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New comment by annjose in "42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support"

annjose — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:37:10 +0000

I agree with you - there’s usually some adjustment for sampling bias, and this study says it is matching Census targets. But I had to go three levels down to see that info before I derive any meaning from the number.

My concern is that headlines like “x% of adults do y” get repeated without anyone (sometimes even journalists writing the article) seeing the methodology or nuance behind them. Context matters.

New comment by annjose in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"

annjose — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:24:28 +0000

I agree it’s very possible subscriptions would become more common if targeted ads were restricted. Personally I’d rather pay money for a good product/service than 'being the product' for a bad product that monetizes my data.

New comment by annjose in "42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support"

annjose — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:16:50 +0000

Whenever I see a claim that "x% of adults do y", my brain goes:

- "x% of what? what is the denominator?". Without that number, the claim is meaningless. - surely it cannot be the entire population, so it has to be a survey. - how many people participated in the survey? what was the distribution?

Here is that info for this study. I found this in the PDF version of the study report [0] referred to at the end of the Northwestern page [1].

> Methodology The Harris Poll conducted a total of 4,375 online interviews among the general U.S. adult (18+) population between January 5th and January 21st, 2026. Included in this overall total is a sample of 816 High-Net-Worth individuals (those with total household investable assets, excluding pensions, retirement plans and property, greater than $1,000,000).

[0] https://filecache.mediaroom.com/mr5mr_nwmutual/179168/2026%2...

[1] https://news.northwesternmutual.com/planning-and-progress-st...

New comment by annjose in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

annjose — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:58:20 +0000

Apparently it is Language Model, as mentioned in the announcement of NotebookLM in 2023 [0].

> Today we’re beginning to roll out Project Tailwind with its new name: NotebookLM, an experimental offering from Google Labs. It’s our endeavor to reimagine what notetaking software might look like if you designed it from scratch knowing that you would have a powerful language model at its core: hence the LM.

It's funny how similar that article's intro is to today's announcement.

[0] https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/notebook...

New comment by annjose in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"

annjose — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:31:16 +0000

"they can still make money, albeit less, serving non-targeted ads."

- would they be able to make as much as they do now? I think it would be significantly less.

From Meta's official Financial Report for 2025 [0]:

Total Revenue: $200,966 Million

-Advertising: $196,175 million (97.6%)

-Other rev: $ 4,791 Million ( 2.4%)

[0] https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-release-deta...

New comment by annjose in "The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed"

annjose — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:58:44 +0000

Unlike most articles that butcher an analogy so badly that you wish they could have just described the concept plainly, this one uses the analogy really well. It carries it from start to finish without overstretching it.

This line captures the essence of the article and is going to stick with me forever:

> SaaS is the bread, not the bread machine.

And yes, SaaS companies that understand that they sell convenience and accountability will be the ones that survive this AI rush. New ones could emerge too.

Time under tension is the point

annjose — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:12:28 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/2076502159844364340

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896517

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Model can accept 1M tokens doesn't mean it can reason across those 1M tokens

annjose — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:23:57 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/0xCarnagee/status/2075983721841225885

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876794

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by annjose in "TypeScript 7"

annjose — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:42:02 +0000

The Jevon's Paradox. And it is not a paradox :-)

New comment by annjose in "Half-Baked Product"

annjose — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:49:22 +0000

Such a great read! I kept on nodding and chuckling the whole time reading it. I can see myself as the founder, especially 'spending time in the oven forums' lol.

I went to the /blog route to see other posts by the author, but alas, there is only this one! And that's a gem.

New comment by annjose in "Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people"

annjose — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:13:24 +0000

Good work! I am hopeful for a social network that is not craving to increase engagement and going viral. I posted a sample but and created a profile.

But when I went to the Docs tab in my profile, it says...

Doc Not Found The doc "how-to-use-pieces" could not be found

New comment by annjose in "Claude Sonnet 5"

annjose — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:12:35 +0000

Not sure of any out-of-the-box tool. But Anthropic has a token count API which gives a near estimate of the input tokens for messages [1].

So this API can be used in a UserPromptSubmit hook [2] in the harness, get the token count for any model, calculate the cost and compare.

[1] https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/token-...

[2] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks

New comment by annjose in "Show HN: Memento – Self-hosted agentic search and LLM wiki over your email"

annjose — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:13:41 +0000

Thanks for the note. While building the context bundle, there is a tool that detect gaps in the timeline. So when you ask 'kitchen renovation', and there are emails from 2019 and 2023, the tool flags these gaps and the LLM is made aware of it. So Memento asks which of these clusters you want to track as a project.

Later while generating the wiki, LLM handles conflicts and facts that evolved over time because it has the timestamp of the messages. So it shows that in the narrative.

Wwat we haven't implemented yet is to update the wiki when new emails arrive. That is the next one in our backlog.

New comment by annjose in "Show HN: Memento – Self-hosted agentic search and LLM wiki over your email"

annjose — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:53:46 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. What are the things you liked the most? Any other features you would like to see?

New comment by annjose in "Show HN: Memento – Self-hosted agentic search and LLM wiki over your email"

annjose — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:44:18 +0000

Good point! We will add it to README. The default msgvault setup instruction would work - see at https://www.msgvault.io/setup.

Note: Anytime you want to remove memento tables from msgvault db, you can do `./memento reset`

New comment by annjose in "Show HN: Memento – Self-hosted agentic search and LLM wiki over your email"

annjose — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:46:33 +0000

Co-author here. Happy to take any questions.

We built Memento for two reasons - we were frustrated by the search in Gmail, and we wanted to organize email locally in a privacy-friendly way. But the outcome was much more than that - we learned how to build agents from scratch, optimize agentic search, and discovered many beautiful memories we didn’t know were hidden in our email.

We would love to know what you think of this project. All feedback is welcome.