Hacker News: samdixon

New comment by samdixon in "Ferrari Luce"

samdixon — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:24:04 +0000

Knobs on wheel, especially for the controls on this, are normal in performance vehicles.

New comment by samdixon in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

samdixon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:45:09 +0000

From my understanding, if you want to use native Claude in AWS Bedrock, it runs from an AWS datacenter. I'm guessing that's why regardless of running your own stack... they still need a footprint in all the major clouds.

New comment by samdixon in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

samdixon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:11:27 +0000

Sorry - significantly better was overreaction from my part. My view of Myrtle beach is somewhat muddied by the reason I was there in the first place. Was in GA for a wedding, was going to go to FL, but couldn't due to a hurricane and ended up quickly shuffling to Myrtle Beach. Felt like a memory of a town. I do have a coworker who recommended me some good spots, but not sure if I will ever make it back there https://maps.app.goo.gl/EbWrjJ92qgV3vx598.

Gatlinburg is maybe the ultimate tourist trap. Was hilariously enough also around there for a wedding.

I can't really argue for either as destinations. Both of these places I don't think I would go over other available options.

New comment by samdixon in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

samdixon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:48:19 +0000

Gatlinburg is not my thing... but is significantly better than Myrtle Beach.

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.