Hacker News: narcindin

New comment by narcindin in "GPT-5.5"

narcindin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:05:43 +0000

Crazy, I could have sworn this story was from a passage in 3 Body Problem (book 2).

Memory is quite the mysterious thing.

New comment by narcindin in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

narcindin — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:05:16 +0000

Funny, I assumed it was a subtle critique of how change always elicits haters. Though now I realize it was an honest non-sequiter to complain about his pet issue?

Honestly not sure anymore.

New comment by narcindin in "All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)"

narcindin — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:14:00 +0000

We call them DJ's and many are quite famous.

New comment by narcindin in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

narcindin — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:08:41 +0000

Sad to see Healthcare and government employment growth outpace everything else. If we're all nurses or regulators who will build our country?

New comment by narcindin in "Ivy League psychologist: 'Bring your whole self to work' is bad advice"

narcindin — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:43:16 +0000

Bring your whole self to work, at this point, is the term you use to criticize this policy, not to describe it.

Maternity leave is a version of BYWSTW. As are PRIDE/ethnicity related activities as work. Should we jettison those?

I agree it can and is taken to far, but I'd prefer to read an article about actually navigating an office with different types of real people. For example, for example, thermostats preferences, volume preferences, "we a family/team" vs "just a job" preferences, etc.

New comment by narcindin in "Show HN: Reverse Pac-Man"

narcindin — Tue, 06 May 2025 21:21:27 +0000

Reminds me of a demo I played 10 years ago called swap box turbo. Designed for two players, it is a simple platformer where you and your partner swap positions and momentum every 3 seconds.

You can play it single player too and have an experience similar to this.

https://www.freeindiegam.es/2012/12/swap-box-turbo-nifflas/

New comment by narcindin in "Brood War Korean Translations"

narcindin — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:18:59 +0000

Is it how many workers you have when you build that building

New comment by narcindin in "Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals"

narcindin — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:44:01 +0000

To be clear VTI is only US stocks and VEU is everything else. It is confusing because "Vanguard Total Stock Market" contains only United States equities.

New comment by narcindin in "Show HN: My party game where AI decides if you’re funny"

narcindin — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:35:53 +0000

"I'm going to just go ahead and say 'based', entirely on the premise, thank you."

Is how I initially read this.

New comment by narcindin in "The Future of European Competitiveness"

narcindin — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:01:56 +0000

Patrick Collison is from Ireland.

New comment by narcindin in "Five Geek Social Fallacies (2003)"

narcindin — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:29:21 +0000

I would say this would have been nice to know ~20 years ago, but umm, it came out ~20 years ago. Ah well.

Perhaps I had to learn my lessons the hard way regardless

New comment by narcindin in "Nvidia Becomes Most Valuable Public Company, Topping Microsoft and Apple"

narcindin — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:49:28 +0000

Owning ~.00001% of a company feels illusory to me, more difficult to intuit values. So would Nvidia share owners rather own all of Nvidia instead of all of Apple? I suspect not. The marginal buyer of nvidia is either: * MEGA-FOMO * Betting on the singularity * Momentum trading

New comment by narcindin in "Why Triplebyte Failed"

narcindin — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:43:27 +0000

> (I won’t talk about Magnet much here, because the proximate reasons for its failure are pretty simple: we ran out of money and the market fell out from under it. It might have - smart money says probably did have - other means of failure, but we didn’t last long enough to find them in any great detail.)

This has the same voice as patio11. Did he start this style? Is it new? Who else talks like this?

New comment by narcindin in "Texas poised to get own stock exchange – with less red tape than NYSE or Nasdaq"

narcindin — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 14:21:46 +0000

The Texas electric grid is 25% cheaper than New Yorks: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

Texas produces more electricity than any other state, in fact more than 2x as much as the 2nd place state: https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=TX (ctr+f for 'Texas produces more electricity than any other state')

Texas is the #1 producer of renewable energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_renewab...

Texas's energy position is enviable, and shows a state leveraging its natural advantages rather than coasting on them.

New comment by narcindin in "Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders"

narcindin — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:00:09 +0000

I get the https://www.newsminimalist.com/ daily newsletter in my RSS reader. A few important news stories each day. Where important is decided by ChatGPT.

New comment by narcindin in "'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant"

narcindin — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:23:30 +0000

I have a similar rule: "The first person to tell their opponent 'your ideas are offensive' forfeits the debate".

I believe my rule prevents more bad arguments.

New comment by narcindin in "$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people"

narcindin — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:15:09 +0000

I am happy for Las Angeles to perform a widespread trial of this kind of initiative. Attract people to Southern California that might be homeless elsewhere, help them get on their feet via $750/person/month, then they will get off the subsidy and contribute back to the community!

If it works I will encourage a similar system in my hometown. If it does not work then I'm glad we did a trial run first.

Note: I'm paywalled from reading the article, how many people did they give the money to and how long was it?

New comment by narcindin in "Company with a 10% lifetime employee turnover shows their real secret is trust"

narcindin — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 19:24:02 +0000

India is not homogeneous. Neither are most (all?) countries in Southeast Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa.

New comment by narcindin in "The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven, c and nine."

narcindin — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:08:37 +0000

This is cool. Isn't finding these the same as minting a new block of bitcoin? So definitially hard using our best understanding of algorithms, math, etc.

New comment by narcindin in "Median Center of Population for the United States: 1880 to 2020 (2021)"

narcindin — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:19:02 +0000

Looks like the 2020 line is just east of Chicago and just north of the SFBA.

The line can't move West or South too quickly as every additional minute represents so many people shifting from one side of the median to the other.