Hacker News: Schiendelman

New comment by Schiendelman in "The AI Productivity Illusion"

Schiendelman — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:22:28 +0000

Claude has a scheduler; have you tried it?

New comment by Schiendelman in "Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight"

Schiendelman — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:39:29 +0000

Could it be explained by the local population density - basically the walkability for each resident?

New comment by Schiendelman in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

Schiendelman — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:00:40 +0000

More than that using Fable!

New comment by Schiendelman in "Elevated Errors for Opus 5"

Schiendelman — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:11:19 +0000

Because people upvoted it.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

Schiendelman — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:25:01 +0000

This must be on API costs, not counting the $100/200 tiers, right?

New comment by Schiendelman in "Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency"

Schiendelman — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:51:22 +0000

We don't require unleaded fuel for GA.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency"

Schiendelman — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:33:56 +0000

If you care about leaded fuel, the culprit now is general aviation - small airports, Cessnas, not commercial flights. If you go work on it, let me know, I'll help you!

New comment by Schiendelman in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"

Schiendelman — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:23:08 +0000

Clothes made in the 90s used different materials and stitching than they do today, and likely cost more to produce. They'd probably need old machines they haven't had in decades.

New comment by Schiendelman in "I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens"

Schiendelman — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:50:35 +0000

I've shipped (to TestFlight) a fairly fun video game that's tricking my friends into working out: https://reverdure.yourstrategy.co

New comment by Schiendelman in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

Schiendelman — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:54:12 +0000

That's their maximum. They are very cheap compared to any shoes that are wealth signals.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Qwen 3.8"

Schiendelman — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:26:30 +0000

The submission link is to the twitter announcement. The body just has a different link to pricing.

New comment by Schiendelman in "GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend"

Schiendelman — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:41:40 +0000

I bought two of these when they were new. I don't recall the price, but after mining some bitcoin in my electricty included apartment for a few months over the winter instead of running the heat, I think I ended up with ~.5 BTC.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Newly retired couples may lose $16,900/year in Social Security in 2033"

Schiendelman — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:39:26 +0000

See my more complete history here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48961349

New comment by Schiendelman in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

Schiendelman — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:33:43 +0000

Nike is famously one of the less wealth signalling shoe brands. Until recently I don't think they had a product for sale for more than ~$220 at all.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Newly retired couples may lose $16,900/year in Social Security in 2033"

Schiendelman — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:25:28 +0000

In the early 80s, the date was not in the 2030s - not until after the Greenspan Commission and that set of reforms.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Newly retired couples may lose $16,900/year in Social Security in 2033"

Schiendelman — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:24:45 +0000

Maybe you are misremembering. The Greenspan Commission was the last time we significantly amended social security to avoid these problems, and it was in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspan_Commission

New comment by Schiendelman in "Newly retired couples may lose $16,900/year in Social Security in 2033"

Schiendelman — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:23:29 +0000

The first projected failure date I know of was 1979, which was reported on in the early 1970s.

There were amendments in 1977 that should have helped, but the 1980-81 recessions made it bad again; by 1982 the Trustees said it would be insolvent in 1983.

In 1983 the Greenspan Commission and the resulting amendments believed they pushed solvency through the 2050s.

In 2005 that was down to 2041, in 2010 it was 2037, and since then it's sat around 2033-2035.

In Jane Jacobs' book "Cities and the Wealth of Nations" in 1984, she saw the pattern, and brought up that you'd have to keep amending it forever.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Newly retired couples may lose $16,900/year in Social Security in 2033"

Schiendelman — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:17:03 +0000

Honestly, the reporting has looked the same around this since the 1980s. I've read books from them referencing how Social Security was going to be bankrupt by the 90s, or the 2000s. The fact is that older people vote way more than younger people, so it stays funded; we will at worst pay for some of it out of income taxes.

New comment by Schiendelman in "Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen"

Schiendelman — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:49:18 +0000

You don't have to put a testflight through app review. Example: https://reverdure.yourstrategy.co

New comment by Schiendelman in "Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen"

Schiendelman — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:00:50 +0000

You don't need a paid account to sideload to your own device.