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This sounds awesome. Can anyone comment on the plethora of negative articles seemingly trying to balance out this positive news with the cargo ship fire in China 2 days ago? Orchestrated media manipulation or coincidence? Not a conspiracy theorist just curious
Mind me asking general location and how much savings? Wouldn’t mind doing similar at some point
Re:The three thousand year journey of colchicine on Friday November 28, 2025 @10:54AM (#46079726)
After seeing multiple doctors in the USA (where I no longer live thankfully) for a chronic mouth ulcer problem an allergist prescribed me colchicine which seemed to cure them. These ulcers lasted over 15 years and colchicine seemed to be the only thing to eradicate them.

Insurance wouldn’t cover the cost and colchicine cost me $500 a month for a bottle. In the UK I can pay 10 pounds. Crazy drug and crazy price for something 3000 years old

Re:How big is carpooling market? on Thursday July 17, 2025 @05:05PM (#44598210)
We should spend more time and energy improving pedestrian and cycling infrastructure and stop the growth of urban sprawl which makes you incorrectly think you need to solve this problem. A great book on this topic - Carmageddon
Re:Ask HN: Moving to London from California on Thursday May 22, 2025 @12:08AM (#44058698)
Life is short and it seemed fun
Re:Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full pardon on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:44AM (#42789441)
I understood exactly what you meant and that is an awesome experience
Re:Humpback Whale Swims Up to Photographer for Close-Up Picture on Thursday December 12, 2024 @07:40PM (#42404923)
Sad story
None and the problem I see is we have too many tools
Re:Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @02:18PM (#42380348)
This comment kind of nails it. I don’t have any social media at all and often my friends tell me I live under a rock for not knowing the latest meme. The decision is trivial, I just don’t have social media (except Hackernews which does waste a disgusting amount of time).

Anyways - people gravitate toward the simple and assume the difficult is impossible. I’m training for a marathon with some friends and some are already making excuses to do as much as possible that _does not_ involve running (weight lifting, biking). I think humans just do the easy thing and complain about their situation because it’s.. well easy.

Re:Why do we see no companies offering to deploy local LLMs? on Monday November 25, 2024 @09:35PM (#42242074)
Cloudflare Workers AI
Re:Show HN: A macOS app and window activity tracker on Thursday November 21, 2024 @01:45PM (#42207310)
Very cool. I’ve been playing in this space as well and built a window switcher with labels on macOS with Tauri.

It’s a fun tool!

100% agree with this. Every kid in the 2000s pirated Adobe software. It was almost a badge of honor to have every Adobe icon on your desktop.

These kids learned the Adobe suite and probably became professionals as a result, then purchasing the software legally for their entire company. Piracy isn’t bad, in fact, it probably makes these companies money in many cases.

Re:Ask HN: Greatest books about the history of computing on Monday November 18, 2024 @11:45PM (#42180153)
Good book. Can be a bit dry here and there, but fascinating
Re:Show HN: A macOS app and window activity tracker on Saturday November 09, 2024 @12:03AM (#42092652)
Looks nice. May I ask what you wrote it in? What renders the GUI?
There is also the ability to run things like Playwright on the edge a la Cloudflare Workers. You can fallback to rendering JS required sites through that and do clientside imagemagick WASM shenanigans on the client once the worker returns direct links to all the images.
Re:Ask HN: Is it worth upgrading to the new M4 Mac from an M1? on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @05:29PM (#42000585)
Definitely not
Re:We're forking Flutter on Monday October 28, 2024 @04:34PM (#41975948)
Sure and 1 guy built flappy birds played by tens of millions. The complexity is a completely different ball game IMO.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @02:15PM (#41974288)
If you define “bigness” of my house as being more value than living next to all my friends in a very walkable city with tons of things to do at any time I want where I don’t need to ever drive my car then sure.

Personally, I’ll take my $500k condo in my very amazing city that is 1000sq ft over a 3500sq ft empty house that is 2 miles from the nearest grocery store.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @11:22AM (#41971976)
No offense, but this statement seems like an ignorant lack of understanding around the issues with the growing problems around urban sprawl and the issues it causes environmentally or otherwise. No one is going to take your countryside home from you, but it’s worth educating yourself on the issues.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @11:20AM (#41971957)
My partner and I discuss this a lot and I hate that no one in the US realizes how detrimental urban sprawl is.

How did you learn to understand non-profit organization work like this?

Re:Show HN: Clickhttp: ClickHouse via HTTP Protocol on Thursday October 24, 2024 @05:30PM (#41940008)
Very cool and nice work!
I’ve always wondered this logic myself. I feel like a small book could be published around human psychology and air travel things.
In my 10 years of this career all of the rockstar programmers I’ve worked with have had a college degree. Not saying there is a correlation, but I’ve only worked with a very small handful of absolute wizards.
Re:Show HN: Clickhttp: ClickHouse via HTTP Protocol on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @06:46PM (#41919495)
Can you elaborate when I'd use this over the native HTTP support? https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/interfaces/http
The narrators voice is annoying clickbait shit.

If you like this, check out The Alpinist. Literally the best movie I’ve ever seen. Also, felt like it was on par with Alex Honnolds climbing movie

Re:Ask HN: Crappy website design seems more trustworthy? on Monday October 21, 2024 @01:59PM (#41906629)
Define “trust banks”

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