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New comment by guyrt in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

guyrt — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:50:28 +0000

A podcast that isn’t about AI (in the normal way)! I started Pagenerd with some friends to talk about science fiction - loosely defined - and give us a chance to hang out. It’s pretty good. Find it at https://pagenerd.com which links to all the usual places.

New comment by guyrt in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

guyrt — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:49:09 +0000

Jackson St location is the only walkable option in its neighborhood. It wasn't very good (terrible selection, stocking issues, slowly increasing locked section) but it was convenient.

New comment by guyrt in "Guidance: A guidance language for controlling large language models"

guyrt — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 22:37:30 +0000

I've been trying to figure out how projects like this, semantic kernel (also msft), and langchain add value. Is the paradigm sort of like a web framework? It reduces the boilerplate you need to write so you can focus on the business problem?

Is that needed in the LLM space yet? I'm just not convinced the abstraction pays for itself in reduced cognitive load, or at least not yet, but very happy to be convinced otherwise.

New comment by guyrt in "Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.?"

guyrt — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 22:00:40 +0000

I looked at the relationship between education and income when this data first appeared [0]. Counties with low income for their education level were college towns. Counties with high income for their education level were either near NYC or D.C. or were resource extraction areas.

[0] http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/guyrt.github.io/notebooks/Co...

New comment by guyrt in "The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get (2008)"

guyrt — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 01:05:42 +0000

If you are investing new money every month and attempting to maintain the same allocation over time, you are in a sense automatically rebalancing. Of course, this assumes your total investment over a given time period is roughly in line with the relative delta in performance.

New comment by guyrt in "If Singapore is the most expensive city, then why Redmond costs more?"

guyrt — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 15:11:19 +0000

Redmond is too small to compare statistically to Singapore. The author took a homogeneously nice town with 54K residents and compared to a city-state with 100 times more people. Take a moderate to very nice section of Singapore with 54K people and let's see the numbers again.

I moved to Redmond recently from Toronto, which was a pretty expensive city. My living expenses went up a little, but my quality of life went up dramatically. I live in a modest house, but it's mine. The cost of a mortgage was less than the cost of renting a smaller place. I own a car, which means skiing or hiking every weekend.

The weird thing about Redmond (and Bellevue) is the "everyone is above average" feeling. The expectation is that everyone has a stable, well paying job. It's a bit of a Stepford Wives kind of town. What if you are working in something that doesn't start you at 80K with benefits? Then your options in town dwindle very, very quickly.

New comment by guyrt in "How Much Do Average Apps Make On Each Platform?"

guyrt — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:37:48 +0000

Agreed. A comparison of medians would be more interesting.

New comment by guyrt in "Stripe's list of prohibited businesses"

guyrt — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:35:13 +0000

Does #10 mean vineyards are not allowed to use Stripe?