Hacker News: juvvel

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

juvvel — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:15:06 +0000

I love Tiled Words, thanks for making it.

New comment by juvvel in "DIY Soft Drinks"

juvvel — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:34:33 +0000

Kombucha is the best "natural" soft drink for me, too. It's not entirely sugar-free, though (even though you can get it to low-sugar with longer fermentation).

New comment by juvvel in "DIY Soft Drinks"

juvvel — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:31:32 +0000

Ah, good old Dragonspice.de, they have provided me with supplies for many of my experiments as well. I have many of the essential oils already, I might try this! Thank you for posting your recipe.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: What older games are you playing through?"

juvvel — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:01:29 +0000

I regularly replay FFX, I recently replayed the Battle Realms remaster, and now I'm once again on Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: For those trying to hire how hard is it to find people currently?"

juvvel — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:52:13 +0000

I agree with this observation. I often assumed it would be an USP if I highlight that I want to understand how things work instead of blindly following paradigms and frameworks, but it seems that (a sense of) uniformity just comes with too many perceived advantages, like you said.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: Why don't AI artists show their prompts?"

juvvel — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 01:29:20 +0000

I don't know the exact reason, but when they don't share the process or prompt, it seems like they're trying to gatekeep their results – which is very ironic from someone using a tool made possible by ingesting other people's work without their consent.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: For those trying to hire how hard is it to find people currently?"

juvvel — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:28:10 +0000

That's interesting to hear, because my impression was that software/web development is a field full of people who are self-taught or at least very enthusiastic about learning new tech. I am personally pretty undogmatic when it comes to languages or tools and I assumed most developers who care about solving problems are the same way.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: For those trying to hire how hard is it to find people currently?"

juvvel — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:23:28 +0000

So you're saying that someone who likes both OOP and Javascript and more functional-style programming could be a sought after candidate?

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: Is there an app you use that have no clear successor?"

juvvel — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 22:31:14 +0000

The Timely clock app. It was bought by Google and then never updated so it doesn't work on newer Android versions. Sad.

New comment by juvvel in "Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website"

juvvel — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 01:04:11 +0000

Jelly is thickened juice, jam contains the pulp. Why? Different textures.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: What would you recommend a 16 year old to pursue career wise?"

juvvel — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 18:41:34 +0000

I don't think there's an apprenticeship for every passion out there. I definitely didn't see my passions reflected in typical job profiles.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: How is your mental health?"

juvvel — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 05:18:28 +0000

Much better than last year, which is what I had been hoping for. There's still a ways to go, but it seems the worst is behind me, finally. It was a long and dark period with extremely crippling anxiety. Ironically, what helped most was to stop trying so hard to get better, but not letting myself go either. A very tricky balance to achieve that mainly hinges on your ability to talk to yourself in a kind, encouraging way. As someone who has an avid aversion to advice that seems to be superficial feel-good fluff I rejected the "be kind to yourself" concept for a while. Which, I realize, was my inner bully hijacking my logical brain making me believe I was doing something "right" by being cynical and unforgiving with myself.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: Have you taken anti-aging supplements that reduced biological age?"

juvvel — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 16:26:50 +0000

You can also apply retinoids topically. What it does is increasing collagen production.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: How would you pivot out of tech?"

juvvel — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:24:47 +0000

This would be my dream. What other field did you enter?

New comment by juvvel in "Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering"

juvvel — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 21:48:01 +0000

This, and the "of course this is just one of many possible solutions" disclaimer at the end. I agree it was probably written by GPT.

New comment by juvvel in "I’m a doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients"

juvvel — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 11:25:39 +0000

I don't know much about professional translating, but wouldn't you be able to track the error rate of the machine translation by looking at the number of corrections? And then translators could use this as leverage to negotiate better pay if it's obvious they need are translating from scratch in, say, 50% of cases anyway.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: Best way to “donate” dev hours to charity?"

juvvel — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 19:34:24 +0000

This might not be the answer you're looking for, but I've frequently heard that charities are in dire need of people willing to do hands-on work instead of the "comfy" administrative stuff. Someone who is willing to guard the entrance to a DV shelter, for example, or someone to come in and do a few loads of laundry. I know we want to help with the skills we have, but it seems charities already have enough supply of people wanting to do some low-key work. Meanwhile the real problems go unsolved.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?"

juvvel — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:45:56 +0000

You can ask it to specify or point out any logical errors you observed and it will correct itself. If there's a contradiction I know that the information might be incorrect. I'm also just using it as a starting point to prime my brain, of course as of today we still need other sources to verify the knowledge.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?"

juvvel — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:02:04 +0000

It can explain stuff to you in exactly the way you need to, and walk you through problems. You can ask it to create quizzes / guided questions for you which helps in organizing your own thoughts. Another application I find quite remarkable is asking it for good prompts for image generation models. The biggest benefit is that you're not starting from zero when entering a new problem space / domain.

New comment by juvvel in "I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney"

juvvel — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:58:34 +0000

> However do note that capitalist entities have infiltrated the government and have huge sway over it's regulatory policies meaning that anti-business regulatory policies are unlikely to occur.

Maybe this is the case in the US, the EU is known for being much more strict in its regulations, which is often ridiculed by the rest of the world. Those same people are going to hope for regulations once we see the effects of the current Wild West that is AI.