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New comment by genghisjahn in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

genghisjahn — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:23:23 +0000

My opinion, anything driven by an algorithm is inherently bad. It’s hard giving up those sites, not because that’s where the people are but because we are all addicted to them. If you switch to mastodon or pixelfed, you’ll find good stuff there, but you won’t engage with it as much because it’s not algo driven, which to me is a win.

New comment by genghisjahn in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

genghisjahn — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:06:55 +0000

That’s what I have and love it. I have M(N+1) envy but I remind myself that my machine runs great. And it’s paid for.

New comment by genghisjahn in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

genghisjahn — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:59:33 +0000

My son takes the methylphenidate / guanfacine combo as well and it’s been a game changer.

New comment by genghisjahn in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

genghisjahn — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:59:16 +0000

This?

https://www.zophar.net/music/ms-dos/one-must-fall-2097

New comment by genghisjahn in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

genghisjahn — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:36:59 +0000

That was it.

New comment by genghisjahn in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

genghisjahn — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:49:19 +0000

For the in-crowd the law protects but does not bind. For the out-crowd, the law binds but does not protect.

Can’t remember where I read that but it has stuck with me.

New comment by genghisjahn in "A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare"

genghisjahn — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:27:10 +0000

In my first law class the prof said, "When it doubt, sue everybody."

New comment by genghisjahn in "The Amazon Tax"

genghisjahn — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:30:02 +0000

Having small mini-pcs in my basement and a couple of Cloudflare tunnels and Tailscale has been awesome. Made me realize that I've gotten used to paying for software that is free because someone else was hosting. But now I host it and it's a way better experience. I'm not crazy about using Cloudflare, but so far it's been great. Having Postgres, rabbitMQ and Redis all running locally (and then realizing my traffic doesn't need a cache or a queue and just doing it all in Postgres) has been awesome.

New comment by genghisjahn in "Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking"

genghisjahn — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:28:27 +0000

And yes. Reddit had hallucinations too. Often replied with inaccurate statements with utmost confidence and certainty.

New comment by genghisjahn in "Dear people who work at the airport"

genghisjahn — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:57:15 +0000

Does in/out mean in the tray or out of the bag?

New comment by genghisjahn in "People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more"

genghisjahn — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:28:54 +0000

Your thesis is that companies pay more (by promoting) to people they could easily backfill instead of just letting them go and replacing them?

New comment by genghisjahn in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

genghisjahn — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:22:41 +0000

I am constantly asking Claude to be more terse/brief/ELI5. Improve using the tool. But if I have to scroll to read the output I just can’t follow it.

If I see a long paragraph and I know the author is Neal Stephenson I think “this is going to be dense but good.” LLM long outputs on a code base I know well just make me glassy eyed.

New comment by genghisjahn in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

genghisjahn — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:08:10 +0000

It could be that the HN crowd is getting older? You age, your finger tips dry out, virtual keyboards get wonky.

New comment by genghisjahn in "Read the novels and forget everything else"

genghisjahn — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:47:08 +0000

[removed] made the mistake of assuming the contents of the article before reading it. My comment does not apply.

New comment by genghisjahn in "Software for One"

genghisjahn — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:16:41 +0000

I totally hear you on that, but for my one off apps (and even some of my not one off apps) if I can't implement a feature in a PWA, I just learn to live without that feature.

New comment by genghisjahn in "The AI Aesthetic"

genghisjahn — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:36:24 +0000

That’s what that was. I thought someone there screwed up an image path.

New comment by genghisjahn in "LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences"

genghisjahn — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:34:38 +0000

Yeah. That was it. I remembered it wrong (you use chatGPT which I admit, has better voice interaction). I use claude code and type it all. Most of the time for walks/runs I just let my thoughts go whenever. But that's just me. I do really appreciate your post though. I wouldn't have the claude skill without it.

New comment by genghisjahn in "LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences"

genghisjahn — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:32:41 +0000

If you are using Claude code, disable recaps.

New comment by genghisjahn in "LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences"

genghisjahn — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:24:45 +0000

Somebody here posted about a Socratic method skill for Claude (or whatever your LLM of choice is). I’ve found this to be fantastic. Dropped in a dense PDF about Linear Algebra, Postgres (those are the two I’ve gotten into so far). It’s basically just a skill.md that reads, “Here’s a document, give me an opening statement about the material and ask me a question. As I provide answers, guide me to simpler or more complex areas of the topic. Something something Socratic method.” Works great.

New comment by genghisjahn in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

genghisjahn — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:00:46 +0000

If you can get it implemented for anything you can’t be fired.