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New comment by akman in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350"

akman — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:05:21 +0000

Up ~50% about 2 months ago (4/2026)

Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

akman — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:05:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.adafruit.com/product/6125?src=raspberrypi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481857

Points: 162

# Comments: 189

Evergreen HN Stories – Revisited

akman — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:48:20 +0000

Article URL: https://vol-hn.surge.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352711

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Social Animal – get used to talking with anyone, even strangers

akman — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:59:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsMcTtQH_YWD-qBgy3vY9JQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014139

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by akman in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

akman — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:54:24 +0000

Wonderful idea to document, share and even have positive outcomes.

The author would probably love this YT channel which is all about helping others come to the same realization as he did: https://www.youtube.com/@socialanimal

New comment by akman in "Tiny Programmer:writes code, takes breaks to hang out on a BBS, and clocks out"

akman — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:09:26 +0000

TinyProgrammer is a Raspberry Pi on my desk that autonomously writes little Python programs forever. It types code at human speed, makes mistakes, fixes them, and has moods.

Tiny Programmer:writes code, takes breaks to hang out on a BBS, and clocks out

akman — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:09:26 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1se9afo/made_a_tiny_device_that_writes_code_takes_breaks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723043

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

Show HN: Book Juicing – Interactive D. Amodei's "The Adolescence of Technology"

akman — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:18:02 +0000

It's effortless (nearly 1-shot prompt) to take essays and long-form text (e.g., PDF textbooks) and turn them into interactive, visual apps. Add in spaced repetition, exercises, quizzes, and gamification as you wish. I like to call this book juicing-- getting the sweetest parts of a book or text.

Every author could do this for everything long-form, as the cost is so low. Or do this for yourself to learn in an engaging way, along with the original text.

From the original essay, "The Adolescence of Technology" by Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583829

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by akman in "FEMA Spends More Preparing for Terrorism Than Hurricanes"

akman — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:44:37 +0000

Unless you prevent them from being successful in the first place.

As a side note, I wonder if there's also a bias that human minds are more easily controlled than forces of nature. That may also come into play here.

New comment by akman in "FEMA Spends More Preparing for Terrorism Than Hurricanes"

akman — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:37:06 +0000

Both good and bad responses to successful terrorist attacks threaten government credibility, simply because they were successful. The key is for a government to prevent them from being successful in the first place.

Only bad disaster responses make administrations look pretty bad.

New comment by akman in "Dopamine Ruins Your Motivation"

akman — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:53:49 +0000

>There's a reason people end up in these ruts to begin with.

Perhaps there is the lack of self-awareness that dopamine comes into play. This is where the (effective) simplicity of this article comes into the picture.

New comment by akman in "Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learning empire"

akman — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:46:13 +0000

That's an interesting idea with WeWork.

I'd think that despite variations in environments in a home, there are either 1) enough accommodating tools to normalize (e.g., lights that have a variety of settings) or 2) the majority of the processes required to handle the variations are figured out (e.g., in consistently poor lighting, you need package B instead of package A).

I see some hardware packages for home studios going on sale, but nothing to the level of hardware/software integration necessary for the most effective online instruction/discussion.

New comment by akman in "Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learning empire"

akman — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 22:26:09 +0000

This begs to normalized and sold as a package for both providers and consumers.

New comment by akman in "“Pain Is the Only School-Teacher”"

akman — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 03:19:18 +0000

>but that is part of life

Makes one wonder whether technology can help here. Seems that, so far, there is no substitute for direct experience.

New comment by akman in "Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling"

akman — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:50:57 +0000

The context of the comments matter. Just saying...

New comment by akman in "Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”?"

akman — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 22:55:39 +0000

Y Combinator Requests for Startups: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

New comment by akman in "People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige"

akman — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 20:17:14 +0000

survival != (winning a competition || getting titles || getting awards)

New comment by akman in "Do you know how much money would you make instead of sitting in Facebook/Reddit?"

akman — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 14:50:22 +0000

But time != energy + motivation. Also time != money. I realize it won't be as eye-catching, but showing time wasted rather than money is more direct and truthful. Then I suppose the problem is that apps like that already exist...

New comment by akman in "It’s Not Enough to Be Right – You Also Have to Be Kind"

akman — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 03:54:58 +0000

>Maybe it's possible to do both?

I agree, and I think that's part of Ryan Holiday's thesis. That also happens to be the message in the book Crucial Conversations.

New comment by akman in "By Quitting Social Media You Could Read 200 Books a Year"

akman — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:57:34 +0000

>Regardless of the fact if it's even possible to read that quickly, what about retaining and revising what you learnt? Especially important if you're reading non-fiction.

Exactly this. # of books as a goal seems like a poor choice of metric. But perhaps readers new to books have to start somewhere that's easy to measure, even if it's not a great metric.