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meagher··on 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
55m! Apparently there was an emergency in another part of the building.
meagher··on 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
Currently in NYC trying to pick up a key my friend left with their doorman to feed their cat. Been waiting 20m and they are nowhere to be found :(
meagher··on Python Workers are now generally available
> I'm glad the work was contributed upstream and is useful to Pyodide and Cloudflare. But I think there is a meaningful difference between funding a contribution to an upstream project and funding the upstream maintainers who have to support it afterwards.

Any of the upstream maintainers consider blocking merge unless Cloudflare signs a support contract?

Not an easy process to navigate, but if you find an internal champion that can help make the case, maintenance can be funded. For critical deps, companies are generally down to budget some financial support if you ask and know how to work the process.

meagher··on qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
as a maintainer, seems nicer than getting a slop pr with no context.
meagher··on Ask HN: Which AI concepts are here to stay, and which will churn?
Not on your list, but getting annoyed with streaming text. Just want to see the message when it is complete instead of getting blasted by large number of tokens rendering per second.
meagher··on Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card
big opportunity to buy kan.bot
meagher··on Show HN: Curl.md – URL to Markdown for Agents
> If I understand correctly, my agent just needs to run `curl curl.md/targetsite.com` and it will receive the webpage in an optimized Markdown file format.

Yes, your agent can use it with `curl` or via the CLI, SDK, or agent plugins (currently Claude, OpenCode, Pi, Amp are supported). More info https://curl.md/docs/install

> Is there any specific depth until which curl.md will crawl?

No crawling yet. Focused on single page for now.

meagher··on Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data
> Can you tell me more about the :: blocks thing. I didn’t know that was a Markdown element.

They are Markdown directives

meagher··on In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
This was a worry for me when leaving my full time job in 2022 to work on open source. Our OSS project was able to pay rent, but was concerned about healthcare costs for my partner and me (NY state has extended COBRA coverage, but it's extremely expensive). My co-founder lives in Australia, which has free basic health care, so he was up for leaving his job before I was.

Taking the risk was one of the best decisions I've made, but if I had a chronic health condition/higher healthcare costs, probably would not have been comfortable.

meagher··on Angel Investors, a Field Guide
I'm not questioning his investment abilities, just curious what he offers that is strategic (advice, dealmaking, etc).

Aside: Saquon Barkley's (pro football player) portfolio is insane https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/saquon-barkley-investment-p...

meagher··on Angel Investors, a Field Guide
> Martin and Mike both advised strategic angels instead of friends and family to fill out the round, so that’s what we did.

How is Kevin Durant (pro basketball player) a strategic angel for a monitoring/observability company?

meagher··on Purposeful animations
> Delight is overblown, in my opinion

Nerdsnipe perpetuated by other engineers/designers admiring it on Twitter. Nothing wrong with that, just shouldn’t pretend that most users care.

meagher··on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
That would be great! Even if EV pollution is zero, cars still take up a lot of space in a city where space is very limited.
meagher··on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
NYC doesn’t have a lot of surface parking lots.
meagher··on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
Thanks for the correction. Updated.
meagher··on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
> not sure why you think waymo would fight against that

If you were to pedestrianize 10% of Manhattan (or for example all of Broadway, which is being considered), then that’s less area for Waymo to operate and make money. To be clear, this is likely more of a long term issue.

meagher··on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
It’s a step in the right direction, but they still pollute (heavy electric vehicles have a lot more tire dust) and take up a lot space (could close roads and build housing or just have more space for the millions of city residents that don’t have/use cars).

LTN still allow buses, emergency vehicles, deliveries, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Traffic_Neighbourhood

meagher··on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
I’d believe it, but the fact that any pedestrians/bikers are killed/injured by cars in NYC is unacceptable.
meagher··on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
This is great long term for having cars that follow traffic laws since human drivers in NYC are awful (kill/injure pedestrians, bikers, and other street users all the time).

Not so great for getting cars out of NYC and pedestrianizing more of the city/moving towards more “low traffic neighborhoods” as I imagine Waymo and other similar companies are going to fight against these efforts.

Edit: Lots of people talking about human drivers taking advantage of self-driving cars being more cautious/timid. Good news is that once you have enough self-driving cars on the road, it probably slows down/calms other traffic (see related research on speed governors).

meagher··on Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
Seems possible that on/off-ramps are leveled up in the next few years as Stripe and other large financial institutions all try to launch and dominate stablecoins.
meagher··on Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
Bit dated, but from my experience, yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291790

meagher··on Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
In 2018, Patreon almost got kicked off of Stripe because Mastercard objected to NSFW content (probably because of PACs and/or “moralizing busybodies”). Patreon booted most of the NSFW creators and OnlyFans scooped them up. OnlyFans is now significantly bigger than Patreon.
meagher··on Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others
There used to be something like this at the Boston Museum of Science, where you created a fish (don’t remember if you drew it freehand and/or selected from different fish parts) and released it into the tank with other fish and predators.
meagher··on Six months into congestion pricing, more cars are off the road
Does she pay for parking or benefit from the over 2M free parking spots?
meagher··on Six months into congestion pricing, more cars are off the road
The Federal Highway Administration tried to revoke its approval for the program (some federal roads in the congestion relief zone). Still being litigated last I checked.
meagher··on Six months into congestion pricing, more cars are off the road
Bike lanes and safety improvements for pedestrians aren’t causing congestion. Check out the data!

Here are some good jumping off points: - https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikestats.shtml - https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2025/vision-zero.shtml - https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/pedestrians.sh...

meagher··on Ask HN: In 15 years, what will a gas station visit look like?
Not sure where you are, but hopefully we try harder to move away from cars in the US and adopt more rail (light, high-speed long distance, etc.) so in that world, they get replaced with housing or literally anything else.
meagher··on NYC Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates
shared the wrong link above. here's the correct enacted one.

https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3...

meagher··on Uber's new shuttles look suspiciously familiar to anyone who's taken a bus
Money
meagher··on Uber's new shuttles look suspiciously familiar to anyone who's taken a bus
> The goal, he said, “is just to reduce prices to the consumer and then help with congestion and the environment.”

Like Uber cares about any of these things (prices, consumers, congestion, the environment)

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