Hacker News: nicd

New comment by nicd in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

nicd — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:02:29 +0000

Because everyone knows how to inspect hardware against future supply chain attacks, right?

New comment by nicd in "Claude Now Works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides"

nicd — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:51:59 +0000

Note: Claude has already launched Claude Docs!

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16923645-get-started-...

New comment by nicd in "Whatever became of holography? (2011)"

nicd — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:05:08 +0000

The Museum of Holography still exists! Worth a visit next time you are in NYC.

They also offer classes and a residency program that I have been keenly considering.

New comment by nicd in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"

nicd — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:49:47 +0000

I'm personally here for thought-provoking, high-quality content. To quote the HN guidelines, "Anything that good hackers would find interesting."

AI content is typically lower quality, but I'm not opposed to AI-aided content just on the principle of the thing?

New comment by nicd in "Ask HN: If Social network is created today, what do you want to see?"

nicd — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:12:15 +0000

An emphasis on driving users towards IRL socialization, and strengthening geographically local communities.

New comment by nicd in "Facts about throwing good parties"

nicd — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 03:28:15 +0000

Partiful works well?

New comment by nicd in "Signal is the number-one downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?"

nicd — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 06:30:34 +0000

They are not big-tech American, and as a non-profit, they aren't beholden to advertiser or investor interests.

New comment by nicd in "The Anti-Social Century"

nicd — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:11:33 +0000

Very fair, and worth addressing. May I ask- what are the main barriers preventing you from socializing? Could intentionally designed apps or social structures reduce those barriers? What do you think would be most helpful?

New comment by nicd in "The Anti-Social Century"

nicd — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:44:25 +0000

I'm not sure which happy, anti-social countries you are referring to.

"It may turn out that people aren’t hanging out at bars, but at home." I understand that entertaining at home has been in decline over the last few decades, and is at or near an all time low. Putnam discusses this in Bowling Alone, and all research I've seen lines up with that.

My belief is that most people agree that the decline of community is a problem (I'll cite the Surgeon General's report, for example). I'm open to reconsidering my position if you have sources for the opposing viewpoint.

New comment by nicd in "The Anti-Social Century"

nicd — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:28:18 +0000

This is the issue that is top of mind for me at the moment. If you're frustrated by political polarization, this is one of the root causes! I'm very eager to hear any ideas on steps we can take to systematically reverse this damage to society.

Software Engineers: Do No Harm

nicd — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:18:25 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@nicdahlquist/software-engineers-do-no-harm-84c339d1e8d9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42663003

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Lamenting 2024, and NY Resolution

nicd — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:32:08 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@nicdahlquist/lamenting-2024-and-a-ny-resolution-b4d5e1c214b4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42598721

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nicd in "Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios"

nicd — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:06:21 +0000

Because liquidating / selling your shares is a taxable event. If you purchased a simple ETF to begin with, your tax burden would have been lower.

New comment by nicd in "How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows"

nicd — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:17:33 +0000

In Apple's case, it is also a demonstration that leadership strongly cares about design (a core value of the company).

New comment by nicd in "Using the moiré effect to show different arrows to each observer (2018)"

nicd — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 17:47:44 +0000

This also reminds me of Lumii (now Fathom), which is an MIT media lab spin-out that prints multiple inkjet layers to create a 3D effect:

https://www.inkworldmagazine.com/contents/view_online-exclus...

New comment by nicd in "Show HN: I made an AI image enhancer that boosts images 10x to 12k pixels"

nicd — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:18:41 +0000

This image may not be a representative test case. It looks like it has heavy compression (including posterization), and overall poor quality. "Quality" meaning things like focus, contrast, and low noise- separate from resolution.

New comment by nicd in "Texture Enhancement for Video Super-Resolution"

nicd — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 17:32:19 +0000

Instead of writing out frames at a fixed FPS (ie, 60 fps), the driver would send out updates to individual pixels at precise moments in time, and the unaddressed pixels would remain unchanged. I'm not sure whether or where this kind of technology is used in practice.

Lucky Lab Rat: How AI Saved Our Company

nicd — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:02:36 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@nicdahlquist/lucky-lab-rat-how-ai-saved-our-company-22bf1d5ebbb4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40832689

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nicd in "Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging"

nicd — Sun, 26 May 2024 17:53:51 +0000

Not sure what Gong's pricing is, but we evaluated a few different notetakers and settled on https://fireflies.ai/. $18 / month gets a recording and summary sent out to all invitees to the calendar invite, uploaded into Hubspot, etc. Very valuable for our sales calls.

New comment by nicd in "I should have loved biology (2020)"

nicd — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:47:22 +0000

Fluorescence microscopy is a great tool for this!