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buenzlikoderon Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

Are you saving for retirement or buying property? Then start filling your 3rd pillar (Säule 3a) first because of the tax cut. Ideally in a low cost provider (viac/finpension), but the bank you already have probably has an offer too. It might be a bit more expensive than viac, but still much better than not investing. Stay away from 3rd pillar at insurance companies, they might be hard to cancel. Do yourself a favor and do this just for the tax cut.

If you max out the 3a, you can start of thinking investing elsewhere. IBKR is the cheapest to buy a US domiciled world ETF. But the UX is not super easy and you will have to fill all transactions manually in the tax report.

Neon with investments is another option I can recommend if you prefer a swiss company and a simple user interface. Fees are low if you set up a savings plan and pick one of the 0% ETFs

buenzlikoderon Rivian's TM-B electric bike

Car companies have been screwing up e-bikes for longer than you think

https://electrek.co/2024/04/02/car-companies-have-been-screw...

buenzlikoderon Rivian's TM-B electric bike

It's difficult to say these numbers are believable or not as they depend on speed and pedal input, but given my own experience and reading some tests/forum, they are off by 2x to 3x.

buenzlikoderon Rivian's TM-B electric bike

Normal bicycle drivetrains have efficiencies around 95%...

buenzlikoderon Show HN: Pbar.io – Distributed progress bars that work in terminals and browsers

This could really help in some corporate network scenarios, where batch jobs run behind a proxy. That usually rules out pull based monitoring while this seems easy to setup

buenzlikoderon Show HN: A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is faster than Redis

What storage backend are you using?

A write operation on a SSD takes 10s of uS - without any VFS layers

buenzlikoderon Ask HN: How do I get back into the tech industry after 4 years of unemployment?

How about advent of code then? There's no time limit. Make sure you upload your solutions to a public github repo.

It won't get you a job immediately, but it's something to show.