Hacker News: bluishgreen

New comment by bluishgreen in "How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent"

bluishgreen — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:05:16 +0000

Lots of words. Buries the one key fact: They discovered capitalism.

New comment by bluishgreen in "Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017)"

bluishgreen — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:06:00 +0000

Likely Chron's. Yes, please proceed. But make some effort at being tactful about it, just so the information will be received and faster. This could be life changing for them.

New comment by bluishgreen in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

bluishgreen — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:59:00 +0000

IF YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THAT ALL CAPS IS SHOUTY, then it is easy to follow that all lower is a whisper, informal, casual way to talk. there are people who dislike all caps, i do too. i feel even capitalizing the first part of nouns and such grammar is shouty. yup. different people have different sensitivities for different things. i always liked all lower, also picked it from python_programming for a decade. so i am happy for this trend.

New comment by bluishgreen in "Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains"

bluishgreen — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:34:16 +0000

"someone you're not suuuper comfortable with"

It swings both ways for me. Either super comfortable or uncomfortable.

What doesn't work is hiring a virtual assistant to hold me accountable. As soon as I pay them and they report to me, they are the same loop as my own brain. No empathy brain! :D. This is bleak I know.

New comment by bluishgreen in "Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains"

bluishgreen — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:23:12 +0000

The only thing that reliably works is co-working with another human.

This is hard to find and not always possible. The reason it works is that it triggers the "empathy brain," which transfers the importance of the person to the importance of the task. Having an invested person always at your command is impossible, and an AI robot simply doesn't trigger that same empathy. It costs three cents per interaction. It is a robot. It isn't important, no matter how advanced it is.

There is something fascinating yet defeating about how the ADHD brain craves human connection. Just as loneliness can’t be solved by an app, ADHD cannot be "app-ed" out. I have found that these systems can lighten the cognitive load, but that is their limit.

I have a vibed chief-of-staff personal system. It knows everything and it neatly mapped out my state and day. I even know the first simple task I need to do because a prompt organized it for me on another page. Yet, I would still rather write this comment here. You already know this at some level, too.

New comment by bluishgreen in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

bluishgreen — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:10:29 +0000

blog: https://www.senthilgandhi.com

New comment by bluishgreen in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

bluishgreen — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 02:15:40 +0000

You should be able to identify badfaith because your life depends on it. Otherwise you will drown in a pit of bothsides. Bad way to go.

Next we should hear from the counter party is from a court filing. Not here. This is well past having a chill chat on hackernews.

New comment by bluishgreen in "Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging"

bluishgreen — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:35:26 +0000

There are two kinds of bugs: the rare, tricky race conditions and the everyday “oh shucks” ones. The rare ones show up maybe 1% of the time—they demand a debugger, careful tracing, and detective work. The “oh shucks” kind where I am half sure what it is when I see the shape of the exception message from across the room - that is all the rest of the time. A simple print statement usually does the trick for this kind.

Leave us be. We know what we’re doing.

New comment by bluishgreen in "Top Billionaires make nearly $64B in post-Trump election stock surge"

bluishgreen — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:29:23 +0000

Why is this news? Also why is this hackernews! Stock markets bounce for hundreds of reasons and crash just as often. Are we going to be reading updates about Bezos's net worth every time it shifts because it seems like an excellent way to get clicks by playing into the crowd's rubbernecking instincts?

New comment by bluishgreen in "Start presentations on the second slide"

bluishgreen — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:04:25 +0000

Related: Millennial Pause https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EVHLBdZ6Oxw

New comment by bluishgreen in "Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero"

bluishgreen — Mon, 06 May 2024 01:54:52 +0000

"Shamelessly stole the title from a hero of mine". Your Shamelessness is all fine. But at first I thought this is a post from Andrej Karpathy. He has one of the best personal brands out there on the internet, while personal brands can't be enforced, this confused me at first.

New comment by bluishgreen in "Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions"

bluishgreen — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:30:30 +0000

I read it as "Fathers Are One of Evolution's Cleverest Inventions".

It completely made sense. I heard some research where starting about 500K year ago humans started to pair bond as a way to prevent mom and child mortality during and after childbirth and indeed Fathers are a clever invention. So yea, feathers are cool - fathers too! (for more info/reading here is a book suggestion: Eve)

New comment by bluishgreen in "Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison"

bluishgreen — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:34:20 +0000

One more to blow your mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_mean

New comment by bluishgreen in "Automakers are sharing consumers' driving behavior with insurance companies"

bluishgreen — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 22:00:59 +0000

Gives the creepy vibes, but if you stop to think about it - this can stop good drivers from subsidizing the bad drivers. Not like the insurance companies are doing to lower the premium on good drivers, if you have a problem with that talk to capitalism. But bad drivers getting higher premiums is good for everyone.

New comment by bluishgreen in "Ask HN: Have humans always found socialising so challenging?"

bluishgreen — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 17:17:19 +0000

I don't have citation, but I concur with the GP, I grew up in the east, and it is far easier to socialize and also form deep friendships because everything is said out in the open and not hidden behind layers of decorum. Here is an example and a demonstration. As an example people are allowed to comment on someone being too heavy or too thin with them present. Here is the demonstration: Now as soon as I gave an example I have made this a controversial topic for the western audience. There is no way to look past the controversy and talk about other things or form bonds based on speech. Only an infinite loop.

New comment by bluishgreen in ""The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" – Irwin Shaw (1939)"

bluishgreen — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 22:47:19 +0000

I doubt it’s mostly white. The other filters might hold. But that I suspect might not.

New comment by bluishgreen in "Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger"

bluishgreen — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:38:07 +0000

" Adobe can now add collaborative features to Firefly" - Except they won't. If you have been inside old big tech companies you'd know. Hard for me to articulate though. An open acknowledgment of this phenomenon is Satya staying out of OpenAI and still sucking the milk. They can never hope to move the same. Sathya's brilliance is that he decided and quietly said to himself and his board.. "And that's ok". Being humble brought MS back into the race. Adobe should have done the same with Figma.

New comment by bluishgreen in "Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify: Checkout X"

bluishgreen — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 04:27:24 +0000

"honestly, I don’t have the balls to pick a legal fight with a multi-billion corporation. On top of that, I believe that crying to the regulator is a bitch move."

So somewhere between balls-less and a bitch. Mmkay.

New comment by bluishgreen in "Launch HN: Inri (YC W23) – Wealthfront for Investing in India"

bluishgreen — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 05:57:57 +0000

What about expats without pan card?

New comment by bluishgreen in "Bicycle"

bluishgreen — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 20:12:49 +0000

No shit, you can make an airplane if you know your way around a bicycle as the wright brothers demonstrated. They were bicycle mechanics originally.