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flippyheadon What is Plan 9?

> A printed version of the proceedings will be provided to the attendees

How adorable!

flippyheadon Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)

I really enjoyed this explanation of just how amazing RDJ is: https://youtu.be/5wIOBBodoic?si=HkR05lAGkSiPZVmS

flippyheadon You have reached the end of the internet (2006)

https://zombo.com !!

flippyheadon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://already.dev -- find out if your saas idea is already out there

flippyheadon Disney+ Subscribers Face a Wave of Cancellations

Yeah and some of the things I've seen getting nowwhere in new or showhn ... I know it's not quite random, but luck is such a big factor as to what makes it onto the front page of HN

flippyheadon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

https://already.dev -- find out who is already building your idea

flippyheadon Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps

Super happy customer here. We've been using trigger.dev on various projects for over a year now. It's been a great experience and awesome to see them grow. I don't know how long it will last, but I regularly get answers to questions from the founders on Discord, often within hours. I am sure there are a bunch of competitors, but we've never really felt the need to even research them as trigger has consistently met our needs (again, across a range of projects) and seems to be anticipating the features we'll need as we AI more and more of our projects. We're cheering for you Trigger team ;)

flippyheadon Becoming the person who does the thing

The trick to getting results in the gym, and establishing a sustainable practice (which is key in both exercise and diet), is to just go regularly but allow yourself to leave at any point. Say you decide four days a week is your long-term goal. On that first day, if you want, leave after 5m. But return the next day. Keep doing this and eventually, I promise, you'll average the 45m you need four days a week forever.

I do the same thing with books. I have tons I have only partially read. But I also have tons that I pick back up later and absolutely LOVE. I don't know exactly why this happens, but I never feel any dread about reading and so read a lot more than I did when I did not think this way.

flippyheadon The Old Robots Web Site

Wow this was fun! I had no idea Bushnell (the atari guy) tried his hand at robots: https://www.theoldrobots.com/bob.html

flippyheadon Show HN: TwoTickets – meet through events, not swipes

Yeah you really need some mechanism whereby you get an excuse to leave where the other person can't know if it's real or not. The japanese do this really well in all kinds of situations. I have no idea how to do it here..

flippyheadon How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos

You can comment on this in the PR and supposedly it'll remember and get better.

flippyheadon How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos

It's more than that. If can suggest fixes which you can directly commit.

flippyheadon Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna

I absolutely loved this book: https://www.amazon.com/Barefoot-Bandit-Colton-Harris-Moore-A...

Written by a guy who actually lived on the islands where this was happening (where I also happen to live).

flippyheadon Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna

That was my first thought. There's only so many places you can take it. Though I guess they could also ... hide it in a hangar somewhere?

flippyheadon Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

https://already.dev -- find out if you dumb saas idea is already out there

flippyheadon I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

I've started and abandoned loads of projects! I started to notice that, often, ONLY after putting in considerable effort would I discover competitors or other projects doing the same thing.

Sometimes this would get me down. Other times it would motivate me. Either way I got sick of at least not knowing from the beginning.

Naturally I started a project to scratch this itch, which aims to help me quickly know in advance if my dumb saas idea is already* out there, so I can then go focus on building, customers etc.

* https://already.dev

flippyheadon Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)

It's true! I have only ever flown my Cirrus, in which I did ALL my training. I have no idea how to do an engine out landing. They don't teach it. The solution to nearly every major problem is pull the chute.

flippyheadon Nasa’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft begins taxi tests

I'd do it 1/10_000th the speed if I could, from an airship with a hotel glued to the bottom.

flippyheadon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

https://aready.dev

Find every competitor to your saas/product/service/business in minutes! Beats the pants of Gemini/Calude/OpenAI deep research for this very particular use-case.

Specialized deep research agent for discovering competitors and understanding your market.

flippyheadon What makes comprehensible input comprehensible?

I love this. I made a totally free, just for fun, tool based around learning Japanese via Youtube using the CI approach. https://seikai.tv The trick is finding content that is at the right level but that you also find interesting. Great article, thank you!

flippyheadon Learnings from building AI agents

This is LITERALLY mind blowing.

flippyheadon Learnings from building AI agents

I found it useful.

flippyheadon NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System

This is obviously the thing aliens have setup to obscure themselves from us. Obviously.

flippyheadon Dolly Parton's Dollywood Express

> Dollywood Express, the heritage steam train that operates within Dollywood, has a higher rail ridership than 27 states.

I don't now if it's useful, but this way of putting quanties in context, would be neat to see about all kinds of things. Like how they seem to always do rare things compared to your chance of getting hit by lightning.

flippyheadon Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server

I've been using Mastra for a few months now and we've really been liking it. Team is super responsive and a lot of improvements are afoot.

flippyheadon I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected

There is a study somewhere that said people who wanted to lose weight and simply tracked their calories (without any attempt at reducing them) LOST weight vs those who did nothing. Awareness alone is valuable.

Maybe this one: https://today.duke.edu/2019/02/tracking-food-leads-losing-po...

flippyheadon Show HN: GPT image editing, but for 3D models

I'm excited to try this with my 11-year old. We love 3d printing stuff, but have been mostly limiting ourselves to existing works on printables. I curious how well the output here works in our prusa.

flippyheadon Ask HN: What tools do you use to discover competitors?

I keep expecting to find something that does this but never have so I tried my hand at building one https://already.dev

flippyheadon Ask HN: Is anyone using AI conversation partners?

An alternative to consider: https://seikai.tv -- it's only for Japanese and a pet project -- totally free! I use a bunch of AI to handle the translating but don't offer any chat stuff.