Hacker News: travisr

New comment by travisr in "The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]"

travisr — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:33:58 +0000

It’s direct file.

New comment by travisr in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

travisr — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:12:15 +0000

What did you do with the crop?

New comment by travisr in "Ask HN: If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job?"

travisr — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:15:06 +0000

No, I wouldn’t show up to work. I could invest it conservatively and live off of that forever.

However… I don’t know what I’d do in the time that I would normally work. I’m working on retiring early so I need to figure that out.

Show HN: RSS Reader using the browser's local storage

travisr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:55:33 +0000

A simple Typescript RSS client that saves feed items to the browser's local storage. It has a feature to export/import feed data to backup feeds and items or to change devices.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602660

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by travisr in "Show HN: ExpenseOwl – Simple, self-hosted expense tracker"

travisr — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:59:48 +0000

Entering data into a Google Sheet on mobile is not fun in my opinion.

New comment by travisr in "Vanguard's Average Fee Is Now Just 0.07% After Biggest-Ever Cut"

travisr — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:21:30 +0000

The fees will be the same regardless of where you buy Vanguard funds.

New comment by travisr in "Redmine – open-source project management"

travisr — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 14:36:44 +0000

The company I work for switched from redmine to jira few years ago, after using redmine since 2009 or so. It was a really bad decision spearheaded by a single project manager.

I miss redmine. I hate having to see the constant interstitial loading animation in Jira. And working through small modals. Just load the damn page for the link I clicked on. All the “single page application” junk is rarely executed well. But I can’t say that it or I’m a dinosaur. Sorry the rant.

New comment by travisr in "Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard"

travisr — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 04:49:25 +0000

This isn’t surprising. It’s like saying “don’t post sensitive/proprietary info on stackoverflow and don’t blindly paste code from there into your professional work.”

New comment by travisr in "Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars"

travisr — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 18:44:47 +0000

It’s sad that we have to choose between physical safety and privacy.

New comment by travisr in "Life before smartphones (2020)"

travisr — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 22:58:02 +0000

I agree this is sad. However, as a child of the 90s, I lost the attention war to my parents' TV. Maybe I just had absent parents, but I feel like most parents haven't been interested in their children for a while now.

New comment by travisr in "2022 Ford F-150 Lightning"

travisr — Fri, 21 May 2021 17:47:28 +0000

The F-150 Lightning only comes in Super Crew (4-door).

New comment by travisr in "Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult"

travisr — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 02:36:07 +0000

Robinhood allows up to $1,000 to be used "instantly" just by the user initiating a transfer. So Robinhood doesn't have the money yet, but the user can buy stocks -- meaning they are using Robinhood's money.

New comment by travisr in "Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter"

travisr — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 03:27:17 +0000

I would think the people knowledgable enough to know their browser is making requests to FB without actually visiting FB would also be knowledgable enough to block it themselves (with their hosts file, ublock, etc) and not need the ISP to do so.

New comment by travisr in "More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese"

travisr — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:01:19 +0000

Sure, if you breathe properly[1]

1. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/take-a-deep-b...

New comment by travisr in "Ask HN: How do you prevent eyestrain with daily computer use?"

travisr — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:04:56 +0000

I use 125% on HN with a 23" 1920x1080 monitor. HN text is comically small.

New comment by travisr in "50% – 75% of cases of Covid-19 are asymptomatic"

travisr — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:12:48 +0000

You might try sorting the countries in your select input. They appear to be in some random order and I almost gave up looking for the country I was interested in.

New comment by travisr in "Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?"

travisr — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:16:30 +0000

And target dates usually have a higher expense ratio than funds like VTI. So you keep more of your investment income by doing it manually.

New comment by travisr in "Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure"

travisr — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 02:05:30 +0000

From the article:

"Often I’ll do a meeting where I have lots of people in case we need to get their input. But for most of the meeting I don’t need all of them to be paying attention (and I’m happy if they’re getting other work done)."

So they're not paying attention because he enjoys having excess people on calls and wasting their time.

Sounds like torture. The CEO wants you on the call, probably won't need you, and you're supposed to feel comfortable disengaging when he's berating coworkers about a missing third argument in a function's documentation.

New comment by travisr in "My Brief Career as an E-Scooter Charger"

travisr — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 23:29:53 +0000

Welcome to a comment section on the internet. I see you are new here. I can tell that by the way you are surprised at the unhelpful criticism. I do not have any advice for you. Please send help if you have any ideas on how to fix this.

New comment by travisr in "Massive mortgage and loan data leak gets worse, original documents also exposed"

travisr — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:54:01 +0000

The new leak came from an S3 server, which would have been locked down by default. Someone had to make it open to the public.