Hacker News: siamese_puff

New comment by siamese_puff in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

siamese_puff — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:49:54 +0000

Mind me asking general location and how much savings? Wouldn’t mind doing similar at some point

New comment by siamese_puff in "The three thousand year journey of colchicine"

siamese_puff — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:54:22 +0000

After seeing multiple doctors in the USA (where I no longer live thankfully) for a chronic mouth ulcer problem an allergist prescribed me colchicine which seemed to cure them. These ulcers lasted over 15 years and colchicine seemed to be the only thing to eradicate them.

Insurance wouldn’t cover the cost and colchicine cost me $500 a month for a bottle. In the UK I can pay 10 pounds. Crazy drug and crazy price for something 3000 years old

Show HN: Historian – A simple shell history tool

siamese_puff — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:02:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Schachte/Historian

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45777182

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by siamese_puff in "How big is carpooling market?"

siamese_puff — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:05:26 +0000

We should spend more time and energy improving pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and stop the growth of urban sprawl which makes you incorrectly think you need to solve this problem. A great book on this topic - Carmageddon

New comment by siamese_puff in "Ask HN: Moving to London from California"

siamese_puff — Thu, 22 May 2025 04:08:49 +0000

Life is short and it seemed fun

Ask HN: Moving to London from California

siamese_puff — Mon, 19 May 2025 02:27:17 +0000

I’m moving from a smaller beach town in California to London in a month as an American. Any tips?

30, no kids and a wife. Felt like life was short, so we found jobs and bought a plane ticket.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44026090

Points: 12

# Comments: 16

Show HN: Open-source Garmin Express alternative for syncing music

siamese_puff — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:11:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Schachte/better-sync

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322081

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by siamese_puff in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

siamese_puff — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:44:58 +0000

I understood exactly what you meant and that is an awesome experience

New comment by siamese_puff in "Humpback Whale Swims Up to Photographer for Close-Up Picture"

siamese_puff — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:40:41 +0000

Sad story

New comment by siamese_puff in "Small Businesses vs. Corporations: What Tech Tools Are We Missing?"

siamese_puff — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:36:17 +0000

None and the problem I see is we have too many tools

New comment by siamese_puff in "Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job"

siamese_puff — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:18:50 +0000

This comment kind of nails it. I don’t have any social media at all and often my friends tell me I live under a rock for not knowing the latest meme. The decision is trivial, I just don’t have social media (except Hackernews which does waste a disgusting amount of time).

Anyways - people gravitate toward the simple and assume the difficult is impossible. I’m training for a marathon with some friends and some are already making excuses to do as much as possible that _does not_ involve running (weight lifting, biking). I think humans just do the easy thing and complain about their situation because it’s.. well easy.

New comment by siamese_puff in "Why do we see no companies offering to deploy local LLMs?"

siamese_puff — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:35:03 +0000

Cloudflare Workers AI

New comment by siamese_puff in "Show HN: A macOS app and window activity tracker"

siamese_puff — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:45:01 +0000

Very cool. I’ve been playing in this space as well and built a window switcher with labels on macOS with Tauri.

It’s a fun tool!

New comment by siamese_puff in "Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds"

siamese_puff — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:39:09 +0000

100% agree with this. Every kid in the 2000s pirated Adobe software. It was almost a badge of honor to have every Adobe icon on your desktop.

These kids learned the Adobe suite and probably became professionals as a result, then purchasing the software legally for their entire company. Piracy isn’t bad, in fact, it probably makes these companies money in many cases.

New comment by siamese_puff in "Ask HN: Greatest books about the history of computing"

siamese_puff — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 04:45:23 +0000

Good book. Can be a bit dry here and there, but fascinating

New comment by siamese_puff in "Show HN: A macOS app and window activity tracker"

siamese_puff — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 05:03:56 +0000

Looks nice. May I ask what you wrote it in? What renders the GUI?

New comment by siamese_puff in "Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free"

siamese_puff — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 05:51:56 +0000

There is also the ability to run things like Playwright on the edge a la Cloudflare Workers. You can fallback to rendering JS required sites through that and do clientside imagemagick WASM shenanigans on the client once the worker returns direct links to all the images.

New comment by siamese_puff in "Ask HN: Is it worth upgrading to the new M4 Mac from an M1?"

siamese_puff — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:29:17 +0000

Definitely not

New comment by siamese_puff in "We're forking Flutter"

siamese_puff — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:34:27 +0000

Sure and 1 guy built flappy birds played by tens of millions. The complexity is a completely different ball game IMO.

New comment by siamese_puff in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)"

siamese_puff — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:15:59 +0000

If you define “bigness” of my house as being more value than living next to all my friends in a very walkable city with tons of things to do at any time I want where I don’t need to ever drive my car then sure.

Personally, I’ll take my $500k condo in my very amazing city that is 1000sq ft over a 3500sq ft empty house that is 2 miles from the nearest grocery store.