Hacker News: traviswingo

New comment by traviswingo in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

traviswingo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:44:00 +0000

Microsoft acquires GitHub and subsequently moves all infrastructure to Azure

New comment by traviswingo in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

traviswingo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:42:55 +0000

GitHub is on Azure. Azure is notorious for being terrible. There was a post here recently from an ex-Azure engineer explaining all of this in a multi-part series.

Edit: Found the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242

New comment by traviswingo in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

traviswingo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:28:31 +0000

I quit my job in September to co-found a disclosure editing, sharing, and reviewing platform for real estate professionals.

https://docuview.ai

We’re slowly positioning ourselves as the place where the majority of the transaction takes place, by giving the entire party a single place where communication and transparency can happen.

It’s working out great so far :)

New comment by traviswingo in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

traviswingo — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:37:51 +0000

I wonder how long it’ll take this thread to become a proxy of r/creatine.

New comment by traviswingo in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

traviswingo — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:47:36 +0000

I can’t prove it, but it feels like the world recently decided that spamming/scamming is acceptable, so the number of spammers/scammers has increased dramatically.

The number of spam calls, texts, emails, iCloud account unlock requests, etc I’ve received in the last year is insane.

New comment by traviswingo in "USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000"

traviswingo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:22:44 +0000

Good eye. The ticker was using the observed rate of change over the two most recent data points, so it's actually biased towards the most recent inflation numbers. I've updated it to simply use the slope between the oldest (January 2000) and the most recent data.

It won't be 100% accurate, but it's close enough to create a visual. And the number is always updated monthly with real data anyways.

New comment by traviswingo in "USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000"

traviswingo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:01:27 +0000

I think you're confusing "created a visualization because I thought it would be interesting" with "just learned about inflation." :)

New comment by traviswingo in "USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000"

traviswingo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:58:06 +0000

Yeah, same here. Perhaps the Big Mac Index [0] is what you want.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index

New comment by traviswingo in "USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000"

traviswingo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:12:59 +0000

Hey all. This was merely intended as a fun visualization of inflation over long periods of time, in a format that’s slightly easier to grok for most people.

That’s it. There’s no further intention behind this, I just thought a real time “decay” visualization would be neat.

Literally everything about how this works is in the source in maybe 30 lines of js. It’s not complicated. Data is from BLS (whether or not that's accurate is another conversation entirely). I auto update the data monthly via a chron job, right around the time new data is published.

I’m not really changing this from where it’s at. It’s done as is. There are other sources out there already if you want to customize the date range or see a graph.

Thanks for checking it out :).

USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000

traviswingo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:27:03 +0000

Article URL: https://onedollar.today/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681566

Points: 79

# Comments: 77

Show HN: Real time purchasing power of $1 USD since 2000

traviswingo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:10:07 +0000

Article URL: https://onedollar.today/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669926

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by traviswingo in "SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others"

traviswingo — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:35:28 +0000

This reads like a Douglas Adams quote

New comment by traviswingo in "After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days"

traviswingo — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 01:00:02 +0000

This literally made me lol. Not sure if it’s true. I might be true. But come on!

New comment by traviswingo in "Atlassian co-CEO stepping down after 23 years"

traviswingo — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:03:44 +0000

Lol

New comment by traviswingo in "The death of the 60/40 portfolio"

traviswingo — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:23:16 +0000

This reply cannot be understated. Those who are strong advocates for highly leveraged equity positions who use real estate to justify either have yet to experience a true market decline, or are simply really green to investing.

If I could leverage 4:1 on the total market index using a fixed 30 year loan without the ability to force a sale I would in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, that’s just not how it works.

And anything claiming to be the solution to that (like a leveraged ETF such as UPRO), suffers from volatility decay that causes it to underperform or eventually go to zero in horizontal markets (e.g. lost decades).

New comment by traviswingo in "Tesla cuts price of Full Self-Driving software by a third to $8k"

traviswingo — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:01:34 +0000

I refuse to pay for this. I’m willing to wager it will be free within a reasonable amount of time.

New comment by traviswingo in "Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals"

traviswingo — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:15:23 +0000

I picked up a car from a mechanic the other day and we got to riffing about my own Tesla. He admitted to having friends that worked at Tesla on the manufacturing line. In his own words, these guys are “complete idiots,” and “do shrooms before assembling cars.”

I want to take his words with a grain of salt, but…I kinda believe it. Obviously hearsay means nothing, though.

CA insurance crisis: Thousands to lose coverage as two more insurers withdraw

traviswingo — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:52:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/home-insurance-withdraw-19408863.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40079494

Points: 43

# Comments: 59

New comment by traviswingo in "A day in the life of a Walmart manager"

traviswingo — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 16:53:03 +0000

Not sure if you’re discrediting the parent comment or pointing out the reality of it.

But yes this is something only someone with a high income would say. And yes, it’s true.

Beyond a certain income, the wrong job can be soul sucking and depressing. And it takes achieving that level of income to fully appreciate that reality.

Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images

traviswingo — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 14:52:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/home-insurance-aerial-images-37a18b16

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39952902

Points: 305

# Comments: 680