Hacker News: andyreagan

New comment by andyreagan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

andyreagan — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:11:50 +0000

I love the project. Will be excited to participate when it comes to MA.

New comment by andyreagan in "ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web"

andyreagan — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:47:26 +0000

They lay out the case clearly here...and I agree. This was my one-sentence take back in 2022: https://twitter.com/andyreagan/status/1506294505930203151

> hot take: large language models (looking at you, GPT-3) are just lossy compression

New comment by andyreagan in "Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts"

andyreagan — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:27:56 +0000

> Training these models with extra data turns out to be incredibly expensive and relatively ineffective.

I can see that it's expensive, but have you tried it for effectiveness?

BTW, your approach is very cool here.

New comment by andyreagan in "Building an e-ink weather display for our home"

andyreagan — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:52:59 +0000

what town in MA are you? I'm in Shutesbury, and we're building a new library in the coming years. would be great to do this, and have an example to base from.

New comment by andyreagan in "Ask HN: Running pi-hole for a whole town"

andyreagan — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:10:35 +0000

Oh interesting! We wouldn’t be messing with any bits, but rather responding to dns queries. The opt out or simply setting your own dns server would mean we’re not forcing anyone to use our dns “service”.

Ask HN: Running pi-hole for a whole town

andyreagan — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:27:53 +0000

The town I live in built our own fiber network that got finished in late 2019 (good timing for me to wfh!). Since we own the network, I think it would be cool to run something like pi-hole, or our own DNS, for the whole network (perhaps opt-in, or opt-out).

Another potentially bad idea is to try and sell anonymized traffic data to make the service cheaper for residents.

I’m sure folks here know why this is a bad idea, but I have an urge to get on the town broadband board and see if this idea resolves.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33081741

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