Hacker News: tvaughan

New comment by tvaughan in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

tvaughan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:54:13 +0000

This is why we built https://sumar.io/

New comment by tvaughan in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

tvaughan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:51:45 +0000

OS/2 Warp was out before Windows 95, and better.

New comment by tvaughan in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

tvaughan — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:28:04 +0000

GitHub has never been down since Copilot was released.

New comment by tvaughan in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

tvaughan — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:19:15 +0000

Tariffs.

New comment by tvaughan in "$1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI"

tvaughan — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:14:13 +0000

> Please just make me a good salad.

No.

> sudo Please just make me a good salad.

Ok.

New comment by tvaughan in "US to rewrite its past national climate reports"

tvaughan — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:42:31 +0000

Yes, and I hope everything they voted for happens to them personally

New comment by tvaughan in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

tvaughan — Wed, 21 May 2025 17:55:18 +0000

How quickly we’ve forgotten about the Rabbit R1.

New comment by tvaughan in "Getting Older Isn't What You Think"

tvaughan — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:02:46 +0000

Can relate to both. There aren’t a lot of winters left where I’ll be able to ski. The future no longer feels infinite. I do not have all of the time in the world to do the things I enjoy. But, and my younger self would be very upset with me, I am very happily done with the hussle.

> But these days, there’s nothing lovelier than a Saturday morning with a bit of jazz or classical playing, pottering about the kitchen, and then being tucked up in bed before 10pm. Wild.

Play with the dogs. Smoke some weed, a nice meal and play cards with the wife. Don’t need much more.

New comment by tvaughan in "Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates with 34% Tariffs"

tvaughan — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:01:05 +0000

What? The US President has said repeatedly that tariffs are an easy money maker with no adverse side-effects. China is about to experience the boom times just like everyone in the US is now. You heard the US President’s comments about the recent jobs report, right?

New comment by tvaughan in "US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back"

tvaughan — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:57:55 +0000

This isn’t an accident. They said they’d do this. People voted for this. This is what some people want to happen. No one should be surprised by this. On the campaign trail Trump promised to deport 20 million people. They’re aren’t 20 million undocumented people in the US. The only way you can deport 20 million people is to deport a lot people who have no reason whatsoever to be deported.

New comment by tvaughan in "Self-Hosting like it's 2025"

tvaughan — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:53:10 +0000

For our startup, I decided we’d self-host as much as possible. We have one server in our office with Traefik for “firewall” and SSL termination, and our backend services are handled by Incus. Our only paid services are Tailscale and Postmark. We run things like forgejo and mattermost for our internal development work, as well as things like elasticsearch and kibana for observability into our products (100ish embedded devices distributed globally). So far so good.

New comment by tvaughan in "Tufts student: Video shows masked agents arresting Rumeysa Ozturk"

tvaughan — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:37:19 +0000

What’s political activism?

New comment by tvaughan in "IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp"

tvaughan — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:28:13 +0000

IPOs became exits in 2008. They’re no longer about raising capital

New comment by tvaughan in "GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens"

tvaughan — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:43:23 +0000

Yup. Even in the 90s it was Microsoft’s plan to turn software development into just clicking buttons, e.g. Visual Studio. Just think of all of the business value the middle managers at a Fortune 1000 could produce with a bunch of cheap labor in some underdeveloped country with only three months of training (paid by them) to learn which buttons do which

New comment by tvaughan in "Beej's Guide to Git"

tvaughan — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:39:45 +0000

Doing Chico proud!

New comment by tvaughan in "Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond"

tvaughan — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 23:33:15 +0000

Can’t tell what exactly they think is in UF. Perhaps you mean the principle is in UF? That’s pretty meaningless though. The actual loan amount is converted to pesos when it’s finalized (the process can take months), and the APR is just some percentage of that.

Source: Live in Chile, have mortgage in Chile in pesos.

New comment by tvaughan in "Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond"

tvaughan — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 11:33:18 +0000

Rents are in UF. I’ve never seen a mortgage in UF. Some savings accounts also pay “interest” in UF.

New comment by tvaughan in "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris"

tvaughan — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 23:53:10 +0000

Well said. Journalists also don’t have to give equal weight to the other side when the other side are whackadoodles

New comment by tvaughan in "The Static Site Paradox"

tvaughan — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:14:54 +0000

I was surprised at how hard it was to find a designer who could make a simple html and css only website. Just having to dip my toe in this world for a good-looking but mostly non-functional website gave me all kinds of ick.

Oh, https://sumar.io is a form handler for static websites available under the AGPL.

New comment by tvaughan in "Show HN: Kotlin Money"

tvaughan — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:36:34 +0000

They became the basis for the plot of Superman III