Hacker News: moonsu

New comment by moonsu in "Making Claude a Chemist"

moonsu — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:17:53 +0000

I wonder if chemistry skills will be an emergent behaviour of world model research.

New comment by moonsu in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

moonsu — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 14:01:51 +0000

This is the mini version which is not as good as o1 and I don’t think they demoed in the o3 announcement. I’m hoping the full release will be impressive

New comment by moonsu in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

moonsu — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:30:17 +0000

Did they even think about what happens when they get to o4? We’re going to have GPT-4o and o4

New comment by moonsu in "Show HN: An open-source notification infrastructure"

moonsu — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:43:11 +0000

There’s also https://www.notificationapi.com/ as a non free option

New comment by moonsu in "Inflection-2: the next step up"

moonsu — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:44:00 +0000

Why? You’re not going to be running it on your own hardware. As an end user all that matters are the results.

New comment by moonsu in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

moonsu — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 11:10:48 +0000

> The truth is before this Sam was basically running circles around the board and doing whatever he wanted on the profit side- that's what was pissing them off so much in the first place. He was even trying to depose board members who were openly critical of open AI's practices.

Do you have a source for this?

New comment by moonsu in "Ask HN: Who has deployed commercial features using GPT4?"

moonsu — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 11:02:25 +0000

I’ve found v4 to be much better at following formatting. If I put “reply with code only” in the system message then I don’t get all the explanations.

The system message is completely useless in 3.5 though and you’re better off putting your instructions in the first user message.

I haven’t used v4 in production yet though because it is so slow. I really hope they speed it up.

New comment by moonsu in "Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?"

moonsu — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:50:24 +0000

> 4. From a financial point of view, I’m still paying the employee and the service, so either I need enough services and time savings that I can eliminate a job, or the service has to have positive ROI of its own.

More likely, there's other work that the employee could be doing that will help your company grow

New comment by moonsu in "Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021"

moonsu — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:44:14 +0000

Do you expect a headline to tell you the whole story?

New comment by moonsu in "USA buys up world stock of remdesivir"

moonsu — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:16:19 +0000

That compound in particular is used to help replace a C-OH bond with a C-CN bond. It may seem like a weird chemical but it's very commonly used in organic synthesis.

> Why wouldn't the same but with a more typical fully-carbon backbone work?

Because a fully carbon backbone would not be as reactive and would not attach/detach from the intermediate as needed

New comment by moonsu in "Introduction to Permaculture (1994)"

moonsu — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 11:58:16 +0000

Another great channel to follow is Rob Avis https://www.youtube.com/user/VergePermaculture

He's an engineer from the oil and gas industry and he's excellent at designing for energy efficiency

Ask HN: Scaling a Traditional Business

moonsu — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:00:23 +0000

I own a small optometry clinic with my wife and we're reaching the upper limit of what it can provide for us with the current business model. All of our income comes from eye exams (we don't sell glasses or other products) and our doctors are fully booked so the next logical step is to get more space and hire more doctors. Being a software developer I am trying to find ways to increase revenue that isn't limited by the number of we exams a person can perform in a day. The city is saturated with optometrists so at some point we'll be fighting to get more patients.

Other ways to grow could be:

* sell glasses - don't want to but probably enevitable

* increase prices - done recently and currently pretty high compared to other clinics

* service add-ons - extras tests and whatnot that can be charged on top of the base exam fee. Don't like this because we don't want to "sell" services. If it's needed it should be a part of the regular exam. We have an all inclusive price which I think is a good differentiator.

* increase efficiencies to allow more eye exams in a day

* package some in-house software to be sold to other clinics - not much to offer at this point

* help other clinics digitize their processes or improve security of their systems

I am hoping I can seek the wisdom of HN for novel ideas of how to grow, especially if it doesn't include getting paid dollars for hours

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21914191

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Considering a bootcamp. Anyone familiar with Bitmaker?

moonsu — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 10:03:03 +0000

I've been self-teaching myself to code for a little while now and I feel like I need something more to make myself employable in the industry. The best code bootcamp near me seems to be Bitmaker in Toronto.

Does anyone have any experience with then or their alumni?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12460768

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: Is there a site similar to HN for brick and mortar entrepreneurs?

moonsu — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:02:11 +0000

I love reading HN articles but a lot of the tech startup stories are not directly applicable to me. Does anybody know of any similar sites that are geared toward entrepreneurs working on starting a business with a physical presence?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856713

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by moonsu in "Solar Fire Breakthrough"

moonsu — Mon, 09 May 2011 19:00:00 +0000

There will certainly be maintenance costs during that 20 years though.

I do like the idea that as PV efficiencies improve you only have to swap out one cell per dish

New comment by moonsu in "Solar Fire Breakthrough"

moonsu — Sun, 08 May 2011 23:30:57 +0000

Have any idea how much a ZenithSolar unit costs? Apparently they've given an Israeli community of 1100 people a surplus of electricity with only 16 units.

New comment by moonsu in "Solar Fire Breakthrough"

moonsu — Sun, 08 May 2011 23:04:06 +0000

Zenith Solar is certainly more advanced. Thanks for pointing it out.

The difference between the two projects though is open source vs proprietary. Zenith looks very impressive but Solar Fire is meant to put solar power cheaply and easily into anyone's hands. They are both worth following IMO

New comment by moonsu in "Solar Fire Breakthrough"

moonsu — Sun, 08 May 2011 22:58:48 +0000

They have a TED Talk which is exciting to watch as well

http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html

New comment by moonsu in "Track Amazon.com price drops with Firefox and Chrome addon"

moonsu — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:40:24 +0000

Doesn't work for Chromium 10 on Linux unfortunately

New comment by moonsu in "Track Amazon.com price drops with Firefox and Chrome addon"

moonsu — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:37:17 +0000

Does it apply to amazon.ca?

edit: just read the FAQ. Hope to see support soon.