Hacker News: avemuri

New comment by avemuri in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

avemuri — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:03:29 +0000

Can't agree more. We can also predict with some confidence that in a year or two, supply would have adjusted and ram will be cheaper in the long run. We benefit from the expanded demand even if the fact that it first lands as a shock is disruptive to prices.

New comment by avemuri in "Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?"

avemuri — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:07:17 +0000

The course on deeplearning.ai are a good starting point. Anthropic and OpenAI both have decent stuff on there, plus their own docs have examples.

New comment by avemuri in "Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden"

avemuri — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:52:36 +0000

Is there any period in history when the young people reported being as happy or happier than the older cohort?

New comment by avemuri in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

avemuri — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:41:30 +0000

I've asked before - I am not clear what the massive boost is other than saving a few days or weeks at the beginning. I believe all taxation, labor compliance and other such regulation is still the same as the status quo. The one time ease of setup doesn't seem to be worth the ongoing hassle of dealing with the same crap, just with the added friction of a new and unfamiliar entity structure. What am I missing?

New comment by avemuri in "Why do Americans hate A.I.?"

avemuri — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:59:32 +0000

Asia doesn't hate AI.

It may be true that AI is unpopular in the west more generally though, not just America.

New comment by avemuri in "Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)"

avemuri — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 15:27:53 +0000

Depends on the failure mode and application. But a first approximation is the same way you would for a human output. E.g. process engineering for a support chatbot has many of the same principles as process engineering for a human staffed call center.

New comment by avemuri in "Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)"

avemuri — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:04:00 +0000

Engineers work with non-deterministic systems all the time. Getting them to work predictably within a known tolerance window and/or with a quantified and acceptable failure rate is absolutely engineering.

New comment by avemuri in "Ask HN: Anyone else using open-source platforms to avoid SaaS lock-in?"

avemuri — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:56:05 +0000

Take a look at Frappe/openerp

New comment by avemuri in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

avemuri — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:52:22 +0000

No I'm talking about my own skills. How I onboard, structure 1on1s, run meetings, create and reuse certain processes, manage documentation (a form of org memory), check in on status, devise metrics and other indicators of system health. All of these compound and provide leverage even if the person leaves and a new one enters.the 30th person I onboarded and managed was orders of magnitude easier (for both of us) than the first.

With LLMs the better I get at the scaffolding and prompting, the less it feels like catherding (so far at least). Hence the comparison.

New comment by avemuri in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

avemuri — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:42:08 +0000

I agree with your points but I'm also reminded of one my bigger learnings as a manager - the stuff I'm best at is the hardest, but most important, to delegate.

Sure it was easier to do it myself. But putting in the time to train, give context, develop guardrails, learn how to monitor etc ultimately taught me the skills needed to delegate effectively and multiply the teams output massively as we added people.

It's early days but I'm getting the same feeling with LLMs. It's as exhausting as training an overconfident but talented intern, but if you can work through it and somehow get it to produce something as good as you would do yourself, it's a massive multiplier.

New comment by avemuri in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

avemuri — Sun, 18 May 2025 14:01:53 +0000

Motivation is some combination of real and perceived effort Vs expected reward. Shorter isn't always better. For eg. Counting every single calorie is the shorter way to lose weight, but for most people, eating approximately healthy is more optimal from an effort /motivation poi t of view.

New comment by avemuri in "Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code"

avemuri — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:13:51 +0000

It really isn't. Not any more than growing your own herbs vs buying them at the market is.

New comment by avemuri in "A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up"

avemuri — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:12:55 +0000

The patterns are different on different string sets. You don't need to learn DEF with the same pattern again, but you do need to learn all the ways of playing CDE

New comment by avemuri in "SaaS Plateaus"

avemuri — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:11:55 +0000

Lots of this rings true. Especially the "Solutions to plateaus are straightforward but not easy." part. So much of this psychological - both in being objective with your failings and in having to live with them every day until you fix them.

P.S. Nice of him to not mention the "built an unscalable org and burnt myself out" plateau :)

New comment by avemuri in "How I Stay Motivated Working on My Solo SaaS (When It Feels Like Nobody Cares)"

avemuri — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:46:10 +0000

Some thoughts (I used to run a chain of 20+ coworking spaces)

* Remote individual workers are the least attractive customer for the typical coworking space (that isn't a cafe). Small and unpredictable revenue, plus higher support per head, since the account is only one head.

* Remote workers also aren't a great fit for you. Very few like to hop around. Their reasons are typically avoiding loneliness, finding a reliable place to focus etc. And so would only use your platform until they find a space they like.

* SMBs are the sweet spot. Coworking is cheaper AND less overhead for them. In many countries they don't get access to grade A space even if they're willing to pay. For the coworking space, it's only slightly more work than a solo account and significantly more recurring and reliable revenue. You may be better off targeting small teams.

* One particular pain point is expiring inventory - remote workers actually fit this well since they're willing to go for a floating desk. Most spaces would be willing to offer discounts on this. Kind of like last minute flight or hotel deals.

* Another related product is meeting and conference room bookings. Also expires and has a market in WFH teams.

* The last two also have a better business model fit since they are intermittent and people may be more inclined to shop around, allowing you to take a cut of every transaction. For any kind of recurring contract, you're probably limited to taking a one time lead gen or brokerage fee since you have no grounds to maintain a relationship with the customer after the initial match.

New comment by avemuri in "Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]"

avemuri — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:45:55 +0000

I think Mark Andreeson popularized it, crediting Andy Rachleff

https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1850205733440413970

New comment by avemuri in "Ask HN: Please recommend university open courses for software design?"

avemuri — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:54:09 +0000

It's not great for blindly generating code to use, but it's great for asking for help -debugging, planning etc. I ask it a lot of 'dumb' questions and I feel like I've learnt a lot more than I have in the past. It's given me code that doesn't work every now and then, but I'm yet to find an instance of it explaining a concept wrong.

New comment by avemuri in "Bloomsday: The library’s one-of-a-kind copy of “Ulysses”"

avemuri — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:37:25 +0000

I'm curious. How do you prompt it?

New comment by avemuri in "Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?"

avemuri — Mon, 29 May 2023 16:08:11 +0000

It's quite far from Stratechery. The Ken is more reportage, investigative at times, but clickbaity at other times.

New comment by avemuri in "Ask HN: What books helped you in your entrepreneurship journey?"

avemuri — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:45:47 +0000

High output management