Hacker News: notzane

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

notzane — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:33:56 +0000

> I learned from a recruiter years ago that the most valuable part of your LI profile is … your connections number.

How long ago was this? I’ve been talking to lots of recruiters and the most common points I hear are

- add every skill

- keywords in your descriptions so you show up in searches

- gaps and job tenure

Remote jobs apparently get a ton of fake candidates so some recruiters have started checking for verification and profile age as additional signals.

New comment by notzane in "The man who killed Google Search?"

notzane — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:27:21 +0000

Jørgen Vig Knudstorp saved Lego

New comment by notzane in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

notzane — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 01:00:54 +0000

The High Velocity Edge had a lot about this subject.

The most memorable example was at a hospital, nurses would occasionally pick up the wrong vial. They always noticed before injecting, but there were lots of close calls that didn’t get tracked anywhere. Once they started tracking that as a leading indicator, it became pretty obvious that the vials needed a better design to prevent even the possibility of grabbing the wrong one. Also, if the hospital never realized this problem and someone got hurt, they would’ve ended up with a much worse solution like “double check really close”

New comment by notzane in "Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations"

notzane — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 02:01:30 +0000

Kindle was pre-smartphone popularity (same year as first iPhone) so it had a chance to become established before it was competing directly. Alexa and other smart home devices are better examples now that I think about it more. Also, looks like they already make some hardware for drivers

https://www.uber.com/blog/beacon-improving-pickups-with-bett...

New comment by notzane in "Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations"

notzane — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:33:29 +0000

Spotify tried this, did not go well for them. Amazon and Meta learned the same many years ago

New comment by notzane in "Kroger's Digital Struggle"

notzane — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:23:29 +0000

If you have 10+ items it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll need an attendant at some point. Also why lock out the whole system when you scan alcohol? Let me keep scanning and I’ll show ID when the person gets here.

New comment by notzane in "jQuery v4.0 Beta"

notzane — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 03:15:14 +0000

Doesn’t work anymore :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894135

New comment by notzane in "Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?"

notzane — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:31:07 +0000

https://www.askaway.bot/

AI concierge for my parents’ vacation rental. Mostly just pulling info from the guest binder, but I’ve also started using some local guides to give better suggestions. Built with NextJs and deployed on Vercel (was really easy and they have a generous free tier).

New comment by notzane in "Plastic bag bans work"

notzane — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 22:48:23 +0000

There’s been some research showing the effect you’re seeing is real.

> We estimate that CGB [carryout grocery bag] regulations lead to an average increase in purchased plastics of 127 pounds per store per month, ranging from 30 to 135 (37–224) pounds for 4-gallon (8-gallon) trash bags.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-022-00646-5

New comment by notzane in "Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)"

notzane — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 17:30:49 +0000

I made this extension fully using chatGPT to diagnose some layout issues. It’s super simple but chatGPT was definitely useful setting up the chrome boilerplate (and commenting what each option meant). Make sure you ask it to target the most recent version, they recently changed (to v3?) and it seems chatGPT prefers writing for the old version.

https://github.com/notzane/red-box-outline

New comment by notzane in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Feb 2024)"

notzane — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 03:52:40 +0000

Building a chatbot for my parents vacation rental. Lots of fun playing around with the new OpenAI assistant features (and nextjs)

https://www.askaway.bot/BanyanRose

New comment by notzane in ".ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla"

notzane — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:24:03 +0000

120k registrations * $30 = $3.6 million last year (minus fees). At the peak (July 2020) they did 140k in a single month.

https://domainnamestat.com/statistics/tld/tv-TLD_ID-1435

New comment by notzane in ".ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla"

notzane — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:51:29 +0000

.fm for radio and music related sites (Federated States of Micronesia)

New comment by notzane in "Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes"

notzane — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:37:10 +0000

Lapse as well. And Poparazzi before that. Hard to make money so they never seem to last long.

New comment by notzane in "eBay to slash about 1,000 roles, or approximately 9% of full-time employees"

notzane — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 02:53:35 +0000

StockX has 1000+ employees and they only do used sneakers and clothes. I remember reading about eBay spending a lot to compete with them a few years ago, seems they lost. It’s valued at 3.8 billion so not an insignificant chunk of eBay’s market cap.

New comment by notzane in "Diskprices.com makes $5k/month with affiliate marketing"

notzane — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 05:59:53 +0000

Where was your site?

> The following marketplaces have threatened or suspended our accounts and are unlikely to return to diskprices.com without clear policy changes from Amazon: amazon.jp, amazon.nl, amazon.it, amazon.sg.

New comment by notzane in "My New Apartment's Most Aggravating Feature"

notzane — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 04:08:03 +0000

A few nights ago, I spent 30 minutes standing outside of a rental because the August app wouldn’t connect to my AirBnB account. Eventually the host woke up and sent a backup code for the keypad (with the help of phone support—do they have a pager system?).

(If anyone from August is reading please help, it’s error log ID e720cfee2a9e90e5)

New comment by notzane in "Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading"

notzane — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 03:46:26 +0000

My company is fully using cloud desktops for engineering except iOS and Android development (we get faster laptops instead).

New comment by notzane in "Neocities – Developers API"

notzane — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 03:03:36 +0000

Compare the copy on the landing pages and it’s pretty obvious

https://pages.cloudflare.com/

https://neocities.org/

New comment by notzane in "iPhone thief explains how he breaks into phones [video]"

notzane — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 03:50:48 +0000

https://xkcd.com/538