Hacker News: capex

The Khan Ted Institute

capex — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:03:28 +0000

Article URL: https://khanted.org/Home

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820942

Points: 4

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Don't leave assumptions up to AI

capex — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:25:09 +0000

Article URL: https://aklodhi.com/articles/dont-leave-assumptions-up-to-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47099761

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by capex in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

capex — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:03:42 +0000

The exoskeleton analogy seems to be fitting where my work-mode is configurable: moving from tentative to trusting. But the AI needs to be explicitly set up to learn my every action. Currently this is a chore at best, just impossible in other cases.

Open Hiring Harness

capex — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:53:14 +0000

Article URL: https://aklodhi.com/articles/open-hiring-harness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091337

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: LLM Politeness Study (hostile and effusive tones boost LLM creativity)

capex — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:03:19 +0000

I ran 625 API calls across 5 frontier models to find out what makes LLMs produce better creative work. The answer surprised me: it's not about being rude or polite, it's about emotional intensity.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352172

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by capex in "How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012)"

capex — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:07:39 +0000

Hmm, may be you're right about UX designers not wanting to explain. For instance, I certainly won't want that vertical bar for aesthetic reasons. It's just hard to defend objectively.

New comment by capex in "Why does Britain feel so poor?"

capex — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:55:29 +0000

False. Read Oxfam's report on the topic: https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/takers-not-makers-unjust-p...

New comment by capex in "Busy Status Bar"

capex — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:32:23 +0000

Agree, except the product price could be right on the buy button. Now the analytics won't tell you whether I clicked on the buy button with an intent to buy, or did I just want to know how much it is.

New comment by capex in ""She's bouncing the ball" – the uncanny way octopuses play"

capex — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:09:43 +0000

There's a video about an octopus solving a maze: https://youtu.be/7__r4FVj-EI?si=FH2QsL7BxlJ4h7KF. You could call that reactionary too, but at some point we have to admit octopuses do have a higher level of intelligence than we'd assume from an animal their size.

New comment by capex in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

capex — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 05:18:44 +0000

https://adnankhan.space/ Just a couple of posts there atm, I write about usability, interaction design, service design and other things that sit on the UX spectrum of work!

New comment by capex in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

capex — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 04:33:59 +0000

They're just advertising the tech and the platform. Probably so people could come up with some real use cases and apps for it... otherwise what's the point of introducing it a year earlier.

New comment by capex in "Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]"

capex — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 23:17:43 +0000

Elon now reminds me of the many characters talked about in 'Ego is the enemy' https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enem...

New comment by capex in "FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client"

capex — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 04:43:24 +0000

My biggest gripe with Youtube right now is how they've left channel subscription just as a long list. I have hundreds of subscriptions, and they are clearly around a few of my interests...

New comment by capex in "The Westinghouse Total Electric Home (1960) [video]"

capex — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 23:09:55 +0000

Great. This is from 50 years ago, and many of the ideas shown have come true. What about the next 50 years? Any video suggesting what we'd be able to see around the house in 2070?

Commbank to offer crypto services to customers

capex — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:57:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.commbank.com.au/articles/newsroom/2021/11/CBA-to-offer-crypto-services.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29102521

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by capex in "This word does not exist"

capex — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:05:46 +0000

I'd like to read a newsletter named MetaMuffin.

New comment by capex in "Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations"

capex — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 22:36:07 +0000

Won't Spotify be able to tell dislikes by how quickly someone skips to the next song?

New comment by capex in "Create and share images of your source code"

capex — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 04:57:51 +0000

It does more than export an image, see here: https://github.com/carbon-app/carbon#exporting--sharing

New comment by capex in "Gibraltar, world’s only airport runway intersecting a road"

capex — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 19:55:27 +0000

In Pakistan, the Peshawar airport has a railway line crossing through the airport runway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEBgVEYjSq8

New comment by capex in "Ask HN: How to learn how to sell?"

capex — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:18:35 +0000

How do you give multiple chances to say no? Is it like persisting with further offerings or different pricing etc?