Hacker News: zdrummond

New comment by zdrummond in "Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban Major New Data Centers"

zdrummond — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:53:30 +0000

I heard one rationale that has nothing to do with factories > AI data centers. It is the only lever that legislators currently have. They want some bargaining chip to get more control over AI firms.

New comment by zdrummond in "Project Shadowglass"

zdrummond — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:20:18 +0000

It does not appear to be AI, and is a passion project by a single developer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9FMp5QgOvY

New comment by zdrummond in "Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust"

zdrummond — Wed, 28 May 2025 21:56:26 +0000

I would love to understand this in more depth. Any chance you could write up what you found?

New comment by zdrummond in "Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6k plants"

zdrummond — Mon, 06 May 2024 14:34:49 +0000

This might be a stretch, but I would love to know what outdoor plants are native to my area.

New comment by zdrummond in "Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers"

zdrummond — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:34:06 +0000

Looks great. Quick question. When I started it up, Little Snitch immediately told me it made a connection to GitHub and currencies.heynote.com.

Why does a scratch pad need to phone home?

New comment by zdrummond in "Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice"

zdrummond — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 21:59:33 +0000

This is just a tweet that makes a claim without backing, and links to an article that was pulled.

Can we change the URL to the real article if it still exists?

New comment by zdrummond in "BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users"

zdrummond — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:12:42 +0000

Note, compute is going up in price, but storage should be cheaper[1]. So it depends on your workload if and by how much this will impact you

[1]https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introd...

New comment by zdrummond in "Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python"

zdrummond — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:57:17 +0000

Looks great. I am excited to play with it.

One nit, on your landing page it has a typo, missing "framework /that/ doesn't" > Never get locked into a framework doesn't support your existing tech stack.

Also, your Gallery has highly responsive SPAs, but for some reason the counter here[1] is very slow on a cold load

[1] https://pynecone.io/docs/getting-started/introduction

New comment by zdrummond in "Reliability: It’s not great"

zdrummond — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 01:11:05 +0000

Not sure it's what you are looking for, but how Spanner mitigated CAP to delivery a relational DB at scale is a really interesting read[1]

[1] https://research.google/pubs/pub45855/

New comment by zdrummond in "Top Paying Companies by SWE Level"

zdrummond — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:40:54 +0000

Except Google’s RSUs vest every month. So, other than the whims of the market, it’s the same as salary.

'Fine dining is not what Seattle needs now': Canlis closes, opens to-go option

zdrummond — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 04:39:24 +0000

Article URL: http://seattlerefined.com/eat-drink/fine-dining-is-not-what-seattle-needs-now-canlis-closes-opens-to-go-options-instead

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22564773

Points: 1

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New comment by zdrummond in "Tesla’s new Solar Roof costs less than a new roof plus solar panels"

zdrummond — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 18:29:27 +0000

FWIW. The panels are $0.86/wh each with a micro-inverter that runs ~$160 per panel and 32 panels. So, ~$5000 for inverters, ~$11k for panels, which brings you to ~$16k and your not even tied into the power of the house, or adding the mandatory shutoff, or the new meters, or the Emphase system that tracks by the minute power consumption and usage of each panel, etc etc. So lets call the rest $4k

Total of parts ~$20k. $12k for construction in the Seattle area seems fair for a complex electrical install that includes a 10 year install and 25 year system warranty.

I think like many things, the last mile of work is way more expensive then people realize. Solar is more than the panels themselves

Note: I could have used cheaper panels, but they take up more roof. I could have also saved money by skipping the per-panel micro-inverters, but then the system is more brittle and less efficient

New comment by zdrummond in "Tesla’s new Solar Roof costs less than a new roof plus solar panels"

zdrummond — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:18:29 +0000

I just put in a 12kw system. It was $32k before federal rebate, and it was the cheapest bid by 5 different contractors. Not sure where your getting $15k

New comment by zdrummond in "Betting the Farm on the Drought (2015)"

zdrummond — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 00:05:49 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1732/

New comment by zdrummond in "Launch HN: Quirk (YC S19) – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy"

zdrummond — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 19:38:12 +0000

Offhand, I feel your advice is contrary.

You suggest increasing the price because "If outcomes from using your app compare favorably to a therapist, shouldn't your pricing reflect that?", but then the next two points on brand and stigma suggest opening it up to all people who want to feel great.

I think you need to choose one. You are either a niche therapy compliment/competitor (price insensitive) or a mental wellbeing tool for a broad audience (super price sensitive).

I personally hope you keep to the lower price point. I think overall you will do more Good and reach more people. Even if you don't make a unicorn, $4/month from 5% of your market, is still $20M/month.

Also, final note, many people suffering from mental illness can not afford therapy. Even $4 would be hard, $50 is impossible.

New comment by zdrummond in "Svelte is the most beautiful web framework I've seen"

zdrummond — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 01:06:32 +0000

To be clear, this is Svelte version 3, and the first commit was Nov 15, 2016. So the framework is technically 3+ years old.

That said, I don't think boring is about age, but about real-world exposure

New comment by zdrummond in "Tesla Model Y"

zdrummond — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 04:33:37 +0000

No, they are the actual price. The price with incentive plus "gas savings" is about 5k cheaper. As for the website, look down and to the left for the full retail.

New comment by zdrummond in "The new Apple Watch 4 face is a design crime"

zdrummond — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:41:24 +0000

I think the author is not familiar with watches in general. You have always been able to choose very complex and "busy" faces if you want to have easy and quick access to information.

Just do a quick images search for "high end watch complications" and you will see plenty of very expensive watches that commit the same supposed "design crime"

New comment by zdrummond in "Show HN: CampTarget, road routing and planning helper"

zdrummond — Tue, 15 May 2018 19:42:49 +0000

I agree, I jumped-in to use it, and before I have an idea of value I am asked to login.

However, to me, the real blocker was when I clicked login with Google, it says it was going to provide my age range. Why? What do you want to do with that?

New comment by zdrummond in "German cars have the most to lose from a changing auto industry"

zdrummond — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 03:25:52 +0000

The article leads with "GERMAN carmakers have much in common with the self-confident roadhogs who favour their vehicles". That makes it hard to take seriously or treat as good journalism.