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New comment by giladvdn in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

giladvdn — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:43:49 +0000

For me the issue isn't with the killing/eating of animals. Rather, it's how they are treated during their lifetime by the meat industry - which is essentially optimizing for the minimum conditions that can still provide meat that can be sold legally. I'm not a vegan by the way, but I can appreciate the moral case vegans make.

Stop Taking Your Startup Failures Personally

giladvdn — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:23:37 +0000

Article URL: https://gilad.is/posts/dont-take-personally

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46487705

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: A weekend project to visualize your HN usage in 2025

giladvdn — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:17:59 +0000

Article URL: https://hn-summary.userjam.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454751

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by giladvdn in "Show HN: Generate your personal HN recap for 2025"

giladvdn — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:51:54 +0000

It’s doable. Let’s see how this thing goes and we’ll take it from there.

Show HN: Generate your personal HN recap for 2025

giladvdn — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:51:55 +0000

Hi HN, We wanted to celebrate the new year so we built this little toy. Enjoy it and happy new year!

P.S. If you want, take a look at our product (now in early access) - userjam.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443387

Points: 22

# Comments: 5

New comment by giladvdn in "Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format"

giladvdn — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:05:01 +0000

Probably stating the obvious here, but this would be a good way for an LLM to attempt to write or modify music.

New comment by giladvdn in "Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson"

giladvdn — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:24:13 +0000

If you're an engineer capable of holding a $440k/year job then you should care where your talent goes and who benefits from it. There are plenty of places that will pay you a good salary where the boss isn't trying to badly play at world domination.

New comment by giladvdn in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

giladvdn — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:04:59 +0000

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pave-2

New comment by giladvdn in "Intel details Skymont"

giladvdn — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:39:33 +0000

How do these modern Atoms compare to the Apple ARM chips? Does Apple make something comparable in terms of power/performance?

New comment by giladvdn in "Ask HN: What is the least obnoxious way to ask for cookie permissions?"

giladvdn — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:40:05 +0000

This would make for a great blog post: top 10 things that ruined the internet. I nominate generative AI for the version of this post two years from now.

New comment by giladvdn in "Ask HN: What is the least obnoxious way to ask for cookie permissions?"

giladvdn — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:39:01 +0000

You can use IP based tracking or something like a query parameter to track within that session

New comment by giladvdn in "Ask HN: What is the least obnoxious way to ask for cookie permissions?"

giladvdn — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:31:11 +0000

Yes I think I’ll post the design here when it’s done.

New comment by giladvdn in "Ask HN: What is the least obnoxious way to ask for cookie permissions?"

giladvdn — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:28:49 +0000

Huh, I think I agree. Not only are the banners slow, obnoxious, have a tendency to being manipulative and are different for every website, a web developer can easily ignore the user's choice and track them anyway. Apple made a big leap with the “ask app not to track” and I think browsers should have this as well. If only to get rid of those infernal banners.

Ask HN: What is the least obnoxious way to ask for cookie permissions?

giladvdn — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:56:57 +0000

Recently our legal department is asking to add a cookie disclaimer thing to our marketing website. I hate those and want to put in the least intrusive version. How do people here deal with this? Thanks!!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37703394

Points: 33

# Comments: 103

New comment by giladvdn in "Analog computing may be coming back"

giladvdn — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:13:00 +0000

Interesting analogy, and I see your point. What I'm trying to say is, we know that there's way to perform certain computations that's orders of magnitude more efficient than we've ever achieved. We have a working example of it. And yet, we choose to develop a wholly different technology, from scratch, that's unproven, instead of trying to emulate or understand what already have.

New comment by giladvdn in "Analog computing may be coming back"

giladvdn — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:02:33 +0000

The absurdity of suggesting optical computing is a good pathway to efficiency is that our brains efficiently use electrons and are doing just fine.

New comment by giladvdn in "Telegram - secure, free messaging"

giladvdn — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:31:46 +0000

Came here to say this. I also don't understand why "secret chats" can't be kept in the cloud. Why can't they store encrypted messages and give them to me to decrypt when I want to?

New comment by giladvdn in "Things about being a founder I wish I had known two years ago"

giladvdn — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:47:27 +0000

TBH, I've never been fired. I have fired a handful of people. All of them have been fired after more than a week (in some case, much more). I believe that all of them could have been fired earlier, saving both us and them a lot of time and trouble.

I know this is a black-and-white type of argument, and in real life things are obviously more complicated.

New comment by giladvdn in "Things about being a founder I wish I had known two years ago"

giladvdn — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:31:25 +0000

Good point. I did not consider people relocating for the job. In that case, I would want to try the person out before actually hiring her. If that's not possible, then obviously I wouldn't recommend ruining someone's life logistically for the sake of getting a better hire.

My main point was that after a week you'll probably either get along with an employee or not get along with them. In my experience, if you don't get along with someone, it usually does not get better over time.

New comment by giladvdn in "Ask HN: Looking for email delivery for 500k subscribers"

giladvdn — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:14:07 +0000

MailChimp allows you to buy credits as you go, or pay them monthly by subscriber count. It's also built for marketers so after importing your list there your marketing guy should be fine.

If you're looking to do it cheaper, SendGrid offers a newsletter function that's less easy to use and has less features but will allow you to do it cheaper.