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New comment by TuringNYC in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

TuringNYC — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:35:06 +0000

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New comment by TuringNYC in "AI slop is killing online communities"

TuringNYC — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:52:29 +0000

>> That's why a web of trust was suggested. You keep track of who vouched for who and down weight those who vouch for users that prove to be bots.

Except eventually it will also weigh down those users who supported

New comment by TuringNYC in "SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice"

TuringNYC — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:38:08 +0000

Similar! I think my experiences were best captured by the song SOFI TUKKER - Summer In New York

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCuSci5BSyQ

A lot of this went away, not sure why. People are too glued to phones.

New comment by TuringNYC in "SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice"

TuringNYC — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:43:45 +0000

When i was younger I would sometimes ride the F-train back and forth several times in the evenings just so I could think and put articulate thoughts into a notebook. This is before underground network connectivity, before smartphones, etc. The hum of the train was great and the speed of the F train at segments of Queens were exhilarating, a bit like listening to EDM while coding.

New comment by TuringNYC in "Craig Venter has died"

TuringNYC — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:17:32 +0000

RIP. I absolutely loved the book A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter.

New comment by TuringNYC in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

TuringNYC — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:18:54 +0000

>> Doubt this kind of workloads would agree to send data then to a cloud of randos devices,

Totally agree, which is why i said "I'd love a way to do this locally -- pool all the PCs in our own office for in-office pools of compute."

New comment by TuringNYC in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

TuringNYC — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:40:58 +0000

So true. The latest rage on IG is "this guy built a trading system on OpenClaw and is now making 10k, comment MONEY and i'll DM you the recipe."

No indy hedgefund algotrader gives away their golden goose, that would crowed out the trade.

New comment by TuringNYC in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

TuringNYC — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:19:26 +0000

It is much more work because for many workloads you have geographic ringfencing and cannot send it out to the cloud

New comment by TuringNYC in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

TuringNYC — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:53:48 +0000

I'd love a way to do this locally -- pool all the PCs in our own office for in-office pools of compute. Any suggestions from anyone? We currently run ollama but manually manage the pools

New comment by TuringNYC in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"

TuringNYC — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:45:12 +0000

I can attest to this. Ultimately I dont think it is possible to 10x output systems with AI and actually keep the traditional quality controls (yet.)

IMHO you just need two stacks -- systems where you can play fast and loose and 10x output. And systems where quality matters where you can perhaps 1.5 or 2x. That is still a lot of output.

New comment by TuringNYC in "Music for Programming"

TuringNYC — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:40:13 +0000

> In Motion is my favorite productivity track as well. Most of the time I just listen to the whole The Social Network soundtrack

I love hacker soundtracks too! I play the OST for Mr Robot and Halt and Catch Fire

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2MjjP5LxjyxA0Vvws3y...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucSUs3adMQ8&list=PLrvyiZ4XwF...

New comment by TuringNYC in "Music for Programming"

TuringNYC — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:37:52 +0000

>> I've had three main tracks that I've used for the past 8 months or so.

I've had several dozen songs (grown from ~5 in 1998) that I've used for almost 28yrs. They were originally mp3s, eventually cds, then apple music. I'm glad the artists have been getting royalties on the songs, i play them on loop sometimes for hours a day for decades on.

New comment by TuringNYC in "Music for Programming"

TuringNYC — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:35:51 +0000

I play that song too while programming (along with several dozen others on a dedicated programming playlist). Eventually it goes into the background and just covers up outside noise. Some key moments are noticed -- i stop looking at my screen, repeat after the singer, and then go back to working five seconds later.

New comment by TuringNYC in "A Few Good Magazines From the 70s and 80s"

TuringNYC — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:51:54 +0000

No idea if this is the case anymore, but many NY Public Libraries had "Stacks" where they kept lots of magazines going back to the 1970s. I havent checked for at least a decade, but that was a lot of fun -- we'd go there and look at old computer ads from the 1980s. They would have a binder per decade -- giant thick binders.

If you're willing to put up with the hassle, you could find them on Microfiche for sure. I've found newspapers from the 1700s in NYPL's microfiche archives https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/general-research-divisi...

Even Artemis II Astronauts Have Microsoft Outlook Problems

TuringNYC — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:29:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/artemis-ii-microsoft-outlook-problems/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626465

Points: 2

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New comment by TuringNYC in "A Few Good Magazines From the 70s and 80s"

TuringNYC — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:58:48 +0000

I thought of OMNI before anything and was pleased to find it on the article :-)

New comment by TuringNYC in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

TuringNYC — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:02:47 +0000

Well you are lucky if you were able to dump the account. For me, I had Skype credit, monthly billings, and tons of contacts -- all gone in a botched post-merger integration. Definitely makes me never go back to that ecosystem ever again.

New comment by TuringNYC in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

TuringNYC — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:43:59 +0000

Ss it just me or did Microsoft never actually fix/figure out their account merge? I found that anyone who had a legacy skype/hotmail account basically got locked out once Skype/Hotmail/Outlook.com all merged. Multiple frustrated message threads online complained about this and from my personal experience it never got fixed. Basically two out of three accounts became inaccessable.

That was when I completely left that ecosystem, Office 365, everything. It was literally impossible to log in. Not surprisingly, the Office 365 bills continued to charge even though accounts were inaccessible. To this day, i'm far too scared to even attempt to use Azure on a personal account for this reason.

New comment by TuringNYC in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

TuringNYC — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:08:09 +0000

Thanks for the heartwarming story, loved it! Quite a nice change from all the depressing news otherwise.

New comment by TuringNYC in "AI boom risks widening wealth divide, says BlackRock's Larry Fink"

TuringNYC — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:18:01 +0000

Here is the letter if you want the primary source: https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/literature/presentation/...

And if you dont want to read, here is the hourlong audio: https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry...

Those looking for a deep explanation, this isnt as much about AI as it is about societal participation in prosperity.