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New comment by dgeiser13 in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

dgeiser13 — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:53:41 +0000

Mine is just an anecdotal experience but I have Asperger's and the reason I eat the same food is not about disliking other food. I actually like most food. I eat the same stuff because:

1) Eating the same food frequently means I don't have to spend any of my cognitive cycles on deciding what to eat.

2) I know that this food will sit alright with my digestive system. Everyone I know personally on the spectrum has stress-related digestive issues.

For snacks and small meals I will eat citrus or microwave a small sweet potato and this helps with Vitamin C.

Autistic adults are not children and using dino-shaped fish sticks probably does not represent most adults on the spectrum.

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Show HN: Daily vibe-coding video games, day 33: Tower Defense (single prompt)"

dgeiser13 — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:07:38 +0000

You should share more about the process. What does the prompt look like for this game for example? What language does Claude end up writing it in?

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent"

dgeiser13 — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:41:11 +0000

https://kalshi.com/

New comment by dgeiser13 in "First, the FBI Searched Her Home. Then, She Won a Pulitzer."

dgeiser13 — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:27:02 +0000

Make flags public.

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

dgeiser13 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:00:38 +0000

Created an account just to make it too.

New comment by dgeiser13 in "I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?"

dgeiser13 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:57:57 +0000

John December's website, https://johndecember.com/

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life"

dgeiser13 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:36:04 +0000

Sounds like something a psychopath would say.

New comment by dgeiser13 in "No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In"

dgeiser13 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:21:27 +0000

When you try and pass mental illness off as teleportation. It's called dissociation, Gregg.

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

dgeiser13 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:32:29 +0000

You are correct. Steam was actively bad at launch when it only had Valve games on it. And they fixed the platform and then started allowing other devs to put their games on it.

EGS is currently bad and trying to position themselves as a Steam alternative when they simply are not even close to the same quality.

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

dgeiser13 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:29:58 +0000

If this were true than Epic would have eaten Steam's lunch.

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

dgeiser13 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:26:56 +0000

Epic gave away 662 Million free games in 2025 alone. They pay the game devs for each copy they give away. They've been doing this for 8+ years.

https://insider-gaming.com/epic-games-store-give-away-662-mi...

In addition they've payed other game devs for Epic Game Store exclusivity so games would be available for 1 year before being released on Steam.

The whole company has been mismanaged into the side of a mountain.

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

dgeiser13 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:22:27 +0000

Since when do people refer to game playing as usage?

New comment by dgeiser13 in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

dgeiser13 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:37:35 +0000

I was hoping it would be Steve "The Colonel" Cropper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cropper

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Digg is gone again"

dgeiser13 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:31:39 +0000

Didn't Kevin Rose re-acquire Digg in the last year or so?

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Put the zip code first"

dgeiser13 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:42:05 +0000

Some zip codes cover multiple cities.

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Writing code is cheap now"

dgeiser13 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:55:23 +0000

If writing code is cheap now why is there so much money involved?

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice"

dgeiser13 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:53:32 +0000

The NotebookLM voice sounds more like Kai Ryssdal to me.

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Where I'm at with AI"

dgeiser13 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:23:12 +0000

I find hyperbolic comments on recommendation threads, e.g. "I can't believe no one has mentioned yet", to be quite annoying. Every item recommended on this thread is going to be "first" when it's first recommended. Trying to rocket your suggestion to the top of the pile by suggesting it's self-obviousness doesn't mean it's a better suggestion than any others.

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Self-hosting is being enshittified"

dgeiser13 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:05:27 +0000

I hate to tell them but everything is being enshittified.

New comment by dgeiser13 in "Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?"

dgeiser13 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:57:54 +0000

Audio Engineering and Production