Hacker News: AaronAPU

New comment by AaronAPU in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

AaronAPU — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:31:26 +0000

Does it actually yield results better than just sending it to 5.6 Pro?

New comment by AaronAPU in "Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters"

AaronAPU — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:20:20 +0000

Our country is better than yours because of the constitution

New comment by AaronAPU in "Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?"

AaronAPU — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:07:40 +0000

I’ve heard people give that as a reason for wanting a new doctor.

New comment by AaronAPU in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

AaronAPU — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:23:16 +0000

I think its unfortunate people wear headphones while walking/running/biking. If you don’t, that’s however many minutes or hours of nothing but daydreaming (and hearing nature).

New comment by AaronAPU in "The human-in-the-loop is tired"

AaronAPU — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:50:53 +0000

I’m finding you can still get into flow state, but you need to find that sweet spot where the context switching is pushing you right up to your limits but not too far.

If one of your agents is working with you on something which requires deep focus, that naturally requires more of your mental resources. So it’s all a dynamic scheduling problem. It exercises your ability to recall contexts very rapidly and I’m enjoying growing that capacity.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

AaronAPU — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:42:46 +0000

Yes.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

AaronAPU — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:24:55 +0000

I had that my entire life, and then one day started having the strangest medical condition where it is literally impossible to sleep past ~6:30am.

It sounds unbelievable but you’d have to experience it to understand. But the end result is it “fixed” the delayed sleep issue.

I’d give just about anything to be able to just sleep and keep sleeping, but on the up side now I’m an early bird with extreme regularity and quite like it.

New comment by AaronAPU in "MacKenzie Scott's giving, in quality-adjusted life years"

AaronAPU — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:01:59 +0000

> Every avoided pregnancy is economically that woman being productive back in the workforce or managing the family on a lower overhead

The child who would’ve been born is assumed to have had zero economic value? lol

New comment by AaronAPU in "How to read more books"

AaronAPU — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:43:55 +0000

I think audio books are to reading as e-bikes are to biking. Yes, in some sense they are the same. But in some important ways they aren’t.

I have probably upset two groups of people and sorry for that. I don’t want to yuck your yum, I just think the differentiation between these categories matters.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?"

AaronAPU — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:12:13 +0000

it seems we should be storing chains of prompts instead of code, and then replay them when a new model is released.

New comment by AaronAPU in "ChatGPT Work"

AaronAPU — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:02:24 +0000

If it’s any comfort, whoever did this made more money in a month than I’ll make in 10 years.

Wait that’s not a comfort at all. Now I’m more upset.

New comment by AaronAPU in "AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn"

AaronAPU — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:26:10 +0000

It’s so bad I can’t even believe they allow it. It’s just slop everywhere, even the posts complaining about AI slop are also AI slop which is pretty incredible.

New comment by AaronAPU in "GPT‑Live"

AaronAPU — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:39:14 +0000

Every second of the interaction is uncomfortable to me, but I also have extreme difficulty with video calls with humans. The latency completely breaks my mind.

New comment by AaronAPU in "GPT‑Live"

AaronAPU — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:35:19 +0000

I could see it relating to tools having unpredictable latency but if they already do background hand off to 5.5 then it seems like they could just enable it within that context.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Fable created novel 4D splat format"

AaronAPU — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:51:47 +0000

But that’s exactly where we’re at. Disappointment is fine, attention is all you need.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Can you build a recognizable World Map in under 500 bytes?"

AaronAPU — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:38:25 +0000

Is there a good known algorithm which performs general purpose compression where the target is a given turing complete instruction set? Rather than relying on a fixed general purpose decoder and the associated compressed data.

I’m asking here instead of asking an LLM because that’s what humans used to do and it was pleasant.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Please stop the AI confidence theater"

AaronAPU — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:19:56 +0000

It’s part of my identity? Nobody is going to see those letters, google them, find my products, figure out wtf they even are and buy them. To call it marketing is stretching the definition to the point of absurdity.

The idea that you can’t even in passing mention something you spend all day every day working on, because then it’s “marketing” is exactly the sort of consequence which leads to so many of us loathing marketing as an industry.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Show HN: Updated my landing page with Fable (retro pixel style)"

AaronAPU — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:48:25 +0000

Is this what HN is going to become? Prompt an AI and then post its output?

New comment by AaronAPU in "Please stop the AI confidence theater"

AaronAPU — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:11:33 +0000

I literally do own a business and my profits are held back by the mere fact that I don’t actively try to manipulate people into giving me their money.

New comment by AaronAPU in "Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP"

AaronAPU — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:07:54 +0000

That seems to stretch the meaning of market inefficiency. Is the lack of unlimited free energy an inefficiency in a market? Because an entrepreneur who achieves that is going to do pretty well. I’d say that would be creating value not optimizing market efficiency.