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The Manifesto for Dimensional Design

etothepii — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:09:09 +0000

Article URL: https://dimensionaldesign.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341477

Points: 3

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New comment by etothepii in "Will I ever own a zettaflop?"

etothepii — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:08:53 +0000

Some people.

New comment by etothepii in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

etothepii — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:17:23 +0000

If you write 3 bullet points and produce 500-pages of slop why would my AI summarise it back to the original 3 bullet points and not something else entirely?

New comment by etothepii in "Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year"

etothepii — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:13:20 +0000

This will never stop as it would require either the reference date to be changed or fir all dates in all saved spreadsheets to be off by one.

New comment by etothepii in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

etothepii — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:18:09 +0000

The US has traditionally solved this problem by having dozens of political entities that can compete (at least for elites) and, since the creation of the interstate highway system, the oppressed can flee.

New comment by etothepii in "1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak"

etothepii — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:52:54 +0000

In the UK open banking was essentially a response to GDPR this has allowed (to a limited extent) a variety of tools to be built on top of bank accounts that others would not have been.

New comment by etothepii in "A simple web we own"

etothepii — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:06:33 +0000

Can someone explain to me what the difference is between a union in which everyone is a member and a government.

New comment by etothepii in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

etothepii — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:53:37 +0000

This might be the biggest benefit of AI coding. If I have a large legacy code base I can use AI to ask questions and find out where certain things are happening. This benefit is huge even if I choose not to vibe code anything. It ends up feeling a lot like the engineer that wrote the code is still with you or documented everything very well. In the real world there is a risk that documentation is wrong or that the engineer misremembers some detail so even the occasional hallucination is not a particularly big risk.

New comment by etothepii in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

etothepii — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:06:06 +0000

This.

Once you have revenue you have downside to protect. Pre-revenue the worst that can happen is that you have to start again knowing more than you did.

New comment by etothepii in "HackMyClaw"

etothepii — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:30:00 +0000

That would not have made it to the top of HN.

New comment by etothepii in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

etothepii — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:02:15 +0000

I would pay for YouTube premium again if I could switch off shorts.

I actually stopped paying for premium to make YouTube less appealing.

New comment by etothepii in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

etothepii — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:10:47 +0000

Having used sunglasses that project a monitor on to them products I am very surprised that the speedometer is going to move with the wheel.

That said an electric Ferrari is not a car built for me. If I could justify such a car I'd want something practical or that makes a great noise. "Fun" to drive would not be on my agenda.

New comment by etothepii in "Cooking with glasses"

etothepii — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:35:34 +0000

> My outsider view is that there are more people and more volume of crypto involved in the speculative & scam sector than in the human-rights sector, but I'm willing to be wrong.

I would assume this is true, but is it the right metric?

Would it be ok if it was 51:49? If $1m of crypto lets 100 Russian dissidents get out of Russia does it matter that there are $10b of pump and dump schemes? What if it's only $10m? What if its grannies having their life savings scalped? This feels like trolley problems all the way down.

New comment by etothepii in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

etothepii — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:13:21 +0000

I ask because writing a paper with someone is a non secret operator.

I suspect there is no way to establish, if one has an Epstein number >2, what it is.

New comment by etothepii in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

etothepii — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:52:56 +0000

How is this defined?

New comment by etothepii in "List animals until failure"

etothepii — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:44:12 +0000

This was a lot of fun.

The game mechanic of a count down timer made for much better play.

I was most surprised for bluebottle to be replaced with man o' war. We know the man o' war here in bermud by that name whereas a bluebottle is what I would call house fly.

New comment by etothepii in "Where to Sleep in LAX"

etothepii — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:46:34 +0000

If first class was full lie down from LAX it must have been transcontinental to JFK or BOS.

New comment by etothepii in "Where to Sleep in LAX"

etothepii — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:44:28 +0000

The sleepwear in First Class is by far the most bizarre thing about the whole experience.

I've never understood why First and Business Class that are so clearly mainly used by people travelling for work don't focus more on the business aspect. British Airways call it "Club" which I'm sure can only make it harder to be approved by finance. American call it "First".

In the main lounges provided by American Airlines there is often a person whose job it is to provide unlimited champagne but not a comfortable place to respond to emails.

New comment by etothepii in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

etothepii — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:48:57 +0000

Perhaps this is a feature not a bug.

High rents encourages startups to be founded by those who haven't coupled up and who choose to live together.

A company of 3 single founders in their mid twenties that rent a two bed flat and then live and breath nothing but their startup collapsing on the couch each night can make two $50k angel cheques go a long way.

Edit: SEIS allows a friends and family seed round if up to £250k in London that the government will rebate 78% of in taxes (50% immediately and 28% if the company eventually goes bust).

New comment by etothepii in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

etothepii — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:42:43 +0000

London pays more taxes per capita than the rest of country.