Hacker News: netman21

New comment by netman21 in "Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster"

netman21 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:35:22 +0000

Interesting fact: University of Southhampton developed 5D disks for dense data storage. The capability was acquired by the Arch Foundation which seeks to preserve data longterm. They donated one of the first 5D disks to Elon Musk who placed it in the red Tesla that he sent into Solar orbit on the first Falcon Heavy booster. The disk contains the Foundation Trilogy by Arthur C. Clarke.

New comment by netman21 in "Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s"

netman21 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:18:46 +0000

Largest in recorded history is a bit of hyperbole. In the 1800s something like 80% of all Americans had the TB bacillus and of those that came down with TB a huge percentage died.

New comment by netman21 in "Show HN: AI Assistant for cybersecurity product research"

netman21 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:34:57 +0000

It's an offshoot from dashboard.it-harvest.com

Show HN: AI Assistant for cybersecurity product research

netman21 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:28:56 +0000

We built this to give people access to the data we collect on 11,300 cybersecurity products from 4,070 companies.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42724815

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by netman21 in "Visualizing All ISBNs"

netman21 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 02:13:42 +0000

Hee, hee. "Imperial Library of Trantor."

New comment by netman21 in "I've acquired a new superpower"

netman21 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:17:36 +0000

As a kid I learned to see stereograms in 3D by crossing my eyes. Exact same technique. Comes in handy for Mars images today.

New comment by netman21 in "Ask HN: Best Cyber Warfare Books?"

netman21 — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 01:27:41 +0000

Surviving Cyberwar There Will be Cyberwar: How The Move To Network-Centric Warfighting Has Set The Stage For Cyberwar

New comment by netman21 in "Washington's 'forgotten giant' volcano stirs"

netman21 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:49:39 +0000

Man I would die of shame if I ever wrote something as bad as "it’s not yet clear if the increase in seismic activity is anything more than just an unusually high number of tremors."

New comment by netman21 in "Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?"

netman21 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:38:56 +0000

All of my business comes from Linkedin. I get inbound leads from content I post to Substack. I then promote it with a pithy summary on Linkedin. I don't encounter any of the stuff in this article. I typically get 5-30K views of my posts and have 38K followers. I was in the first cohort of the LinkedIn Creator Accelerator program which was held the three months before I launched my SaaS. The secret to hacking the algorithm is no secret. Post original content four times a week. Because my SaaS is a data platform on cybersecurity and 95% of my followers are in cybersecurity I get tremendous engagement. I remember all the hacking community deriding Twitter when it launched. Back then the cool kids were on Digg. Now they are on Twitter deriding LinkedIn where they cannot pose as something they are not.

New comment by netman21 in "AI Hype is completely out of control – especially since ChatGPT-4o [video]"

netman21 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:55:54 +0000

Remember when Cliff Stoll wrote a whole book about how the internet was over-hyped, Silicon Snake Oil? In 1995. We are in the same stage with AI.

New comment by netman21 in "Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups?"

netman21 — Thu, 02 May 2024 11:23:55 +0000

Supademo is great for creating interactive demos. You record your screen then script out the actions a user would take. Super simple.

New comment by netman21 in "Horizontal running inside circular walls of Moon settlements"

netman21 — Thu, 02 May 2024 11:17:12 +0000

Now I envision a multi-story lunar habitat with a 30 foot diameter well that you have to run on to get from one level to the next. At least to get up. Getting down may just involve jumping down.

New comment by netman21 in "What does startups expect from a intern"

netman21 — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 13:28:11 +0000

Well, I hired my intern in January 2022. He used no-code to launch our product in March of '22. Now he is co-founder and CTO and still has a year to go in school!

New comment by netman21 in "Problem with selling developer tools is that devs have no purchasing authority"

netman21 — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 11:53:54 +0000

If you qualify for itemized deductions, which you do if you have a mortgage, you can claim things you need for professional development, etc. Subscriptions are a good catch-all. The IRS meant magazine subscriptions, but...

New comment by netman21 in "Monkey Management"

netman21 — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 21:23:42 +0000

I was introduced to monkey management principles at my first job out of school. This was 1982. My boss taught it to me. Has helped me ever after.

New comment by netman21 in "Wreck of Shackleton's 'Endurance' discovered in Antarctic depths (2022)"

netman21 — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 11:47:52 +0000

I read Endurance many times when I was younger. Had lunch with someone who turned out to be the son of the architects who designed Alfred Lansing's house! I know, obscure...

New comment by netman21 in "Thoughts on the Future of Software Development"

netman21 — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:58:53 +0000

Now combine this approach with concepts of no-code, which takes the task of writing lines of code out of the path from concept to production. An AI could easily create instructions that could be fed to bubble to create an app. Either bubble is already working on this or someone else is and bubble will miss the boat.

New comment by netman21 in "Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?"

netman21 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:23:21 +0000

Self employed on and off for 20 years. I am an industry analyst, former Gartner. If you have questions about that I wrote a book about it. :-) https://www.amazon.com/Curmudgeon-How-Succeed-Industry-Analy...

New comment by netman21 in "Germany: Police seize bitcoins worth €2B"

netman21 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:51:40 +0000

When are we going to stop calculating BTC total value by multiplying number of BTC times what is, let's face it, a spot price. There is no way you could sell 2 billion euros worth of BTC. You can't convert them into real property.

New comment by netman21 in "Small biz owners scale back their office space or go remote altogether"

netman21 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:48:17 +0000

We have always been 100% remote. I have people who live in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, NC, IL, and CA. It's the only way to go.