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New comment by fapi1974 in "AMA: I'm Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) & Author of New Bestseller Incorruptible"

fapi1974 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:16:02 +0000

Are the lessons you have distilled applicable to other institutions in society which decline due to corruption? How is corruption different from your concept of financial gravity?

New comment by fapi1974 in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

fapi1974 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:34:16 +0000

What I think is surprising about this article is that I would expect the top HN comment to call out that it's an advertorial for the Turkish hair replacement industry. It's like something you'd usually find on the Yahoo News page - the only reason it seems to have survived on the front page of HN is because it's in Wired and it's got the word hack used inappropriately in both title and body. If I can't rely on HN to sniff out the paid BS, what do I have to do, figure it out myself?

New comment by fapi1974 in "Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

fapi1974 — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:26:35 +0000

I just had more fun here than doing anything online for years. Thank you.

New comment by fapi1974 in "AI is making me dumb"

fapi1974 — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:15:47 +0000

I believe your words should be your own. I refuse to let ai strip my words of their idiosyncrasy. I refuse to put my words into a machine that robs them of their humanity. They are mine, they are me. Working with a human editor is an act of love and creation. Working with an AI editor is an act of mediocrity and sacrificed originality.

New comment by fapi1974 in "OpenAI eyes staggered rollout of new model over cybersecurity risk"

fapi1974 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:20:34 +0000

The cynic in me questions whether this is a PR response to Glasswing.

New comment by fapi1974 in "Show HN: I build a Fantasy NHL app in 3 days with Claude AI"

fapi1974 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 03:51:37 +0000

I did something in a similar space and I'm a complete noncoder: www.sgpedge.com

Probably about ten hours, all in.

New comment by fapi1974 in "Show HN: I Made a Single Game Parlay Analyzer"

fapi1974 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:45:53 +0000

I guess really the only reason it's interesting is that I don't know how to code and did this with a coding assistant. Would love feedback on it!

Show HN: I Made a Single Game Parlay Analyzer

fapi1974 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:45:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sgpedge.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43627870

Points: 1

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New comment by fapi1974 in "Can stress be harnessed to bond teams deliberately?"

fapi1974 — Wed, 22 May 2024 20:42:14 +0000

Funny, I use this myself, particularly in HN. I think there is a corollary though, which goes something like "Headlines which ask a question are more likely to attract attention when the subject is of interest to the reader." or "Headlines which leave an unclosed loop cause an impulse to find the solution."

New comment by fapi1974 in "Can stress be harnessed to bond teams deliberately?"

fapi1974 — Wed, 22 May 2024 20:40:32 +0000

Yeah, I think what I have in mind is more along the lines of creating a defined goal that people need to achieve in a limited amount of time. Think carrying a sandbag for 20 miles by handing it off between the participants. E.g. pushing themselves physically or mentally, with some time constraints, and helping each other in the process.

New comment by fapi1974 in "Can stress be harnessed to bond teams deliberately?"

fapi1974 — Wed, 22 May 2024 17:41:30 +0000

Posting this question in a slightly different way than I did before. My theory is that it is possible to deliberately structure an experience within 48 hours or so to create a lifelong bond on a team of 4-5 people. I'm trying to figure out what the elements of that experience would be so I'm using a handy AI tool to help me do the research.

Can stress be harnessed to bond teams deliberately?

fapi1974 — Wed, 22 May 2024 17:41:29 +0000

Article URL: https://getperspective.ai/interview/6648fbf060021e2b7596c822

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40443774

Points: 1

# Comments: 5

New comment by fapi1974 in "What leads to highly bonded teams?"

fapi1974 — Wed, 22 May 2024 17:39:01 +0000

Ha - just saw this - had to look up what araldite is. Metaphorically speaking I wonder whether stress is the araldite of team bonding?

New comment by fapi1974 in "What leads to highly bonded teams?"

fapi1974 — Sat, 18 May 2024 19:19:44 +0000

I'm doing some research for a book on team bonding. If you have ever been on a highly bonded team and have ideas about what circumstances led to the bonding I'd love your thoughts.

What leads to highly bonded teams?

fapi1974 — Sat, 18 May 2024 19:19:44 +0000

Article URL: https://getperspective.ai/interview/6648fbf060021e2b7596c822

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40401316

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by fapi1974 in "The funding frenzy at Anthropic"

fapi1974 — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 06:12:37 +0000

We've seen this before. Lots of investments in the '99 runup had ad buys associated with them which did the same kind of double counting. The example would be Yahoo investing in some startup at an inflated valuation, paying for some or all of the investment with ad inventory priced arbitrarily and which was, for Yahoo, free to produce. Lots of things led to the 2001 crash, but valuation distorting shenanigans like that didn't help. To the extent it feeds through to Microsoft, Google, and Amazon valuations the AI dynamic could follow a similar pattern.

New comment by fapi1974 in "Questions to Closeness – Has this been replicated?"

fapi1974 — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 16:55:15 +0000

This study by Arthur Aaron on closeness drove all kinds of media attention and still gets cited all over the place. Does anyone know if it has ever been replicated?

Questions to Closeness – Has this been replicated?

fapi1974 — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 16:55:15 +0000

Article URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0146167297234003

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39144811

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: What would you do to turn around San Francisco?

fapi1974 — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:00:07 +0000

I'm curious what the community thinks are best ways to fix the cities problems. For the sake of the exercise let's assume no new revenue.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38030236

Points: 3

# Comments: 8

New comment by fapi1974 in "U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter, better than expected"

fapi1974 — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:45:42 +0000

Consumer debt to disposable income is low vs. average. It may trend up but my take is that bigger thing at play here is historically low unemployment. Good news, in other words.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP