Hacker News: redler

New comment by redler in "London–Calcutta bus service"

redler — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:28:17 +0000

2019 was their last year.

New comment by redler in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

redler — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:33:51 +0000

Conway’s Law strikes again.

New comment by redler in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

redler — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:40:57 +0000

The purpose, if you want to call it a positive, was to be one of many revenue increases designed to offset the cost of the income tax cuts that were the primary focus of that legislation.

New comment by redler in "Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s"

redler — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:32:55 +0000

…of the 63% who bothered themselves to vote.

New comment by redler in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

redler — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:20:27 +0000

Prediction: We'll hear that magically Truth Social has sourced sufficient funds that will enable it to make an offer for TikTok.

New comment by redler in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"

redler — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:12:52 +0000

Just lock the screen and you’re good to go for keyboard cleaning.

New comment by redler in "Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?"

redler — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:29:25 +0000

When you start up a business from scratch you quickly become familiar with bank requirements for a personal guarantee. The LLC will not protect you from personal financial exposure in the full amount of all your business credit facilities, loans, leases, etc.

New comment by redler in "Commodore 64 runs AI to generate images"

redler — Tue, 14 May 2024 17:48:30 +0000

Just plain whelming seems to fit the bill.

New comment by redler in "Music-Map – Find Similar Music"

redler — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 14:22:31 +0000

Radio Paradise is good for this.

New comment by redler in "Project managers, ducks, and dogs marking territory (2013)"

redler — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:48:32 +0000

"We love the red line concept! Can you please work that into the rest of the design?"

New comment by redler in "Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi"

redler — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:10:11 +0000

They'll still have Atlas Shrugged.

New comment by redler in "Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker"

redler — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 16:20:02 +0000

Adversarial built-in AirTags.

New comment by redler in "The New York Times attacks e-bikes while ignoring the real danger all around us"

redler — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:04:09 +0000

The cyclist’s epitaph: “He had the right of way”.

New comment by redler in "Please don't say just hello in chat"

redler — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:37:48 +0000

It could be even worse — you could have a “good morning, sunshine”er among you. Yes, just that, followed by three or four minutes of a few crawling ellipses, on and off. Then, at last: “Got a minute?”

New comment by redler in "Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs"

redler — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:51:57 +0000

Sadly, this is one of those things that, soon, if not now, only the olds will know about.

New comment by redler in "Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro"

redler — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 23:17:53 +0000

Ah, but it has a replaceable battery.

New comment by redler in "Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics"

redler — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:36:51 +0000

It means they’ll frequently be seeing the phrase “as an AI language model…” in their daily strategy sessions.

New comment by redler in "Ask HN: Why aren’t planes boarded back-to-front?"

redler — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 18:38:10 +0000

This does happen. Some planes, like stretch 737s, have preventive tail-stands ground crew can attach to the back of the plane at the gate.

New comment by redler in "Building LLM Applications for Production"

redler — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:28:58 +0000

Ah yes, the "soft" Roko's Basilisk.

New comment by redler in "British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs (2020)"

redler — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 03:04:06 +0000

The Roads Must Roll.