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IrishTechieon Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation

I’ve just Googled SpiderFoot and gone to the top result (spiderfoot.org). I see four banners on-screen promoting VPNs and crypto and a pop-up that reappears every few seconds telling me that a VPN is mandatory to use the site. I’m guessing this is not the right site?

IrishTechieon The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

I have a Windows 11, macOS and Ubuntu Desktop VM that I alternate across throughout the week, I find I need to reset all three periodically to sort out random weirdness. It has more to do with which machine I've used most in the last few weeks not which OS is in-use in my experience.

IrishTechieon Taking money off the table

Kids is one big reason. You can have totally different experiences before you have kids, once they arrive your outlook on life changes, risk tolerance changes etc.

If you can retire at 40 having lived your 20s/30s to the fullest then game on, but it would be crazy to sacrifice that time when you are so free and full of energy otherwise IMHO.

FWIW I am fortunate enough to have really enjoyed by earlier years and be mostly retired in my early 40s.

IrishTechieon Kerberoasting

I used them with MobileIron, that was it.

IrishTechieon Grok Code Fast 1

I know it’s in vogue to dump on Elon these days, and with good reason, but do I not recall him on a number of occasions quite emotionally describing our continued CO2 emissions as the dumbest experiment in human history?

IrishTechieon We shouldn't have needed lockfiles

> I've never seen something so egregious before

Streaming comments on YouTube give it a run for its money, what absolute garbage.

IrishTechieon Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)

When you use your phone to surf the Internet you’re often doing it to just fill time, rather than it being an activity you really want to do (like those things you list). You often tend to come out of a long phone reading session feeling a bit hungover and possibly guilty at the time you’ve spent, compared to say building a model boat where you’ll generally feel positive and refreshed afterward. Using your phone is also generally not one activity you’re paying close attention to, you’re hoping from one thing to the next never really getting a sense of flow.

To be clear I’m talking about the mindless scrolling many of us do, if you’re reading a dissertation on battery chemistry or something on your phone I find that’s a different story.

IrishTechieon Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels

It's been a long time since I dabbled, but from memory the likes of E85 is good for fixed load use (eg. drag racing) but not great for variable load (track racing cars, motocross etc) because petrol has a wide range of evaporation points compared to the much narrower range of E85.

IrishTechieon AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

If the AI summary was being posted as an article that sat and competed side-by-side with the content you wrote that might be one thing. What Google are doing is more like putting their article at the top of every search and yours and everybody else’s on the second page out of sight.

IrishTechieon What is the richest country in 2025?

You must have been sitting on that one a long time :-)

IrishTechieon What is the richest country in 2025?

I didn’t, that’s what I responded to first - the Irish/Dutch didn’t appear in positions 1 or 2 (the worst) on any of the lists I found.

IrishTechieon What is the richest country in 2025?

Is that true though, quick bit of Googling has Ireland and Netherlands in many but not all Top 10 lists and none at the top. When it comes to citizens using off-shoring to evade tax, the more literal reading of your point, neither Irish nor Dutch people appear in the top ten lists I’ve come across.

IrishTechieon What is the richest country in 2025?

Highest income country would be a more accurate title here I think. My country (Ireland) has a high income now but has been poor for centuries, we lack many markers of wealthy countries like subways, extensive motorway networks etc. We are well on our way to being a rich country, but not there yet.

IrishTechieon The first non-opoid painkiller

In that case maybe, but there are plenty of cases where pain is not indicating harm and may actually prevent people from reducing harm.

IrishTechieon Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021)

I often think how great it would be to have a site where I could see all the shops nearby that have stock of X at Y price even if they don’t do online shopping. For example I am certain there are multiple places near me that have some 5m 10t tie-down straps, I’d happily drive to one to collect, but I won’t drive or ring 10-20 shops to find them so just order on Amazon.

It’s a tough problem I guess with so many stock systems out there and inevitably whoever creates the site will want to monetise it, then slowly enshitify it.

IrishTechieon Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function

> For me, it's calories-in calories-out.

> Physical activity has little effect on my weight change.

Those two statements appear to be contradictory?

IrishTechieon Major sugar substitute found to impair brain blood vessel cell function

I tend to read these comments as a quick dismissal of the title moreso than the research. The title implies that a fairly conclusive finding has been made.

IrishTechieon InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel

Definitely done in Ireland and the UK anyway.

IrishTechieon New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer

Americans only spend 3% of their time driving, so it's maybe closer to 300k than 10m. Still not scalable at that though so the key will be driving that 20:1 up, which seems very possible given enough time.

IrishTechieon A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

Most cars lock as you start driving, I assume the issue is they’re not unlocking when crashed.

IrishTechieon ESA has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?

Two factors stick out to me.

Investing in the stock market is far more common in the US compared to the EU for the average person (something like 60% versus 15% of people in the EU). I imagine that has a huge impact on the amount of money sloshing around to fund companies from the top down.

The EU is bigger than the US in population terms, but when it comes to raising funding for a new startup it’s hard to look far beyond the borders of your own small country for many reasons. If this could be fixed it would make a massive difference in my view.

I’ve been involved in the founding of a few companies in Ireland and raising funding is tough and for all the work the figures are tiny compared to the US. You’ll likely be talking to Irish and UK investors only.

IrishTechieon xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

You haven’t added any facts either, it’s just one more statement from a random Interneter like those Reddit posts. I’m intrigued to hear some fact on this point though?

IrishTechieon Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight

I found unsubscribing from all the default subs and just subscribing to your hobbies was very effective on Reddit.

IrishTechieon BP to slash green investment and ramp up gas and oil

Bill Gates calls it the ‘green premium’ which I thought was a good way of highlighting that a green option is often there for those able and willing to afford it.

IrishTechieon Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux

That’s an interesting take that would probably make for a fascinating separate HN thread to discuss

IrishTechieon This is How Many Startup Businesses Fail in the First Year (+Survival Tips)

1. look for a boring problem that needs solving.

Even that is not boring enough I reckon. It is totally fine to find a problem that already has a solution and just execute better on delivering the solution than your competitors. Many (most?) businesses start out this way yet I've heard plenty of times that somebody will not start a business until they find a problem that needs a solution.