Hacker News: passivepinetree

New comment by passivepinetree in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

passivepinetree — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:02:25 +0000

Adding to the review thread: I bought a Framework 13 in 2021. I'm sold on the ideal, I really like the chassis and the keyboard, and I _love_ the screen ratio. I replaced several parts and own every type of connector. I really liked my 13!

I just had my mainboard die, and I was advised there currently isn't another mainboard in stock that works with my old DDR4 RAM. They don't have any newer DDR5 RAM in stock apparently either, so I was out of luck and ended up buying a Lemur Pro last week.

In my experience, the Framework hardware is great but very flakey and frequently needs replacing.

Support is awful; they'll repeatedly ask you to do things you've already done (and shown proof of), they can take days to get back to you, and are generally unhelpful. They also didn't think to mention to me when I said I needed to buy a new laptop and their parts were all out of stock that they had a new machine coming out in the next week, which is insane to me. I would've been an easy convert. Sometimes I think it's bots doing the support, but if that was the case, they'd reply back faster.

Time will tell whether I'll return back to the ecosystem, but the support experience (and the hardware being poor enough that I frequently need support) is putting me off for now.

New comment by passivepinetree in "Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector"

passivepinetree — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:11:06 +0000

I'm curious if this site actually uses AI in some form or if it's just the hot TLD at the moment. There's no mention of AI on the page itself.

New comment by passivepinetree in "Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved"

passivepinetree — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:37:32 +0000

Another assumption that bothers me here is that the $9M in revenue would be completely lost during an outage. I imagine many customers would simply wait until the outage was resolved before performing their intended transactions, meaning far less than $9M would be lost.

New comment by passivepinetree in "Where our economy is, for the young"

passivepinetree — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:05:33 +0000

The author sort of alludes to it at the end of the article when they mention that Gen-Xers' expectations are even more tempered than Boomers' expectations about what it takes to survive today.

Is there another group/time period you're interested in specifically comparing to?

New comment by passivepinetree in "Show HN: How I landed an interview almost every time I applied (as a developer)"

passivepinetree — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 18:11:47 +0000

This seems pretty clickbaity to me. There's very little content and no specific personal experiences discussed. What types of companies did you have better luck with? How many employees does a "startup/medium-size company" have?

This site also has articles entitled "The Must Know 7 Traps That Make Your Software Useless" and "Make Money with programming. Your Advanced Guide", so I'm not sure how high to set the bar.

The entire article can really be summed up as "Email the founders and get a recommendation."

New comment by passivepinetree in "Segway ends production of its original scooter"

passivepinetree — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:05:10 +0000

The article mentions all of that content (though without those links). Perhaps they changed it? It's a fastcompany domain now.

Show HN: Go Memory Allocators

passivepinetree — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 22:13:41 +0000

Article URL: https://kfcampbell.com/blog/2020/go-allocators/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23621028

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by passivepinetree in "Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming"

passivepinetree — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:56:53 +0000

In addition to some of the other well-thought-out replies, much of the allure of streaming comes from live interaction, donations, chat, etc. Streaming to multiple platforms at once is more feasible for events like esports competitions, but would really make it difficult for a streamer to engage with their audience.

New comment by passivepinetree in "Show HN: An introduction to Go for C# people"

passivepinetree — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:41:01 +0000

Well, that's a highly-opinionated statement :P

The serious answer is that Go is a reasonably well-supported language at GitHub, and C# isn't at the moment.

Show HN: An introduction to Go for C# people

passivepinetree — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 15:57:54 +0000

Article URL: https://kfcampbell.com/blog/2020/go-for-csharp-people-part-one/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23392461

Points: 17

# Comments: 11

New comment by passivepinetree in "Ask HN: Is Sourcehut a good GitHub/Gitlab alternative?"

passivepinetree — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:42:05 +0000

I like that too, but it's worth noting that Github (not sure about lab) allows you to disable these features (wiki, issues, etc.) with a checkbox on the repo's settings page.

New comment by passivepinetree in "Reddit has become a guide to personal finance"

passivepinetree — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:46:40 +0000

You need 500 “karma” IIRC in order to gain the privilege.

New comment by passivepinetree in "The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer"

passivepinetree — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 02:06:37 +0000

There’s an easy way to find out if that’s true, and it’s to making a similarly successful solo project by yourself!

New comment by passivepinetree in "Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups"

passivepinetree — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:14:57 +0000

Is this a response from the company or are you putting it forth as an example response for how to handle this incident better? It’s unclear from your post.

New comment by passivepinetree in "Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?"

passivepinetree — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 22:42:23 +0000

IIRC they don't actually run anyone's cards until the project meets the goal, so refunding isn't an issue. Perhaps someone who's funded a Kickstarter more recently than me could confirm.

New comment by passivepinetree in "Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?"

passivepinetree — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:15:45 +0000

The two As are usually for Apple and Amazon. I think the shorter version of the acronym is just incorrect.

New comment by passivepinetree in "Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?"

passivepinetree — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:11:34 +0000

How did you do this? Does your bank have APIs you can code against? Did you use other (Paypal?) APIs?

New comment by passivepinetree in "Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?"

passivepinetree — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:05:05 +0000

Definitely. It's not indicative of any sort of quality, which naturally makes it fun to game! I randomized the amount of commits on each day so my graph has varying shades of color!

New comment by passivepinetree in "Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?"

passivepinetree — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:23:22 +0000

I only run a small one for kicks: it updates my github page with a dummy commit each day. They got rid of streaks, but I still leave it running out of some misplaced sense of sentimentality.

A few years ago, a friend and I built one that would scan twitter for tweets in the vein of “like to win $ITEM” or “RT to win $ITEM.” Our bot would automatically perform the requested action, and then text me (via twilio) for each DM and mention we got (so I could manually respond and claim the prize). We didn’t disguise it well, and were shut down after about 4 weeks, but it was fun while it lasted! :)

New comment by passivepinetree in "Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit"

passivepinetree — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:55:26 +0000

You may not have read that far down, but the article mentions exactly what you did regarding Fossil:

> Fitbit would not be the first deal that Google would be carrying out in the wearables space. Fossil Group Inc said in January it would sell its intellectual property related to smartwatch technology under development to Google for $40 million. Google’s plans for these assets are not clear.