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very_good_man··on Find the flattest route between any two points in SF
I love Trick Dog!
very_good_man··on AirPods 5
Chinese Clones are great and cost $20
very_good_man··on The death of San Francisco's Market Street
Democrat Heaven! Way to go, Democrats! You are doing a great job creating a thriving city!
very_good_man··on Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
Insanely cool. Good job!
very_good_man··on Omarchy Is Not A Distro
I love Omarchy
very_good_man··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
How? They said "No" to mass migration.
very_good_man··on The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It
The Journalism Industry Is Discovering That The Public Hates It
very_good_man··on Patriot Copy
A chrome extension that essentially copies the state of a web browser into your OS' clipboard.
very_good_man··on Hey Siri, Make Me a Million Dollars
Voice-controlled OpenClaw: Siri → Shortcut → Telegram → bot on a Hetzner server appends to idea-log.md. Two bots, two days to build. Runbook with phases, scripts, and fixes.
very_good_man··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
www.platechase.com

This is a free license plate tracking game for families on road trips. Currently adding more OAuth providers, and some time zone features.

very_good_man··on Parking Lot Simulator – discover the price of virtue
This project should actually attain mass adoption. I have not seen a credible objection to the code/simulation overall. So that's good! If the code sucked I'd be the first to hear about it.

I'd like to massively elevate this system. First, I want to see the results of real world Fill/Flush trials. If the F&F deplaning simulation seems credible after these IRL experiments it should be evaluated irl

very_good_man··on The AI bubble today is bigger than the IT bubble in the 1990s
No it isn't!
very_good_man··on Parking Lot Simulator – discover the price of virtue
(consider only visiting this site on a desktop sized monitor if possible :D)

Please review my attempt to discover the true time cost of the marginal handicapped parking space. I am tired of thoughtlessly accepting this imposition into our physical space. A code review is very much solicited!

very_good_man··on Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
Facebook invests in the US Army
very_good_man··on Plate Chase – where 102% is a perfect score
I wrote this website for my Aunts/Uncles. It lets them log the state plates they've seen. I was criticized by a high IQ friend into supporting the DC plate. And that's why the max score is actually 102% in a given month :D

I pay an exorbitant $5/month for Cloudflare Durable Objects and Workers. The code is public here:

https://github.com/josephecombs/license-plate-game/

Thanks for reading guys!

very_good_man··on Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
probably half of my comments are flagged or reported. that's censorship. look at the comment history yourself and stop censoring people.
very_good_man··on Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
The censorship is almost non-stop. And no, it wasn't "Always Like This!"
very_good_man··on Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
Hey as a 20th birthday gift to the internet, why not stop censoring comments?
very_good_man··on Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US
Are they going to abandon H-1B and focus on hiring Americans for this project?
very_good_man··on Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find
Tired of the green scams. Drill Drill Drill!
very_good_man··on Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?
[flagged]
very_good_man··on Rewrite it in Rails
Excellent article. This is why I have tied my livelihood to Ruby on Rails.
very_good_man··on Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
cool - I use just HTML and CSS for mine as part of my jekyll blog: https://josephecombs.com/resume/
very_good_man··on Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data
how do I disable the cat following my cursor animation on your website? how insanely distracting
very_good_man··on Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness
All of us have to get real and demand immediate speed-up of LLMs, Gene Therapy, etc. Absolutely nothing else matters.
very_good_man··on Women Who Code Closing
The whole “break up software by race and gender” thing has been enormously destructive. I welcome this news.
very_good_man··on Paul Graham: Then I noticed it used the word "delve."
This is a man who just hasn’t cast Treasure Cruise
very_good_man··on How to hire low experience, high potential people
Oh I shouldn’t cargo cult the biggest and most dysfunctional technology companies?
very_good_man··on Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]
We may finally again get affordable access to the rule of law in the United States.
very_good_man··on Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
Apple needs to face criminal penalties for the dark patterns with which they prey upon their users.
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