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New comment by floodfx in "Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s"

floodfx — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:45:03 +0000

Came here to say something similar. Adults are just as hooked to their addiction feeds as kids.

These are uber-personalized feeds optimized to keep you scrolling to the next item (story / video / post) so companies can show more ads.

"Social media" is a textbook example of a euphemism. We should be calling this what it is: "addiction feeds".

New comment by floodfx in "What killed the Florida orange?"

floodfx — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:54:22 +0000

Seconded. Interesting read.

New comment by floodfx in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

floodfx — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:21:21 +0000

Haha. Underrated comment!

New comment by floodfx in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

floodfx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:25:55 +0000

Some folks have been using the term “promptbaiting” to describe these obvious engagement tactics.

New comment by floodfx in "Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged"

floodfx — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:45:34 +0000

Working on that too. Lmk if you’re up for a chat?

New comment by floodfx in "A67z"

floodfx — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:31:14 +0000

I salute this artistry

New comment by floodfx in "Can you save on LLM tokens using images instead of text?"

floodfx — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:34:51 +0000

Why are completion tokens more with image prompts yet the text output was about the same?

New comment by floodfx in "Go Primitive in Java, or Go in a Box"

floodfx — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:41:55 +0000

Had same expectation and read through half the article before realizing it was not Golang related.

New comment by floodfx in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

floodfx — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:58:44 +0000

10W for a sustained time perhaps but these are looong climbs. Col de la Loze is 26.4km with an average gradient of 6.5%.

New comment by floodfx in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

floodfx — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:53:31 +0000

Why is pay off greater in cycling than other sports? Salary of the top riders? Compared to say NBA players, pro cyclist make relatively little. Tadej Pogacar (best and top paid cyclist) makes about $8M (euros) in salary per year. Steph Curry (highest paid) NBA player makes $55M (dollars) in salary per year.

New comment by floodfx in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

floodfx — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:41:37 +0000

Bikers and their teams are known for removing as much weight as possible from their bikes. Would love to see the math for weight/power/time ratio for a motor like this. Would it be worth it considering you'd have to expend additional watts lugging it around all stage? My guess is probably not. Especially on a mountain stage which is where the tour is really won or lost.

New comment by floodfx in "What If We Made Advertising Illegal?"

floodfx — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 23:01:59 +0000

I think a better thing to do would be to outlaw algorithmic feeds where monetization is via advertising. If subscription based that is fine. The incentive for sub based monetization is to keep you long enough to continue subscribing. For ads it is to keep you on as long as possible which trends towards divisive / fear / anger inducing content.

New comment by floodfx in "Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition"

floodfx — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:05:57 +0000

Love this! Played Worldle (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/) for a while and this would have been helpful.

Great application of spaced repetition beyond cards.

New comment by floodfx in "The Housing Theory of Everything (2021)"

floodfx — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 02:58:23 +0000

Insightful!

Makes me think a bit about how negative content engages more people. Is this the same with people who don't like change? Not liking change activates people more than people who do like change?

New comment by floodfx in "Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS"

floodfx — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:40:18 +0000

Not as well marketed but this is an awesome Typescript ORM https://joist-orm.io/

New comment by floodfx in "Gleam: A Basic Introduction"

floodfx — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:18:39 +0000

I like the look of Gleam over Elixir for sure. I’d love to see some example code showing Gleam-based LiveViews but I haven’t been able to find it anywhere. Is it possible? Anyone have some code to point me at?

New comment by floodfx in "Show HN: Zanki – AI powered spaced repetition to teach kids to read"

floodfx — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:52:27 +0000

Love this! Agree that kids educational content often crosses the line into too flashy and overproduced.

Great idea on the collectible stickers!

This is meant to be used while sitting with the kid as opposed to handing them my phone right?

New comment by floodfx in "Show HN: Joist, the Best ORM, Ever?"

floodfx — Mon, 13 May 2024 15:34:59 +0000

From the article - Joist provides:

- Bullet-proof N+1 prevention,

- Tracking loaded relation/subgraph state in the type system, and

- Backend reactivity, for declarative cross-entity validation rules and reactive fields.

Wow!

New comment by floodfx in "LiveView Is Best with Svelte"

floodfx — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:07:40 +0000

There are LiveView backends written in Javascript (http://liveviewjs.com), Go (https://github.com/canopyclimate/golive), Java (https://github.com/floodfx/undead), and Python (https://github.com/ogrodnek/pyview).

Disclaimer: I wrote or helped write the first three.

New comment by floodfx in "Dealing with surprising human emotions: desk moves (2017)"

floodfx — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 04:29:23 +0000

Back when I was in an office, we switched desks once a quarter. We randomized the selection order each time and the only rules were you couldn't sit at the same desk or next to the same people. The value was that sitting next to new people created more social connections and created more trust and a change in scenery was refreshing.