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TrueGeek

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TrueGeek··on I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. There are some very AI-style sentences in this article. GPTZero says "We are highly confident this text was human written and polished with AI"
TrueGeek··on Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
If you're near the Maastricht / Aachen area:

https://www.meetup.com/euregiotechmeetup/

TrueGeek··on Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public
So the completed sample was estimated at $0.35, actually cost $0.52, but spend $0.55

This bot is almost as bad as I am at estimating projects.

TrueGeek··on Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude
> it identified items in our AWS that saved us $250 a month

I gave Claude Code access to the Azure CLI and had it review usage. It found a couple servers that were underpowered, but it also found a lot of things that weren't being used at all. The total reduction was $40k a year.

TrueGeek··on They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks."
We're having the users who understand the business processes use Claude to create clickable demos. Then these are presented to the engineering team to re-build. The users are loving it because they can ask for exactly what they want.
TrueGeek··on Show HN: Got tired of paying $100/mo for SEO tools, so I built an alternative
But if you get tired of flagging them, you know what to do
TrueGeek··on Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
> As PRs, would you still then need to remain self-employed (forever)?

Nope, once we get PR we have the same rights as citizens except: we can't vote in national elections, and we can't leave the country for too long without losing the residency permit.

> I've bookmarked your website for further inspiration

Haha, last blog post was, what, 2 years ago!

TrueGeek··on Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
> What was your final motivator to depart

Our main motivator was that we watched our grandparents grow older and just stop moving. I absolutely love America, but you do spend the majority of your time sitting. I'm not inactive, I do ultras, I hike, etc. But that doesn't make up for the fact that we're just always sitting - at home, at work, in the car. We wanted to live somewhere that would force us out of that.

> Were ya'll's companies already established

I had an LLC I used for contracting in the US, but the DAFT visa required setting up a new Dutch corporation.

> Citizens, yet

We're currently applying for our first visa renewal. Next time we'll be elligible for PR. Citizenship would require us to give up our US citizenship and I don't want to do that.

> is living in Maastricht similar to living in a US state panhandle

It kinda is. We don't have a car, but we do have neighbors that only grocery shop in Germany because it's cheaper.

> What drew ya'll south (V.e.g: Amsterdam)?

I just couldn't imagine living anywhere so flat and so far from forests / mountains. We still don't have proper forests in Maastricht, but I can be in the forests of Belgium or Germany in 20 minutes.

> Any suggestions/websites for a single electrician that's been thinking about DAFT for over a decade?

No websites, but just as someone who has tried to hire an electrician in both countries it seems like the shortage is greater here. It really seems like you could just come over and have a lot of work.

TrueGeek··on Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
> monetary requirements, which are actually quite low

Technically, yes - you are required to hold only €4,500 as an "investment" in the business you create. In reality you will need a lot more. My wife and I spent about €40k to move over which is inline with what others on the DAFT program have said they spent.

Completely worth it though!

TrueGeek··on Show HN: Is this the best epoch converter?
I think you're fine. The guidelines also say:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

I also think the old epochconverter UI was dated. I'll switch to yours

TrueGeek··on Show HN: Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder
Just purchased - I don't have any time to play this week but I'm on a train for 6 hours next week and have been looking for a game for my Steam Deck.
TrueGeek··on Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming
I seem to remember Gates talked about how we would soon have cheap enough storage that a person could record every conversation they ever have for this reason. This was in his '95 book 'The Road Ahead' or maybe I'm remembering it wrong
TrueGeek··on Show HN: AI Code Detector – detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy
Maybe unrelated, but do you have trouble completing CAPTCHAs?
TrueGeek··on Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API
This is awesome, but it'd be great if you allowed for apps that we wanted to use more, not less.

I installed it and added my language learning app hoping to be able to use the API to report if I've studied enough. Unfortunately, it assumed I was trying to use this app less and immediately locked it.

TrueGeek··on U.S. Woman Dies from Mad Cow-Like Brain Disease That Lay Dormant for 50 Years
It recently expired in the US as well
TrueGeek··on Google shared my phone number
You can set it up in the Twilio studio without having to write code. I'm not 100% positive, but I seem to remember there was a template for it and I just had to fill in the details
TrueGeek··on Google shared my phone number
I got a Twilio number to give to Google for my Play store listing. It simply takes a message and then emails it to me.
TrueGeek··on “Secret Mall Apartment,” a Protest for Place
Dear Hank and John
TrueGeek··on Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s
I'm in Limburg and I'd say three wheeled cargo bikes are closer to 30 to 40% of the market
TrueGeek··on Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s
In The Netherlands 3 wheel bikes are fairly common to haul kids and dogs.

I can easily get mine on two wheels if I take a sharp, fast, turn - but after you do it once you learn the limits and it's a very stable bike.

TrueGeek··on The Mira Pro Color is Boox's first color E Ink monitor
Maybe a tariff thing? It’s available on amazon.nl, although it does say it’ll take 9 to 10 days to ship.
TrueGeek··on Ask HN: Is there hope for Microsoft 365 support?
It may be worth it just to sign up for this one ticket. If you're lucky you can get it done with one months worth of support.
TrueGeek··on Domain Sniped on Launch Day
There is no evidence that the person who bought the domain name in bad faith. The blog post is suggesting that someone is literally scraping GitHub and buying the domain name of every single public repo.

The MUCH more likely scenario is that someone simply thought of the same name and bought it.

TrueGeek··on Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic
I sold an app once to a company in the same situation. Neither one of us had sold / bought an app before so they asked me how many hours it took to write and what my hourly rate was. Then they offered half the number I quoted, which I thought was fair.

They paid a lot less than it would have cost to rewrite and I made a lot more than if I had just kept it as a free hobby app.

TrueGeek··on Stay on schedule with Raspberry Pi Pico W and an e-ink dashboard
The InkyFrame is nice but I prefer the eInk frame from HN user konschubert:

https://www.invisible-computers.com

TrueGeek··on Show HN: Pets for Cursor
These are great ideas. It'd be fun to make virtual pets that only lived / grew through GitHub actions and then were updated in the project readme
TrueGeek··on Travel Guide for Stateless People
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness
TrueGeek··on Ask HN: Should I learn COBOL at 14yo in 2025?
You must speak and write Fluent Swedish for the course, but here is the page:

https://sebgroup.com/career/who-are-you/graduates-and-studen...

TrueGeek··on Ask HN: Any jobs that don't force you to always be advancing career wise?
I replaced my dentist with ChatGPT
TrueGeek··on Show HN: iOS app that corrects your form in real time using your phone's camera
You're telling us here on HN to swipe down but you've deliberately designed the screen so that it appears you can't skip it.
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