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New comment by doxeddaily in "Smart people recognize each other – science proves it"

doxeddaily — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:53:43 +0000

Not bad litmus tests. And yes a lot of idiots seem to fail at steel manning. I mean if you can't steel man your opponent what are you even doing?

New comment by doxeddaily in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

doxeddaily — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:58:15 +0000

Not to mention the Iron Maiden song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF7cWpBTZ6s

New comment by doxeddaily in "ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering"

doxeddaily — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:44:41 +0000

I mean we used dist^2 all the time for comparisons in our game engine back in the 90s (multiple different engines actually).

So it was a known thing...

New comment by doxeddaily in "Oxfam's wealth inequality report 2026: Resisting the Rule of the Rich"

doxeddaily — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:56:05 +0000

Oxfam are just communists who have lost any credibility with me that they may have ever had.

New comment by doxeddaily in "Oxfam's wealth inequality report 2026: Resisting the Rule of the Rich"

doxeddaily — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:55:45 +0000

Which helps nobody because that's not a measure of thriving or even of how well people are doing. It's a useless metric.

New comment by doxeddaily in "Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)"

doxeddaily — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:46:06 +0000

Why could it not have been? LLM is just a reasoning machine something Asimov spent a lot of time thinking about.

New comment by doxeddaily in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

doxeddaily — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:05:03 +0000

I also have >30 years and I've had the same experience. I noticed an immediate improvement with 4.5 and I've been getting great results in general.

And yes I do make sure it's not generating crazy architecture. It might do that.. if you let it. So don't let it.

New comment by doxeddaily in "Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got"

doxeddaily — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:25:26 +0000

This is how I eventually ended up being CTO and eventually CEO. I wanted the overall business to succeed.

New comment by doxeddaily in "The future of software development is software developers"

doxeddaily — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:19:21 +0000

As someone who has managed engineers for many years I find those skills immediately applicable to the LLM domain. If you aren't used to communicating what you are trying to build to other engineers I think using the AI is harder as you need to develop those skills.

New comment by doxeddaily in "The future of software development is software developers"

doxeddaily — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:12:29 +0000

I watched a friend of mine minmax Moviepass so hard. They were so doomed.

New comment by doxeddaily in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

doxeddaily — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:14:25 +0000

My taxes (flow through LLC) are significantly higher than my income for 2024 (like hundreds of k).

New comment by doxeddaily in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

doxeddaily — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:11:46 +0000

This one hit my company pretty hard.

New comment by doxeddaily in "The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable"

doxeddaily — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:18:37 +0000

>nd why the OS authors are broke

OS authors aren't broke. In fact the guys from Microsoft are some of the richest dudes in the world. Maybe OS authors that give away their stuff for free are broke?

New comment by doxeddaily in "The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable"

doxeddaily — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:03:52 +0000

If you want to get paid maybe don't give away your software for free? This comes across as major sour grapes. "I made this free thing for people to use and they don't pay me for it!!" Ok, then maybe don't give it away?

New comment by doxeddaily in "Electrifying everything at the rate required to meet our climate goals"

doxeddaily — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:34:53 +0000

Electrification is not the goal, reducing net carbon output is the goal. Electrification is simply one of the methods we can use.

For things like air travel carbon neutral fuels are likely a better short to medium term solution (in the long term we can posit magical high density batteries).

However, if we are going down the path of actually trying to clean up the earth we should take a really long term view and remove all heavy polluting and heavy land use off planet. There is plenty of mass out there to do manufacturing, farming etc. Let's make earth into a garden planet giant park.

New comment by doxeddaily in "Ask HN: What EU country has the highest developer salary?"

doxeddaily — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:49:39 +0000

What do you mean by tax benefits? Paying less tax? Or services they get? It's unclear here.

New comment by doxeddaily in "To Understand the Past, Pick Up an Old Magazine"

doxeddaily — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:56:29 +0000

Terrific Ohio Scientific!

I love the old ads lol. Except I also read these mags back in the 80s.

New comment by doxeddaily in "In praise of blowing up your life"

doxeddaily — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 03:07:57 +0000

If ya ain't got nothin, you ain't got nothin to lose.

But if life is working well this is pretty bad advice.

New comment by doxeddaily in "WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners"

doxeddaily — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:59:04 +0000

Coke Zero has been reformulated multiple times. I think "diet coke" is still the same crap and still tastes bad.

New comment by doxeddaily in "WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners"

doxeddaily — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:52:28 +0000

How many fat people have you seen lose weight and keep it off forever? Not very damn many that's for sure.