Hacker News: screaminghawk

New comment by screaminghawk in "PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin"

screaminghawk — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:56:28 +0000

To answer your question, I hardly buy anything with crypto because there's barely support... Hopefully this is a catalyst for change.

I feel like this is the wrong question to ask. Instead try "why would someone purchase with crypto over fiat?". I prefer to use crypto for international online purchases because the transaction and conversion fees from my native currency are way too high. With crypto it's a one off deposit fee and then gas is trivial these days.

New comment by screaminghawk in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

screaminghawk — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:36:23 +0000

Wow, thanks. Also helps when the color randomization makes the website unreadable

New comment by screaminghawk in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

screaminghawk — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:22:24 +0000

It's funny and harmless, but it does make me less likely to use the product. Because I don't know where the line for funny and harmless ends. Would it be funny and harmless to install a keylogger alongside the software? Maybe I need better personal security practices but it's much easier to avoid anything with this kind of smell.

New comment by screaminghawk in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

screaminghawk — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:53:37 +0000

Love this idea. I like to use voice recording and transcription for the same thing, but having a text interface is nice for public spaces!

New comment by screaminghawk in "When Figma starts designing us"

screaminghawk — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 10:04:31 +0000

> I'd like to see no-code UX patterns that losslessly map onto the underlying abstraction. That way you can use the UX pattern until it gets too tedious, and occasionally dip in-and-out of the code-view in a non-jarring manner.

What are you describing sounds a lot like Saleforce and other CRM systems. Often the code implementation get hidden away when it's not something native in the no-code solution. Then "magic" happens and you don't quite know why until you dig into the code again.

New comment by screaminghawk in "Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?"

screaminghawk — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:12:10 +0000

Anything that involves time. Dance, music, gardening. I have too many existing commitments that when I actually have free time I have no energy left

New comment by screaminghawk in "I do not remember my life and it's fine"

screaminghawk — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 02:31:26 +0000

I have this too, or something similar at least. I have the same issues around visual memory and first person memory.

I noticed it specifically when talking to my wife about remembering feelings and emotions. I have a lack of empathy (different to sympathy) and when looking back at past events I struggle to feel the emotions I was feeling at the time. I can recreate them using facts and things I understand but it's different to experiencing the same feeling.

The author of the article doesn't touch on this so I'm curious to know if they have the same experience.

New comment by screaminghawk in "Deepseek R1-0528"

screaminghawk — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:37:04 +0000

I use this a lot! Thanks for your work and looking forward to the next one

New comment by screaminghawk in "Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?"

screaminghawk — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:09:10 +0000

I don't understand why an interviewer would ban the use of AI if they are allowed to use AI in the role.

The interview is a chance to see how a candidate performs in a work like environment. Let them use the tools they will use on the job and see how well they can perform.

Even for verbal interviews, if they are using ChatGPT on the side and can manage the conversation satisfactorily then more power to them.

New comment by screaminghawk in "We're bringing Pebble back"

screaminghawk — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:21:10 +0000

Which phone is this? I recently got a Unihertz Jelly Star 2 as it was the only decent "small Android" option I found while researching.

New comment by screaminghawk in "Most gamers prefer single-player games"

screaminghawk — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:29:47 +0000

I also gave up on multiplayer and casually playing on Nintendo Switch has got me back into it. For me, it's a skill issue. I'm just not as good as I used to be. I play games on easy now so that I can blast through it quickly. Otherwise I'll (have to) set the game down for a couple weeks and completely forget what was going on in the game.

I have the complete opposite experience with Minecraft. My kids play peaceful flat land creative and it's the most boring thing to me. I'll take boss fights without weapons any day.

New comment by screaminghawk in "Move Fast and Abandon Things"

screaminghawk — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:17:09 +0000

I love this but I approach it a bit differently. I don't think this is a good excuse to write bad or unmaintainable code. Sure some shortcuts are fine but it should be useful for the next person.

Personally I try to use free hosting services so that I don't have to pay to keep it running when I abandon it. (That could be AWS free tier or blockchain or IPFS etc). Use a public repository so someone else can find it when it's inevitable dropped. I always make sure to have good documentation so that once it's found anyone can get it running.

New comment by screaminghawk in "'Dancing' raisins − a simple kitchen experiment"

screaminghawk — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 02:44:31 +0000

I accidentally stumbled across this same experiment last week when my son put some sprinkles in his soda water. Cool to know it works with raisins too.

New comment by screaminghawk in "Stonks Are What You Can Get Away With: NFTs and Financial Nihilism"

screaminghawk — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 20:08:14 +0000

Why burn the NFT? Wouldn't it be better to transfer the ownership of the NFT along with the physical item?

Digital After Life

screaminghawk — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 21:59:28 +0000

Article URL: https://michael.standen.link/2021/04/09/digital-after-life.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26785711

Points: 1

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New comment by screaminghawk in "Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?"

screaminghawk — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:43:52 +0000

It's cost for me. Electricity isn't cheap where I live and when your house is poorly insulated you require even more energy for a heat pump.

New comment by screaminghawk in "In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click"

screaminghawk — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:56:37 +0000

For those that are curious it displays a Quora answer that states:

>Thomas Running

>Running was invented in 1612 by Thomas Running when he tried to walk twice at the same time.

It's actually quite and interesting post if you follow the link. Obviously it's not correct in the purest form but there is justification for this answer.

New comment by screaminghawk in "Bitcoin Is Time"

screaminghawk — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:57:51 +0000

Yes. It's a common pattern on reddit (and probably other sites) to let people know your intentions, thoughts and feelings to give context to the content of your post

New comment by screaminghawk in "1977: Zork"

screaminghawk — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:42:46 +0000

I've used this angular framework in the past with great success https://github.com/danielstern/cyo

Searching "cyoa" on github brings back a tons of results that you can filter through to meet your tech stack needs.

New comment by screaminghawk in "Over Half of U.S. Young Adults Now Live with Their Parents"

screaminghawk — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:54:41 +0000

Two people can work and live together without getting married