Hacker News: po

New comment by po in "I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours"

po — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:57:48 +0000

It's very nice to have written for so long... I often think I should write more for myself than for others.

New comment by po in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

po — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:12:33 +0000

as long as the business model is:

- users want the best/smartest LLM

- the best performance for inference is found by spending more and more tokens (deep thinking)

- pricing is based on cost per token

Then the inference providers/hyperscalers will take all of the margin available to app makers (and then give it to Nvidia apparently). It is a bad business to be in, and not viable for OpenAI at their valuation.

New comment by po in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

po — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:32:06 +0000

Did you read the comment you're replying to? It's talking about the DEI selection process being blind and instead focusing on outreach to get a more diverse input. You wouldn't be denied anything due to your sex under a system like that. It has nothing to do with what you're talking about.

New comment by po in "AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate"

po — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:03:21 +0000

Have you ever lived with or helped a person with AD? It's not cellular senescence. What you're talking about is fine and well, but AD is a devastating disease that has very particular symptoms. We may not know all of the causes, but reversing cellular senescence isn't going to solve this.

Researching and curing AD is not barking up the wrong tree. There is a horrible deadly monster in that tree that needs defeating. I hope people also get scientific funding for other age-related issues.

Eurorack Knob Idea

po — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:19:02 +0000

Article URL: https://mitxela.com/projects/euroknob

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793288

Points: 322

# Comments: 121

A decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter and the betrayal in its wake

po — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:25:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.postandcourier.com/news/special_reports/marine-fighter-jet-eject-north-charleston/article_80d55e4a-f600-11ef-8ef4-03f14319ce57.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531013

Points: 247

# Comments: 207

New comment by po in "Steam Networks"

po — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 04:45:45 +0000

I happened to be walking a few blocks north and one east of this when it happened. I saw dozens of people running up the street in a panic. Office ladies running barefoot with their heels in hand. I asked what had happened and they said there was a giant explosion that could only have been terrorism.

The wikipedia article has a few more photos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_York_City_steam_explo...

The aftermath photo gives you a good sense of it: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna20184563

New comment by po in "The legacy of lies in Alzheimer's science"

po — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:38:26 +0000

Yeah I don't think CRM is the correct thing in this case... I just think that there needs to be some new set of incentives put in place such that the culture reinforces the outcomes you want.

New comment by po in "The legacy of lies in Alzheimer's science"

po — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:06:59 +0000

Science needs an intervention similar to what the CRM process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management) did to tamp down cowboy pilots flying their planes into the sides of mountains because they wouldn't listen to their copilots who were too timid to speak up.

...on the evening of Dec 28, 1978, they experienced a landing gear abnormality. The captain decided to enter a holding pattern so they could troubleshoot the problem. The captain focused on the landing gear problem for an hour, ignoring repeated hints from the first officer and the flight engineer about their dwindling fuel supply, and only realized the situation when the engines began flaming out. The aircraft crash-landed in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, over six miles (10 km) short of the runway

It has been applied to other fields:

Elements of CRM have been applied in US healthcare since the late 1990s, specifically in infection prevention. For example, the "central line bundle" of best practices recommends using a checklist when inserting a central venous catheter. The observer checking off the checklist is usually lower-ranking than the person inserting the catheter. The observer is encouraged to communicate when elements of the bundle are not executed; for example if a breach in sterility has occurred

Maybe not this system exactly, but a new way of doing science needs to be found.

Journals, scientists, funding sources, universities and research institutions are locked in a game that encourages data hiding, publish or perish incentives, and non-reproducible results.

New comment by po in "Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions"

po — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:53:41 +0000

Have many other projects put MPC servers (https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction) to use since it was announced? I haven't seen very many others using it yet.

New comment by po in "CDC data are disappearing"

po — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 03:43:03 +0000

Right... I think it's going to be way more than just data as well. You can expect all gov functions will start to show up in his app. Driver license applications, tax filing, etc...

New comment by po in "CDC data are disappearing"

po — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 03:11:58 +0000

My prediction is that any future data that is published will likely show up in the x.com app. I believe they are trying to privatize all government functions and Musk wants X to be the official government super-app similar to China's system.

New comment by po in "Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect"

po — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:24:26 +0000

> This led to slower device performance without informing users, which is a removal of expected performance functionality.

As opposed to the device unexpectedly shutting down due to a degraded battery not being able to push enough energy to support the CPU? They didn't remove expected performance, they prevented crashes which are by definition 0 performance. All Li-ion batteries degrade over time. That's not removing a feature...

This whole thing was totally overblown.

New comment by po in "Conversations are better with four people"

po — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:44:48 +0000

I suspect this is related to why a string quartet is the right number of musical voices. Two violins, viola, and cello give you a very fulfilling number of separate ideas to track without overwhelming you.

New comment by po in "Facebook's Little Red Book"

po — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:22:45 +0000

Whether or not Zuckerberg himself is alive (he is), this version of him is long dead.

Yes, that was the joke that apparently wasn't obvious enough. :-)

New comment by po in "Facebook's Little Red Book"

po — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 04:31:33 +0000

Historically, those who controlled the media controlled the message. If you're the only one with a printing press, you control what people read. Same with radio. Same with TV.

But what happens when everyone can put their message in front of a lot of people? When the playing field is level? When everyone has a printing press, the ones with the best ideas are the ones people listen to. Influence can no longer be owned. It must be earned

Man, Zuckerberg would be rolling over in his grave if he saw what happened in the following years and our current engagement/algorithmically-driven media ecosystem.

I find this book to be a bit sad. I do believe they were trying to do all of this stuff but it definitely went off the rails.

Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset

po — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:19:39 +0000

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/20/foursquare-open-source-places/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42191781

Points: 154

# Comments: 28

New comment by po in "Plain Text Accounting (PTA)"

po — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:25:20 +0000

yeah I looked at that too... and that aspect is useful.

However, I'm not really looking for a layer on top of ledger as much as I'm looking for a configurable web-scraping system (using the local password manager) that can be run to get the csv/pdf/etc.. files needed to create the ledger.

New comment by po in "Plain Text Accounting (PTA)"

po — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:07:56 +0000

Plain text accounting is cool but I think one of the biggest barriers for people is downloading bank data into a standard format.

The banks are never going to embrace much more than CSV or excel files... the various data aggregation platforms (yodlee, plaid, etc...) are not open source or hobbyist friendly.

Back in ancient times there was a company called Wesabe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesabe) that wrote software that did bank syncing on your desktop. Mint.com basically put them out of business but I still think about that approach. I think it could work for open source.

Has anyone else?

White House thinks it's time to fix the insecure glue of the internet: Yup, BGP

po — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:37:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/03/white_house_bgp_security/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442903

Points: 3

# Comments: 0