Hacker News: random_savv

New comment by random_savv in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

random_savv — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:46:26 +0000

Where can I buy this??

New comment by random_savv in "Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water"

random_savv — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:05:59 +0000

This comment made me curious is such a thing actually happens.

As it turns out "greenmailing" is a thing, but not from environmental groups. Here's what claude found for me:

The concern isn't baseless—there are documented cases of parties using environmental law as leverage, particularly California's CEQA. But empirical studies show only ~13% of such lawsuits actually come from environmental groups; the majority come from labor unions, business competitors, and NIMBYs hijacking environmental review for unrelated purposes. In this specific case, WaterWatch has a 40-year track record on Oregon water issues and the concerns about fish habitat are supported by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs—so the 'thinly veiled shakedown' framing doesn't really fit

I hope doing that research didn't spend too much water!

New comment by random_savv in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"

random_savv — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:28:18 +0000

GreenTriangle | Senior Software Engineer (Product/Frontend) | Remote (EU only) | https://green-triangle.com

We're making crop insurance accessible to farmers worldwide. Our platform helps major insurers monitor 10M+ hectares across 10+ countries using satellite imagery and ML — so farmers can manage the volatility of their industry.

You'll build web & mobile apps that agronomists use daily in the field (offline-capable, rough conditions), work on data-heavy features cramming gigabytes into mobile apps, and help shape product decisions with real autonomy.

Stack: TypeScript, React/React Native, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Python + GDAL/NumPy for satellite imagery processing.

Small remote-first team, wear multiple hats. Quarterly in-person meetups.

chris@green-triangle.com

New comment by random_savv in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

random_savv — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:29:37 +0000

What about Switzerland? Although not in the EU, it often inherits such regulation

New comment by random_savv in "The truth about seed oils"

random_savv — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:22:27 +0000

This is a topic that I've long debated about myself, switching from vegetable oil to coconut oil and then back to HOLL rapeseed oil.

I'm sure this will be a contentious topic among the HN crowd, I'm looking forward to the comments.

The truth about seed oils

random_savv — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:22:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/08/29/the-truth-about-seed-oils

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45196101

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by random_savv in "Malleable Software"

random_savv — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:35:13 +0000

This seems like an advertisement for that person's company.

New comment by random_savv in "Startup equity is worth more than you think"

random_savv — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 01:17:52 +0000

It’s interesting that the author thinks that the value of the shares is higher than the preferred price, even though employees typically hold common shares, meaning they get wiped out in most scenarios except best case. The expected (best case) growth is not an argument in favor of a 4x multiple on price. The chance of achieving that is baked into the price

New comment by random_savv in "Hacking a Toniebox"

random_savv — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:39:37 +0000

We really liked the idea of our kids being able to select what music they want to listen to, without having to look at a screen.

So we bought them a cassette/CD player from Sony for €100.

The idea that you’d buy a speaker with super expensive and proprietary figurines is a bit crazy to me.

New comment by random_savv in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

random_savv — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:18:10 +0000

The fact that this didn’t work seamlessly for my chat history is why I stopped using Signal

New comment by random_savv in "Wrong ways to use the databases, when the pendulum swung too far"

random_savv — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 12:30:43 +0000

For Postgres, there’s pgTAP: https://pgtap.org/

New comment by random_savv in "S5cmd: Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool"

random_savv — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:57:53 +0000

Most S3 systems are terrible with small files (~50KB). 1MB can still be ok though

New comment by random_savv in "Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation"

random_savv — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 05:59:32 +0000

To me, high quality photos for real estate inspection means (e.g.) being able to take high resolution photos of a specific part of the roof so you can understand why there’s a leak. Not having to climb is a big deal!

New comment by random_savv in "So you want to build your own data center"

random_savv — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:50:55 +0000

I guess there's another in-between step buying your own hardware, even when merely "leasing individual racks", and EC2 instances: dedicated bare metal providers like Hetzner.

This lets one get closer to the metal (e.g. all your data is on your specific disk, rather than an abstracted block storage, such as EBS, not shared with other users, cheaper, etc) without having to worry about the staff that installs the hardware or where/how it fits in a rack.

For us, this was a way to get 6x performance for 1/6 of the cost. (Excluding, of course our time, but we enjoyed it!)

New comment by random_savv in "Ask HN: What type of Auth are you using on your side projects?"

random_savv — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 06:45:50 +0000

Their version numbers are meaningless in that way. Most major up upgrades are non events

New comment by random_savv in "Ask HN: What type of Auth are you using on your side projects?"

random_savv — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 19:08:58 +0000

We use Keycloak

New comment by random_savv in "Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?"

random_savv — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 01:01:13 +0000

How much does the third-party software cost?

New comment by random_savv in "Ask HN: Boss thinks I'm dumb, now what?"

random_savv — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:00:47 +0000

There is a chance that he is well-intended and he believes in starting from first principles - think ELI5. It would be interesting to hear more concrete examples.

New comment by random_savv in "Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime"

random_savv — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 09:36:18 +0000

How does this compare to OpenResty? Could it somehow help with OIDC support (e.g. by integrating a relevant nodejs lib)?

New comment by random_savv in "DOJ compares AAPL share buybacks with R&D as 'evidence' of lack of competition"

random_savv — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:37:13 +0000

Peter Thiel must be smiling :)