Hacker News: zindlerb

New comment by zindlerb in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

zindlerb — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:49:43 +0000

Isn't this what he says in the post? The first reason listed is market cycle not ai.

New comment by zindlerb in "The history of cataract surgery"

zindlerb — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:23:00 +0000

Many surgeries have a yikes success rate but when you need to do it you need to do it unfortunately.

New comment by zindlerb in "Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday"

zindlerb — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 03:49:47 +0000

I don't think that is an apt metaphor. Imo Openai is Apple and Google is Parc. Google experiencing a similar issue to parc where they invented transformers but have been unable to capture the value so far due to being focused on ads revenue.

New comment by zindlerb in "Upcoming LK-99 paper will reportedly verify the superconductor"

zindlerb — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 05:17:41 +0000

This article reads like it was written by chatgpt

Visibot – Control Robots from a Spreadsheet

zindlerb — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 16:05:40 +0000

Article URL: https://visibot.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32484734

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zindlerb in "Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam"

zindlerb — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:41:57 +0000

I setup a filter to archive any email with the phrase "paid for by" this has been pretty good at filtering all political spam. Although it may generate some false positives.

New comment by zindlerb in "TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (2019)"

zindlerb — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 06:20:21 +0000

Someone needs to start a non-profit competitor to TurboTax that uses its fees to advocate for simplifying tax policy.

Understanding JavaScript Date Instances

zindlerb — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 06:12:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.notion.so/Understanding-Javascript-Dates-a4314ca037954a5b94c4ddd9e03e09c6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911208

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ideas to Improve Flowchart Editing

zindlerb — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 23:08:27 +0000

Article URL: http://www.zindlerb.com/improving-flowchart-editing-tools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21120514

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zindlerb in "Map Design – a guide to good looking maps (2008) [pdf]"

zindlerb — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 01:08:04 +0000

I found the book Cartographic Relief Presentation (https://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=disp...) to be an in depth resource on this subject.

New comment by zindlerb in "Ask HN: Joining a Late Series Startup in SV. Please Help"

zindlerb — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 01:47:22 +0000

Imo you are taking on a huge risk. Your shares will be worth nothing the majority of the time. In the future if your shares are worth a lot and you need to pay taxes that will be a nice problem to have.

Deceptive Dev Tools

zindlerb — Sun, 12 May 2019 22:31:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.notion.so/Deceptive-Dev-Tools-3c8bb426a92348b595dd637df18fb82d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19895014

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zindlerb in "Joins In Steps"

zindlerb — Sun, 12 May 2019 01:53:32 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out. It has been updated.

Joins In Steps

zindlerb — Sat, 11 May 2019 03:10:31 +0000

Article URL: http://www.zindlerb.com/joins-in-steps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19884291

Points: 75

# Comments: 27

New comment by zindlerb in "Eve: Programming designed for humans"

zindlerb — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 17:09:24 +0000

Looks really cool! I'm excited to test out a few programs.

New comment by zindlerb in "BYOT: Bring your own team"

zindlerb — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:26:16 +0000

Stripe doesn't have referral bonuses.

New comment by zindlerb in "Ask HN: Why are there so few reviews for coding bootcamps?"

zindlerb — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 18:21:50 +0000

Try yelp. Hack Reactor has 150+ Yelp reviews http://www.yelp.com/biz/hack-reactor-san-francisco

New comment by zindlerb in "YC Interview Prep Tool"

zindlerb — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:22:23 +0000

Very cool! I made a little tool like this a while ago. It has sound bites from previous yc office hours. http://www.zindlerb.com/officeHours/index.html

Playfair: Clone of Bret Victor's Data Vis Drawing Tool

zindlerb — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 22:06:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zindlerb/playfair

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8737313

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zindlerb in "Mean People Fail"

zindlerb — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:08:20 +0000

I would not consider Zynga a success.