Hacker News: redslazer

New comment by redslazer in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

redslazer — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:45:57 +0000

Whether it is a fee or tax is less about whether it funds the government and more about whether when you pay the amount you get some benefit that you wouldn’t if you didn’t pay (above and beyond compliance with tax law). For example a fishing licence is a fee while a flood levy is a tax.

New comment by redslazer in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

redslazer — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:12:28 +0000

If the request data is larger than the limit it doesn’t get processed by the Cloudflare system. By increasing buffer size they process (and therefore protect) more requests.

The head of ChatGPT on AI attachment, ads, and what's next

redslazer — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:20:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/758873/chatgpt-nick-turley-openai-ai-gpt-5-interview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926193

Points: 5

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New comment by redslazer in "Show HN: SuperUtilsPlus – A Modern Alternative to Lodash"

redslazer — Sat, 24 May 2025 14:39:10 +0000

We migrated to remeda from Lodash and are pretty happy. https://remedajs.com/

What do you do differently?

New comment by redslazer in "Show HN: Dispatched.dev – Background Job Queues for Your Serverless Apps"

redslazer — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 06:05:11 +0000

Looks interesting. What is the feature difference between this and Inngest?

New comment by redslazer in "Drawbacks and solutions for the Meilisearch document indexer"

redslazer — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:30:04 +0000

We absolutely love Meilesearch. We run it on our own servers and air has been rock solid and the search results are better than anything comparable.

New comment by redslazer in "Fly.io outage – resolved"

redslazer — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 03:19:06 +0000

The tech is impressive and the pricing is attractive which is why we use them. I just wish there was less black magic.

New comment by redslazer in "Fly.io outage – resolved"

redslazer — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:30:35 +0000

fly.io just has the weirdest outages. It has issues so regularly we dont even need to run mock outages to make sure our system fail overs work.

New comment by redslazer in "Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?"

redslazer — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 04:25:05 +0000

Funnily enough neon does not offer an easy way to upgrade database compared to other managed database hosting.

New comment by redslazer in "Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript"

redslazer — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:17:25 +0000

Iceland the country won its trademark case agains Iceland the supermarket chain so there is probably something to it.

EUIPO "[Iceland Supermarket] cannot reasonably trademark the name of a country that has been around since the 9th century".

New comment by redslazer in "Cloudflare billing incident since 35 days including wrong invoice"

redslazer — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:23:04 +0000

Ahhhh billing the great unsolved problem.

In 2021 Cloudflare was charging me $5 a month with no way to turn it off and no help from the support desk.

It took an, unanswered, email to the CEO for it to go away.

New comment by redslazer in "Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions"

redslazer — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:21:10 +0000

Jetbrains only “did it right” because there was huge community outcry about their move to pure subscription so they moved to the “if you subscribe for X amount of time you get to keep the last version you had when you stop subscribing”.

Props to them for listening to the community but question whether they should be the gold standard given it is still a compromise position.

New comment by redslazer in "Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding"

redslazer — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 14:11:22 +0000

We are billing more than $1000 a month :). The providers didn’t want our business for less than $1000 per month (at a heavily discounted time limited price).

We talked to this many providers because it’s a huge pain point for us and the thing we hacked together was inadequate for tracking usage.

New comment by redslazer in "Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding"

redslazer — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 11:20:44 +0000

Got trapped by the same thing. Usage based billing is a huge pain point for us we were really excited by lago but dont want to self host infra if we can outsource it.

We ended up talking to about 5 different usage based billing API providers and basically no one is interested in servicing the sub $1000 per month market which is where we will realistically be for the next year as we grow.

Additionally lago and other providers advertise "no revenue cut" and then always quote pricing as a percentage of revenue (which is technical not a revenue cut except your fee scales pretty linarly with revenue).

New comment by redslazer in "WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week"

redslazer — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:58:53 +0000

If they go into liquidation or restructure then all their liabilities go up for renegotiation. So the threat of this happening makes all contracts renogotiable regardless of timeline.

New comment by redslazer in "Ask HN: Easiest and cheapest full-stack frameworks that you love?"

redslazer — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 10:19:16 +0000

Yes huge +1 to t3. Given how opinionated t3 is I wish they added (even if optional) more must haves like testing and background workers.

New comment by redslazer in "Ask HN: What Happened to iOS Widgets?"

redslazer — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 16:05:29 +0000

An app that makes a great use of the widgets in iOS is Blinq, a digital business card app [0].

I find it super handy to be able to access the contact QR code without fiddling with lock screens and finding the app.

[0] https://blinq.me/

New comment by redslazer in "Figma: A Random Walk in Palo Alto"

redslazer — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 08:34:04 +0000

There would have been dilution at every subsequent round (or additional investments) so that profit per $10,000 is probably 30-50% less than $8mil.

A Slack app started and almost ended Tella

redslazer — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:31:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tella.tv/blog/how-slack-started-and-ended-my-startup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32648360

Points: 1

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IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District

redslazer — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 22:00:06 +0000

Article URL: https://whitehoodhacker.net/posts/2021-10-04-the-big-rick

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28833587

Points: 5

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