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by habosa 3y ago
650k out of 340M is an astonishing number. That's almost one in 500 people who don't have a place to call home in the richest country in the world. There were more than 500 people in my high school class ... Anything that affects
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by habosa 3y ago
I hesitate to ask on HN (given that this is an arm of YC) but can anyone explain the rise of Sam? He had a startup that seemingly had an uninteresting exit (raised 30M sold for 43M). Then he’s somehow PG’s protege and the role of YC preside
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by habosa 3y ago
Obviously there are important network effects but the behavior of some Goodreads users is often a negative at this point (as the article talks about).
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by habosa 3y ago
If anyone at Goodreads or Amazon cares about the platform at all they have a funny way of showing it. It’s been stagnant and shoddy for years. Goodreads really has only one thing going for it: a pristine data set of books, authors, cover im
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by habosa 3y ago
Not sure where you are in the world but in the US having a phone number and receiving voice calls is pretty much required to participate in society. And using WhatsApp or other similar solutions is not very common.
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by habosa 3y ago
I got a spam call seemingly “from Verizon” (their main number) on my Verizon phone. I called them and told them and they said “oh yeah that happens all the time don’t pick up when we call” That’s when I realized we’ll never win. The spammer
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by habosa 3y ago
I found it to be surprisingly good and I was very impressed with the in-browser performance. It is very very sensitive to resolution though. Once my images got down to a certain size they produced garbage from Tesseract even though they wer
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by habosa 3y ago
Lawyers will attempt to put the most advantageous terms possible in any contract they write. It’s just what they do. It’s not malice or incompetence. It’s training.
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by habosa 3y ago
The geofire libraries from Firebase have good geohash implementations for many popular languages: https://github.com/firebase/geofire-js
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by habosa 3y ago
The main advertised feature of the iPhone 15 is titanium … not surprising that people feel like they can keep their current phone
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by habosa 3y ago
Ron Amadeo has such a strange life. He spends most of his time following Google just to write up how much he hates everything they do. It would probably be healthier for everyone if he got a new beat.
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by habosa 3y ago
Most of the time WSJ is a great paper, but once in a while it feels like they let a few angry CEOs get together and ghostwrite a front page article with no oversight. From the chart: among Americans with paid leave about 33% of them took AN
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by habosa 3y ago
Can you explain how Kobo supports authors? I was not aware.
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My dream job is building a DRM-free eBook store with all of the major publishers onboard. If anyone on HN is building that, please email me. I have so many ideas about how that could revitalize the books industry. Aside: I think if publishe
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by habosa 3y ago
Seems true in America. I rarely choose self checkout, for the reasons listed. However I spent 3 years in London and self checkout dominates. The Sainsburys by my house had ~40 self checkout kiosks and only about 6 regular checkout lanes. I
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by habosa 3y ago
That’s an exceptionally beautiful app and you should be proud to have built it. Doesn’t really matter if it’s a business or not.
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by habosa 3y ago
I see more and more reckless driving in San Francisco every day. Not just regular people speeding on their way to somewhere, but people driving cars and bikes specifically built to be as loud and fast as possible. Speeding and making noise
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by habosa 3y ago
Loom is probably the simplest billion-dollar piece of software, but it's also excellent software and I am happy they're getting paid. Screen recording before Loom was a pain. You had to open up some program, start it, save the fil
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by habosa 3y ago
Just wondering what people think: I’m lucky to be able to afford all the books I could ever read (high pay, cheap books, medium reading speed) so I choose to buy books rather than borrow them so that I can support authors. Is this a common
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by habosa 3y ago
So the service costs MSFT an average of $30/user/month. So if they want to make a business with decent margins out of this, they're going to need to charge $60/user/month or more. That's not too much if it&#x27
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by habosa 3y ago
I’m consistently amazed at how much energy has been put into the light/dark UI pattern for web and mobile apps. Way way more than was ever put into dealing with colorblindness or any other form of color adjustment imo. It’s nice to hav
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by habosa 3y ago
Just adding to the chorus here: I moved from the US to the UK and like any immigrant anywhere I had to fill out a lot of forms. Especially during covid, there was seemingly always a new form to fill. The Gov.uk forms are literally the most
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We made very similar mistakes with college education and housing. Both things that we’d like people to have more of, in theory. In both cases the government provided massive subsidies in the form of loans and tax breaks. That does wonders f
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by habosa 3y ago
As a former Googler who worked on some Android things I can say that this is untrue. There are many other reasons why Android devices don't keep up with iOS but a lack of Googlers using them is not one of them. There are many thousands
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by habosa 3y ago
That actually is helpful, lets me know I should avoid dealing with that company!
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I don't think anyone wants more events like the Super Bowl besides the NFL. And there's really no comparison between that event and a single Taylor Swift concert ... the Super Bowl is big enough to have a Beyonce concert at halfti
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by habosa 3y ago
There's a lot of skepticism in this thread but I will just say that the other laws like this have had a huge positive effect on tech job searching in my opinion. Looking casually at jobs lately I would say that 80% of them have posted
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Some of my favorite bands have done simple things which drastically (but not completely) reduce the levels of scalping. On a previous tour, Wilco made tickets only valid for the original holder with matching photo ID at the door. So I could
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by habosa 3y ago
Imba powers Scrimba which is an incredibly cool platform with interactive coding screencasts: https://scrimba.com/
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This looks really nice! I think Vue 2 is/was such an underrated framework. The reactivity stuff has a little too much magic (hard to debug) but the way of laying out single file components as just HTML, CSS, and a script is pretty magi

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