Hacker News: morelandjs

New comment by morelandjs in "Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations"

morelandjs — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:54:29 +0000

Loved my Filco stealth, thanks for the great products!

New comment by morelandjs in "Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers"

morelandjs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:21:27 +0000

I physically twitch every time I hear a flywheel mentioned. Intended to be evocative of certain physics without actually substantiating any of it.

New comment by morelandjs in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

morelandjs — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:45:31 +0000

I’m not fully subscribed to the idea that all public scraping of websites is bad, or that this project is a productive contribution. It would be nice to have search engines other than Google, and that necessitates bots being able to index your website (in some respectful manner).

New comment by morelandjs in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

morelandjs — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:05:21 +0000

It’s depressing how many lucrative big tech (FAANG/Unicorn) jobs are effectively scams with business glitter on top. And it’s not always obvious unless you really sit down during the interview process and scrutinize the business model.

New comment by morelandjs in "Layoffs at Block"

morelandjs — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:13:09 +0000

You took the words out of my mouth. In a megacorp, AI multiplies into about 10% of my work and 10x’s it making me roughly 10% more efficient. When I use AI for side projects and don’t have to work with a bunch of stakeholders, dependency owners, and opinionated management, that 10x multiplies into my full effort and the project moves 10x faster.

Show HN: Search local NYC events like you search the web

morelandjs — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:17:05 +0000

Vibrant Search AI (vibrantsearch.ai) is a first-of-its-kind search engine that crawls local New York City webpages for scheduled events and consolidates listings into a searchable index. With Vibrant, you can search hundreds of thousands of scheduled events using a combination of date/location filters and semantic search.

We created vibrantsearch.ai to address pain points in existing event discovery platforms. Existing platforms rely on user-generated content and/or typically monetize through ticket sales. This skews event inventory toward big-ticket shows and touristy activities. We were frustrated that some of the most interesting small-venue events—e.g., your local pub special or trivia night—go completely unnoticed!

Use vibrantsearch.ai like you would a traditional search engine. You can query for specific event names, themes, or interests, and also filter by date range and location via the map (the viewport defines the filter region). Once you find something you like, click the webpage URL to visit the source, share the event card with a friend using the share button, or add it to your calendar.

We’re also experimenting with MCP connectors that let you connect Vibrant to your favorite LLM assistant. This enables cool use cases such as: “Check my wife’s and my calendars for availability and suggest some date-night ideas in the next two weeks. She loves being on the water!”

My hope is that one day we can all search events posted to the web the same way we search webpages. We’re curious to hear what you think!

MCP connector demo: https://youtu.be/JzCdyvgfWLw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122649

Points: 2

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New comment by morelandjs in "Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release"

morelandjs — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:28:13 +0000

The intersection of investors who understand what it takes to build a game engine and also the capabilities and plausible future capabilities of Google’s model is practically zero.

New comment by morelandjs in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"

morelandjs — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:19:29 +0000

The tail of the distribution justifies the entire distribution. I agree that a large percentage of PhD research is inconsequential, but a small percentage is massively consequential. It’s ok to whiff on a thousand STEM PhDs if you pick up one Andrej Karpathy (for example).

New comment by morelandjs in "Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI""

morelandjs — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:30:28 +0000

There’s more to AI than foundation models. I think you are going to see meaningful progress on chore automation over the next decade through a combination of algorithmic and mechanical improvements, and it will measurably improve our lives. Recently got a Matic robot (awesome btw), and I no longer feel the need to vacuum my floors. It’s not life changing, but it’s an appreciable convenience upgrade. The capabilities feel like a peek into the future.

New comment by morelandjs in "Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions"

morelandjs — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:37:07 +0000

The customer service is better. Rates are generally way better. The downside is generally their phone apps and their fraud departments. I had a lovely credit union but their CC was basically unusable because they hired some crummy and over aggressive fraud detection third party that would lock down my card any time there was a strong breeze.

New comment by morelandjs in "Claude Advanced Tool Use"

morelandjs — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:35:41 +0000

Their tool code use makes a lot of sense, but I don’t really get their tool search approach.

We originally had RAG as a form of search to discover potentially relevant information for the context. Then with MCP we moved away from that and instead dumped all the tool descriptions into the context and let the LLM decide, and it turned out this was way better and more accurate.

Now it seems like the basic MCP approach leads to the LLM context running out of memory due to being flooded with too many tool descriptions. And so now we are back to calling search (not RAG but something else) to determine what’s potentially relevant.

Seems like we traded scalability for accuracy, then accuracy for scalability… but I guess maybe we’ve come out on top because whatever they are using for tool search is better than RAG?

New comment by morelandjs in "[dead]"

morelandjs — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:51:27 +0000

Less confusing title would be 83% of those killed are estimated to be civilians.

New comment by morelandjs in "95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend"

morelandjs — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:52:50 +0000

I’d have to guess that new startup founders are building leaner teams leading to slower burn rates and longer run ways. That has value. I think share skepticism is warranted is whether or not old behemoths can retrofit AI efficiency gains into their existing organizational structures.

New comment by morelandjs in "GPT-5"

morelandjs — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:47:44 +0000

Anyone know what the deal is with connectors? I don’t see them in the app and they made it sound like Google Calendar would be made broadly available as a connector.

New comment by morelandjs in "Burrito Now, Pay Later"

morelandjs — Sun, 11 May 2025 23:35:42 +0000

Being fully leveraged is great for capitalism and horrible for your mental health and general well being. Ever live under crushing debt? It’s awful. Step back for a minute and look at the big picture. People are taking on debt to eat lunch. That’s insane. The author acts like it’s zero sum and if BNPL isn’t the one offering the short term loan someone else will at worse terms. That’s just not true and hand waves over the fact that people who are uneducated are unwittingly being coaxed into making bad decisions with glittery UX and one click checkout.

New comment by morelandjs in "Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M"

morelandjs — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:47:04 +0000

Would honestly prefer this to an overly burdensome interview process.

New comment by morelandjs in "Achieving Great Privacy with Safari"

morelandjs — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:41:22 +0000

How to avoid fingerprinting? In general, and is there anything for Safari?

New comment by morelandjs in "Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees"

morelandjs — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 03:02:30 +0000

https://github.com/Duke-QCD/trento/blob/master/src/fast_exp....

Check it out for yourself! I’m not claiming this was some kind of prodigious programming move, just something memorable that stuck with me.

New comment by morelandjs in "Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees"

morelandjs — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:28:35 +0000

The smartest people I’ve ever worked with to date were from physics grad school. Still remember the time my coworker was doing code profiling, decided he was unhappy that the exponential function from the standard library was too slow, and decided to write a Taylor series approximation that gave him the precision he needed and cut the run time in half. He also learned C++ in a weekend and was vastly better at it by the end of that weekend than most people I’ve met in industry. And these were just every day occurrences that made it a thrill to go to work. Working with talented people is a drug.

Some tips for younger people considering it: get involved in undergraduate research, apply to fellowships, shop for an advisor with a good reputation, start anticipating and preparing for an industry transition early, travel, date, and enjoy life!

New comment by morelandjs in "Kids Can't Read Books"

morelandjs — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:48:05 +0000

Next gen will probably leverage AI summarization extensively and effectively. They’ll have better tools to efficiently consume information than lawyers in the past.