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New comment by johsole in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

johsole — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:14:24 +0000

> No, it was enforcement against the ultra-wealthy and corporations

This is how income tax was sold to the American public. When it originally started it really only did effect the top earners, but as the years rolled on and inflation happened it impacted more and more people. The reality is these tools that target only the 'wealthy', if they're successful are used to target everyone.

New comment by johsole in "NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket"

johsole — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:58:31 +0000

Sports betting enters a new era where leagues will have partnerships directly. How long before championships are scripted?

New comment by johsole in "No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner"

johsole — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:51:51 +0000

Is anyone actually no longer saving for retirement due to the advances in Ai?

New comment by johsole in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

johsole — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:45:28 +0000

Thank you Disney!

This was exactly the push I needed to cancel my subscription. We already own all the Disney DVDs that we actually love, and there hasn't been anything good released by Disney in ages.

New comment by johsole in "Yes, and"

johsole — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:00:54 +0000

I disagree with the author. I think as LLMs get better at coding it will be more likely that that fewer devs will be required to keep systems running and progressing, the bottleneck at my company is already new revenue generating ideas. We've seen a roughly 30% increase in speed of new features, so the same number of devs are building a lot quicker. I expect that to continue to increase. I also see a lot of Devs simply trusting that the code is correct, they are losing touch with the code.

I don't think I would encourage my kids to get involved with programming, instead I would encourage them to become entrepreneurs who might use some coding.

New comment by johsole in "Enjoy Every Sandwich"

johsole — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:24:38 +0000

amen.

New comment by johsole in "Enjoy Every Sandwich"

johsole — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:22:21 +0000

In college I did an apple fast twice. Only eat apples and drink water for 3 days. You have to be careful doing this because you can end up very dehydrated. Whatever you eat after the 3rd day is the best meal of your life even though it's typically very simple. I would usually have something like a soup or very basic sandwich, it was still usually the most tasty thing I had ever eaten.

New comment by johsole in "WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE"

johsole — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:45:20 +0000

I have a client that uses webflow and they author everything in the edit mode and the site is constantly breaking. They just email me to update everything now.

New comment by johsole in "Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years"

johsole — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:35:57 +0000

The importance of walking can not be overstated. Walking for 30 mins every other day will dramatically improve your life if you are sedentary. If you can't do 30 minutes, start with 15.

New comment by johsole in "What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check"

johsole — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:55:47 +0000

I'm building a product and exploring these questions in that domain. I'm thinking about it a little differently. I have a known set of hardware sensors that I'm collecting all the data from. Per sensor the data has a strong schema with a timestamp, what is interesting is the insights that can be gleaned across sensors. So what sensors do you have that you want to record, have a strong schema against that sensor, now have something you can use to tie across sensors, now you can use LLMs to query the data and draw interesting insights

New comment by johsole in "Don't be a meat proxy"

johsole — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:50:34 +0000

A lot of the joy I used to have doing this job is gone. I wrote some recursive code to turn nested API parameters into Elastic search queries, it was the last really cool thing I did pre-Ai. Sometimes I look at that code with a fond nostalgia, I'll never write code like that again unless I go out of my way to do it for fun. I don't even know what being a software dev will look like in a year from now.

New comment by johsole in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

johsole — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:22:27 +0000

Stacked PRs have been great, a huge boon for me. I was using it before the UI support, just on the command line. `gh stack rebase` is too useful.

New comment by johsole in "A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review"

johsole — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:43:42 +0000

I think we're going to get to that point on the 'S' curve. I also think the moat for a lot of companies is going to be their process and data, self hosting tuned models could be increasingly viewed as a trade secret.

New comment by johsole in "A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review"

johsole — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:42:00 +0000

What kind of hardware are you using and what is your token generation speed (tok/s)? Every time I've tried to run local models, even on my beefy mac book (128Gb Ram), I've been very disappointed at tok/s speed.

New comment by johsole in "Work out daily? OK, but how socially fit are you? (2023)"

johsole — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:12:59 +0000

I would describe myself as an introvert, but one thing I absolutely nailed was my marriage. I married someone who fits with me so well. We've been married for almost 14 years, we have 3 kids, and lots of responsibilities, but we still have lots of fun hanging out with each other and we make time to do that. Some of our most fun dates are still just going on walks and having a meal together.

I think if you've got a marriage like that, you've won. If you can layer on a few friendships, than you have plenty, and if you can layer on a community like a Church then you have abundance.

If you don't know where to start, a Church is a great place to start.

New comment by johsole in "Work out daily? OK, but how socially fit are you? (2023)"

johsole — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:49:43 +0000

Like most things, 80-20 rule probably applies.

> It was satisfaction in their relationships, particularly in their marriages, that was the best predictor of a happy and healthy life.

Good marriages is probably the 80. If you nailed that you've won.

New comment by johsole in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

johsole — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:47:32 +0000

One nice thing about using React even on the web is that it forces your Backend to be REST right from the start. Although I sincerely thing that is less important now with the explosion of LLMs. I've started thinking about everything as Display + MCP Server. Where a SPA front end is really just pre-defined display.

New comment by johsole in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

johsole — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:44:31 +0000

I know that you can have a shortcut on the users phone home screen but I've run into a bunch of problems with that setup where hitting it multiple times opens multiple tabs etc.

Have you found nice workarounds for that?

New comment by johsole in "Show HN: DroneWorld – Earth with multiplayer drones and Ethereum real estate"

johsole — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:47:23 +0000

Flew around a bit and was fun. What do you use to build it?

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

johsole — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:38:31 +0000

I would love to have floor to ceiling custom shelves. On my second floor I have ceilings that are angled instead of flat and would love to still have the usable space for books. Stuff like this is what I would love to make:

https://share.google/k4KshWNpwbCHKACre