Hacker News: refrigerator

New comment by refrigerator in "List animals until failure"

refrigerator — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:51:01 +0000

Very fun and impressive to do this without LLMs!

My score:

191 animals listed 𓆈𓇼 ⬛鯉𓃱唐𓆉𓃸𓆣𓆉

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New comment by refrigerator in "Launch HN: Design Arena (YC S25) – Head-to-head AI benchmark for aesthetics"

refrigerator — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:55:00 +0000

Great concept — definitely needed and will hopefully push the labs to improve design abilities of models!

New comment by refrigerator in "Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today"

refrigerator — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:59:54 +0000

Amazing, congrats man!!

New comment by refrigerator in "Should We Use AI and LLMs for Christian Apologetics?"

refrigerator — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:09:52 +0000

Would love to chat to it — please publish online!

New comment by refrigerator in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

refrigerator — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:17:37 +0000

This is spot on. All the smart and ambitious people I know who studied (non-software) Engineering at university in the UK have ended up going into software engineering via self-teaching or finance/consulting because the only hardware engineering career paths seem to be working for Rolls Royce in the middle of nowhere with terrible pay, or alternatively working at Jaguar Land Rover in the middle of nowhere with terrible pay

My experience building a web app with Cursor AI over Christmas

refrigerator — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:59:01 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/taimurabdaal/status/1878383409375895952

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42681820

Points: 1

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Show HN: The New Science – 600+ books claiming to be "the new science of " XYZ

refrigerator — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 07:58:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thenewscience.info/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42547432

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:54:09 +0000

Thanks! Definitely keen to start something again eventually, but in no rush right now :)

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:34:35 +0000

Thanks man!

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:34:23 +0000

We started as a US company in 2019 to make fundraising easier, and I think this did have a material impact. It's operationally quite annoying, but chances are that we would have had to do it eventually, to efficiently employ US people without paying Deel extortionate fees

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:33:07 +0000

Lucanet approached us a few months ago, we were open to taking a couple of meetings to learn more, and they sold us on the acquisition pretty well

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:22:51 +0000

We will likely stay focused on financial planning rather than go broad on all the rest of the spreadsheet use cases

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:16:43 +0000

That’s awesome! Thanks for using Causal and really glad you like it.

Nothing will change for existing users so you can keep using it for sure :)

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:34:51 +0000

Yup we’re sticking around and leading the Causal business unit within Lucanet

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:09:11 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:08:57 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:08:00 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 23:06:54 +0000

Thanks! We hope to get back on the pod :)

I think the spreadsheet space is honestly super challenging. There’s lots of possible use-cases for these tools, but also, Excel/Sheets are great products that everyone already knows how to use.

I think if these products nail some core use-case(s) that are valuable enough to build the core business around, then this can probably get you to “escape velocity” and you can start to become a truly horizontal tool as traction and awareness compound. (This is the path we were going for)

Lots of spreadsheet type products have tried to stay very horizontal from the beginning and end up trying to boil the ocean, or ended up focusing on a dead-end use-case that isn’t valuable enough to reach that escape velocity.

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 22:58:42 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by refrigerator in "Tell HN: We (Causal) got acquired – thank you HN"

refrigerator — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 22:58:11 +0000

Without getting into numbers, it’s more than we would have been able to make at, say, a big tech job over the same time period (5 years)