Hacker News: thepaulmcbride

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

thepaulmcbride — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:02:13 +0000

We’ve had GitHub actions for long enough, it’s time for GitHub consequences.

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

thepaulmcbride — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:48:45 +0000

In a society with a progressive tax system these things are overwhelmingly paid for by people who have vastly more money than they need to survive. Taxation when done correctly is a good thing.

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Facebook is cooked"

thepaulmcbride — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:03:55 +0000

This is exactly the same experience I've had. I recently re-installed the app to use marketplace after moving to the US. My feed is mostly AI generated half naked women and AI generated conservative rage bait. It is so obvious that it's AI slop, but none of the comments ever mention it. I too assumed they were bots.

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

thepaulmcbride — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:28:05 +0000

It's wild to me how many people in the comments see any form of government doing anything as shady. It is doubly wild to me that using public funds to create art is seen as a bad thing.

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases"

thepaulmcbride — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 07:18:37 +0000

I want to like this so bad, but the free tier changes still haunt me. I ran a little hobby project for a while on it that helped junior developers find jobs. The work needed to switch from PlanetScale ultimately meant I just canned the project.

Fairly or not, when I see PlanetScale, that’s what I think of.

Seeing the CEO on here defending it as if they nailed the execution of it doesn’t help either.

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Ruby Blocks"

thepaulmcbride — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:07:52 +0000

Ruby is really let down by the tooling around the language. The language itself would be so much more fun to write if the lsp would reliably jump to the definition of functions etc that seem to appear out of no where. It has been the biggest source of frustration for me while learning Ruby.

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections"

thepaulmcbride — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:40:08 +0000

Even HEPA isn’t a requirement, you just need a high CADR. Doesn’t matter if the filter doesn’t catch a particle on the first pass as long as it does one a subsequent one and the flow rate is high!

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know"

thepaulmcbride — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:15:04 +0000

I wonder how this will work for visa waiver programs like the ESTA. I have family visiting next year and if they have to pay an extra $1k, it won’t happen.

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Therapy dogs: stop crafting loopholes to fair, reasonable laws"

thepaulmcbride — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:48:05 +0000

I moved from Ireland to the US and noticed the same. So many people in the US treat others as if they are NPCs. Rules only exist so that they can’t bother you, but the rules don’t apply to you. It is extremely frustrating!

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "The German automotive industry wants to develop open-source software together"

thepaulmcbride — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:04:35 +0000

Notably Volkswagen is missing

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's?"

thepaulmcbride — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 07:52:31 +0000

I would love to wear more shirts, but I’m not a fan of wearing cloths that contain a significant amount of plastic. Cotton shirts are a pita, but I’ll try these tips, thanks!

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

thepaulmcbride — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 07:44:24 +0000

Am I misunderstanding or is this using non-actualised gains to buy actual things? What are the tax implications of this?

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's?"

thepaulmcbride — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:05:45 +0000

Is wearing button downs every day not a buttload of ironing?

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”"

thepaulmcbride — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:24:21 +0000

Not everyone from the UK is English or indeed has a London accent...

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "How the U.K. broke its own economy"

thepaulmcbride — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:33:40 +0000

Everybody wants affordable housing until it’s their housing becoming affordable.

Ask HN: How do you manage your resume?

thepaulmcbride — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:26:20 +0000

Writing a resume is hard. Keeping them up to date is probably even harder. How do you write and maintain your resume? Do your version control it or use any specific tools to help?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42924855

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]"

thepaulmcbride — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:33:52 +0000

The angle of attack at both takeoff and touch down is pretty wild!

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Kagi Launches Kite"

thepaulmcbride — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 07:04:08 +0000

Ahh crap, only just seeing this. I’ll delete as soon as I figure out how!

Kagi Launches Kite

thepaulmcbride — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 06:38:35 +0000

Article URL: https://kite.kagi.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42811026

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by thepaulmcbride in "Advent of Code 2024"

thepaulmcbride — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 19:02:54 +0000

I usually get to around day 10 in AoC before they get so time consuming that I give up. I still really enjoy the first week or so though!