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

xxxxxxxx — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:39:09 +0000

I built a website to organise my images and videos from a recent trip to Egypt. https://deepspaceplace.com/egypt/ It's a must visit destination if you get the chance.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

xxxxxxxx — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:45:18 +0000

I don't use containers. I just use systemd / systemctl to run the go apps. I manually update Debian on a schedule I keep. For logs I just ship them to my own app I developed that send messages to a discord server - but I might switch that over to something better one day but it's okay for now. I pay a little extra for Linode backups and have had to use it once, any anything important I backup to S3 and/or locally. I also forgot to say I also use SQLC - so I never have any issues with SQL being wrong or out of sync with the data model.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments"

xxxxxxxx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:50:03 +0000

This is interesting. I just fixed a Github issue where the code did not handle Em-Dash correctly. Ran some queries to check the stats there. No surprises: https://deepspaceplace.com/emdash

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

xxxxxxxx — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:17:15 +0000

This is similar to what I do. Linode, Debian, Go, HTMX, SQLite (with modernc.org/SQLite so I have no CGO dependency) and Caddy. If I have apps that need a lot of storage, I just add an S3 bucket.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR"

xxxxxxxx — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:03:34 +0000

It might not be as easy as you think if the system has somehow survived without an upgrade for decades. Who knows, maybe it's that ancient?

Back in the day I worked on CODASYL style databases (IDMS) that was EBCDIC. This is before relational databases were a thing. We had no PCs: all of the companies’ data was is in the Mainframe in EBCDIC. No ASCII anywhere, let alone UTF-8.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "When did Postgres become cool?"

xxxxxxxx — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 02:23:42 +0000

I remember back in the day when Ingress was the cool kid (running on HP-UX at our shop I think). Almost overnight there was a fork in the road and everyone went to either Orcale or SQL Server. Now I would touch anything other then Postgres. The more I use and learn about it the more I appreciate all the work that has gone into it over the years.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "Computing e to 116,000 Places with a Personal Computer (1981)"

xxxxxxxx — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 01:22:39 +0000

Probably should update the title to say the article was written by Steve Wozniak.

Ritom Pumped-Storage Plant Project – Tunneling Under Extreme Conditions

xxxxxxxx — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 07:03:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AV2NcyX7pk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34638043

Points: 1

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New comment by xxxxxxxx in "DALL-E for Playlists"

xxxxxxxx — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:36:58 +0000

Congrats - this is awesome. I'm enjoying lots of new songs that got recommended.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years"

xxxxxxxx — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 07:01:30 +0000

It's permissionless, as in no reporting transactions over $10k to the government, no ID checks to create an account, no names and addresses in the "global transaction log" etc.

That sounds a lot like freedom to me.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "The No-Code Generation is arriving"

xxxxxxxx — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 03:51:15 +0000

As a counterpoint to this I hate it when data is treated like code. Need to create a new cost center? Raise a change request. Get an IP addressed added to a list in a firewall? CR. Bureaucracies thrive on this stuff.

Even worse when master data is hardcoded into applications. It still happens especially when a vendor can make an ongoing revenue stream from it.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "Central Bank Digital Currencies are coming"

xxxxxxxx — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 17:59:53 +0000

This is the best explanation I have seen :

https://youtu.be/uX7VpTqXJhY

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "Fortnite seems to have been removed from the Play Store as well"

xxxxxxxx — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:41:18 +0000

Via an in-game purchase perhaps?

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0"

xxxxxxxx — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:04:52 +0000

I can't tell from your tone if you are joking or not. I hope you are? Your utopia sounds a lot like Brave New World to me.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "Google Maps Hacks"

xxxxxxxx — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 03:55:06 +0000

Police roadblocks to test for drugs and alcohol (aka booze bus) also show up as red on google maps.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "Climate protesters storm Garzweiler coal mine in Germany"

xxxxxxxx — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 09:32:42 +0000

That deal was signed by Annastacia Palaszczuk, the State Labour premier, not the federal government.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "Estimate the size of your English vocabulary (2014)"

xxxxxxxx — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 03:29:52 +0000

87% with no false positives. In my view many of these are not what I consider English ‘words’ - plant names, trade marks and archaic words. Still fun though.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "24 years of Delphi and Delphi 10.3.1 is out Today"

xxxxxxxx — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:23:50 +0000

Any mention of Delphi always brings back fond memories of my first job. We were doing amazing things with Clipper at the time, with a bit of Turbo Pascal on the side. Then windows took root and the world opened up with promises from Visual Objects and Dephi - but VB ended up the winner and that was the end of that.

We would play with Delphi and SmallTalk just for fun and there was always a Dephi fanboi around.

Despite these 'primitive' tools we were so much more productive back then - it's quite sad where we have ended up. We would pump out wonderful apps even in the days before we could get our hands on a relational database. dBase files, VSAM files and even trusty CODASYL did the job without any fuss.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "iOS 12, reviewed"

xxxxxxxx — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 22:17:20 +0000

I just used Google Maps to get to work this morning using Apple Car Play - it's awesome. There were a few annoying errors in Apple maps on my daily route that I won't have to deal with ever again.

New comment by xxxxxxxx in "Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator"

xxxxxxxx — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:51:13 +0000

It's not only Apple that is regressing. calc.exe crashes at startup my Win 10 machine 50% of the time. It needs a remote procedure call to work now.

Activation of application Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App failed with error: The remote procedure call failed. See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information.