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kethinov commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA    · Posted by u/proberts
kethinov · 16 days ago
Suppose you could wave a magic wand and change US immigration law in any way you like. What changes would you make?
kethinov commented on Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?    · Posted by u/thepianodan
kethinov · 2 months ago
Vanilla JS is very powerful and has the features you need to build SPAs without a big framework. Proxies and mutation observers are great for maintaining state, Updating the DOM yourself is fine, view transitions are awesome, etc. The only thing that's hard is routing, but there are lots of small dedicated JS libraries to handle that. Here's one I made that gives you the Express API on the frontend: https://github.com/rooseveltframework/single-page-express
kethinov commented on Show HN: I built a local-first podcast app   wherever.audio... · Posted by u/aegrumet
kethinov · 2 months ago
Any plans to make an Electron or Tauri version?

Also personally I do not prefer to play podcasts with a podcast app. I just want it to download the files to a directory which I then sync with another audio player. Does your app make that workflow easy?

kethinov commented on Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work   capjs.js.org/... · Posted by u/tiagorangel
kethinov · 7 months ago
Other critiques aside, I wish there was more effort put into developing accessible CAPTCHAs that do not require JavaScript. Whatever its merits or flaws are, this CAPTCHA is yet another CAPTCHA that requires JS.
kethinov commented on Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral   newyorker.com/books/under... · Posted by u/samizdis
kethinov · 7 months ago
The TL;DR answer to this question is there is a lot of intellectual junk food out there and our monkey brains are pretty vulnerable to succumbing it just as we crave literal junk food and resisting those cravings is very difficult.

If only we had GLP-1 agonists for our minds too and not just our bodies.

In lieu of that, all we've got is the same as always: nurture your mind by cultivating a good media diet, a healthy skepticism that doesn't drift into reactionary contrarianism, and an openness to new information; especially new evidence that contradicts things you believe.

...Which is basically like trying to solve the obesity crisis by telling people to diet and exercise. It would be nice if we had a more effective tool or technique to help a larger percentage of people achieve it.

kethinov commented on Show HN: Firebender, a simple coding agent for Android Engineers   docs.firebender.com/get-s... · Posted by u/kevo1ution
kethinov · 10 months ago
Now do Waterbender for Windows apps, Airbender for macOS/iOS apps, and Earthbender for Linux apps.
kethinov commented on LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed   theregister.com/2025/01/0... · Posted by u/rntn
onecommentman · a year ago
Burning in a dense residential area…no. Draconian clearing of all trees and brush except for selective fire-aware landscaping…yes, but you are paying significant money to make the residential area look uglier (in some eyes, it’s just a High Desert aesthetic for others), a hard sell.
kethinov · a year ago
The residential area being on fire looks significantly uglier to me.
kethinov commented on LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed   theregister.com/2025/01/0... · Posted by u/rntn
dawnerd · a year ago
We do. And we have setbacks you must maintain and keep brush cleared. But there's still only so much you can do.
kethinov commented on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker   congestion-pricing-tracke... · Posted by u/gotmedium
fuzzylightbulb · a year ago
That is literally what the money is for
kethinov · a year ago
Would be nice if they made transit better first instead of making driving worse first.
kethinov commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell    · Posted by u/cvbox
AtticusTheGreat · a year ago
https://SerpentineGame.com brings in close to that with advertisements and premium subscriptions. It is a clone of a game called Tangleword that is itself a clone of Boggle. I originally wrote it in 2008 and am currently re-writing it from scratch because the technology stack is so old and cumbersome to maintain.
kethinov · a year ago
What ad platforms do you like and dislike?

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