Hacker News: jbgt

New comment by jbgt in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

jbgt — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:07:30 +0000

A series that hits even closer is BrainDead, about an alien that gets into politicians' heads and polarizes them completely. It's very fun, and each episode recap at the beginning is done via lyrics of a folky song. Worth a watch and laugh. And cry.

New comment by jbgt in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

jbgt — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:52:54 +0000

No, you just don't have to be black or white about it.

At daycare they don't do it, that's ok. Do it at home. It's not a PROJECT, it's an orientation.

Take it easy.

New comment by jbgt in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

jbgt — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:51:35 +0000

It works well! And it's not huge effort either. Don't overpressure your self or your kid but go ahead and follow the method it's fine.

You'll be fine.

New comment by jbgt in "Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory"

jbgt — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:22:57 +0000

https://github.com/z80dev/lemon

Sounds like exactly this, hot off the presses...

New comment by jbgt in "Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well"

jbgt — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:03:05 +0000

Slice THEIR hands. They might say yours are rigged.

I'm a non dev and the things I'm building blow me away. I think many of these people criticizing are perhaps more on the execution side and have a legitimate craft they are protecting.

If you're more on the managerial side, and I'd say a trusting manager not a show me your work kind, then you're more likely to be open and results oriented.

New comment by jbgt in "Welcome to Gas Town"

jbgt — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 03:04:21 +0000

Look at cc-mirror, and use the mclaude there.

It unlocks a (still) hidden multiagent orchestration function in Claude code. The person making it unminified the code and figured out how to unlock it.

I find it quite well done - I started a orchestrator project a few days ago and scrapped it because it'll be fully integrated soon it seems.

New comment by jbgt in "OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI"

jbgt — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 08:39:33 +0000

Oh wow conreasoning through an IRC like chat. That's a great idea.

Would be cool (sci fi) for LLMs of different users to chat and discuss approaches to what the humans are talking about etc.

New comment by jbgt in "New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care"

jbgt — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:50:15 +0000

Have you seen the feeling great app? It's not an official therapy app but it's based in TEAM CBT, made by David Burns and team.

Burns is really into data gathering and his app is LLM based on the rails of the TEAM process and it seems to be very well received.

I found it simple and very well done - and quite effective.

A top level comment says that therapists aren't good either - Burns would argue that mainly no one tests before and after and so no measuring effect is done.

And of people I know who see a therapist, practically none can tell me what exactly they are doing or what methods they are doing or how anything is structured.

New comment by jbgt in "A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain"

jbgt — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:27:09 +0000

Amazing read! Thanks for this

New comment by jbgt in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

jbgt — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:21:16 +0000

And I ask how to make mescaline (which is legal in some jurisdictions because cactus, traditional medicinals etc). Then I can also try arguing saying I'm a shaman from an indigenous tribe etc to see how it reacts.

New comment by jbgt in "Show HN: Sosumi.ai – Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Markdown"

jbgt — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:48:19 +0000

When I was a kid I used Sosumi as my chime on the apple IIGS!

New comment by jbgt in "Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music"

jbgt — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:23:54 +0000

Sorry, I can't tell if you're serious?

Can you confirm?

New comment by jbgt in "Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow"

jbgt — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:59:00 +0000

LibreOffice is a food alternative if you just want simple Word management.

Of course it's a big install on the other hand.

New comment by jbgt in "Scam Inc: Online scams may be as big a scourge as illegal drugs"

jbgt — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 09:33:02 +0000

https://archive.is/XHopC

Scam Inc: Online scams may be as big a scourge as illegal drugs

jbgt — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 09:32:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/02/06/online-scams-may-already-be-as-big-a-scourge-as-illegal-drugs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989560

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by jbgt in "Starship Flight 7"

jbgt — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:53:24 +0000

Landing boosters, reducing costs etc etc

New comment by jbgt in "The Peter Principle still resonates"

jbgt — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:26:29 +0000

Please spend another 30s. It can an interesting bit of philosophy about competence and ambition - and humility.

New comment by jbgt in "Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine"

jbgt — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:07:35 +0000

If I may disagree: I live in a flat with a fully electric vehicle. It's just a matter of planning around charging a bit. Once you think ahead (and it's not dramatic), you don't notice anymore.

I find plug in hybrids make no sense: electrification is the future.

New comment by jbgt in "Human history in the very long run (2021)"

jbgt — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 04:57:50 +0000

I recently discovered a blog by a historian that tries to describe life as it was.

Here's the post about what's needed to feed society with bread (there are many others) https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...

To my understanding, much of the work was backbreaking, disease was a big problem, starvation around the corner every year. And governance and freedoms were mostly reduced to service to a local strongman.

And this is before the industrial revolution, working in insalubrious factories, belching smoke steam engines etc.

Nowadays I think things are significantly better for the majority of people.

New comment by jbgt in "HIV breakthrough: Trial shows drug provides 100% protection"

jbgt — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 19:58:02 +0000

Well I hope this isn't a weird comment: thanks for expressing your views so clearly and positively. It opened my eyes to an aspect of genuine and human exploration of newfound freedom and caring.