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New comment by franktankbank in "Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?"

franktankbank — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:43:00 +0000

Christ some people. I grew stinky weed in an apartment in college back when it was very illegal everywhere. I could never imagine fucking around at the border of my own country let along another one.

New comment by franktankbank in "The looming college-enrollment death spiral"

franktankbank — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:20:02 +0000

Those are under the umbrella of research and teaching no?

New comment by franktankbank in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

franktankbank — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:47:16 +0000

You rule.

New comment by franktankbank in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

franktankbank — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:39:53 +0000

> These are positive growth levers.

These are pointless growth levers.

New comment by franktankbank in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

franktankbank — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:17:03 +0000

Maybe we are set to see that change at the federal level?

New comment by franktankbank in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

franktankbank — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:43:37 +0000

I'm sorry, but how hard is that? Seriously.

New comment by franktankbank in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

franktankbank — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:13:51 +0000

I assume you mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation ??

New comment by franktankbank in "The AI Great Leap Forward"

franktankbank — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:28:02 +0000

> Unit and end-to-end tests are free now.

Explain please. I might agree with discounted.

New comment by franktankbank in "Am I German or Autistic?"

franktankbank — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:01:35 +0000

> I took the German or Autistic diagnostic. Result: Both. The Wittgenstein Result. I don't know whether to be proud or concerned.

It was 47% 47%. AMA!! I've got stories man, just give me a specific prompt. I can also tell stories about my PhD advisor (100% german, 70% autistic).

New comment by franktankbank in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

franktankbank — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:48:09 +0000

Hell ya, so many different ways to make it fit. Shops rule. Do you have a good idea of projects you want to do?

New comment by franktankbank in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

franktankbank — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:47:04 +0000

I've dreamed of something like this with a geographical bounding (hard part) for what comments/requests you encounter.

New comment by franktankbank in "Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK"

franktankbank — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:10:43 +0000

Maybe the agents should require some sort of input start token: "simon says"

New comment by franktankbank in "F-35 Got Hit"

franktankbank — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:20:19 +0000

So got hit indirectly.

New comment by franktankbank in "F-35 Got Hit"

franktankbank — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:36:22 +0000

So what is it that happened? They got extremely lucky? The missile has a seriously reduced profile? How did the guy land? Almost sounds like a cannonball hit him.

New comment by franktankbank in "F-35 Got Hit"

franktankbank — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:33:07 +0000

I wonder how often they fired in the last month. How lucky do you have to be per shot?

New comment by franktankbank in "Giving AI coding agents a Principal Engineer's mind and cost of intern"

franktankbank — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:23:30 +0000

Wheres the demo? Theres just some claims of reducing tokens, but no head to head with real prompts for producing useful large projects. I guess in theory it kind of makes sense for an idealized language. Seems a lot of leaps elsewise.

New comment by franktankbank in "We Forgot How to Make Some Nuclear Bomb Parts"

franktankbank — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:46:23 +0000

How hard would it be to pay a handsome sum to just one guy who was familiar enough to get enough of a clue? I don't know how things are siloed but presumably plenty know what its for we are just missing some crucial steps. Man I'd love to join a team to figure out some small part. You meet the wildest range of people working on such things.

I'm missing what was the way of testing for equivalency. Seems a crucial step in understanding the overall story.

I'm wondering if adding extra checks can hamper future efforts at production, because you are going to nail down your tests today. Then in the future some crucial part of the process is technically impossible due to upstream shortages. You didn't understand your wiggle room when you locked down your tests (potentially).

New comment by franktankbank in "Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute"

franktankbank — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:05:53 +0000

This conversation is confusing because OP didn't use the same units as the person in the quote.

New comment by franktankbank in ""whole civilization will die tonight""

franktankbank — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:31:10 +0000

Its on /active I think

New comment by franktankbank in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

franktankbank — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:21:19 +0000

I'm sorry if my general discourse is grating in this thread/in general on HN. It really is just kind of who I am and how I figure things out for myself, I'm very off the cuff and unafraid of looking/being stupid if it wins me some knowledge. I think the point of my question is that I predict this is how the conversation is going to go in the next few days (if the bombs start dropping), and I guess I'm trying to predict for myself where this conflict is headed. Big picture, Strait of Hormuz is just one front on the war to get Iran to submit which as stated is to remove their ability to achieve the bomb (if you believe the initial justifications). I don't know if that sheds any light on what my goals were or if it gave you a migraine. Apologies if the second.