Hacker News: tren

New comment by tren in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

tren — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:43:43 +0000

I agree, it's one of my best value subscriptions. It's especially good if you host a lot of domains, you can link 100 custom domains to a single Fastmail account.

New comment by tren in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

tren — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:51:17 +0000

I use a Boox and really like it, but it's definitely not the same price point as a kindle. It has a stylus but I basically use it exclusively for reading.

New comment by tren in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

tren — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:21:11 +0000

My Dad wrote an article about this 25 years ago or so: https://aoi.com.au/LB/LB705/ (How the Neanderthals became the Basques). He would really get a kick out of people reading it (he's 90 now). His website goes back to 96' and it shows.

New comment by tren in "A website to destroy all websites"

tren — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:16:19 +0000

I thought the same when loaded it on mobile. When I went to the desktop version, it is kind of glitchy and the images overlap the text: https://i.postimg.cc/bJgjcDD1/desktop.png

New comment by tren in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

tren — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:15:25 +0000

I'm building a platform for people in my rare fruit meetup group exchange scions. I've never built a react native app, but with the help of Claude it seems possible to build for the web and iOS/Android apps with minimal experience. Hoping to make it really useful for our group before sharing it with others.

https://www.scion.exchange

New comment by tren in "Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste"

tren — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 10:45:02 +0000

We have one near my place that I'm a member of, it's run by volunteers. They have stuff outside of tools too (camping/cooking gear). You can view the stuff their inventory before you join: https://toolsnthingslibraryperthwa.myturn.com/library/

The main downside for me is returning the items in the window they're open.

New comment by tren in "Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks"

tren — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 04:25:49 +0000

Ebooks.com has a filter for DRM free ebooks, unfortunately it's only a small subset of publishers that allow it currently

New comment by tren in "Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time"

tren — Fri, 10 May 2024 08:49:30 +0000

I read Phoenician Secrets: Exploring the Ancient Mediterranean by Sanford Holst recently and found it extremely interesting.

New comment by tren in "Developers are not happy with .NET MAUI, but nobody in the team cares about it"

tren — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 13:08:09 +0000

We're a dotnet shop and we're looking to rewrite our iOS and Android apps in a cross platform framework. On paper MAUI seems like the perfect fit but reading through the discussion and issues in GitHub it's nearly guaranteed this will go the way of all MS's UI products. The number of unresolved issues for fairly basic functionality and the number of developers voicing their PTSD from MAUI related development has made us steer clear.

New comment by tren in "Ask HN: What are thoughts on Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk?"

tren — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:04:53 +0000

I found it a very easy and engaging read, even though my perspective of Musk has changed over time. My one criticism is that it seems a bit premature, I feel like the most interesting part of the story is yet to come, he'll either achieve more of his goals or will self immolate.

New comment by tren in "Ask HN: What team tools do you use in your startup to organize information?"

tren — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 04:54:13 +0000

We use Bookstack to organise most info - it's easy to setup in docker and easy to find and link articles

New comment by tren in "Ask HN: Easiest way to set up email form?"

tren — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 08:56:43 +0000

If you host on something like Netlify, it's pretty easy to add it as a netlify form.

New comment by tren in "Open source hospital price database"

tren — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 02:17:55 +0000

I believe only foreigners from countries that we have reciprocal agreement with: https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/before-you-go/health/recipr...

New comment by tren in "GitHub is down?"

tren — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:21:57 +0000

Down from AU

New comment by tren in "Ask HN: Are there any working ReCAPTCHA bypass plugins for Firefox?"

tren — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:28:38 +0000

If Cloudflare is your main problem, you could use privacy pass - https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/firewall/settings/...

New comment by tren in "Ask HN: What moonshots do you wish were being attempted?"

tren — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:04:10 +0000

Looking at using drone seed bombs to imitate natural farming from one straw revolution.

New comment by tren in "Ask HN: Best Linux distro for a young kid’s first computer?"

tren — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:34:29 +0000

I used https://www.sugarlabs.org/ when my kid was quite young, it's worth sticking it on a USB and giving it a shot

New comment by tren in "Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?"

tren — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 04:27:26 +0000

Yes, unfortunately this is the case (I work for ebooks.com). Most publishers require us to use DRM and Adobe DRM really sucks, but there isn't other options out there and we don't have the resources to make something better.

We focus quite a bit of effort on educating publishers about moving to DRM-Free as it makes everyone's lives easier and from what we've seen increases publisher sales numbers.

https://about.ebooks.com/should-we-sell-your-ebooks-without-...

https://about.ebooks.com/sales-jumped-54-when-this-publisher...

New comment by tren in "Mac OS 9"

tren — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 01:18:13 +0000

I went for dark castle first thing as well. Says you need to change the display to 2 colours for it to work, I couldn't figure out how to do it.

New comment by tren in "Ask HN: Best books read in 2022?"

tren — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 08:26:06 +0000

My two favourite books I read this year were both non-fiction:

* Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - If you enjoy books about persistence in the face of adversity, this has it in spades. When I was in my 20's I saw the movie "Touching the Void" and remember being in total awe at a human's ability to persevere in seemingly impossible situations. Shackleton and his crew bring this power of determination to another level.

* On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Reading this gave me another level of respect for Stephen King. He also pointed me towards another excellent book "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life".