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New comment by sp33k3rph433k in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

sp33k3rph433k — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:48:00 +0000

It's still VERY much in development but I'm building a site that allows people to find TTRPG games that are suited to them AND includes a suite of tools for both GMs and players in said games.

Players will be able to showcase characters they're playing or have played and GMs can manage campaigns (scheduling, notes). I'm a D&D player but I'm trying to make it system-agnostic

New comment by sp33k3rph433k in "Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion"

sp33k3rph433k — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:26:24 +0000

And this absurd outcome is partially due to a flagrant disregard for the sets of rules and procedures that came before this case.

The Knowledge Fight podcast covers this case in its entirety and it's clear that Infowars et al. has toed the line of criminal to delay and deny justice to the victims. The legal system hit the end of the road and said "everything owed to the victims or everything Infowars has" and this is the result.

New comment by sp33k3rph433k in "Tinygo: LLVM-based Go compiler for microcontrollers, WASM, and CLI tools"

sp33k3rph433k — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:32:43 +0000

I was recently working on a project and bumped into this. It's not currently but here are the relevant Github links if you want to learn more (it doesn't look like there's much movement recently):

https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/issues/1427

https://github.com/tinygo-org/drivers/pull/320

New comment by sp33k3rph433k in "Have we simply stopped the process of innovating new things that solve problems?"

sp33k3rph433k — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:37:27 +0000

Innovation and problem-solving are two very, very different things. You can have the former without the latter but generally not the latter without the former.

"Problems" to solve IMO come down to basic human necessities:

- How do we get more people food for a lower cost? - How do we get more people shelter for a lower cost? - How do we make more people less sick for a lower cost?

Everything past that is basically a "luxury", AKA innovation for the sake of entertainment/discovery/challenge/socialization. Also, people tend to pay for entertainment/luxuries, whereas providing access to necessities for a lower cost doesn't have as high of a profit margin. Ergo, less reason to innovate.

New comment by sp33k3rph433k in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)"

sp33k3rph433k — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:13:18 +0000

FWIW I had a friend apply to a 'remote' position here and they turned him down because that team decided they didn't want to have remote employees after all. Be wary of the remote tag on this post.

New comment by sp33k3rph433k in "Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web"

sp33k3rph433k — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:27:19 +0000

There's something I'm working on that's essentially a paypal button, but acts as a little widget on the site.

I'm still in the testing phases of it, but a lot of people that I've talked to have said "Yes, I'd pay $1-3 to a site that I visit regularly if it didn't have ads"

https://www.trussapp.com/ for the curious (it's still just a hair away from being a beta product, so keep that in mind)

New comment by sp33k3rph433k in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2017)"

sp33k3rph433k — Mon, 01 May 2017 17:43:05 +0000

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Seattle, Denver, Vermont, Boston, or California

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript, React, Postgres

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hp14HQFoBb2teLrDKzpmTUfp...

Email: camkidman@gmail.com

New comment by sp33k3rph433k in "We’re dropping Google Ads"

sp33k3rph433k — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:56:32 +0000

It's effectively the same thing, but it prevents users from having to leave your site to contribute. The hope is that it will increase donations because of that.

New comment by sp33k3rph433k in "We’re dropping Google Ads"

sp33k3rph433k — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:54:20 +0000

I appreciate the feedback! I recorded it and it seemed a little slow to me, but getting that from someone else validates that. Thanks!

New comment by sp33k3rph433k in "We’re dropping Google Ads"

sp33k3rph433k — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 03:20:55 +0000

I'm working on something that will benefit people who have high traffic sites that don't want to show their users ads. The basics are here: http://www.trussapp.com/ -- it's not quite ready for production, but if it's something you might be interested in, I'm looking for beta users. cam@trussapp.com

New comment by sp33k3rph433k in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

sp33k3rph433k — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:20:44 +0000

Interesting! I'll fix the DNS. Thanks a lot!

New comment by sp33k3rph433k in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

sp33k3rph433k — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 21:22:35 +0000

I'm working on building something that will incentivize site owners who have some kind of creative content on their site to remove ads in favor of donations to their site. It's a pretty unobtrusive widget they can add to their pages and it makes it so the user doesn't have to leave the page to donate. Still a WIP, but it's getting there!

http://trussapp.com