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regeraon Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting

Resistance is futile.

regeraon Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

Not yet. Sometimes employees if they get second bite of the big apple. PE do well in capital-intensive sectors. I'm not sure if their playbook fits the real needs of dollar stores. Instead of focusing on things like debt and aggressive cost cuts, most customers just want fair prices, stocked shelves, clean stores, friendly cashiers and basic respect—things that PE firms often ignore. In DFW, I was surprised to see 1-2 person dollar stores!

regeraon Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

Dollar stores are private equity with a checkout lane.

In 2025, Dollar Tree sold Family Dollar to a group of private-equity firms: Brigade Capital Management, Macellum Capital Management and Arkhouse Management Co.

https://corporate.dollartree.com/news-media/press-releases/d...

It’s a business model cosplaying as poverty relief while quietly siphoning money from the people least able to lose it. They already run on a thin-staff, high-volume model. That 23% increase is not a glitch. They know their customers can’t drive across town to complain. They know the regulators won’t scale fines to revenue.

regeraon Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

Thank you, been a rough year (mentally, financially) - super grateful to everyone here on HN!

regeraon Bird photographer of the year gives a lesson in planning and patience

Thanks for sharing, can't imagine how bird photographers devote weeks to plan for a single shot - may seem extreme. Being in the right location at the right time is the key. Wow!

This skill is often underrated. World is moving faster than ever. Another underrated skill is quick-decision making.

regeraon Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

I shutdown all mobile app projects this year.

This month doubling down on a small house cleaning business that I acquired https://shinygoclean.com

Instead of code, seems like SOPs have become new love language!

Code obeys logic. People obey trust. That’s the real debugging. Still learning!

regeraon Ask HN: What’s an older nonfiction title that’s relevant and blew your mind?

Pluto's Republic: Incorporating The Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought

by Peter Medawar

regeraon Ask HN: Which are the most interesting books you have read in 2022?

I second Vaclav's book. Good for techno-optimists!

regeraon Why I built a dictionary app

Excellent app! I had been using Obsidian (writing key-values manually) and sometimes use Spotlight (dictionary). Both are not really efficient.

regeraon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)

Spatial Media | https://spatialmedia.io | 100% Remote | Australia/Canada

Live out your frontend JS dream job by joining a small team working remotely throughout Australia and the world creating immersive JS-driven 3D-on-the-web and VR experiences. Open Role

Frontend Vue.js Developer - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3093659213/

To apply or ask questions, email portfolio to Rohan at rohan[at]spatialmedia.ca

regeraon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)

Spatial Media | Senior DevOps Engineer | Remote | http://spatialmedia.ca/

We are building the future of virtual stakeholder engagement and enterprise-grade tools for public and private sectors. We are looking for a DevOps engineer to work on our infrastructure focusing on performance, reliability, health, security, and scalability.

Technologies we use:

  - AWS EC2 / RDS / S3 / Route53
  - PHP, Laravel, Laravel Forge, Envoyer, Echo
  - NodeJs, NuxtJs, VueJs

Positions are fully remote. Preference is Australia and Canada.

Email: rohan@spatialmedia.ca - happy to answer questions!

regeraon I prepared for a decade to graduate in CS in three months

Scott H. Young completed entire 4-year MIT curriculum for computer science in one year [1]. That was in 2012 when MOOCs was still a new thing. Good luck, I hope your WHY is strong enough to push through difficult days.

[1] https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/

regeraon iPhone 6S getting iOS 14 is like the Galaxy S6 getting Android 11

I want to say it's beyond "usable". I am using iPhone SE from 2016 - it works flawlessly imo on iOS 13.5.1

regeraon Ask HN: What do you know almost nobody else does?

- Brushing your teeth during a long ultra-endurance event (100 miles or longer) can make you feel fresh and energetic.

regeraon Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

I recently joined a bunch of volunteers to build a web app allowing hyper-localized communities to fulfill requests using a volunteer ticketing system during the COVID-19 crisis.

regeraon Apple’s Use of Swift in iOS 13

@IBAction can replace @ObjC for all selectors. We put it a mandate in our code reviews. There is also NSObjectProtocol which forces (in most cases) devs to subclass NSObject.

regeraon Apple’s Use of Swift in iOS 13

Pure Swift for the new apps. We freak out when we see @ObjC or NSObject usage in our codebase. On a long enough timescale when Apple converts away from using Objective-C under the covers, our code will not need any modification.