended up being just under $150 per person round-trip. We chose Amtrak because my dad cannot fly due to some medical issues. For the week we're traveling, it's significantly cheaper than airfare, we get more space, more bags, and it feels like an adventure.

New comment by nthdesign in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)"

nthdesign — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:13:32 +0000

American Reading Company | Full Stack Developer | King of Prussia, PA | Onsite | Full Time

At American Reading Company, we create content, build tools, and provide training to help students become avid readers and learners. Educational technology, including web and mobile applications, are crucial to our daily operations. We're looking for a full stack developer who will build web applications that will enable school and district administrators to learn and collaborate together while implementing our literacy solutions. These powerful tools will live inside our widely-used, proven technology platform, SchoolPace.

We want to find the best candidates, no matter what tools they use to get the job done. We use an assortment of tools, including PHP, MySQL, and Docker. But, it's okay if your expertise is in other tools and languages! Show us all of the cool things you've built! https://www.americanreading.com/about-us/careers/#resumator-...

New comment by nthdesign in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)"

nthdesign — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 19:33:31 +0000

American Reading Company | Full Stack Developer - Ed Tech | King of Prussia, PA | FULL-TIME ONSITE

We're looking for a full stack developer who will build web applications that will enable school and district administrators to learn and collaborate together while implementing our literacy solutions. These powerful tools will live inside our widely-used, proven technology platform, SchoolPace.

Our ed-tech software is envisioned, developed, and supported in-house. If you have the skillset for this unique opportunity, you'll be able to work with an amazing team of expert educators and developers.

https://www.americanreading.com/about-us/careers/

New comment by nthdesign in "How I got my first thousand users"

nthdesign — Sun, 06 May 2018 20:40:06 +0000

This was a great post, and I learned several things. Thank you for sharing. Just a brief note that it should be “lots” not “lot’s.”

New comment by nthdesign in "SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed"

nthdesign — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 23:15:53 +0000

Will this high number of low-altitude satellites cause a tracking and collision nightmare for the world's space agencies? Sorry, I recently finished "Seveneves" and I have space debris anxiety right now.

New comment by nthdesign in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)"

nthdesign — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 20:34:37 +0000

American Reading Company | King of Prussia, PA - ONSITE | Software Developer

At American Reading Company – www.americanreading.com – we create software to transform students in to avid readers and learners. We need passionate software developers, who will enhance, maintain and build next generation applications to improve literacy in American schools. We have an opening for an expert PHP + MySQL + JavaScript developer who wants to make a difference in the lives of students!

Learn more at http://www.americanreading.com/about-us/careers/#SoftwareDev...

Send resumes to hr@americanreading.com

New comment by nthdesign in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)"

nthdesign — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 19:00:20 +0000

American Reading Company | King of Prussia, PA - ONSITE | Software Developer

We have an opening for an expert PHP+MySQL+JavaScript developer who wants to make a difference in the lives of students!

Learn more at http://www.americanreading.com/about-us/careers/#SoftwareDev...

Send resumes to hr@americanreading.com

New comment by nthdesign in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)"

nthdesign — Fri, 01 May 2015 19:22:05 +0000

American Reading Company - http://www.americanreading.com - King of Prussia, PA - Software Developer

We’re looking for an in-house software developer who can help us maintain and grow our online performance management system, SchoolPace. Schools use SchoolPace to do online formative assessment with students, report on student progress, and use data to drive the instructional process. SchoolPace was built using PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript. The SchoolPace infrastructure includes web servers, API servers, and database servers that run on Linux.

More Information: http://www.americanreading.com/about-us/careers/#SoftwareDev...

Apply: hr@americanreading.com

New comment by nthdesign in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)"

nthdesign — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 17:19:31 +0000

American Reading Company - http://www.americanreading.com - King of Prussia, PA - Software Developer

More information: http://www.americanreading.com/about-us/careers/#SoftwareDev...