Hacker News: admjs

New comment by admjs in "The room the economy can't see"

admjs — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:50:42 +0000

What's an example where central planning outcompetes the market?

New comment by admjs in "If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)"

admjs — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:48:45 +0000

The hardest part of product management is saying no to reasonably good ideas. Bad ideas are pretty easy.

New comment by admjs in "AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of time, and many aren't AI at all"

admjs — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:52:20 +0000

Think of execution steps as nodes in a graph. IFTT has pre-defined execution paths through the graph, its determinist. Agents design the execution path on the fly for the most contextually appropriate solution, it's non-deterministic. Both are state machines and DAGs.

What is the Value of Data?

admjs — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:14:31 +0000

Article URL: https://admjs.substack.com/p/what-is-the-value-of-data

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44407804

Points: 2

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How Sheffield gave birth to women's suffrage

admjs — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 13:24:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/how-sheffield-gave-birth-to-womens-suffrage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736223

Points: 1

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Beyond Conventional Physics

admjs — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 03:09:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shoshinworks.com/podcast-episodes/beyond-conventional-physics-extended-electrodynamics-lattice-confinement-fusion-zero-point-energy-advanced-propulsion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42641210

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Understanding Logarithms Intuitively

admjs — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:45:09 +0000

Article URL: https://mathcs.pugetsound.edu/~aasmith/logarithms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41865960

Points: 6

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New comment by admjs in "Let Google decide"

admjs — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 05:35:17 +0000

I'm glad I'm not the only one who read this and thought a week to sort out this sort of thing sounded totally reasonable.

New comment by admjs in "Deadhorse UFO Incident: NORAD Logs Reveal Insights into Object's Countermeasures"

admjs — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:11:47 +0000

Occams razor idea -- state actor spy balloon/drone + state actor hackers inside the power system?

New comment by admjs in "The Palletrone is a robotic hovercart for moving stuff anywhere"

admjs — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:14:41 +0000

Literally re-inventing the wheel.

New comment by admjs in "ESPN AI recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional match fails to mention her"

admjs — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:28:10 +0000

They could probably solve this by adding an audio transcript from the tv feed.

Commentators share a lot of random facts and insights during games, and that would certainly enrich the AI summary.

Zheng Yi Sao

admjs — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 04:48:54 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Yi_Sao

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38779188

Points: 9

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New comment by admjs in "Ask HN: Science Fiction Starter List"

admjs — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 03:10:42 +0000

happy this was near the top

start with "player of games"

Atomization: The Kaleidoscope of Meaning

admjs — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 03:09:51 +0000

Article URL: https://meaningness.com/atomized-mode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38705023

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by admjs in "Ask HN: How can I collect good data for a more effective pitch?"

admjs — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:06:25 +0000

I'd be able to answer more specifically if I had more info on your experience and startup, but I can also answer higher level and hope it's useful for you.

Experience - are you deeply familiar with the problem you're trying to solve and the current options for solving it. Have you lived this problem? Have you been a consumer of the solutions? Why do you care about it? Why can you solve it better than anyone else?

Story - the answers to the above question will naturally help create your story. Friends can vouch probably won't hold up.

Bootstrapping - not everyone can bootstrap, but investors want commitment. If you signal any lack of commitment then it will tank the perception of the investment opportunity.

Pilot - do you mean MVP? At seed stage or pre-seed you don't need a product, but having a working demo or something tangible helps make your ideas more real for other people. Having some traction helps them place it in the real world.

Generally fundraising isn't so cut and dry. There's a spectrum of outcomes ranging from getting a great deal on great terms with a great fund that will probably get you in tech crunch, to raising a fine deal, on ok terms, with a 3rd rate VC fund, to failing to raise at all. The probability for better outcomes depends on how well you cover the bases of what VCs actually want to know, but also on how much they believe that you, specifically you, are the right bet for this type of solution/category.

When they invest in you it means they can't invest in other solutions that are similar (they can but they shouldn't and good VCs mostly don't).

Often VCs will already have a thesis or belief about the market you operate in. It will be high level, but they're going to have some opinion about the way the wind is blowing. They take a position on a macro trend and then find the best possible exposure to that trend in a great founding team and vision.

New comment by admjs in "Ask HN: How can I collect good data for a more effective pitch?"

admjs — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 01:32:22 +0000

Hope this is helpful, as i don't really answer your question about data. My context - I'm a founder, I raised a decent sized round from a good fund.

I've never met an investor who wanted data on competitors or the "market" or opportunity or whatever. They'll want to know that you know about it, but through experience not research.

At seed stage they're mostly investing in you as a person. What you need is a story, not data, in my opinion.

Happy to help if you've got specific questions about raising / how to talk to investors.

New comment by admjs in "Ask HN: Long duration videos or podcasts to gently promote sleep"

admjs — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:40:02 +0000

I like old Ram Dass or Alan Watts lectures for the same reason. Most are on spotify podcasts/audiobooks.

Show HN: Njord – a Python package wrapper for NordVPN

admjs — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:23:34 +0000

Simple package to solve my own problem. I needed a way to rotate VPN connections in Python and wanted to use Nord as I already pay for it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36786873

Points: 1

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New comment by admjs in "Growing Rat Neurons to Play Video Games [video]"

admjs — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:58:11 +0000

It sounds like you might have read it already, but you might enjoy “I am Strange Loop”

New comment by admjs in "A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people"

admjs — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:45:40 +0000

I’d say that the genesis is a genuine interest in keeping in touch, automation is managing the process. I get behind on messages with my closest friends/family, and then I have a large network of professional/semi-personal relationships to maintain.

I empathise why the OP would do this.