Hacker News: turbostyler

New comment by turbostyler in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

turbostyler — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:38:09 +0000

We need an MCP for path of building

New comment by turbostyler in "Show HN: Movieagent.io – An agent for movie recommendations (with couple mode)"

turbostyler — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:52:55 +0000

Love the idea, but entering my Letterboxd username just sort of hangs, and I can’t tell if it’s actually doing anything.

New comment by turbostyler in "Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase"

turbostyler — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 06:21:12 +0000

Does it really matter which came first? It doesn’t change the possible intent.

New comment by turbostyler in "Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing"

turbostyler — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:39:36 +0000

I'm surprised it's that low.

New comment by turbostyler in "The Invention of the AeroPress (2014)"

turbostyler — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:02:01 +0000

What happened to Priceonomics? They used to regularly publish great content that I'd often see on the front page here. Is their business dying or are they just no longer prioritizing content marketing (or maybe targeting different people)?

New comment by turbostyler in "Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers"

turbostyler — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 23:16:02 +0000

Where do you live that you can leave packages outside for more than an hour?

New comment by turbostyler in "Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19"

turbostyler — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 20:53:29 +0000

This website does an absolutely terrible job of explaining itself. The layout of the homepage is awful and starts with a random video, then a request that I start "folding at home" - whatever that means, followed by more nonsense language to anyone who, like me, arrived at the site with very little context.

The first thing on your site (after the navbar) should be an explanation of what your product is/does in as few words as possible.

New comment by turbostyler in "Ask HN: How to find work while homeless?"

turbostyler — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:43:39 +0000

Web development

New comment by turbostyler in "Ask HN: How to find work while homeless?"

turbostyler — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:09:51 +0000

Coming from someone who has actually been homeless, it’s entirely possible to get back on your feet with freelance work, and probably a much better idea than taking a low paying job.

I spent a year homeless on the streets of San Francisco due to my mental health and the atrocious safety net we have in the US. Eventually, my mental health improved, and I met an extremely generous person who was also in tech and helped me tremendously by giving me an old laptop of his and introducing me to the owner of an agency he used to work at. They didn’t have any work for me right away, but eventually I got a 6 week contract that paid $12k. Since I was a contractor, all of this money was available to me immediately (I could worry about taxes later), and I was able to get back on my feet and find a job soon after.

Obviously my situation involved a bit of luck, but I do believe that as long as you have access to a computer, this is possible. The important things to remember are that your skills are valuable. Do not sell yourself short because of your current situation. And things will get better. I know you’re living through a hell very few people can understand, but if you’re fortunate enough to be intelligent and skilled, you have a very good chance of coming out of this. Most homeless people don’t have this benefit.

New comment by turbostyler in "No ‘carmageddon’ on auto-free Market Street: study shows bikes and buses benefit"

turbostyler — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:44:54 +0000

I don’t notice any difference on Market from before the car ban. I also see cars driving on the street all the time.

New comment by turbostyler in "Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects"

turbostyler — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:44:00 +0000

The mobile UI is horrible. It’s impossible to tell when one starts and another begins. You could solve this very easily by wrapping the list items in a card component and using different font weights and sizes for different pieces of information. Hint: business name should be the largest. Good luck.

New comment by turbostyler in "Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?"

turbostyler — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 01:26:57 +0000

Trust me, no alcoholic is going to forget to stock up on booze.

New comment by turbostyler in "Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records"

turbostyler — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:09:00 +0000

I think you're incorrectly assuming most companies want to provide good customer support.

New comment by turbostyler in "Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – an automated, retroactive Segment alternative"

turbostyler — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:51:55 +0000

Enforcing a non-compete against non-founders in California is pretty much impossible.

New comment by turbostyler in "Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for the command and lunar modules"

turbostyler — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:32:23 +0000

Didn’t this get released a couple years ago? Or was that a different ship?

New comment by turbostyler in "Ask HN: What do you use tools like IFTTT or Zapier for?"

turbostyler — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 04:04:33 +0000

This is pretty much the same basic use case I’ve had for Zapier at work. My team uses it to write leads into both a Google sheet and Salesforce. The sheet sort of acts as a sanity check and a log of all the attempted lead creations. For one reason or another, they don’t always make it into Salesforce.

New comment by turbostyler in "How the Nike Vaporfly War Was Lost"

turbostyler — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 01:47:10 +0000

There's a pretty large difference between running and climbing - a sport that has been literally shaped and defined by the gear used in it. Climbing is closer to Tennis than it is to Running, in that for most variations, the gear enables the sport to be possible.

New comment by turbostyler in "Angular 9.0"

turbostyler — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 01:24:57 +0000

Because of the whole debacle between Angular 1 and 2. During that time, React gained a huge foothold, and the momentum has continued to today.

New comment by turbostyler in "Show HN: Stack – Save and explore books and book lists"

turbostyler — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 06:23:16 +0000

Looks like the CSS needs a bit of cleanup ;) Impressive portfolio, though. I like your stuff.

New comment by turbostyler in "Show HN: Discover and listen to artists performing in your city this week"

turbostyler — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 21:21:06 +0000

This is just a thinly-veiled ad for Parabola