Hacker News: WesleyJohnson

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

WesleyJohnson — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:32:51 +0000

The issue I had with RAG when I tried building our own internal chat/knowledge bot was pulling in the relevant knowledge before sending to the LLM. Domain questions like "What is Cat Block B?" are common and, for a human, provide all the context that is needed for someone to answer within our org. But vectorizing that and then finding matching knowledge produced so many false positives. I tried to circumvent that by adding custom weighting based on keywords, source (Confluence, Teams, Email), but it just seemed unreliable. This was probably a year ago and, admittedly, I was diving in head first without truly understanding RAG end to end.

Being able to just train a model on all of our domain knowledge would, I imagine, produce much better results.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

WesleyJohnson — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:16:00 +0000

And then Trump can sign the checks again....

Sarcasm aside, I agree the refunds should go back to consumers, not the importers. I don't have a source, but I have to imagine the lion's share of companies that were hit with tariffs increased their prices, and the consumer paid the bill.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

WesleyJohnson — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:13:30 +0000

What businesses were legitimately going to go bankrupt by the increased tariffs? I'm not defending the tariffs, mind you, but I don't buy that every company had to increase prices to offset the additional taxes. Many could've taken the hit and been fine, except profits would be down and shareholders would be angry.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

WesleyJohnson — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:09:19 +0000

I had the same thought. Even if it wasn't the original intent, it sure is a preferable outcome.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

WesleyJohnson — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:46:38 +0000

What player is going to step in and do what Anthropic wouldn't? Or, worse, will the DoW try to author its own AI to go where private AI won't?

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "All Look Same?"

WesleyJohnson — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:14:35 +0000

Very uncultured and untraveled caucasian here. I got 10/18, surprising myself. Probably plenty of luck, but at least 5 or 6 I was quite confident about. Not sure how.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Sizing chaos"

WesleyJohnson — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:04:24 +0000

The article has mounds of data that to speak to exactly how the clothing sizes ARE the issue. Inconsistencies within brands, across brands, shifting vanity sizes, and shapes designed to fit only 12% of women. And yet, the top comment is about obesity...

Yes, obesity is clearly an epidemic. But discounting the entire article's premise to point that out?

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Sizing chaos"

WesleyJohnson — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:59:13 +0000

But they're not lowest-common-denominator products. If they were, clothing designers would be tailoring clothes for a rectangular figure. The article clearly shows that only 12% of women have that "hourglass" figure and yet, by design, almost all the clothing manufacturers are tailoring their clothes for this shape, regardless of size.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear"

WesleyJohnson — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:15:47 +0000

My disconnect is I can't read sheet music. So I can hear it, then memorize where it is on the piano/keyboard... but that just teaches you play piano by ear. It doesn't teach you how to play music in the traditional sense.

I guess this showing you the sheet music as you find the notes can help with that, but as others noted - I'd like a "mess around" mode, before a "test" mode.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Thin desires are eating life"

WesleyJohnson — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:48:45 +0000

Any tips or resources on how to get started? I drew a lot of comics as a kid/teen, and I've done 3d modeling as a hobbyist. But using physical media for sculpting has always seemed daunting.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

WesleyJohnson — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:51:48 +0000

I didn't intend to imply "best" even in the scope of a team, let alone every software engineer in the world. But, I understand your point and it's fair.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Django: what’s new in 6.0"

WesleyJohnson — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:33:56 +0000

  manage.py makemigrations myapp --empty --name add_some_view

(in the migration file)

  operations=[migrations.RunSQL("Create View some_view AS ....", "DROP VIEW IF EXISTS...."]

(in your models.py)

  class SomeView(models.Model):
       class Meta:
           db_table = 'some_view'
           managed = False

  manage.py makemigrations myapp --name add_some_view_model

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

WesleyJohnson — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:28:24 +0000

So you're openly saying you're fine with quantity over quality.... in software engineering? That's fine for a MVP, maybe, but nothing beyond on that IMHO unless they're throw away scripts.

"Houston, we have a problem."

"Yeah, but we did it in a 10th of the time"

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

WesleyJohnson — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:25:19 +0000

Not to pick apart your analogy, but asserting that atheists haven't tried religion is misinformed.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

WesleyJohnson — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:27:28 +0000

What languages and frameworks? What is the domain space you're operating in? I use Cursor to help with some tasks, but mainly only use the autocomplete. It's great; no complaints. I just don't ever see being able to turn over anywhere close to 90% with the stuff we work on.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse"

WesleyJohnson — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:00:35 +0000

That is where content rating should come in, and games should be reviewed by Roblox staff before being approved. Then, Roblox age restrictions could play a role in keeping a 7-year old from a seeing photos of a murder.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Orion 1.0"

WesleyJohnson — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:46:49 +0000

I know it's just a google away, but I use Arc and I'm not in the loop on them poo-pooing on their users. Can you elaborate?

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse"

WesleyJohnson — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:45:42 +0000

It goes beyond that though. There are games and in-game content that aren't being reviewed. There are claims of player skins where the characters are wearing a t-shirt with an actual photo of Charlie Kirk's death (the shot to the neck).

Anyone can make a Roblox game and publish it, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of moderations or verification going on. And you don't need to "talk", voice or text. You can emote, type on signs, and communicate in other ways.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Make product worse, get money"

WesleyJohnson — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:42:32 +0000

I would add that there is psychology at play as well. Someone might scoff at a $200 ticket, thinking it's ridiculous to pay that much, even if you could then eat at the venue for $20.

But they'll pay $100 for a ticket, feeling it's reasonable, and then end spending $120 on concessions and beer anyway. The smells, sights, atmosphere and wanting to "just enjoy it" are compelling forces to reach for your wallet IMHO.

New comment by WesleyJohnson in "Nano Banana Pro"

WesleyJohnson — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:17:55 +0000

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