Hacker News: sirtimbly

New comment by sirtimbly in "Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant"

sirtimbly — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:11:31 +0000

Impersonal, tech-mediated surveillance was clearly the next logical step for law enforcement after the events of 2020.

New comment by sirtimbly in "NASA Force"

sirtimbly — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:02:12 +0000

ohhh... right, clearly, they only expected Mac users to open the web page or to apply.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Why I love NixOS"

sirtimbly — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:50:00 +0000

All the fun of Terraform with none of the profitability.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Monosketch"

sirtimbly — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:58:45 +0000

finally!

New comment by sirtimbly in "Ink: React for interactive CLI apps"

sirtimbly — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:18:37 +0000

JS will eat the software world. So having better tools on par with charm in the go world would be great.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Launch HN: Patchwork (YC W24) – Team communication based on feeds, not chat"

sirtimbly — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:00:30 +0000

Your design is very friendly and approachable. I appreciate the attempt to take another swing at this problem. I've been using Teams for a year now, and they are trying to do some of this same stuff, but what they missed was the key of the composing experience, being too high-stakes. Like you point out:

> they’ve often overlooked the fact that writing a post has more friction than writing a chat message, which is why people often revert back to doing everything over chat

Anyway, you have a really good idea with the LLM generated title and TLDR. I worry about not having trust in an algorithmically ranked timeline, so you might want to make that feature optional, or do a top-level tab like they did on twitter. Or give users ability to influence the rankings.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac"

sirtimbly — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 22:31:41 +0000

This app makes me happy. As happy as when I first used "The Hit List" back in 2007. Custom themes would be nice.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Large scale precursor correlations between cosmic rays and earthquakes (2022)"

sirtimbly — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 17:23:32 +0000

Fascinating. At first I just thought this title was ridiculous, but basically the authors are saying that the magnetic properties of the core affect cosmic radiation detection, so therefore any massive anomaly deep in the earth's core would

1. have an effect on cosmic radiation detection, and 2. is also likely to precede widespread global seismic activity.

They adjusted the radiation detection data for global sunspot numbers and saw a correlation of the specific event of the 2010 Chile earthquake.

If this holds true for more events, a sort of "geophysical weather forecast" could be possible!

New comment by sirtimbly in "Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners"

sirtimbly — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 02:01:12 +0000

Yes yes! One million times yes! Shut up and take my money.

$4K lower than a quote from a local contractor for a less capable system.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Snow Crash Related Items Auction"

sirtimbly — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 23:49:12 +0000

The sort of collectible one of his characters would purchase after a successful exit from a crypto startup. But it is beautiful. Also what is this new snowcrash story he was working on!?!

New comment by sirtimbly in "Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system"

sirtimbly — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:12:29 +0000

try googling for it... spell check autocorrect is killing it.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Moonwalkers: Shoes that make you walk faster (pre-order)"

sirtimbly — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 20:00:42 +0000

"Urban mobility" is such a rich vein for startups, it makes me think living in a city is pretty awful.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Museums on prescription: Brussels tests cultural visits to treat anxiety"

sirtimbly — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:38:57 +0000

Taking my children to museums does not reduce my anxiety.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Show HN: I made CSS Scan 3.0, a fast way to check and copy CSS"

sirtimbly — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:40:27 +0000

This tool addresses one aspect of my job really well, looking at how a dev implemented my figma design, and showing them exactly which little tweaks need to be made to fix it up. Of course inspector works too, but it's just like buying [Cleanshot](https://cleanshot.com/) instead of using the built in macOS screenshot tools. Providing a more refined experience for something I need as part of my regular job.

It's expensive for what it is, yes. But as a self-employed consultant, these (non-subscription) business expenses for software are my favorite.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live with medical debt"

sirtimbly — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 16:19:20 +0000

Yes. Debt is the entire story of the American economy, from top to bottom, it's not inherently evil. It's useful for creating new wealth. But of course it gets misused also.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live with medical debt"

sirtimbly — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 16:06:56 +0000

That sounds like a solid improvement. It really is a different class of market interaction.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live with medical debt"

sirtimbly — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:59:29 +0000

I hate the way the health-care system works and how it's affected me and those close to me. I spent much of my adult life paying off medical debt exactly like they describe. Defrayed by parents somewhat, but still a significant burden for many years. On one hand, we have debt and bankruptcy as a tool to help individuals deal with costs that would be impossible to save up for. On the other hand, this quote from the article rings true:

> “We have a health care system almost perfectly designed to create debt.”

This was true before the ACA – and is still true.

New comment by sirtimbly in "Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’"

sirtimbly — Fri, 20 May 2022 23:24:30 +0000

Ahhh! Now I know what this style of interview is called! Thanks for explaining what the heck was going on in some of the interviews I went through in the last few years. Since 2005 spent a long time at 2 companies and then went self-employed 6 years ago. When getting back into full-time employment around 2019, I had a couple really weird interviews where they gave me some intense timed puzzle solving "games", and then brushed me off. I was so confused because it had no relevance to any of the web development work I had done, ever, in my years of career experience, and it was super stressful.

I thought these hiring managers were insane. I get it now. I think code tests are fine, but timed puzzles just don't tell anyone much about any dev's ability to assemble features out of higher-level tools.

New comment by sirtimbly in "TRPC: End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy"

sirtimbly — Fri, 06 May 2022 18:09:09 +0000

Conceptually, yes. But type definitions are exported by declarative lines in the same code that runs. Basically the schema is imperative code that runs actual validations, the tRPC methodology simply looks at the inferred types from that code to enforce consistency between client and server rather than parsing an actual static schema artifact (e.g. a .gql file).

New comment by sirtimbly in "TRPC: End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy"

sirtimbly — Fri, 06 May 2022 17:56:16 +0000

Correct! Instead of codegen, it relies on the TS language server to enforce schema compliance.