Software Engineer
London, England
Joined January 2008
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LOL Tell me you are not from Europe without telling me you aren't from Europe 😀
Airbnb deletes negative reviews so everything is always 4.7
Google Maps removes negative reviews in many countries as defamation so everything is always a 4.7
Booking sites want you to book so will also happily remove negative reviews for their hotels so everything is always a 4.7
I made a site called Hotelist.com (or HotelList.com whatever you prefer, I have both!)
It gets ratings from all booking platforms, normalizes them to show the actual score (eg a booking site where most hotels are always between 4 and 4.7 means you can normalize that to a 0 and 5)
It also uses AI vision models to rate hotels based on how they look
And it browses the internet for actual experiences (think blogs and Reddit posts) to get the real opinion about them outside reviews
And it's starting to work, I just stayed in this beautiful boutique apartment hotel called Woo Suites in Athens for $400/night. Clean, nice minimalist interior, working cold AC, central, excellent staff, great healthy breakfast, and we found it through Hotelist!
It's free, I don't make any money on it (actually I lose thousands per month on it to collect data via APIs and web scrapers) and there's no affiliate money bs like other booking sites (they will increase ranking of hotels if they pay sites a higher commission!)
Hotelist.com
Tell your friends please!!!!!! 🙏
Beginning of the end?
Over 10 years ago, we open-sourced React. And now, we’re excited to announce the next chapter: React & React Native are transitioning to the React Foundation under the Linux Foundation.
Meta is committing $3M+ and a 5-year partnership to support this next chapter of innovation.
Learn more: engineering.fb.com/2025/10/0…
Reason I'm poor:
Most people don’t find excessive wealth immoral when considered separately from economic inequality; however, people in countries with high GDP and high levels of inequality find being too rich more morally wrong than being of average wealth. Read now: ow.ly/9Qmf50Wjbmr
ALT The perceived immorality of too much wealth in 20 nations. Scores are standardized, and whiskers represent the 95% confidence interval.
Ого crossover двух вселенных, не знал что @KonstantinKisin говорит по русски.
youtu.be/NjRi78gNj5o
Decent plugin to auto-close annoying cookie consent pop-ups. Works ~70% of times for me.
consentomatic.au.dk/
After a week of refactoring some Python code, I feel like it needs its own TypeScript moment. Its current state is absolutely horrible...
Odd to be a person from Magnitogorsk to hear your hometown mentioned on bunch of podcasts and Twitter now 😃
Odd coincidence to have en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magn… show up almost simultaneously in two books I am reading — Polostan by @nealstephenson and Material World by @EdConwaySky
