Hacker News: oregoncurtis

New comment by oregoncurtis in "Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees"

oregoncurtis — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:47:19 +0000

A lot of duplicate posts about this from various news agencies. Thanks for posting the original source.

Japanese Zoning (2014)

oregoncurtis — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:45:45 +0000

Article URL: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46722642

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by oregoncurtis in "Show HN: I'm eating at all the phở restaurants in Portland, at least twice"

oregoncurtis — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:04:25 +0000

Yeah I'm constraining myself to just locations within Portland city limits. If you take a look at the map there should be a layer which you can enable which shows the city boundaries. If I included the metropolitan area there would probably be well over 100 locations, that's probably too many to visit multiple times!

New comment by oregoncurtis in "PDX Phở"

oregoncurtis — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:02:15 +0000

I mistakenly submitted this little personal project as a "Show HN" yesterday as I wasn't aware of the guidelines.

Google reviews piss me off because it's either 1 star or 5 stars and who knows if the person actually ate the food. I wish people had to visit a place multiple times, spaced out, before their ratings would even count. I decided to take that philosophy and apply it to one dish, Phở.

I'm going to all the restaurants that serve phở in Portland, Oregon's city limits and rating them. You can see the ranking, but not the point values until I've visited twice. Technically you can go get the data as it's open source and get the scores, but most people are too lazy to do that. It's a simple static site built with astro, so hammer away at what I did wrong.

I've been going in spurts over the past couple years and I'm hoping to get through the first round within the next month or two. I'm a white guy that doesn't know anything so of course the ratings are completely subjective.

PDX Phở

oregoncurtis — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:02:15 +0000

Article URL: https://pho.curtisbarnard.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721914

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by oregoncurtis in "Show HN: I'm eating at all the phở restaurants in Portland, at least twice"

oregoncurtis — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:00:08 +0000

That's pretty hard/impossible to do with Phở as the noodles will degrade pretty quickly. I'm hoping that go 3 times to a place spread over time will help average out the swings in my tastes.

New comment by oregoncurtis in "Show HN: I'm eating at all the phở restaurants in Portland, at least twice"

oregoncurtis — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:58:33 +0000

That's what I typically will do, or search key phrases that I care about. I agree that there would be a lot less reviews, but I'd personally prefer quality over quantity.

New comment by oregoncurtis in "Show HN: I'm eating at all the phở restaurants in Portland, at least twice"

oregoncurtis — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:01:32 +0000

Thanks, I did not read those guidelines and it seems you are right!

Show HN: I'm eating at all the phở restaurants in Portland, at least twice

oregoncurtis — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:27:39 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46711811

Points: 4

# Comments: 11

Mark Nelsen's Weather Page

oregoncurtis — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:44:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marknelsenweather.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681111

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by oregoncurtis in "I'm leaking Tangle's internal communications"

oregoncurtis — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:04:37 +0000

Full article is only available to subscribers, but I thought the premise of having this transparency pretty refreshing.

I'm leaking Tangle's internal communications

oregoncurtis — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:04:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.readtangle.com/leaking-tangle-internal-communications/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649615

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by oregoncurtis in "Gunther, Christine and Otto (2014)"

oregoncurtis — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:28:51 +0000

How a man met a woman and they set off on an epic journey across six continents in one amazing unbreakable car

Gunther, Christine and Otto (2014)

oregoncurtis — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:28:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8703/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836971

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Shiraoi: Where the first arrows of the last war fell (2009)

oregoncurtis — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:03:46 +0000

Article URL: https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/373/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45753004

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by oregoncurtis in "Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news"

oregoncurtis — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:03:37 +0000

I agree, several little issues with Japanese that don't make it currently useful. Cool idea though!

Architect of classic Hollywood gets his own star turn

oregoncurtis — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:03:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2020-02-06/architect-paul-williams-documentary

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323491

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

The inevitable end of a lovely little Tokyo building

oregoncurtis — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:05:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tokyotimes.org/the-inevitable-end-of-a-lovely-little-tokyo-building/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053626

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by oregoncurtis in "Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails"

oregoncurtis — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:52:04 +0000

I'm getting the same, it's a 400 response.

New comment by oregoncurtis in "Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)"

oregoncurtis — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:05:59 +0000

I'm in Portland and I say that anyone that lives on the Eastside within 82nd and works within those bounds should just get a bike, it's sooo much faster to get around the city. We have infamously small city blocks so all those intersections make driving a car very slow through the city and for good reason as it's safer. If you hop on a bike and take a greenway that has all the stop signs facing perpendicular traffic you can zoom around the city no problem. It's the exact same amount of time (from door to desk) for me to drive to work as it is to bike to work (including the shower). It's just shy of 7 miles. No brainer.