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New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12"

2arrs2ells — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:21:02 +0000

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12"

2arrs2ells — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:19:51 +0000

When AI can handle the content, teachers get to focus on motivation, values and emotions.

I started my career as a teacher and spent > 8 hrs a day lesson planning, delivering content & grading. If I could have handed that off to a great program like Bloomy, I could have built far better relationships & my students would have been so much better off.

Build programmatic agents with the Cursor SDK

2arrs2ells — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:58:55 +0000

Article URL: https://cursor.com/blog/typescript-sdk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957533

Points: 3

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New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?"

2arrs2ells — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:57:22 +0000

+1 to the book, it's great

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs"

2arrs2ells — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:44:48 +0000

This is a great example... except I think the right answer to "what exactly would you do in this case?" doesn't support your argument.

I'd document that mobile Opera with Javascript disabled is an unsupported config, and ask a team to make a help center doc asking mobile Opera users to enable JS.

YC, Take Two

2arrs2ells — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:01:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.raf.xyz/blog/01-yc-take-two

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484705

Points: 3

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New comment by 2arrs2ells in "The National Design Studio is a scam"

2arrs2ells — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:39:15 +0000

This has changed - at least for me, in the US, Airbnb shows all-in pricing.

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "How to start a school with your friends"

2arrs2ells — Fri, 09 May 2025 01:52:42 +0000

You’re spot on. Bootstrapping a reputation is really hard (and expensive), and the very painful accreditation process makes it much harder (need students to get accredited, can’t offer degree to students without accreditation).

Two good colleges who’ve overcome the challenges recently are Olin (engineering school in Boston) and Minerva (globally distributed college).

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "New iMac with M4"

2arrs2ells — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:29:59 +0000

I bought an M2 iMac for my parents. It’ll last at least five years for them - likely closer to 10. At that point, I’m happy to recycle or donate it and get them a new iMac - likely with some major updates (form factor? Display? Etc?) that wouldn’t get with a RAM / CPU upgrade.

Spending ~$150-$300/year for them to have an easy to use & fast computer feels very worth it for me.

All that said - I would love for the machine to be upgradeable as well! Just explaining why it’s not a dealbreaker.

We're moving YC to 4 batches/year

2arrs2ells — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:38:25 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/snowmaker/status/1834477046476542174

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41529874

Points: 2

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New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Launch HN: Roame (YC S23) – Flight search engine for your credit card points"

2arrs2ells — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 14:46:54 +0000

Congrats on the launch! Curious how you fit into the landscape of award travel tolls like point.me and seats.aero. What are you doing differently & who’s your target user?

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Why is it so hard to build an airport?"

2arrs2ells — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:54:19 +0000

This is Coase's Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Claude 2.1"

2arrs2ells — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:57:19 +0000

Have heard similar things from friends, who were then able to get access via AWS

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later"

2arrs2ells — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:59:16 +0000

The chili & other crockpot recipes were still going strong in S12 ("crockpots scale linearly with number of startups") - but pg was no longer cooking.

Batch dinners are catered these days and have been for a while.

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Procreate Dreams"

2arrs2ells — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:47:06 +0000

If you back up the iPad locally, will it back up Procreate data? I would expect it to...

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Show HN: Litnerd (YC S21) – Kids Book Club Meets Gaming"

2arrs2ells — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 14:48:06 +0000

I remember loving the "Wishbone" shows on PBS as a kid... this reminds me of that but 100x better (kids are reading along with the movie, not having the movie replace the book). Love it!

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Jessica Livingston (2015)"

2arrs2ells — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:32:48 +0000

This podcast is wonderful – I'd recommend starting with the Paul Graham espisode.

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records"

2arrs2ells — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 14:16:59 +0000

All sorts of things. Therapy. Psilocibin. A girlfriend (now wife) with a wildly different worldview than my own. Retreats. Meditation. ‘Conscious community”. Workshops. Yoga.

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records"

2arrs2ells — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:04:11 +0000

The best part is you can. Not saying it’s easy (and certainly far easier for some people than others), but how you react to events is one of the very few things that’s actually under your control.

Some of the most useful self-work I’ve done, for sure.

New comment by 2arrs2ells in "Bloated college administration is making education unaffordable"

2arrs2ells — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:34:51 +0000

For Harvard, that's not true – financial aid covers the cost of room and board.

(There is a student contribution of ~$3,000/year, which is fairly easily met through on campus jobs).