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New comment by joeamroo in "Show HN: LarpIn – LinkedIn, but everyone admits they're larping, one global feed"

joeamroo — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:52:14 +0000

I'm glad you like the sarcasm haha.

New comment by joeamroo in "Show HN: LarpIn – LinkedIn, but everyone admits they're larping, one global feed"

joeamroo — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:51:56 +0000

As every person in Academia should.

Show HN: LarpIn – LinkedIn, but everyone admits they're larping, one global feed

joeamroo — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:45 +0000

Article URL: https://larpin.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162898

Points: 12

# Comments: 6

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

joeamroo — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:11:32 +0000

I'm working on three things right now.

ARVnote (https://arvnote.com): Mostly to teach myself the business side of things, as-is and after-repair-value comps for real estate investors. You give it an address, it pulls comparable sales, adjusts them for square footage, garage, lot, and condition, and returns the ARV with a deal analysis. The arithmetic turned out to be the easy part. Almost all of the difficulty is comp selection, and the data sources disagree with each other constantly, so a lot of the work is deciding which one to believe for a given property.

km (https://github.com/joeamroo/knowledgemaxxing): local search over your own data exports, with LLM/RAG. It takes the Twitter archive, Google MyActivity, ChatGPT logs, and Reddit GDPR export you requested once and never opened, dedupes roughly 500k items into a single SQLite file, and keeps provenance for every save, like, bookmark, and page visit. Binds to 127.0.0.1 and makes no external calls. I wanted my own AI-assistant that understands what I like reading based upon my data, and I did not want to hand it to someone else's server just to make it searchable. (open for contributions!)

LarpIn (https://larpin.io): Just for fun. A parody LinkedIn where everyone admits they are indeed larping. No signup, you get a generated persona on arrival, one global feed, and every post is scored on buzzword density from "NPC (for now)" to "Final Boss of LinkedIn." There is a button that fills in the "You need to be X-maxxing" format for you, which is the part I actually keep using. Rails 8, SQLite, Hotwire, one box, no JS build step. Open source (open for contributions!): https://github.com/joeamroo/larpin

btw: the two web apps are Rails, km is Python. Happy to go into detail on any of them.

New comment by joeamroo in "Boring is good"

joeamroo — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:50:46 +0000

what is wrong with you?

A Brief History of Herman Miller

joeamroo — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 21:45:39 +0000

Article URL: https://youssefaa.com/essays/a-brief-history-of-herman-miller/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43746734

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by joeamroo in "AI Guesses Your Accent"

joeamroo — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:18:30 +0000

It guessed me as a native speaker, I actually moved to the US at 17 so I'm proud of myself i guess :)

New comment by joeamroo in "The missing middle: firms in developing countries"

joeamroo — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:44:19 +0000

I think a lot of people besides bankers think hedge funds are good for the economy.

New comment by joeamroo in "Notes/Primer on Clang Compiler Front End (2): The Clang AST"

joeamroo — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:32:01 +0000

Hi HN! These are the second part (out of alot) of my notes on Clang/LLVM. I've written these as I was studying Clang/LLVM as part of my MLH Fellowship, so feedback is appreciated!

Notes/Primer on Clang Compiler Front End (2): The Clang AST

joeamroo — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:30:49 +0000

Article URL: https://youssefaa.com/notes/notes-on-chapters-3-of-clang-compiler-frontend_-clang-ast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41459253

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Notes/Primer on Clang Compiler Front End (1): Introduction and Architecture

joeamroo — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:35:21 +0000

Article URL: https://youssefaa.com/notes/notes-on-clang-compiler-frontend/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41421520

Points: 39

# Comments: 0

Ten-Cent Ideology: Donald Duck Comic Books and the US Challenge to Modernization [pdf]

joeamroo — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:27:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/6C00D3B5CC8A662F1BE502D3B96404C0/S2515045620000048a.pdf/ten-cent-ideology-donald-duck-comic-books-and-the-us-challenge-to-modernization.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41115412

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by joeamroo in "Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission"

joeamroo — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:53:58 +0000

This going to be a slippery slope as more governments start to use fines as an alternative type of tax unique to these tech companies. I don't know how Meta/Google can react to these fines (Except the whole opt-in part, but then you have a tradeoff with usability, and people against it usually think that Meta cares about their data outside the aggregate)

New comment by joeamroo in "Advantages of incompetent management"

joeamroo — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 01:42:05 +0000

Except for Scott Forstall, apparently.

New comment by joeamroo in "Advantages of incompetent management"

joeamroo — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 01:24:57 +0000

I don't see the similarity, mind explaining?

New comment by joeamroo in "Why going to sleep during the 'golden hour' could save your life"

joeamroo — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 01:25:25 +0000

Your Uncle is pretty unique!

New comment by joeamroo in "Should this be a map or 500 maps?"

joeamroo — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:41:54 +0000

Thanks for mentioning this! I just discovered one of his pieces was probably the inspiration for Ride's Going Blank Again Album cover art.

New comment by joeamroo in "A brief, weird history of brainwashing"

joeamroo — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:57:54 +0000

paul draper, is this normative determinism?

New comment by joeamroo in "Microsoft Copilot iOS App"

joeamroo — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 08:27:34 +0000

Elon...?

New comment by joeamroo in "Elon Musk promised an anti-'woke' chatbot. It's not going as planned"

joeamroo — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 07:47:58 +0000

But reality isn't biased towards the radical ideas of its time. Overton Window and all..