Hacker News: notaharvardmba

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?"

notaharvardmba — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:03:47 +0000

The mind-body connection is also real.

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Claude Opus 4.8"

notaharvardmba — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:19:01 +0000

You could run 3 times and overlay/average the images to show how consistent they are

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Claude Platform on AWS"

notaharvardmba — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:19:13 +0000

Need to just pay all your other vendors through marketplace too!

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot"

notaharvardmba — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:17:56 +0000

Opus 4.7 tends to do this overkill stuff regardless of what you’re trying to do

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Claude Platform on AWS"

notaharvardmba — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:42:29 +0000

It allows one to conveniently hide your claude expense in your big ass AWS bill.

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Choo Choo Words: Spell words to make train tracks, stop the train from crashing"

notaharvardmba — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:34:53 +0000

Great game. You could maybe have it pause the train a variable amount if you get double/triple words or letters or higher than 50 points for a word. Then you get rewarded for better play.

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)"

notaharvardmba — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:05:57 +0000

They just want to fire up Colstrip again, 4 huge coal power generation plants that literally print money. If you’re burning shit for AI it’s fine now I guess.

New comment by notaharvardmba in "The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me"

notaharvardmba — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:02:56 +0000

This post strikes me as immature. Ask an older person like your grandfather what they think about “self help”. And ask like you believe they are wiser than you, not some doddering fool from “another time”. Look, we’re all slaves to our childhood learnings. But you can change and learn to think in a new way—in a way that’s you. Just be you.

New comment by notaharvardmba in "U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs"

notaharvardmba — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:41:05 +0000

This whole thing feels like a troll. We should assume any new HN account created in the last 18 months is much more likely to be a bot, and now we got OpenClaw to worry about. Nothing stopping our true adversary or troublemakers from giving OpenClaw a plausible new identity and telling it to argue about given world view. Or pass whatever false information it can to try to change public opinion. Can you tell which replies in this thread are real vs propaganda?

New comment by notaharvardmba in "U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs"

notaharvardmba — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:30:51 +0000

Nixon (R) was the one to open China, fool. Your swift boating doesn’t work here.

New comment by notaharvardmba in ""A Crowd-Driven Platform That Lets People Vote"

notaharvardmba — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 04:05:33 +0000

https://www.halfbakery.com

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Ask HN: Is anyone doing intelligent tiering for logs?"

notaharvardmba — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:50:23 +0000

Splunk has done this forever

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Ask HN: Best way to get laid off"

notaharvardmba — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:44:10 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Ask HN: Best way to get laid off"

notaharvardmba — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:37:19 +0000

Smoke weed every day before work. Everyone will love you but your work quality will decrease, they’ll notice but they won’t want to just fire you because you’re nice. So they’ll “regrettably have to downsize your position” and give you a couple months pay. That’s the worst case; best case you end up in a Peter Gibbons type scenario and get promoted to management and you can help all the other poor saps like you chillax.

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Ask HN: Why reinvent front-end frameworks and static site builders?"

notaharvardmba — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:16:19 +0000

Look up “not invented here” syndrome (NIH)

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Ask HN: Don't You Mind That LLMs Are Mostly Proprietary?"

notaharvardmba — Thu, 22 May 2025 03:54:16 +0000

LLMs are just a statistical analysis of a large body of written information. The proprietary part is mostly the training. It’ll end up being similar to OSM vs Google maps vs HERE. You can get close with crowd/open sourcing, but you can get significantly better at any given point in time by investing millions or billions. At some point the commodity version will be good enough and then no one will invest any more and we’ll stall out for a while until someone succeeds at the next moonshot.

New comment by notaharvardmba in "What If Every Picture You've Ever Seen Already Exists?"

notaharvardmba — Thu, 22 May 2025 03:46:04 +0000

You should look at the jpeg/mpeg compression algorithm, definitely contains bits of this idea but uses the actual images as a starting point

New comment by notaharvardmba in "I spent 15 years developing a tool to make sense of software version numbers"

notaharvardmba — Thu, 22 May 2025 03:32:52 +0000

Tl;dr would be nice, as others mentioned. I could see using a variant of the concept to visualize code changes. Have a circle divided into pie slices that represent however you organize your microservices, packages, components, modules or classes. Then distance from the center represents time or reverse time. You could then quickly see changes over time, which areas of the codebase is affected, etc.

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Ask HN: Has anyone been able to overcome crippling executive dysfunction?"

notaharvardmba — Thu, 22 May 2025 01:50:15 +0000

Reframe and reset your viewpoint. Look at the past five years; What value have you created? What mistakes have you made? What have you learned? Then turn that into a new reason Why you are doing what you’re doing.

New comment by notaharvardmba in "Ask HN: Have you built something that users have become addicted to or overused?"

notaharvardmba — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 19:05:29 +0000

Your creation led to younger me becoming a much better person. I learned when I was being a know it all vs Insightful or Funny. Probably the single greatest learning environment ever created. Yeah, probably would have gotten more work done without it existing, but I wouldn’t have social skills or know as much correct facts about everything. Thank you.