Hacker News: gompertz

New comment by gompertz in "Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system"

gompertz — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:55:01 +0000

Just gave it a whirl and it works pretty good. It doesn't seem like you can force hashcards to let you re-review your deck at anytime though as its on a scheduler. (Imagine this is by design of SRS, but a bit annoying can't override with a flag).

I think uploading a textbook to NotebookLM and getting it to build out a deck for each chapter will be a great study method.

New comment by gompertz in "Ivy League psychologist: 'Bring your whole self to work' is bad advice"

gompertz — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:55:07 +0000

I behave this way too. But I also fear it leads to a degree of split personality disorder... and feeling a bit like a fraud.

New comment by gompertz in "Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site"

gompertz — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:17:48 +0000

It also amazes me how incredibly unbrowseable tomshardware is now with all the ads and pop-ups.

New comment by gompertz in "Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client"

gompertz — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:34:43 +0000

This looks amazing. Based on the animated gif, I cant believe how better IRC looks with the text properly indented and separated from the username. Way less visual load!

New comment by gompertz in "Canada eyes putting nuclear reactors on the moon"

gompertz — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:26:28 +0000

Canada's government can't even release its annual budget. Nuclear reactors on the moon is just pure click bait and I wouldn't expect anything less from CBC.

New comment by gompertz in "What Is a Semantic Layer?"

gompertz — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:07:05 +0000

Thanks for this. Can you suggest any books that go into these topics with examples?

New comment by gompertz in "The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign"

gompertz — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:11:48 +0000

People can say what they want about AI, but I find an LLM is far better at summarizing information. It was obvious a human wrote this article and it was way too verbose.

New comment by gompertz in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

gompertz — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:35:30 +0000

You're not thinking like a marketing executive. The people who make $400 a week are not the target audience for this product. It's that simple. Not everything is made for Walmart shoppers.

New comment by gompertz in "I Don't Have Spotify"

gompertz — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:24:39 +0000

Why is Qobuz always missing from these sites? It has superior audio quality beyond all other options.

New comment by gompertz in "I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You (2021)"

gompertz — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:03:43 +0000

Well played!

New comment by gompertz in "Grok Code Fast 1"

gompertz — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:20:21 +0000

You can get your own key with cerebras and then use it in openrouter. Its a little hidden, but for each provider you can explicitly provide your own key. Then it won't be throttled.

New comment by gompertz in "Linux Foundation's updated inclusive language guide"

gompertz — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:48:54 +0000

And the alternative 'folks' comes off as arrogant to me.

New comment by gompertz in "Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky"

gompertz — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:18:38 +0000

This comment single handedly caused me to sink 4 hours yesterday into exploring nostr and getting lost in it. I agree with your two decade sentiment, great technology.

New comment by gompertz in "Alberta no longer sure about big savings from auto insurance reforms"

gompertz — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:05:02 +0000

What is this doing on Hacker News.

New comment by gompertz in "Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding"

gompertz — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 01:13:40 +0000

Curious, has it been proven that typed languages are easier for LLMs to work with as they dont have to infer types?

New comment by gompertz in "Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data"

gompertz — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:47:31 +0000

First poster could have approach better too. Like "Cool site! I think I may see an error on one item?". Instead of going right to a 'wrong' angle as if all the data should be discredited. I get highly triggered by this too.

New comment by gompertz in "Java was not underhyped in 1997 (2021)"

gompertz — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:58:51 +0000

Interesting! I never heard of Cyclone before. Looks like another Bell Labs contribution.

New comment by gompertz in "I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well"

gompertz — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 03:00:48 +0000

Yep I program in some niche languages like Pike, Snobol4, Unicon. Vibe coding is out of the question for these languages. Forced to use my brain!

New comment by gompertz in "CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download"

gompertz — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:31:37 +0000

Interesting, thx wasn't aware!

New comment by gompertz in "CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download"

gompertz — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:39:28 +0000

Yet in Gates' recently released memoir, if you do a ctrl+f for Kildall there are zero results. Unsure how Gates, as a programmer and business founder , could write a memoir without a single blurb for Gary.