Hacker News: peishang

New comment by peishang in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

peishang — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:27:34 +0000

Archery is a lot of fun - I go to a monthly archery gathering where the host has a bunch of really nice recurves.

New comment by peishang in "Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?"

peishang — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:26:45 +0000

I wonder if you can delete your entire existing history to sort of reset the recommendation engine? i've definitely had to delete individual ones from my history to downrank similar ones in the past.

New comment by peishang in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

peishang — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:10:19 +0000

How much would it help cut down if Show HN was prohibited for accounts that were green and/or only had 1 karma?

Meaning you would have to demonstrate that you had or were willing to contribute to the HN community before just promoting your own stuff.

New comment by peishang in "OpenAI Grove"

peishang — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 01:18:24 +0000

I don't want to be glib - but perhaps it is because our "context window lengths" extend back a bit further than yours?

Big tech (not just AI companies) have been viewed with some degree of suspicion ever since Google's mantra of "Don't be evil" became a meme over a decade ago.

Regardless of where you stand on the concept of copyright law, it is an indisputable fact that in order for these companies to get to where they are today - they deliberately HOOVERED up terabytes of copyrighted materials without the consent or even knowledge of the original authors.

New comment by peishang in "Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed"

peishang — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 01:55:33 +0000

You might look into era specific LoRas if they exist, and if not consider training a few to help better capture architectural detail from that specific time frame.

New comment by peishang in "Show HN: Built This in 3 Hours Using Bolt (No React Knowledge)"

peishang — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 03:14:39 +0000

The hero we need will write a tampermonkey firefox script that'll hide any HN post that contains the following keywords:

- in X Hours

- With no knowledge

- no code

- AI, Sonnet, GPT

This is what happens when the barrier to writing applications is zero, and the levee hasn't even BEGUN to breach yet.

New comment by peishang in "Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230"

peishang — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 03:04:28 +0000

Same - I use a folded playing card but since the machine's docked it works in the unlikely event that I need to use it.

New comment by peishang in "Beating the bounds"

peishang — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:55:08 +0000

This weirdly reminds me of the human equivalent to big cats marking their territory by scratching trees.

New comment by peishang in "U.S. military-run slot machines earn $100M a year from service members"

peishang — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:50:05 +0000

Even more horrible idea: Adjust the payout probability in proportion to the number of enemy combatants that an infantryman has killed.

New comment by peishang in "U.S. military-run slot machines earn $100M a year from service members"

peishang — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:48:35 +0000

"Slots are often found on bases where there is precious little to do, like Diego Garcia – a 12-sq.-mile island in the Indian Ocean with a population of just over 4,000 people – where the Navy runs 52 slot machines"

Talk about a captive audience rife for exploitation.

New comment by peishang in "DeepL Write"

peishang — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:43:59 +0000

I've had good luck with using them as an alternative to the Google Translate API, but they're entering a pretty crowded space, e.g. Sudowrite, Jasper, Grammarly.

I've even used ChatGPT's zero shot to do some editorial clean-ups with the prompt:

I am going to provide paragraphs of text in quotation marks that may contain spelling errors, grammatical issues, continuity errors, structural problems, etc. I would like you to produce a revised version with all of the above issues fixed. Do not begin until I provide text enclosed in quotation marks.

Pixel pushers: How the metaverse became real estate's new frontier

peishang — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:41:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/metaverse-real-estate-market-2022-spc-intl/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34430035

Points: 1

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New comment by peishang in "Ask HN: Has anyone been able to transform their personality?"

peishang — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 05:30:12 +0000

It really depends on what you mean. Anxiety is something that is really contextual and depends on the person, unfortunately I don't have a great deal to offer on the subject.

Speaking as an introvert, I came across an interesting piece of advice from Ken Jennings, a record holding Jeopardy contestant. He basically talked about how trivia could be used in a practical sense to open conversational doors. By having a great of knowledge on a wide variety of subjects, there is almost a certainty that you'll be able to connect with a stranger, at least at some nominal level.

People love being asked about themselves, and if you know something about a hobby that they're passionate about, you can ask more poignant questions.

For example, if somebody tells me the that they're into juggling, I can ask them about the kinds of patterns that they like to do, mills mess, cascade, etc.

If they're into aviation, I can ask if they prefer flying high or low wing aircraft, playfully quiz them on METAR, and commiserate on how paralyzingly hard it was to be talking to a towered airport for the first time.

If they're into music, we can discuss harmonic theory, instrumental technique, and our favorite musicians.

And so on. It takes a conscious and deliberate effort, but the rewards are a deeper interaction beyond mere small talk.

New comment by peishang in "Ask HN: Can we just normalise AI (read:ChatGPT for now) as our internet persona?"

peishang — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 05:22:14 +0000

Unfortunately, this is not an ungrounded fear. There have already been instances of clone websites setup that mirror other sites content, feed those blog posts through GPT and rewrite them, passing them off as their own. There was a link pasted to HN not too long ago about this very issue.

https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/chat-gpt-openai-jasper-...

TLDR: Feeding your own ideas/thoughts into GPT to rephrase them in a logical, consistent and more fluid manner is a great use of the tool. Using it to plagiarize other's ideas without citing your sources shows a staggering lack of integrity.

New comment by peishang in "‘Excuuuuse me, Princess ’: An oral history of The Legend of Zelda cartoon"

peishang — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 04:59:09 +0000

For me it's gotta be all the ridiculously over the top VAs in the CD-I Zelda games.

"I can't wait to bomb some dodongos!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRDO3l1Eiuk

New comment by peishang in "The Inner Beauty of Basic Electronics"

peishang — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 04:56:05 +0000

I absolutely love this - it reminds me of the Monster 6502 project that recreated the classic MOS 6502 microprocessor but at the transistor level.

https://monster6502.com/

It looks like something that wouldn't be out of place on the deck of the Discovery One in the movie Space Odyssey.