Hacker News: rhubarbtree

New comment by rhubarbtree in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

rhubarbtree — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:12:29 +0000

OSS as a GTM channel is well established, including amongst YC companies.

So the financial model is no different from any other SaaS. Whereas hardware is high risk capital intensive and China centric.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

rhubarbtree — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:50:51 +0000

Anyone who has watched Ubar constantly break across macOS updates will understand the point of a subscription fee. It’s non trivial to maintain and I doubt vibe coding is gonna help.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

rhubarbtree — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:35:43 +0000

Unsure if you want the real answer, but the financials on gitv2 will be much more appealing to a VC. Hardware is hard, slow, expensive, risky. Finally, China is the place to build physical things not the US.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

rhubarbtree — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:18:45 +0000

I have no real interest in this chat, but a quick google makes me agree that Hal Finney was very likely Satoshi. Fits my expectations perfectly and would also explain why it’s a “mystery”, ie some people know but agreed not to reveal it as per Hal or family wishes given their targeting by criminals in the past. Extremely plausible.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

rhubarbtree — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:17:51 +0000

For the Iranian regime, to survive is to win.

Nuclear programme can only be stopped with boots on the ground.

America’s military is outdated compared to modern asymmetric warfare.

Iran may gain income from the strait.

It can now pursue a bomb knowing it will be hard to impossible for America to stop it.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

rhubarbtree — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:54:05 +0000

There are already pipelines in the region.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

rhubarbtree — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:51:58 +0000

Unlikely. Iran is winning this war, or hadn’t you noticed? No need to pay America off when they’re desperate for a deal.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

rhubarbtree — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:38:10 +0000

Thanks. Can confirm the print edition is assigned a date that is 5 days after it becomes available in the Press Reader app in the UK (not sure why) and the article is in that edition.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

rhubarbtree — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:58:06 +0000

Which edition? I looked at April 6th and can’t see the article.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

rhubarbtree — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:15:15 +0000

I didn’t say it was the sole cause of the environmental movement, you’re being silly.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker"

rhubarbtree — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:27:20 +0000

Great UI, but inaccurate slop. Couldn’t this have been validated against NASA’s site? Can we get this off the front page if the author can’t even be bothered to do that?

New comment by rhubarbtree in "NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast"

rhubarbtree — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:08:28 +0000

Sparked the environmental movement, to name but one major impact.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

rhubarbtree — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:13:24 +0000

This is where they are headed. But the real price will be a lot less.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

rhubarbtree — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:30:28 +0000

TikTok, cloned by Meta, still winning.

Slack, cloned by Microsoft, still winning.

Skyscanner. Dropbox. Snapchat. Dating Apps. All cloned. Still going.

The tech is not the business.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

rhubarbtree — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:04:31 +0000

This is mislead by the nerd philosophy that the tech is the business. It absolutely isn’t, the tech is a small part of a startup. Witness that Spotify continues to exist despite being known and replicated by the major giants.

Poetically expressed, but ultimately based on a false notion of what a business actually is.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Schedule tasks on the web"

rhubarbtree — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:57:24 +0000

Better idea. Watch online feedback on this feature. Then implement things users want. Go niche. Join the forum and help them use Claude to its limits. Then be the next step for power users.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000"

rhubarbtree — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:40:42 +0000

Better than the US at producing almost anything at this point. There are a few tiny islands of advantage left for the US in advanced engineering but they won’t last.

Prediction: China will win the new race to the moon for this very reason.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

rhubarbtree — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:30:53 +0000

I don’t know how widely this observation has been made, but relatedly it is very hard to be a very attractive person. I’m very much glad to be average.

I’ve known a few very attractive people close up, and their lives are difficult. One example: you are presented with so many partners it can be very difficult to choose, and hard to discern who actually likes you as a person vs is just attracted to you. How can you pick a partner who is going to be a good match and faithful? And when you’re in a relationship, it’s harder to stay faithful when other people are throwing themselves at you and you suffer FOMO.

I could go on, but you get my point.

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

rhubarbtree — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:06:02 +0000

I don’t think that aphorism is actually true. What’s the right thing that’s going to follow being complicit in Gaza and bombing Iran?

New comment by rhubarbtree in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

rhubarbtree — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:36:28 +0000

Thank god you're a software developer and not a cleaner.