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New comment by danish00111 in "Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT"

danish00111 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:40:53 +0000

What: Interview, Date, Conflict resolution (more like holding back to respond), setting boundaries, negotiating, or when you feel threatened like when you were a kid if you were bullied…

How: Like any other skill practice if you were in that kind of situation and you were stuck and trying to do sudo runs as if it was real and getting the right muscle memory.

Just working in it

New comment by danish00111 in "Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT"

danish00111 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:14:01 +0000

The problem with most "AI study modes" is that they optimize for knowledge transfer. The harder problem is knowledge use, being able to actually apply something under pressure. Reading about how to handle a difficult conversation is not the same as practicing it. Knowing the BATNA framework or some other thing you learn from chatgpt doesn't mean you can use it when someone lowballs you and you have 10 seconds to respond.

New comment by danish00111 in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

danish00111 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:11:52 +0000

Building Questly — story-driven practice for real-world conversations which you play like a game. The core insight: people know what to do in hard situations. They freeze because they've never practiced the actual moment. Questly is the reps. https://questly.academy/

New comment by danish00111 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

danish00111 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:10:16 +0000

Working on Questly (https://questly.academy/) — an AI simulation platform for practicing difficult real-world conversations (negotiations, feedback, conflict). Think flight simulator, but for conversations people usually avoid. Built it after noticing how often people ‘prepare’ mentally but freeze in the actual moment.

New comment by danish00111 in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

danish00111 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:39:48 +0000

I think it's a great idea. I have been a gamer for the last 20+ years, and I work on Mac for development. I do love some of the old taskbar-style view that I get on Windows. Great product... Are you thinking of also making a Windows 11 version of it? I would actually love that to have consistently also if we can make the hotkeys pretty much the same.

New comment by danish00111 in "Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours"

danish00111 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:36:51 +0000

Feels like you created an Obsidian of the entire Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa... I love the Crimson Dusk theme. I think, for the relationship graph, when the clusters get too overloaded in some places, they should separate out even when I zoom in. When I zoom in, they're still too close to each other which makes it hard to read the bottom right section of Mahabharata.