Kkoala's comments

On: Render.com Raises Prices

[Kkoala]

Bandwidth limits on Pro are insanely low, and extra bandwidth is still insanely expensive.

Time to move to something else, unfortunately :(

For context, my bill is going up by 75%. Solo-builder and medium/high bandwidth app

On: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

[Kkoala]

Looks like a rendered scene yes

On: Trust signals as sparklines for Hacker News

[Kkoala]

This should have at least a basic description of how the trust signal works and is calculated

On: Proof of Corn

[Kkoala]

Interesting!

But where is the prompt or api calls to Claude? I can't see that in the repo

Or did Claude generate the code and repo too? And there is a separate project to run it

On: Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

[Kkoala]

Nice, very cool!

Reminds me of https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/panorama-of-the-city-of-...

On: The Startup Graveyard

[Kkoala]

"Where $32.5B+ in venture capital was burned to ashes." isn't exactly a positive spin.

At least the copy seems AI-generated though, so I guess can't read too much into it.

On: Video games can alter reality

[Kkoala]

A similar thing happened to me, not with a video game, but with chess!

Started seeing a chessboard overlayed everywhere, and thinking what the next move for me and other "game objects" would be.

This was after just getting into chess and playing it many times a day, almost every day.

It was a very weird feeling. Luckily, it passed after a while. I stopped playing chess after a while too, and kinda been avoiding it since.

On: How a mysterious epidemic of kidney disease is killing young men

[Kkoala]

No, you can leave the sauna any time you want and go cool down, so there shouldn't ever be any damage done from the heat really. Unless, of course, you purposefully stay there way past being uncomfortable, but that's not really what a sauna is about

On: Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal

[Kkoala]

That sounds like the sensible reaction, at the time at least.

It's interesting to think about and realize how much things have changed now though, and how reliant people are on everything, and especially their tiktoks etc. working all the time.

Some of the panic is likely related to the war in Europe too, and especially the general talk about war

[MisterTea → Kkoala]

> Some of the panic is likely related to the war in Europe too, and especially the general talk about war

We were just two years removed from 9/11 so terror talk was the first thing that happened. We got that news from AM radio in our cars. Still no panic.

On: Ask HN: Ways from the EU to the USA

[Kkoala]

Without going into whether it's a good idea, or how the current administration and climate might affect things, these are some common options I have personally heard of:

- L1 visa: Get an internal transfer from a company that has offices both in the EU and the US

- H1B visa: Get hired by a US company and enter into a queue/lottery type of thing

- Green card lottery: Enter the annual lottery to get a Green Card to enter the US

- OPT visa + extensions: Graduate from an accredited college/university in the US

- O1 / EB-1 visas etc: Convince the immigration office that you have some extraordinary ability that would greatly benefit the US

- E2 visa and similar: Start a business in the US and invest a substantial amount of money into it

- New "Gold Card": Buy your way into the US with 5 million

Some of these also have different variations with slightly different requirements

[nsiradze → Kkoala]

What are the chances of getting O1 / EB-1 visas? Thanks for this detailed response. I appreciate.

[raverbashing → Kkoala]

Just to be more realistic

H1-B without a degree and 19 y.o.? Not gonna happen

I'd believe the same for O-1 (and very few 19 y.o. have "extraordinary ability" without a degree. Very, very few.)

Easiest way would be to go get a degree in the US (of course, you need $ for this)