Hacker News: reidjs

Show HN: WordRE, Wordle for Real Estate

reidjs — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:11:12 +0000

Article URL: https://reidsherman.com/wordre/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791326

Points: 10

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New comment by reidjs in "Claude Code is all you need"

reidjs — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:01:40 +0000

There are free and offline options, like Llama.cpp, but you will have to pay by giving up your privacy to Meta (or similar large companies)

Show HN: Guilt Trip Yourself with a Website Banner Timer

reidjs — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 19:05:07 +0000

I found myself spending too much on websites like Hacker News, so I made a Google Chrome Extension that shows a simple banner with a timer to make me feel guilty for wasting time here.

All data is stored locally on your computer. I am happy to help with installation or configuration if necessary. I hope this helps you spend your time more wisely!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42089564

Points: 1

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New comment by reidjs in "A modest critique of Htmx"

reidjs — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:01:19 +0000

I set up HTMX for a toy project recently, seemed fine to me. I think the philosophy of HTMX is the real selling point, sending structured content instead of passing JSON around. There is an opportunity here to either improve HTMX or build a competitor.

New comment by reidjs in "Should Sports Betting Be Banned?"

reidjs — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:10:59 +0000

The difference is self harm vs harming others. The distinction is that advertising may convince people who do not gamble to start gambling.

New comment by reidjs in "Takeaways from the Vision Pro after 6 months"

reidjs — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 19:29:10 +0000

speech interfaces have gotten amazing in certain contexts, especially now that speech to text is decent. Think times when you can't call the person but need to send them a quick message, eg noisy festival or loud bar while you are moving and aren't able to stop to type.

I know that some people even use voice assistants to do things like set timers, reminders, or initiate calls

New comment by reidjs in "What is the ideal chapter length? (2023)"

reidjs — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:40:34 +0000

Perhaps it’s the movies fault for not being interactive or engaging enough

New comment by reidjs in "How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed"

reidjs — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 17:55:11 +0000

At least it doesn't run windows

New comment by reidjs in "Why Triplebyte Failed"

reidjs — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:41:46 +0000

Just out of curiosity, what are some of the problems with "Clean Code"? I thought most of it made sense as basic guidelines. It's been a while since I read it though

New comment by reidjs in "Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?"

reidjs — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:02:23 +0000

Oh thank you, not sure if that existed when I first set it up

New comment by reidjs in "Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?"

reidjs — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:09:31 +0000

Hey I do exactly this! Borg into rsync.i know it’s not exactly your domain, but are you guys working on making this flow easier? I found borg difficult to set up, and tbh I don’t really trust my setup long term. All the borg tutorials I found are on random people’s hobby blogs, it would be nice if you had one specific for rsync.net

Either way, Thank you for providing such an affordable service !

New comment by reidjs in "I coded something dumb and I'm proud of it"

reidjs — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:36:15 +0000

Agree, especially for conveying tone, eg, happy, frustration, danger, etc, especially in dialog.

There is an art to using them to enhance a message instead of obscuring it, though.

New comment by reidjs in "The greatest resume I've ever seen"

reidjs — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:17:04 +0000

At my company, we call this a scream test

New comment by reidjs in "Ask HN: How do I stop political SMS spam?"

reidjs — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:59:20 +0000

You're validating that there is a human on the other end, though, that's dangerous.

New comment by reidjs in "Someone built an LLM-powered Slay the Spire bot"

reidjs — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:25:59 +0000

I like that it requires a small amount of mental energy to perform the 'optimal' play in every situation. The obvious example is doing basic arithmetic to calculate whether you should block more or attack.

At first, the game feels like it's deterministic with sprinkles of randomness, however, at high ascension levels it is the opposite - random chance until you get a broken deck that makes winning trivial. It's a slot machine.

New comment by reidjs in "Banner blindness"

reidjs — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:58:14 +0000

That article will be very meta next time Jimmy Wales' face is plastered over the page asking for wikipedia donations.

New comment by reidjs in "Topologists tackle the trouble with poll placement"

reidjs — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:02:04 +0000

Or better yet, have the majority of people vote by mail and make it easier for everyone.

New comment by reidjs in "Linux Text Manipulation"

reidjs — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:16:39 +0000

Is there something like leetcode for string manipulation exercises like this?

New comment by reidjs in "One of the most anticipated AI gadgets now has a release date"

reidjs — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:03:06 +0000

If anyone else was wondering why this is a physical device

> Why aren’t all these AI gadgets just an app? The answer is actually really simple: phones and tablets don’t allow AI deep system-level access. The iPhone, especially, is a closed platform that Apple wouldn’t allow AI complete access to.

New comment by reidjs in "The Google employees who created transformers"

reidjs — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 14:48:15 +0000

If the text fits within the context window most models are pretty reliable at summarizing texts effectively.