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New comment by wtvanhest in "New YC homepage"

wtvanhest — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 04:54:05 +0000

I’m not against big exits / valuations and showing the numbers. But… what would have added a bit of interest would have been real metrics. For example I believe AirBnB has 2 billion guest nights. Showing that instead of the ipo value is more impressive to people who want to deliver value rather than capture value.

Real world metrics would feel slightly more on brand than valuations

New comment by wtvanhest in "62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line"

wtvanhest — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:12:14 +0000

Die Hard: The most expensive mile

New comment by wtvanhest in "The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long"

wtvanhest — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:25:30 +0000

Thanks! You said that much better than I did.

New comment by wtvanhest in "The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long"

wtvanhest — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:58:11 +0000

I don’t think these probabilities are correct. Every parent is told not to feed their under 1 year olds honey, many times.

In an extreme example… only 20 parents fed their kids honey and 20 kids contracted botulism.

That would be a 100% risk. Obviously in real life it’s not 100% of kids, but still could be a meaningful percentage and likely higher than 1 in 50,000 for babies that eat honey.

New comment by wtvanhest in "Show HN: Countless.dev – A website to compare every AI model: LLMs, TTSs, STTs"

wtvanhest — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 01:09:18 +0000

What tactics do you use to refresh while using them?

New comment by wtvanhest in "NHTSA: Car crashes cost Americans $340B"

wtvanhest — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 23:26:51 +0000

Multiple factors may lead to you paying more than the average:

1. Not all Americans have cars or drive.

2. Each state has different legislative structures which impact payouts and medical costs. Some states cost more than the average per accident, some cost less.

3. Your risk may be higher than average

4. You may drive more or less miles than average

5. Your choice of car makes you more or less risky

New comment by wtvanhest in "Peloton CEO quit after laying off 2,800. A lesson about how not to lead (2022)"

wtvanhest — Wed, 24 May 2023 16:10:39 +0000

70 hours! Not 700! Can’t edit. But easily 1.5+ hours per week.

New comment by wtvanhest in "Peloton CEO quit after laying off 2,800. A lesson about how not to lead (2022)"

wtvanhest — Wed, 24 May 2023 13:11:04 +0000

We bought one back in 2020 and I’d say it’s the single best purchase I have made in the last 10+ years. My wife and I use it or the app to work out almost every day and I’ll log 700+ hours this year which will be about 10% more than last year. 75% of which will be off bike in the other classes which you can pay a lower membership for.

Despite some really bad decisions by the management team on letting expenses get out of control, it’s an absolutely incredible product.

New comment by wtvanhest in "SimCity 4 was released 20 years ago"

wtvanhest — Tue, 23 May 2023 05:19:59 +0000

Red Alert 2. That was such a fun game. One thing that has been majorly lost in games now is the ability to create levels too. I loved the creation part

New comment by wtvanhest in "Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev"

wtvanhest — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:38:23 +0000

I’ve kind of solved this. You can snap windows but you need to add a shortcut in systems to do it. It’s not perfect, but it does work and overtime you miss it less and less

New comment by wtvanhest in "AirPods causing tinnitus?"

wtvanhest — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 20:29:37 +0000

I have tinnitus and AirPod pros and haven’t noticed any difference. I do find that not drinking out of straws or especially camelpak style bottles with straws really minimizes it. Also, more sleep, less tinnitus

New comment by wtvanhest in "Sesame allergen labeling law has unintended effect: sesame in more foods"

wtvanhest — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 18:55:01 +0000

Our son had skin issues (eczema) before he was old enough to eat solid foods. Eczema and food allergies are correlated so we fed him small amounts of peanuts and he had a crazy reaction. We were lucky he didn’t end up in er first time, but swollen lips, changed “voice” for weeks etc.

New comment by wtvanhest in "Sesame allergen labeling law has unintended effect: sesame in more foods"

wtvanhest — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:54:53 +0000

My son has multiple severe nut allergies so I’ve gone from having zero awareness to having too much.

Allergies are fascinating bc they are a continuum and random.

Continuum from…

zero symptoms if you eat the protein in the nut and just a positive blood test…

all the way to…

cannot be in same room as nuts if they will have a reaction that constricts their ability to breath.

They are also random in that your outcome can be wildly different each time.

The result imo is that drs who detect any food allergy, let’s say the child has a slightly swollen lip after eating sesame will run labs on blood and skin and get some real positives and some false positives.

Next they say not to eat anything the person is allergic to in order to prevent a life threatening allergy.

If no blood or skin tests existed this person may go through life mainly avoiding the food bc it’s uncomfortable, but never think of themselves as allergic to X.

Net result is that people with allergies are safer now, but the % of people we know have allergies has increased.

As a side note, if you are reading this as a parent with a kid with a recently discovered food allergy, please note… it totally sucks, but… you will adjust over time to the higher workload and constant label reading, hang in there.

New comment by wtvanhest in "Sesame allergen labeling law has unintended effect: sesame in more foods"

wtvanhest — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:17:39 +0000

It also means they don’t feel confident enough in their cleaning process and would prefer to add cost to their manufacturing process than to ensure clean machines

New comment by wtvanhest in "5.1 Magnitude Earthquake Near San Jose, CA"

wtvanhest — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 21:31:09 +0000

I received the notification today for a 4.9 or something like that. It took me at least a half second to second to read the message.

I agree with your point that the message should have way less info which could buy me additional time.

Something like: 4.5-5.9: “Earthquake cat 1” 6.0-6.3: “Earthquake cat 2”

Etc. something to tell me, get ready, or something to tell me this is going to be huge, but not precise numbers or even better:

“Earthquake, 3.87 seconds” with a count down would be ideal. If I have 7 seconds I can get outside. 2 seconds and I duck and cover.

New comment by wtvanhest in "Looped Square Or ⌘"

wtvanhest — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:58:27 +0000

I moved from PC to Mac at work. Anyone have any suggestions on the best guides to get up and running on default hotkeys?

New comment by wtvanhest in "Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points"

wtvanhest — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:10:19 +0000

Does anyone have a recommended way to monitor my wifi connection on my PC or Mac over time?

I recently started at a new company which uses google meets and I’m having an issue where my out sound and video output freeze for people communicating with me for 1 to 3 seconds.

I’ve replaced the PC and I’m still having the issue so Id like to troubleshoot the problem by ensuring my network connection is working correctly.

Hardware: replaced google home wifi mesh with top of the line eero mesh.

New comment by wtvanhest in "US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and services for little to no pay"

wtvanhest — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 20:32:41 +0000

We should try to eliminate as many as possible, regardless of whether it has to be piecemeal

New comment by wtvanhest in "Eero Pro 6E and Eero 6 Review: Fast and Easy"

wtvanhest — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 18:51:09 +0000

I have a new Wifi6 in my laptop, but obviously dual band. I’m considering hardwiring into the nod which will be wirelessly connected to the mesh, but that may solve all issues.

New comment by wtvanhest in "Eero Pro 6E and Eero 6 Review: Fast and Easy"

wtvanhest — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 17:52:26 +0000

Does anyone have any sense how the pro 6e will perform in the city with interference vs something like google home Wi-Fi? I’m having a lot of issues on video calls and hardwiring is not a good option.