Hacker News: alliancedamages

Seven Shuffles

alliancedamages — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:04:46 +0000

Article URL: https://math.hmc.edu/funfacts/seven-shuffles/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594289

Points: 2

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New comment by alliancedamages in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

alliancedamages — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 03:45:02 +0000

You can also break it by recording the screen, of course.

New comment by alliancedamages in "The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius"

alliancedamages — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:32:46 +0000

No paywall link: https://archive.ph/5mzPt

Two Dogmas of Empiricism

alliancedamages — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:40:10 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45013204

Points: 2

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The One Quality Most 'Super-Agers' Share

alliancedamages — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:56:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/well/mind/super-agers-social-connections.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44932502

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by alliancedamages in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

alliancedamages — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:21:45 +0000

> ...but the distinguishing factor of effective engineers is their ability to build and maintain clear mental models.

I wonder is this not just a proxy for intelligence?

Captify – Captions for Real Life

alliancedamages — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:34:09 +0000

Article URL: https://captify.glass/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44832097

Points: 1

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New comment by alliancedamages in "Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome"

alliancedamages — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:43:57 +0000

Agreed. Here's one of many HN posts on "No Silver Bullet": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32423356

New comment by alliancedamages in "I'm a Therapist. ChatGPT Is Eerily Effective"

alliancedamages — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:59:54 +0000

https://archive.ph/Vcrxs

I'm a Therapist. ChatGPT Is Eerily Effective

alliancedamages — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:59:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/opinion/chatgpt-therapist-journal-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44757772

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by alliancedamages in "Writing is thinking"

alliancedamages — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:31:34 +0000

While the article’s point seems intuitively true, it cites only two papers related to the benefits of handwriting. But it’s argument is stronger than that. Is there peer-reviewed evidence to support the stronger claim of the benefits of typewriting?