Hacker News: samdixon

New comment by samdixon in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

samdixon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:11:19 +0000

Yes haha - a bike coming from _somewhere_

New comment by samdixon in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

samdixon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:54:53 +0000

Its pretty safe to assume on a trail if you hear a bell that a bike is coming up behind you.

New comment by samdixon in "Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools"

samdixon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:13:32 +0000

Here are a few things off the top:

- horrible optimization

    - video calls will easily bloat 1-3gb of ram

- buggy, things that should work sometimes don't

    - e.g. sometimes you click to write... you get a spinner, wait 10 seconds

- poor ux. I have been using it for 4+ years at work, still have trouble finding things

- yeah, all things in one interface

These are opinions. People can have different. To me, its just a slow and difficult to navigate mess that doesn't know what it wants to be.

New comment by samdixon in "Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools"

samdixon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:49:10 +0000

Clickup is kinda like this (trash software btw) where it combines all these things. Its super cumbersome to deal with all of them in the same UI. For example, you will be chatting with someone, need to look at ticket, you have to completely leave the context of the chat to find the ticket. Yeah you can have multiple tabs, but still cumbersome. Would rather have a chat app for chat, documentation in documentation... so on.

New comment by samdixon in "We might all be AI engineers now"

samdixon — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:13:57 +0000

> I’m shipping in hours what used to take days. Not prototypes. Real, structured, well-architected software.

> If I don’t understand what it’s doing, it doesn’t ship. That’s non-negotiable.

Holy LinkedIn

New comment by samdixon in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

samdixon — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:26:13 +0000

When even my "boomer" aged and non-tech savvy dad who has always used an iPhone notices the update is bad, I think you are in at least a little bit of trouble if you don't quickly course correct.

New comment by samdixon in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

samdixon — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:41:03 +0000

this looks like a rip off of another monitor that I can't quite put my finger on...

New comment by samdixon in "Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS"

samdixon — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:31:09 +0000

So apparently this has been around for 15 years? I would have bought this years ago, but it never showed up on any of my searches... google, reddit, producthunt, alternativeto... feel like I just shifted into another dimension where this has apparently... always existed?

New comment by samdixon in "Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale"

samdixon — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 18:52:55 +0000

This reads like a LinkedIn post

New comment by samdixon in "Gartner's grift is about to unravel"

samdixon — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:53:44 +0000

What do they use it for?

New comment by samdixon in "Cash: A small jQuery alternative for modern browsers"

samdixon — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:43:03 +0000

This seems pretty different from the functionality alpine provides, no?

New comment by samdixon in "Windows 11 available on October 5"

samdixon — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:26:47 +0000

I would assume it's because they've already won the younger market via near total dominance in the k-12 education sector, so no reason to advertise to that crowd.

Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks

samdixon — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 01:04:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRL7YsXjSg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27756233

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by samdixon in "Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B"

samdixon — Wed, 26 May 2021 14:02:12 +0000

I don't know how large of a concern this is, but Amazons wide growth allows using revenue from their higher profit sectors (such as aws) to force out competitors in other lower margin sectors they are involved with such as grocery stores. This also may very well be a strategy other large conglomerates utilize.

Video on subject: https://youtu.be/EYPs-ya_GDA?t=128

New comment by samdixon in "Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster"

samdixon — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 23:26:22 +0000

To me this doesn't really make much sense to me as its own product, but it seems ripe for an acquisition play. This would make an excellent addition to say the Office 365 or Dropbox suite of tools.

New comment by samdixon in "The Blue Hole in the Red Sea is the deadliest dive site in the world"

samdixon — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:28:40 +0000

I have a similar theory about motorcycles. It's not batteries included, and some people ride like absolute madmen increasing the fatality rate.

New comment by samdixon in "Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk"

samdixon — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:14:15 +0000

One other important thing when walking in snow/ice is that even the smallest slip can potentially strain/pull a muscle just due to the rapid movement.

New comment by samdixon in "Right Forge"

samdixon — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 21:10:39 +0000

At the core I think a service like this is a good idea, but the amount of political rhetoric in the landing page would make me not want to use this service. Would prefer the service be completely agnostic to the underlying users and not favor a political party or ideology.

That being said, I think this is more a reaction to a business need/market opportunity that exists rather than a true attempt at a platform that is free for all to use.

New comment by samdixon in "I am closing down the Cordless project"

samdixon — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:57:05 +0000

I wonder how long until Discord starts blocking things like Matrix or IRC Bridges. That or the Bot API may already be useful enough to say something "works", but is so functionally useless that you have no reason to use it. (e.g. you can bridge to a channel, but not bridge instant messages)

New comment by samdixon in "Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack"

samdixon — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 22:12:38 +0000

Ha, then mark that problem solved :)