Hacker News: goldenjm

New comment by goldenjm in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

goldenjm — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:04:43 +0000

Jellypod is great as well!

New comment by goldenjm in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

goldenjm — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:32:49 +0000

Yes- I'm the founder of www.Paper2Audio.com, a text to speech service focused on accurately reading complex docs to you such as research papers. Our free plan lets you generate 56 hours of audio per week, using high quality voices.

Feel free to email if you have any questions or feedback.

New comment by goldenjm in "Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web"

goldenjm — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:02:55 +0000

This model looks very interesting. How does it compare to heuristic-based approaches like Defuddle and Readability?

New comment by goldenjm in "Vela: The True Scale of a Hidden Giant Structure Revealed"

goldenjm — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:36:17 +0000

You're welcome!

New comment by goldenjm in "Vela: The True Scale of a Hidden Giant Structure Revealed"

goldenjm — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:08:38 +0000

Hey- I just saw your comment here 61 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560110) and can't reply there, so I'm replying here since this is your latest post.

You requested that we add inverting colors to PDF mode on Paper2Audio. I have good news: we added it (other users requested it too). It is in the main menu when you have our PDF view open. Please let me know anytime if you have any questions or feedback.

- Joe, Paper2Audio Founder

New comment by goldenjm in "Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]"

goldenjm — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:52:49 +0000

I'm the Paper2Audio founder and I'm thrilled to see you recommending us here. Paper2Audio specializes in narrating complex documents like research papers to you. It is free for personal use.

This PDF exceeds our page limit, so you would have to split it up. We're working on increasing our page limits.

New comment by goldenjm in "Benchmarking the Most Reliable Document Parsing API"

goldenjm — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:19:26 +0000

This would be more helpful if it included DeepSeek-OCR, PaddleOCR-VL and MinerU 2.5. In general, I've found that OmniDocBench is a reliable benchmark, perhaps surprisingly because it is made by the same team as MinerU. They updated their benchmark table recently: https://github.com/opendatalab/OmniDocBench#end-to-end-evalu.... There are some other models that score above DeepSeek-OCR as well that I'm not as familiar with.

New comment by goldenjm in "Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category"

goldenjm — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 01:26:16 +0000

Their argument in favor of this change seems extremely reasonable and well-explained.

New comment by goldenjm in "I'm a Berkeley prof. Startup experience led me to update my 1,500 person class"

goldenjm — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 20:25:57 +0000

On 2, you could recreate Axelrod's classic prisoner's dilemma tournament from 1980. Here's a short writeup about it: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/project...

Another game you could try is the "guess 2/3 of the average" game.

You could make the assignment one game like these, or put a few together.

AI product recommendation startup building 'starting point for shopping online'

goldenjm — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:27:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.geekwire.com/2023/ai-product-recommendation-startup-wants-to-become-the-starting-point-for-shopping-online/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38017912

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by goldenjm in "Getting into Pinball"

goldenjm — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:58:19 +0000

Thanks for the great advice. LotR is actually my single favorite pinball game and I've played it a ton, mostly at Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor. But, I've played it so much that I would probably get bored of it quickly if I purchased it. Twilight Zone is great too! I'm in Seattle now, and so lots of places have the new Foo Fighters pin which I'm enjoying a lot.

New comment by goldenjm in "Getting into Pinball"

goldenjm — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 06:04:40 +0000

I've thought about buying a pinball machine for a while, but haven't pulled the trigger. I think I would get bored of one machine after a short while, and then it would just sit there. I like pinball a lot and I think the design and build quality of many of the more recent games is fantastic. But, I'm not interested in collecting machines. Is anyone else in a similar situation?

New comment by goldenjm in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

goldenjm — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 01:54:05 +0000

Sean's a really nice guy! More people should say hi to Sean. Let's make it a meme and totally overwhelm him!

New comment by goldenjm in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

goldenjm — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 23:05:06 +0000

Haha yeah we are, including you!

New comment by goldenjm in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

goldenjm — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:25:16 +0000

Hi Sean! Nice to see you here! :)

iPhone 15 could be the most affordable iPhone since '07 adjusted for inflation

goldenjm — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:44:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.perfectrec.com/posts/iphone-15-could-be-the-most-affordable-iphone-since-07-adjusted-for

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37474694

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Product recommendations powered by human experts and ML, fast and easy

goldenjm — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:41:21 +0000

Hey HN!

Joe here, I’m a second time founder based in Seattle. I wanted to share a new site I’ve been building called PerfectRec. We use a combination of human expertise and ML to generate personalized electronics recommendations based on user answers to straightforward questions.

Google is getting worse for product discovery. Amazon is full of fake reviews. And many of the review sites I used to trust seem to be going downhill.

As the go to “gadget guy” in my family, I wanted to build a site I could point people to that would give them high quality product recommendations without requiring expert knowledge or knowing how to navigate Reddit. Instead of it taking hours to research a complex purchase, PerfectRec takes just minutes.

How it works: We find the most passionate product experts on the internet and have them work with our ML team to design, label and train a recommendation model.

Right now, we cover phones, TVs, laptops and earbuds in the US market, though we are planning to expand to cover more products.

I’d love to hear what you think, since the site is meant for highly tech savvy people too. Would you recommend it to a friend or family member? What would you like to see us add or improve?

Thanks!

Joe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151698

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by goldenjm in "Is Apple making implausible iPhone satisfaction claims?"

goldenjm — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:04:56 +0000

I'm quoted in the post. I agree, it is plausible that iPhones have a 90%+ satisfaction rate. Apple's claim isn't 90%, or 92% or even 95%, but 99%. I agree that 99% is impossibly high.

New comment by goldenjm in "Is Apple making implausible iPhone satisfaction claims?"

goldenjm — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:14:53 +0000

I'm quoted in the post. We're using Google reviews as one of several imperfect comparison points to Apple's 99% claim. You're absolutely right about a key downside to Google reviews. The limited information 451 provides on their survey methodology shows that they aren't asking about satisfaction as a yes-or-no style question.

If you want to go really deep on online review manipulation, I'm co-author of this research paper on ratings inflation in online marketplaces: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mksc.2022.135.... If you get in touch, I can send you more papers on fake reviews that I like.

New comment by goldenjm in "[dead]"

goldenjm — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:44:13 +0000

Also, you can't order a printed poster from PhotoShop.