2026-08-30
40 signals reviewed · 1 high-signal · 1 themes
Themes
Inefficient Local Travel Costs
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People are paying exorbitant costs (gas + tolls) for short-distance car travel, making it more expensive than international flights, due to a combination of high taxes and poor public transport alternatives.
1 signals · 1 voices · max 17
"Many times it would be cheaper for me to travel by plane to a city like London, than the gas+tolls cost to visit my family that live less than 1h away by car."
transportationcost of livingtaxationpublic transit
All Signals (40)
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| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | Many times it would be cheaper for me to travel by plane to a city like London, than the gas+tolls cost to visit my family that live less than 1h away by car. | 17 | Inefficient Local Travel Costs |
| Ask HN: AI for Home Lab Infra? | hackernews | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | I have dozens of Linux machines scattered throughout my property that need regular updates, migrations and general maintenance. ... it would take a senior engineer to untangle the mess that I’ve cobbled together over the years. | 13 | — |
| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | How is that different from creating a new user to run that script? This has been the standard practice on Linux for decades, and it is how I run tools like Codex and Claude on my machine. ... for GUI apps ... you can use bubblewrap. | 9 | — |
| Ask HN: Hard Mode for LLMs | hackernews | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Could a Hard Mode equivalent be added to the system prompt of any assistant AI that minimises the long term cost stated above? | 9 | — |
| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | And removing that forces me to really recognize that, hey this is my work. | 7 | — |
| Ask HN: Is .org now Trump-controlled? | hackernews | 22 | 1 | 0 | 2 | Is there an ongoing savedotorg-like campaign i'm unaware of to have ICANN revoke the current delegation and setup a new non-profit to manage .org outside of US jurisdiction? | 7 | — |
| Ask HN: Which repos have merged PRs worth reading? | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | I read merged PRs on GitHub in the morning instead of the news or doomscrolling. | 6 | — |
| Which repos have merged PRs worth reading? | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | I read merged PRs on GitHub in the morning instead of the news or doomscrolling. | 6 | — |
| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | A lot of actual manual testing, including sheer reduction, frame rate testing, and multiple resolution and different monitor tests | 5 | — |
| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Blocking all bots from all pages, well those that bother to listen to robots.txt. | 5 | — |
| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | I’d much rather use Podman’s rootless containers. | 5 | — |
| Tell HN: STOP making Vibe Slop websites that LAG on my MBP and workstation | hackernews | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | 4 | — |
| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | We put feeders out in our Austrian garden | 4 | — |
| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | At some point I might go and try to find the first instance of each of the various predictions and pull them out | 4 | — |
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| Looking for few users feedback for my community project | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | — |
| Ask HN: Anyone care to answer a small survey about ML? | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | — |
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| I came across DBYTE, a small programming language | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | — |
| Why the Information You Are Waiting for May Not Exist Yet? | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | — |
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