Hacker News: conorh

New comment by conorh in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

conorh — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:26:10 +0000

I think you have your pricing wrong there, Gemini 3.5 flash is $1.50 input and $9 output.

New comment by conorh in "Standardizing source maps"

conorh — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:58:34 +0000

Great article, never realized just how adhoc the source map 'standard' was!

New comment by conorh in "What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?"

conorh — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:59:14 +0000

Traveling around India I ate some food at a train station before boarding an overnight train and became extremely sick. I arrived early into Bikaner and as I started wandering around I became more and more delirious, to the point that I don't have clear memories of what happened after for a day or so. A (not well off) family however found me, brought me to their home, put me up in a rooftop sort of room, called a doctor, and then fed and took care of me for the next few days. They refused to accept any payment except for the rehydration packets they'd bought. I am forever grateful to them and I think of it and try to pay it forward whenever I can.

New comment by conorh in "Steam Machine"

conorh — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:50:11 +0000

It is truly amazing how far Proton/Steam OS has come along. I recently installed it on some old AMD hardware I had lying around, hooked it up to my TV and everything just works - zero problems. I look forward to checking out this Steam Machine!

New comment by conorh in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

conorh — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:05:18 +0000

I installed steam os this week on some old hardware I had lying around (all AMD) everything runs perfectly, zero fiddling around. All my games run fine - admittedly I'm not playing any of the latest and greatest aaa titles but baldurs gate 3 and the latest katamari game run great.

New comment by conorh in "Rock Tumbler Instructions"

conorh — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:17:02 +0000

I really appreciate the grinding puns in this comment.

New comment by conorh in "Rapid rise of private club and travel teams found in youth sports"

conorh — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:49:58 +0000

My kid plays a lot of tennis, since the age of about six or so. He enjoys it, does group practices twice a week, one private lesson and then a tournament every so often. He is age 12, but we see the commitment it takes to get to the next level and it is crazy, six days a week of practice, tournaments most weekends, travel etc. Some kids we meet truly have the drive/love of the sport and really want to do it. I'm quite happy my kid does not because the parental commitment is also intense!

New comment by conorh in "Anduril's product engineering machine"

conorh — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 20:26:50 +0000

It is a very interesting article, but I'm a little horrified at the amount of effort going into military projects to kill more efficiently.

New comment by conorh in "Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods"

conorh — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 04:30:23 +0000

From my understanding she feels that the mechanisms for these endocrine disrupters are there, that they act similarly to BPA, which is better understood, and that over time as research is done we will find more ways that they interact. The research is hard to do and takes a very long time, and quite a lot of it is not definitive because it is difficult with so many confounding factors, but there is a lot of it and more over time.

New comment by conorh in "Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods"

conorh — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:47:58 +0000

My wife is a doctor dealing with (part of) the endocrine system and for years she has had us avoiding heating anything up in a plastic container and avoiding food/liquids+plastic where we can. She believes that these endocrine disruptors are very likely much worse for us than we currently realize, and that the research is eventually going to show that.

New comment by conorh in "The lobbist who hijacked ~3% of revenue from US doctors"

conorh — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:07:40 +0000

Some insurers yes (and even then it takes several tries), but at least one has said outright no.

New comment by conorh in "The lobbist who hijacked ~3% of revenue from US doctors"

conorh — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:35:54 +0000

My wife's practice is directly affected by this, the fees insurers charge her to receive money from them are crazy. Some insurers will only pay her in a debit style card that they then charge her an extra percentage fee for receiving.

New comment by conorh in "Welcome to Canada, the Doctor Will Kill You Now"

conorh — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 03:31:30 +0000

I suppose this is an opinion article and click bait at that, but what a piece of useless fluff - someone with a strong personal belief (religious based as they are Catholic) that refuses to acknowledge any possible benefit.

New comment by conorh in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2024)"

conorh — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:37:13 +0000

SEEKING WORK: Remote - Phoenix, AZ / Maine / San Francisco

Three person design and development freelance team working together for 12 years (individually with 20+ years experience). We have extensive experience building applications from concept and design, through implementation and ongoing management. Our clients appreciate our ability to be efficient, predictable and responsive and we’d be happy to put you in touch with them. We have recent experience building a FinTech application using ChatGPT for financial analysis. Other relevant work includes data driven healthcare applications and dashboards, analytics pipelines, retail applications, financial apps, custom CMS, ecommerce front ends, phone apps, real estate apps and high throughput message delivery.

Technologies and Skills: - Ruby on Rails - React - Go - MySql, Postgres, Redis, Redshift - AWS - UI Design, UX, Figma - CSS/HTML/SASS

Email: hi@squaremill.com

Website: https://squaremill.com

Reviews: https://clutch.co/profile/square-mill-labs

New comment by conorh in "Financial market applications of LLMs"

conorh — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 21:28:07 +0000

We are working on a project for a client which functions as an analysis tool for stocks using LLMs. Ingesting 10ks, presentations, news, etc. and doing comparative analysis and other reports. It works great, but one of the things we have learned (and it makes sense) is that traceability of the information for financial professionals is very important - where did the facts and information come from in what the AI is producing. A hard problem to solve completely.

New comment by conorh in "Story of Vitamin D Toxicity (2022)"

conorh — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:45:52 +0000

This article was written by my wife a while back. It is part of a series she wrote to help people think about Vitamin D. She's actually doing a facebook live presentation (and taking questions) on Vitamin D next month if anyone is interested [1]. She's doing consults all day today and tomorrow but I'll let her know this is here.

[1] https://fb.me/e/4WMVAXS9u

New comment by conorh in "The Case Against Homework"

conorh — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:31:46 +0000

This is currently under consideration for the next school year, very likely they move.

New comment by conorh in "The Case Against Homework"

conorh — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:14:49 +0000

My kids attend a school that gives a very large amount of homework, constantly tests and expects large amounts of memorization - the school is well known for this Asian type model. They are currently in middle school and the amount of time their homework and studying takes is detrimental to everything else in their life. They definitely are leaning how to study, how to do well on tests and how to be more disciplined and organized - I can see you that happening in real time, but whether this level of stress at this age is setting them up for success later is very hard to know, I'm not surprised there is little evidence for it and I think it VERY much depends on the kid. One of my kids thrives on the repetitious math every night, it helps them learn the concepts, the other kid learns nothing from it, and just suffers through it bored by the repetition.

New comment by conorh in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023)"

conorh — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:35:35 +0000

SEEKING WORK: Remote - Phoenix, AZ / Maine / San Francisco Three person design and development freelance team working together for 12 years (individually with 20+ years experience). We have extensive experience building applications from concept and design, through implementation and ongoing management. Our clients appreciate our ability to be efficient, predictable and responsive and we’d be happy to put you in touch with them. We have recent experience building a FinTech application using ChatGPT for financial analysis. Other relevant work includes data driven healthcare applications and dashboards, analytics pipelines, retail applications, financial apps, custom CMS, ecommerce front ends, phone apps, real estate apps and high throughput message delivery.

Technologies and Skills: - Ruby on Rails - React - Go - MySql, Postgres, Redis, Redshift - AWS - UI Design, UX, Figma - CSS/HTML/SASS

Email: hi@squaremill.com

Website: https://squaremill.com

Reviews: https://clutch.co/profile/square-mill-labs

New comment by conorh in "New models and developer products"

conorh — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 20:35:03 +0000

We just changed a project we've been working on to try out the new gpt-4-turbo model and it is MUCH faster. I don't know if this is a factor of the number of people using it or not, but streaming a response for the prompts we are interested in went from 40-50 seconds to 6 seconds.