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New comment by ihaveajob in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

ihaveajob — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:14:53 +0000

Not working on it yet but planning some projects with the kids: - A candy classifier with Arduino for Halloween (the goal is to have trick-or-treaters choose their preferred candy and have the machine sift it out automatically) - A board game based on the idea of fog-of-war, details undecided - An app to reduce screen time

New comment by ihaveajob in "We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees"

ihaveajob — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:57:04 +0000

It's gotten to the point that I don't open emails from Sendgrid support because 4 out of 5 are poorly disguised phishing attempts.

New comment by ihaveajob in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

ihaveajob — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:33:36 +0000

I've heard the same from South Indian friends, so I guess it's pretty widespread.

New comment by ihaveajob in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

ihaveajob — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:58:42 +0000

This is neat but my OCD brain is hurting. I suspect a location based sorting, where most-recently-used boxes are near the top, or closer to your workstation, solves the same problem without the visual clutter.

New comment by ihaveajob in "Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code"

ihaveajob — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:01:57 +0000

Congratulations! Mine was intentional, back in college, where all PCs had open telnet in order to facilitate cooperation. We discovered it was easy to seize someone's computer for a while, and then watch them look around for the culprit, which we thought was hilarious. Boy were we annoying.

New comment by ihaveajob in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

ihaveajob — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:01:20 +0000

Yes! As a beginner-level, amateur armchair economist who hated philosophy class in high school, I have to admit I was surprised to learn about this when reading https://store.abramsbooks.com/products/economix by Michael Goodwin. The book overall seems to lean liberal whenever there's a political choice to be made, and yet it paints Adam Smith in a much more positive light that one would imagine, if all you've learned about him is the criticism of today's political left.

A really fun book, also!

New comment by ihaveajob in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

ihaveajob — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:46:01 +0000

It's possible. At that time people were talking about Go as the next frontier (that didn't last long). IMO, the game is the same, and for 99.9999% of folks who ever play it, whether a computer can beat the best human is irrelevant in how fun it is to play.

New comment by ihaveajob in "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff"

ihaveajob — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:43:50 +0000

So you want yes-men in your team?

New comment by ihaveajob in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

ihaveajob — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:05:10 +0000

Ironically I had a very smart and otherwise reasonable math professor who, shortly after Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, said in class that chess was no longer interesting.

New comment by ihaveajob in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

ihaveajob — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:55:11 +0000

Yes, that made me sad. I just got into Arduino. I guess I'll have to stop now!

Ask HN: What would you build with pablo.app?

ihaveajob — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:15:23 +0000

I've had this domain sitting around and finally want to build something useful with it. Considering things like an image editor (Picasso angle), personal assistant, language learning... But nothing concrete.

What would you do with it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886049

Points: 1

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New comment by ihaveajob in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

ihaveajob — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:13:18 +0000

It means that the consequences of politics will impact you, even if you don't think about politics in the first place.

New comment by ihaveajob in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

ihaveajob — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:42:34 +0000

In Athens, an "idiotes" was a citizen who focused only on private matters rather than participating in the polis (city-state). Because civic participation was considered a duty, this term carried a negative connotation of being socially irresponsible or uninvolved.

This term evolved into the modern "idiot" which we are familiar with.

New comment by ihaveajob in "Time Station Emulator"

ihaveajob — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:46:50 +0000

No, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon#Technical_conten...

It was in a passage where some secondary character was in a prison cell and managed to spy on the screen across the wall using the technique.

New comment by ihaveajob in "Self Driving Car Insurance"

ihaveajob — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:15:15 +0000

The problem IMO is the transition period. A mostly safe system will make the driver feel at ease, but when an emergency occurs and the driver must take over, it's likely that they won't be paying full attention.

New comment by ihaveajob in "Time Station Emulator"

ihaveajob — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:14:09 +0000

I first learned about this while reading Cryptonomicon. It seemed too fantastical to be a real thing.

New comment by ihaveajob in "Television is 100 years old today"

ihaveajob — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:57:31 +0000

People pay for that these days in smash rooms.

New comment by ihaveajob in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

ihaveajob — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:31:52 +0000

Delusion? Dementia? Being surrounded by yes-men?

New comment by ihaveajob in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

ihaveajob — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:39:30 +0000

I think Arxiv and similar could contribute positively by listing replications/falsifications, with credit to the validating authors. That would be enough of an incentive for aspiring researchers to start making a dent.

New comment by ihaveajob in "High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39"

ihaveajob — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:43:14 +0000

Yes, it's the same as with nuclear vs coal. A nuclear disaster is so spectacular that it attracts a lot of attention. Meanwhile, millions of kids suffering from asthma, dying of cancer, etc. don't make the 9pm news because it's harder to connect the dots.