Hacker News: cjmcqueen

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

cjmcqueen — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:20:46 +0000

Send Apple feedback https://www.apple.com/feedback/

New comment by cjmcqueen in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

cjmcqueen — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:07:35 +0000

Deleted. I never spent much money with OpenAI, but it's the signal/vote that I have to give the system that more killing, working with DoW, and caving into the Trump administration is an unpopular choice

New comment by cjmcqueen in "EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source)"

cjmcqueen — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:47:03 +0000

There are a lot of remakes of old games. Nintendo has done this a lot, but one challenge is these old games all come with IP and copyright, so it's hard to remake a game even with the technology. You have to have ownership and a good reason to believe people will buy a slightly updated game.

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Design Thinking Books (2024)"

cjmcqueen — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:30:04 +0000

Sounds like your ego was hurt by a process that's designed to expose ideas from a group on a level playing field. The process was working as intended. If it upset you, it might be worth reflecting on what you can do to be more flexible and open minded, which is hard to do as we gain more experience in life.

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?"

cjmcqueen — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:19:07 +0000

Part of my role is designing assessments for online courses and technical certifications. This is exactly what we want to build in our assessment development process. We want the LLM to monitor the training content and create draft questions and exercises that are vetted by humans. It's maybe a classic "human in the middle" design for content development, but the more we can put humans in at the right point and time and use LLMs for the other parts helps us create a more robust and up to date training and assessment system.

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Non-Zero-Sum Games"

cjmcqueen — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:32:35 +0000

The link to the RSS feed gets put on your clipboard when you click it.

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

cjmcqueen — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:19:14 +0000

Lots of news and articles, but also "The Craft", a history of Freemason's by John Dickie, was one of the more interesting books.

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Claude Advanced Tool Use"

cjmcqueen — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:41:05 +0000

Skynet is exactly where I thought this was heading...

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Gemini Robotics"

cjmcqueen — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:38:28 +0000

If this makes it easier and faster to sort garbage, we could probably improve the efficiency of recycling 100x. I know there are some places that do that already, but there are so many menial tasks that could be done by robots to improve the world.

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Affixes: The Building Blocks of English"

cjmcqueen — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 12:07:27 +0000

I hope you shared this comment on the site.

Not saying you're doing this, but I feel we've turned into a critical culture and not a supportive culture more and more. Criticism is not as helpful as people pitching in to help build.

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Show HN: I Built BlockScroll – An App to Block Shorts, Reels, and Doom Scrolling"

cjmcqueen — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 11:34:15 +0000

Definitely see the need for this!

Before downloading and installing, I'm curious how it works. How does it stop doom scrolling on Android?

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Reweb: Visual website builder for Next.js and Tailwind"

cjmcqueen — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 04:05:49 +0000

Webstudio.io is another good one to look at

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls"

cjmcqueen — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:53:37 +0000

I would thing came would be a fantastic feature for the business/enterprise tiers

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls"

cjmcqueen — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:51:26 +0000

Also, maybe you need a free tier until you can capture some part of the market from WhatsApp

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls"

cjmcqueen — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:49:10 +0000

People are weird and sometimes things don't make sense from their existing framing. What if the URL was OnAir.com/555-555-5555 <~ basically make it look like a phone number and make it something where people can see they can text, call, or message. If you're live, it shows that. If you're not live, it gives you a way to leave a message. The interaction is almost exactly the same, but might create less friction of "what is this" by making it feel like how phones and contact points have worked for years.

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Launch HN: FlyCode (YC S22) – Stop losing revenue due to failed payments"

cjmcqueen — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:21:23 +0000

I was struggling to cancel a service, thankfully the card on file was expiring. So, I just left it. Surprisingly the company found some way to bill a card I didn't give them and sent me product. I complained and the company refunded me the amount and I had no obligation to return the product because I didn't order it. Be careful what you recover or you might end up putting your service or reputation at risk.

New comment by cjmcqueen in "New blood test for stroke combines blood-based biomarkers with a clinical score"

cjmcqueen — Sun, 19 May 2024 15:49:23 +0000

My brother in law just passed from a massive stroke, he was 39. It wasn't a diet issue or life style problem. He had high blood pressure for years and come to find that the artery to his brain was constricted due to his physiology. It's unclear to me if this test would allow for insights to what my brother in law passed from, but the ability to develop diagnostics that could help determine root cause to catastrophic issues could change the world.

This and the work being done to create "digital doubles" that can inform clinical care is something that will change how we experience and receive medical care.

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Why Walmart pays its truck drivers 6 figures"

cjmcqueen — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 03:55:54 +0000

Reliability. Truckers aren't just drivers, they're mechanics and logistics strategists. The assignment is to get from point A to point B, but there a lot of decisions in between.

Source: two good friends that drive truck for a living. One in Iowa and the other in Michigan

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Culture Change at Google"

cjmcqueen — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:44:45 +0000

I'm hard pressed to remember a feature in Wave that does not exist in Docs now. What is it that you miss? I just remember it being dog slow with a lot of latency.

New comment by cjmcqueen in "Culture Change at Google"

cjmcqueen — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:39:36 +0000

I had several 20% projects from 2012 to 2016, all of which were on the Cloud Business side (ie not engineering). It was very much a thing up until Larry Page stepped down as CEO