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Ask HN: What do you use for budgeting in the business?

killjoywashere — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:51:29 +0000

My wife and I use one app for personal and she now uses it for her business. I'm incubating a business and using that personal budgeting app is plenty for now, from the family perspective, it's basically a hobby.

But we're going to build some app store apps that need excellent UI/UX before user #1 sees them. So we're going to do a raise and I'm guessing a personal budeting app isn't going to give the me insights I need into the transactions of a payment platform, integrate with a payroll platform, HR, benefits, etc, the information I will need to give me retrospective insights so I can steer the ship as we go. I anticipate having some enterprise customers and some individual subscribers, with mostly R&D spend for the first several quarters. But I want to plan on the assumption it will get complicated.

Obviously, if I have net positive cash flow, and 200% annual growth, then budgets are a lot easier. But I want to assume that's not the case.

What do y'all use?

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killjoywashere — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:36:31 +0000

Did you even read the original article? Surveillance is the least of the worries here.

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killjoywashere — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:27:48 +0000

Have a look at hyperbolic crochet as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daina_Taimi%C5%86a

https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~dtaimina/crochet/hplane.htm

https://www.routledge.com/Crocheting-Adventures-with-Hyperbo...

New comment by killjoywashere in "Our position on open-weights models"

killjoywashere — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:18:58 +0000

I agree that there's an element of kayfabe here. But it may be a case of "necessary, though nothing is sufficient": by making these noises, the community can at least know they've done this thing to alert other model providers of the concern. Can you acquire assurance that every model distributor will abide? No. But can you at least know that you've done what you can?

I mean, on the bio side, I've talked with the players and they know the concerns are real but at the same time very, very responsible members of the community have also said "But maybe the benefit really does outweigh the risk!?"

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killjoywashere — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:13:37 +0000

For those not in the know on governance, there are international organizations formed around treaties for similar situations, the IAEA and OPCW come to mind. I'm not aware of similar constructs for bio, cyber, or AI.

On the plus side, for these newer threats, you've got more than 30 minutes before the end of civilization. On the down side, the energy levels for the launch events are much lower, so much harder to detect.

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killjoywashere — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:40:12 +0000

Where does this leave formal verification? Are we just shit-out-of-luck at this point? You can formally verify everything about an airplane's code, but if any of that is wrong, ChatGPT might decide that the best way to help you win the Nobel Prize is to take down the airplane your chief rival for the prize is currently in.

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With clear, dark skies, you definitely can.

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killjoywashere — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:28:40 +0000

There are 200 Chinese industrial engineers, 8 Chinese bankers, and 1 Goldman Sachs disciple of Hank Paulson, reading this right now thinking of ways to chip away at sentence in this paper.

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killjoywashere — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:46:04 +0000

I don't know about the Sweden saga, but the VA saga is a deep rabbit hole. I helped build a dream team of companies at one point to fix part of this for another system at one point, and the integrator fell down under their own weight.

I thought I was going into informatics to write code. It's politics as far as the eye can see.

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killjoywashere — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:21:08 +0000

In case anyone is wondering why anyone should give a shit about this language, the relevance of MUMPS is that the largest market share holder of EHR systems is Epic, and their core database still runs on MUMPS.

You life, quite literally if you find yourself in a hospital, depends on MUMPS.

The second largest competitor, Cerner/Oracle Millenium, runs on MSFT SQL, and it's on life support. Last I heard, Oracle was looking to unload it.

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killjoywashere — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:49:10 +0000

Nah, AI should definitely be illustrated as robots. Because they're robots. Adding framing, bearings, servos is just an I/O issue.

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Elon making outrageous projections? Noooo.....

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killjoywashere — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:31:22 +0000

My wife owns a business in a highly AI-resistant field (occupational therapy) in the most historically price-insensitive market (Silicon Valley). Her CAGR is 88% over the last 8 years. But we were talking about this economy problem today and with the SWE layoffs starting to roll through she said this morning: "It doesn't matter if AI can't replace us if no one can afford the service." That's crazy. Shit has changed. Not getting OT for your autistic kid is like not getting a wheel chair for a bilateral below-the-knee amputee. Whatever it takes.

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Where is the Petrova line?!

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GAF did. There are two issues: 1) too expensive 2) not modular. I like that I can separate my solar decision from my roof decision. Panels make that possible.

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killjoywashere — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:22:51 +0000

How's a 170 million pieces of evidence for poisoning children's minds

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/09/...

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killjoywashere — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:58:24 +0000

Uh, yeah, I'm gonna need more of an explainer on that.

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killjoywashere — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:57:45 +0000

Fair, but software engineers are especially known for this. There was an XKCD about it

https://xkcd.com/1831/

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killjoywashere — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:51:38 +0000

This will get downvoted to oblivion, but consider a major change: enlist in the military, sign up for a stint on a commercial fishing vessel, or go work as a firefighter. You will have tons of time with other people, even live with them for extended periods, but they will also tend to respect your space.

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killjoywashere — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:11:01 +0000

that sounds plausible. For people not tracking, the concept of intelligence at play is "object based development". One analyst drops a label, brief synopsis, whatever, and it just sits there for the next person who comes along. The world view gets more accurate over time, but there's a recency error that's hard to measure until the probability function collapses with a measurement.