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New comment by mehphp in "Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres"

mehphp — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 21:46:03 +0000

I was referring to adding redis prematurely

New comment by mehphp in "Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres"

mehphp — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:21:19 +0000

I think you just convinced me to drop redis for my new project.

Definitely a premature optimization on my part.

New comment by mehphp in "Show HN: Draw A Fish and watch it swim with the others"

mehphp — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:47:20 +0000

I’m so bad at drawing it only had a 46% confidence level that it was a fish

New comment by mehphp in "Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)"

mehphp — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:27:25 +0000

Yes, it’s a roll of the dice which is unfortunate because it was actually pretty fun and a quite profound experience.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t do it but just to proceed with caution and ideally under professional supervision.

New comment by mehphp in "Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)"

mehphp — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:28:40 +0000

Anecdotally, I didn’t get severe anxiety and panic attacks until immediately after trying mushrooms. I didn’t even have a bad trip, but the next day something was off and I never truly recovered from that.

New comment by mehphp in "OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google"

mehphp — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:09:38 +0000

I agree with all you’ve said but with regards to writing a dissertation for larger changes : have you tried letting it first right a plan for you as markdown (just keep this file uncommitted) and then let it build a checklist of things to do?

I find just referencing this file over and over works wonders and it respects items that were already checked off really well.

I can get a lot done really fast this way in small enough chunks so i know every bit of code and how it works (tweaking manually of course where needed).

But I can blow through some tickets way faster than before this way.

New comment by mehphp in "AGI is Mathematically Impossible 2: When Entropy Returns"

mehphp — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:06:16 +0000

Seems like it but I’m not sure consciousness necessarily comes along for the ride with AGI.

New comment by mehphp in "Microsoft Announces Xbox Console Price Hike, Xbox Games to Cost $80"

mehphp — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:28:31 +0000

Depends on the game for me, there are definitely games that I get $80 worth of value.

New comment by mehphp in "The blissful Zen of a good side project"

mehphp — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:54:01 +0000

I had no idea what I was getting into with that book

New comment by mehphp in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

mehphp — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:56:36 +0000

Sure, I’m not baffled that he think that, I’m baffled that society allows it.

New comment by mehphp in "How I Choose What to Work On (2023)"

mehphp — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:55:14 +0000

Can you elaborate on the difference, I’m not sure I get it.

New comment by mehphp in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

mehphp — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 10:51:46 +0000

For whatever reason norms/laws just don’t apply to Trump. He’s above the law; it’s baffling.

Ask HN: How often are you able to build throwaway prototypes?

mehphp — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:33:54 +0000

How often do teams actually get to build POCs that aren’t expected to go into production in some form?

I just ran into this again. I asked explicitly if the code I was writing was going to be throwaway, was told yes, but then when we wanted to move it to dev, I was told we needed test coverage... And of course, now we have a half-baked but working solution in production. Sure, we can refactor it, but it's so much more of a pain now since we have to worry about migrating real data without interrupting anything, when we could've just quickly built a better version with what we learned from the POC.

Is this just the reality of software development, or am I just unlucky?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43460304

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New comment by mehphp in "(Any) 8-hour time-restricted-eating window effective for weight loss"

mehphp — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:45:04 +0000

I find if i eat an early breakfast, it is indeed hard to not eat after the 8 hours. I find the opposite to be quite easy though. Just skip breakfast and don’t eat until around 1. I get to look forward to food later while actually being hungry.

New comment by mehphp in "X.com Is Down"

mehphp — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:49:48 +0000

I sense that change too. Comments are starting to feel too much like Reddit unfortunately.

New comment by mehphp in "A bear case: My predictions regarding AI progress"

mehphp — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:14:09 +0000

Do you have an example?

New comment by mehphp in "Layoffs Don't Work"

mehphp — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:03:00 +0000

Interviewing is a skill of its own. Some people are really good at it.

New comment by mehphp in "Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed"

mehphp — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:18:36 +0000

> It is not like water flowing in a direction guided by the terrain.

I understand it doesn’t seem intuitive at first, but evolution is actually quite similar to that.

> Trees produce thorns to keep away animals.

It's not that trees consciously produce thorns to keep animals away. Rather, trees with thorns (due to random mutations) are more likely to survive because they are less likely to be disturbed by animals. Over time, those trees are more likely to reproduce and pass on those traits.

Just like water flows down the path of least resistance, evolution naturally selects for traits that improve survival. The "selecting" we are referring to is used in the same sense that water "selects" which route it takes. It doesn't actually select anything, it's just following the laws of physics.

New comment by mehphp in "U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine"

mehphp — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:57:40 +0000

He’s insisting on something that the U.S. already agreed to…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

New comment by mehphp in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

mehphp — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:44:14 +0000

Almost certainly. I should have rephrased it as "I'm not sure how to grow it from here".