Hacker News: edgefield

Best Vibe Coding Tools

edgefield — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:16:36 +0000

What are the best tools available now? I’m currently experimenting with V0.dev. It’s impressive but wondering if there’s anything more advanced. Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762486

Points: 3

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Why isn't Apple attacking the enterprise market?

edgefield — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 20:19:07 +0000

There are few markets Apple can enter to continue its growth trajectory, given its size. Enterprise computing is such a market. With Apple silicon, supply chain, support infrastructure, and Mac laptops increasingly used on the client side, why isn’t Apple more aggressively attacking the enterprise market? Seems like a lost opportunity to me. Curious to hear thoughts on this.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277626

Points: 21

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Ask HN: SOP Development and Management

edgefield — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:19:11 +0000

Standard operating procedures (SOP) and checklists have a significant positive impact on operations but I’ve found they are underutilized. Most processes are either understood in someone’s head or partially contained in IT system workflows. Does your company use SOPs and checklists for key processes? Is there any tech you use to create, store and maintain your SOPs and checklists?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237954

Points: 1

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New comment by edgefield in "Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions"

edgefield — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 02:43:06 +0000

The UI is hilariously bad. I’m playing a NY Times podcast and say “Alexa, pause.” Two minutes later, I say “Alexa, play” and it starts playing some random news clip from ABC News.

New comment by edgefield in "Introducing Copilot+ PCs"

edgefield — Tue, 21 May 2024 02:33:11 +0000

Yes, and additionally the Copilot 360 user interface is a mess, processing time is slow, and the quality of results is poor. Using the Chat GPT or Claude interface produces much quicker/better results.

New comment by edgefield in "Weekly 1:1s are a staple of management. I hated it and found it useless"

edgefield — Thu, 16 May 2024 01:15:53 +0000

In my org, I customize meetings based on the specific report, their function, and their needs. With some reports, I meet with weekly, others biweekly, some monthly, some as needed. We adjust as needed based on turbulence, new projects, approaching deadlines, etc. It’s a very effective model.

New comment by edgefield in "Predicted 25% Drop in Search Volume Remains Unclear"

edgefield — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:10:22 +0000

I strongly disagree. As a simple example, just this week I was looking for ice breaker questions for a work team event. I started with Google and was wading through a myriad of pages stuffed with ads and noise. I happened to have Claude open for an unrelated work experiment and thought to ask Claude for ice breaker questions. It provided 10 good questions and I selected the first two. It’s just a matter of time until we retrain our brains to first use LLMs before Google and then Google’s usage is going to drop like a rock. LLMs for many use cases is simply better, providing better results with far less noise.

New comment by edgefield in "How to Start Google"

edgefield — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 01:34:39 +0000

Yes, and doing a startup involves risk. If you fail, you’ll lose time and likely money. I’m now 10+ years behind on my retirement savings. I’ll likely need to work until 70-75.

New comment by edgefield in "Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find"

edgefield — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 02:35:21 +0000

Can anyone provide a single case of where a private equity majority owned business thrived, expanded, or at least maintained market share for at least three years? It seems private equity focuses on extracting every bit of value from a business, as quickly as possible, and then walking away via asset divestiture and bankruptcy.

Yesterday saw new record standard deviation (6.10σ) for sea surface temperature

edgefield — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:12:34 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1744382036029190469

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38920941

Points: 27

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New comment by edgefield in "Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals"

edgefield — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:29:55 +0000

I’m struggling to understand how the standard PE model works, particularly the debt component. PE firms seem to target mediocre businesses, load them with debt, and then harvest returns and eventually the assets. Why would a bank loan money for such an arrangement, given how often these businesses end up in bankruptcy (Toys R Us as an example)? Is the debt collateralized and bundled with better performing debt or sold off to an unwitting buyer?

New comment by edgefield in "Rising Temperatures in the Netherlands"

edgefield — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:56:10 +0000

It’s hard to believe how many visitors to HN are climate science deniers. This is equivalent to claiming the earth is flat, denying the value of vaccines, or arguing that we didn’t really land on the moon.

Harvard Shouldn't Be So Important

edgefield — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:53:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/12/editorial-higher-education-confidence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38614769

Points: 2

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New comment by edgefield in "New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics"

edgefield — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:48:36 +0000

I’m not a physicist much less an astrophysicist and so take what I’m about to say with a hefty grain of salt. But I wonder if this new approach can also explain observations of distant galaxies. Distant galaxies either redshift because they’re moving away faster over time due to dark energy or redshift because their mass is changing. Can this new theory help explain why older galaxies might lose increasing mass over time?

Why I’m quitting Hacker News

edgefield — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 18:44:46 +0000

I just shared a post about the world’s oceans setting record temperatures for 80 continuous days. After the post achieved 130+ upvotes and the top spot within several hours, it was nuked. My experience is that every post on Hacker News addressing climate change is removed or downvoted to oblivion. I don’t want to be part of a community that turns away from probably the most important threat facing humanity in the 21st century. Goodbye and farewell!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36188272

Points: 61

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New comment by edgefield in "World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days"

edgefield — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 18:35:19 +0000

Sounds like the MAGA movement in the United States. I share your sentiment of losing hope.

New comment by edgefield in "World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days"

edgefield — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 17:57:59 +0000

OP wouldn’t be so skeptical except for the fact that 99% of scientists have been raising the alarm bells about climate change for 50 years and mainly politicians and commentators, often with little to no expertise and significantly biased due to fossil fuel connections and donations, have been questioning and undermining the science.

New comment by edgefield in "World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days"

edgefield — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 17:54:35 +0000

How does the earth have a core if it’s flat? Taps head…

New comment by edgefield in "World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days"

edgefield — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 17:50:51 +0000

Yes, that’s my understanding.

New comment by edgefield in "World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days"

edgefield — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 17:34:31 +0000

Well said. I have two small kiddos and difficult to know how to engage with them on topics like AI and climate change.

As a related experience, I picked up my son from a birthday party and the birthday consisted of a rented massive trailer with big screen TVs and 7-8 different video game consoles for couch coop gaming. All powered by a generator. Very cool and very frightening all at the same time.