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New comment by SMAAART in "Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?"

SMAAART — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 03:11:08 +0000

I forgot David!

This is water.

Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?

SMAAART — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:33:59 +0000

Leaving broad and vague by design. Who formed your thinking? Philosophers? Business magnates? Ancient wisdom? Or more recent thinking?

Socrates to Bill Gates?

I'll go first, in no particular order:

- The Ancient Stoics

- D. T. Suzuki, Thich Nhat Hanh, and other

- C G Jung

- Alfred Adler

- Arthur Schopenhauer

- Friedrich Nietzsche

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

- Franz Kafka

- Niccolo Machiavelli (highly misunderstood, I strongly suggest starting by watching the "Learning to Love Machiavelli: Don MacDonald at TEDxBoston"

- George Pólya

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862453

Points: 9

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New comment by SMAAART in "What do you do now as a software engineer?"

SMAAART — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:32:08 +0000

That's very 2025. Build an agent that does that for you.

Not everyone thinks AI will kill us all

SMAAART — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:45:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/tech/not-everyone-thinks-ai-will-kill-us-all

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860377

Points: 3

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Ask HN: Who is smarter than you that you listen to what they have to say?

SMAAART — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:26:56 +0000

I am trying to figure out how business and world economics are going to evolve in the next 3, 5, 10 years.

I am pretty smart, but I am surely not the smartest; and I enjoy listening to what Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Dario and SamA have to say.

Who is on your short (or long) list?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839866

Points: 7

# Comments: 20

New comment by SMAAART in "Wealth Taxes Could Kill Privately-Owned Companies"

SMAAART — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:07 +0000

But she would have to do that (borrowing $250m) every year, and the company's cash flow might not be able to sustain the repayment in 12 months; and it the borrowing keeps stacking, then she would have to sell part of the company; and that's the point of the article.

New comment by SMAAART in "Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries"

SMAAART — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:53:42 +0000

True story #1: whenever we go on vacation, wife and I check rates for Uber and Lyft on both of our phones, and consistently we get different rates up to 15% delta.

True story #2: I am eyeing a nice Seiko watch on Amazon, the price has been oscillating between $296 and $316. Whatever, thinking about waiting for black friday. Then the other day the price jumped to $350; weird.

So, I switched to Firefox, used the VPN to a different US location, checked the watch and the very same watch was $316. It was surreal.

Looking forward to hack it in a way that favors consumers.

New comment by SMAAART in "UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970"

SMAAART — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:33:56 +0000

also on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/show/SChpdkdxOigE-DcGa7De6IEg?season...

New comment by SMAAART in "More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older"

SMAAART — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:33:08 +0000

The blue zone.

New comment by SMAAART in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

SMAAART — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:01:04 +0000

I don't have ADHD, but I do prefer lists to verbose narratives.

I am going to start using this.

New comment by SMAAART in "The Real Luxuries In Life"

SMAAART — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:00:23 +0000

I can proudly say, that I have got 11.5 of that list.

My #3 is questionable, since work is stressful. It's my bad, I know better. Working on it.

New comment by SMAAART in "Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond"

SMAAART — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:40:34 +0000

This cames to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantilization

And with that also Agency, or lack thereof.

This is sad, very very sad.

New comment by SMAAART in "Audacity 4.0"

SMAAART — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:55:03 +0000

Sure, why not?

Still a good move, and everyone wins!

New comment by SMAAART in "Audacity 4.0"

SMAAART — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:54:29 +0000

Good synergy. I use both; I can see them integrated.

New comment by SMAAART in "Audacity 4.0"

SMAAART — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:07:06 +0000

I am sure that Suno would love to buy Audacity.

New comment by SMAAART in "Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools"

SMAAART — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:01:04 +0000

Parents can still let their kids use AI when/where appropriate (outside the school's official curriculum). There's a lot more to life, growing up, and learning than what politicians do with traditional education.

Agency is key.

New comment by SMAAART in "Ask HN: How do you survive a job you hate which is slowly making you sick?"

SMAAART — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:18:28 +0000

My money is that the vast majority of people on this board have been in your exact same spot, including yours truly.

What to do:

a) First and foremost: make finding your next opportunity your full-time job, above and beyond your present full-time job. And take the time to build your professional footprint for your next opportunity too. Let me explain: do you have an online portfolio of your work? If no, start one right now, and maintain it forever. Do you have a blog where you talk about your market/industry/profession; which existing tools are best of breed, which ones can be improved, and which ones are missing? How AI is affecting your market/industry/profession? Publish white papers and case studies. How's your GitHub?

b) Secondly use this opportunity as a training ground for Life. This is Life at its finest, what will make the difference will be your reactions and responses to these events. Read about the ancient Stoics (Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Cicero), Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Machiavelli (very misunderstood), Jung. Make this the most consequential job of your Life.

c) Related to b) above, tweak your language paying special attention to the language you use. Just from your title, "Survive" and "hate" are problematic words. Read Shane Parrish's works.

I am not saying that it's easy, quite the opposite. Think of this job as a short-term problem and you are building a long-term solution that will take care of this and much more. In order to be successful, you will need to change your worldviews, your belief systems, and imprints.

I wish you a lot more then dumb luck.

New comment by SMAAART in "The 37signals Manager Playbook"

SMAAART — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:12:54 +0000

Care to expand on this with some factual examples?

New comment by SMAAART in "Ethical Cold Outreach"

SMAAART — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:02:19 +0000

Cold outreach is spam. Period.

New comment by SMAAART in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

SMAAART — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:42:06 +0000

Working on putting together a self-paced "Coding with AI" course for non-SWE(s).

Since I could not find anything out there, I am scratching my own itch.