Hacker News: anoplus

New comment by anoplus in "Deep-sea vehicles spot 'alien' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific"

anoplus — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:13:47 +0000

This kind of posts make me think. We all love technology because it's so cool, but how cool is nature already? Making our lives awesome is as much about protecting and discovering the sources for our inspiration, as building the stuff we are inspired to build.

New comment by anoplus in "You are not your job"

anoplus — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:48:09 +0000

Seems like people forget that work is not the goal, but economical freedom is. And its all about politics. Humanity reached a production capacity that human work is barely needed to sustain everyone. But there is greed and wars. Also, humans are social creatures, we still need one another for relationships. Hell, removing work will let us enjoy our relationships even more. Also, as long as there are wars, rest assured there are plenty of jobs. War is, sadly, a huge industry

New comment by anoplus in "LLMs as the new high level language"

anoplus — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:03:30 +0000

I guess I'll have an agent for that one day. News agent.

New comment by anoplus in "LLMs as the new high level language"

anoplus — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:52:00 +0000

I am interested in a post that will teach me how to consume only the news that really relevant for me

New comment by anoplus in "Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety"

anoplus — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:56:56 +0000

I am determined to find real life local connections. No doom scrolling, no “social” media no hacker news

New comment by anoplus in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

anoplus — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:58:00 +0000

In my opinion - just do it. What you want. Message someone you haven’t talked with for years. Ask someone out. Smile :-). Say hello. Strike a conversation with a stranger.

You deserve it, because you are a human

New comment by anoplus in "The future of software development is software developers"

anoplus — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:20:21 +0000

The future of problem solving is problem solvers

New comment by anoplus in "Size of Life"

anoplus — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:01:45 +0000

So many new facts to learn and I like how popular a post about the natural world is here

New comment by anoplus in "Implications of AI to schools"

anoplus — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:35:11 +0000

The smaller the job market relative to candidates, the more the differentiators are both important and also meaningless to the actual job

New comment by anoplus in "Thoughts on thinking"

anoplus — Sat, 17 May 2025 05:11:10 +0000

I think the unhappiness we experience from AI is not because of AI, but a symptom of a society that lacks more humanism. I currently like to define AI's level of intelligence as its ability to reduce human suffering. By this definition, if AI failed to keep you and society happy for whatever reason, then it is stupid. If you or people around you feeling worthless, anxious, depressed, starving, because of AI, it is stupid! And society needs you to fix it!

New comment by anoplus in "Almost 30% of Americans Say College Not Worth It in Pew Poll"

anoplus — Fri, 24 May 2024 08:20:12 +0000

We are living in the internet era.

I think one can do an engineering job as easily with or without a degree.

I think attending college may have value in terms of social life.

I think degrees are used today as a mean to filter job candidates in the absence of better ways to assess candidates. So degrees are inflationary in the sense that if everyone had X degrees, jobs would require X+1 degrees as they have to filter out candidates if they are saturated with applications.

New comment by anoplus in "DuckDuckGo was down"

anoplus — Thu, 23 May 2024 06:57:54 +0000

Started about an hour ago (~1716454800000)

New comment by anoplus in "The worst kind of programmer"

anoplus — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:29:20 +0000

> They wrote mega defensive and very boring code How I love boring code, and I am getting more defensive. Good-sleep-oriented-programming. For much of my career I took technical debt on myself because I felt uncomfortable giving generous time estimations with ample buffers. I am ashamed. But now I learn to push the breaks, ask for help and escalate unexpected problems as early as possible in the project. I don't need the trendiest tech on my resume as long as the team is happy and sleep well.

New comment by anoplus in "Plastics are poisoning us"

anoplus — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:31:11 +0000

What also important in what you do to minimize personal footprint, is that you influence others by sharing it

New comment by anoplus in "He who submits a resume has already lost"

anoplus — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 08:40:19 +0000

I feel like the important skill to learn is learning itself, and it becomes more and more pronounced. I think the idea of learning and adjusting to each and every company you are about to apply can be intimidating at first. The world is changing fast. Skills and tools deprecate quickly – and it is getting even faster now. It only make sense the recruiter will pay more attention to core traits such as motivation, communication, creativity and ability to learn – vs technical knowledge which is still necessary but has less weight. So having an applicant learned about your company and demonstrating why this particular match could work, could hint about the traits aforementioned.

New comment by anoplus in "Omega-3s: Are “Brain-Boosting” Effects Scientifically Backed?"

anoplus — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:28:57 +0000

No control. I don't believe I am affected by placebo.

New comment by anoplus in "Omega-3s: Are “Brain-Boosting” Effects Scientifically Backed?"

anoplus — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:12:56 +0000

I like experimenting with different lifestyles to see how I feel. Most of the times there are too many variables to make conclusions. Anyway, I tried going vegetarian for few weeks, then introduced fish to diet and felt noticeably better. Then, I tried remove fish and take fish oil instead. Felt absolutely no benefits. At-least feeling wise. I repeated this experiment multiple times so I am sure it isn't coincidence

New comment by anoplus in "Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing"

anoplus — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:04:50 +0000

I can relate to the career anxiety aspect. The way I want to look at it is, if AI is smart enough to occupy creative jobs such as engineers, the world could be heaven. The "only" problem left is politics. Humans will spend the rest of their unoccupied time negotiating distribution of all resources produced by robots.

New comment by anoplus in "Amazon to Close 4 of Its 5 US Call Centers, Shifts to Work-from-Home"

anoplus — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 20:17:23 +0000

For me, the solution to work-from-home loneliness (or even loneliness in general), would be having more local work spaces where you can meet other work-from-home peers from your local town.

Face-to-face interactions and sense of belonging are as important as sleep, exercise and nutrition.

New comment by anoplus in "Ask HN: How can I come to peace with the years I wasted on pointless things?"

anoplus — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:48:49 +0000

> There is only now.

> Finally, you're still very young

I am 34 and want to say to the 23 yo regretting their high-school/college years: Learn and reflect on your past but don't dwell too much, because there is a hell you can do now. By learning from your past, you turn it into gold.