nahtnam | 5 months ago | on: California electric vehicle drivers will lose carpool lane privileges
Fun while it lasted. I foresee a lot of cops pulling over Teslas in the carpool lane because they didn't realize the program is over
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nahtnam | 7 months ago | on: SpaceX's Starlink Is Now Beaming Wi-Fi to 1k Planes
I've had almost exactly the opposite experience. Never had a consistent connection with Panasonic or GoGo, but on my Starlink flight I was streaming live videos without a single hiccup.
nahtnam | 10 months ago | on: We bought billboards in San Francisco, for our open source product
Awesome, looks like it was personally worth it. I'm curious if it was also financially worth it?
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Are you crosssing the Amazon picket line? If no, where are you shopping?
Walmart+? But I'm not sure how much better they treat their employees
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios
I would love to see a "Politicians" section which copies their investments
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Payment processing for micro SaaS outside USA?
Also Polar.sh and Creem.io
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Free Starlink Internet is coming to all of United's airplanes
Looks like I'm flying exclusively United when I can in 2025
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Apple Watch Series 10
Cheaper to just buy apple care
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax
I use it, `time=39.741 ms` when I `ping` my Oregon server from LA
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management
Another benefit is that debugging secret changes is a lot easier. We've had a couple of cases where someone changes the secret in a vault and that causes problems and no one can tell what changed between two deploys
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice
Google Cloud Run also has PR previews
Fly.io has a GitHub action to make it pretty easy
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: I built a site to track your buy it for life items
Not at all, BIFL applies to everything, here's a dishwasher: https://www.costperuse.com/@kepano/purchases/14779fe8-03ea-4...
Would the site be more useful if it had a "product page" where it showed how many users have bought the product, avg life expectancy, etc + the repair guides and reviews?
Obviously I can't build this without users, but I think this is a good idea if that's what you're suggesting
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: I built a site to track your buy it for life items
Good callout, I actually do have a field for purchase link. I've added them to my posts
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: I built a site to track your buy it for life items
Sorry about that! I was getting some really bad cold starts on vercel (>1s) so I moved to fly.io, and my auth provider needed some additional configuration for docker based deployments that I missed
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: I built a site to track your buy it for life items
True! Although I'd say there's usually a correlation between price and durability/quality
Here's an example of something cheap that's lasted me a long time: https://www.costperuse.com/@nahtnam/purchases/0018ace2-af37-... (I don't think they designed it to be durable, it just happened to be)
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: I built a site to track your buy it for life items
Thanks for the feedback, I'll working on improving the landing page! You're totally right though, it lacks explanations and examples
To answer your question here, BIFL (in my experience) means paying extra for a premium quality item that will last significantly longer than the cheaper alternative. However, in some cases, it's worth buying the cheaper item if you don't use it enough.
The ZSA Moonlander example is a product I spent the extra $$$ on, and in the end it was totally worth it given how many hours I've spent using the keyboard. I built the site to put into perspective what the value of the keyboard is. Would I spend ~$0.04 an hour to rent this keyboard? Definitely yes
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: What do devs use for quickly setting up a feedback form?
Have you tried https://tally.so? Load the embed after the user clicks a button and that should solve your SEO problem
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: ZenStack V2 – RLS alternative with declarative Auth rules in Prisma
Been using the betas for my side projects and I’m loving it. So much easier to read, write, and test compared to RLS with postgres/supabase
nahtnam | 1 year ago | on: Firefox 125
> We’re still preparing the notes for this release, and will post them here when they are ready. Please check back later.
Seems like people are getting the release notes from somewhere else (presumably from in app). Could someone share it here?
nahtnam | 2 years ago | on: FreeTaxUSA
Can you import from Robinhood/Apex/etc yet?
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