patch_collector (u/patch_collector)

patch_collector commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl

MrHeather · 4 months ago

>But with 20 million customers a year, and 17% of them paying with cash, the policy will eventually cost Kwik Trip a couple of million dollars a year, McHugh said.

If we figure two-fifths of cash transactions need to be rounded up and the store is losing an average of 1.5 cents each time, their expected losses would be around $2,000, yeah?

patch_collector · 4 months ago

20m customers * 17% * 4 cents * 'x' transactions per customer = $136,000 * x

I suppose this makes some sense. In a worst case situation, if every customer makes 10-20 transactions per year, and they always round down the maximum possible amount, they would lose millions per year.

patch_collector commented on Ask HN: What are some impressive vibe coding projects? · Posted by u/cauliflower99

hdhdhsjsbdh · 5 months ago

Interesting that this thread mostly consists of people sharing vibe-coded projects they themselves made, not people sharing other people’s projects that they’ve found useful. The latter would provide higher confidence that the project is actually impressive. It’s the IKEA effect for software.

patch_collector · 5 months ago

Vibe coding is a great for 'home cooked software.' Lots of people are making tools that fill a particular need for themselves.

https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

As for sharing a tool that someone else has made that's useful, I don't think most people are advertising that the tools they've built are vibe-coded, so it would be hard to know what to share.

patch_collector commented on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/phantomathkg

kimberli · 10 months ago

That's so unfortunate--I've also used Pocket for a decade+. I had the Omnivore app installed on my phone as a replacement for the other infinite feed scrolling apps.

I'm actually working on an open-source alternative at https://curi.ooo if you're interested in checking it out. It's a work in progress, but I'm building it primarily for my own use because I'm frustrated with all these services shutting down.

The Kobo integration you have is interesting too, wonder how I could support that use case...

patch_collector · 10 months ago

I love how clean it is!

One personal use case that I'd love to see supported (when you get your mobile apps implemented) is the ability to add articles via the 'share' shortcuts. I get mailing lists with links, and I don't want to stop to read an article while clearing out my inbox. So if a link looks interesting, I use the 'share' feature to add it to Pocket, and then I'll go back to it later -- without opening my browser.

patch_collector commented on Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service clevercoloringbook.com/... · Posted by u/darajava

rafram · a year ago

For what it’s worth (and it’s probably not much), it doesn’t cost that much to commission comic book-style art from an actual artist online. When you do that, the proceeds go to an artist, not to an AI company that stole from them and a software developer who wrote a wrapper around their API.

patch_collector · a year ago

I tried to do exactly that once. I was offering between $20-$40 per image to make a few coloring pages as a mother's day gift for my wife. Not complex images either -- just basic coloring pages from photos of my wife and child, without backgrounds, for my kids to color in.

I reached out to multiple artists, and got one image back (from a good friend). I gave up on commissioning actual artists, and traced the images myself on a tablet. I imagine someone with the right knowledge of where to find artists and the willingness to wait on their schedule could have done it faster, but I'd have used this service if it had been around.

patch_collector commented on This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops wired.com/story/massive-b... · Posted by u/colinprince

_mlbt · a year ago

The lack of due process is a big problem, but what if the court in question issues an order that is impossible to legally comply with?

The United States has no jurisdiction over citizens of El Salvador in El Salvador. What is Trump supposed to do in this case, call up Pete Hegseth and order a commando style raid on the prison he’s being held in?

patch_collector · a year ago

I imagine asking would likely do the trick. As an escalation, considering we're paying them to hold these people, we could threaten to stop paying them. They're not locking up our detainees out of the goodness of their heart.

patch_collector commented on Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot' fortune.com/2025/02/28/se... · Posted by u/hakaneskici

patch_collector · a year ago

"No amount of success at work makes up for failure at home."

I suppose 60 hours might be a good spot for someone who doesn't have a family and isn't interested in having one.

patch_collector commented on Ask HN: Where would you publish content that should outlive you? · Posted by u/sssilver

patch_collector · a year ago

I'd use Familysearch Memories. There are limitations on what you can upload (15mb per PDF or image file), but it's entire purpose is to preserve family history for as long as possible.

https://www.familysearch.org/memories/

It's a service provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (of which I'm a member), which considers preserving family history to be a core tenet. To the point of storing family history records in the Granite Mountain Vault (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Mountain_(Salt_Lake_Co...)

patch_collector commented on Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023) larahogan.me/blog/be-a-th... · Posted by u/dillonshook

patch_collector · 2 years ago

If the author reads this, I'd like to suggest a change in font. At certain scales, the website's font puts emphasis on the cross-bar in the letter 'e', and the letter 'g'. It's incredibly distracting, and only seems to happen at certain scales, as I could 'fix' it by increasing/decreasing the font size.

I'd message this directly, but she doesn't provide a method of contact on the site (reasonable).

patch_collector commented on Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale twitter.com/revjaydub/sta... · Posted by u/mooreds

michaelt · 2 years ago

A few years back I found a youtube channel about unusual guns.

And it was fascinating because they had all these zany, really distinctive guns like four-barrelled shotguns and revolver-rifles.

Unfortunately they ran out of such weapons pretty quickly and the channel devolved into a lot of "this gun that looks and works just like every other AK-47 is interesting because it was made in Hungary, and most Hungarian AKs received an upgrade but this one didn't" which I personally felt was a bit of a snoozefest.

But if you're interested in seeing a great many very minor variants of mundane items, you might like gun history.

patch_collector · 2 years ago

There’s an interesting museum in Cody, Wyoming that has thousands of guns, including some very interesting ones like whaling guns from the 1800s. Well worth a visit if you have an interest in firearms, especially from the ‘Wild West’ era!

It’s also one of a set of four museums, all of which are very interesting: Art, Natural History, Firearms, and Buffalo Bill.

https://centerofthewest.org/explore/firearms/

patch_collector commented on Orthic Shorthand – Write as fast as you type orthic.shorthand.fun/... · Posted by u/saint11

patch_collector · 2 years ago

Is anyone aware of any good iPad apps for writing notes in shorthand, then converting to text? I currently use an app called Nebo to write notes and journal entries, then convert them to text before uploading into other systems. It works well, and I really appreciate being able to get away from a keyboard, but I'm a much slower writer than typist.