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Ask HN: How to do a Personal health audit

preciousoo — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:24:45 +0000

In light of recent concerns about hantavirus, but more importantly, the outbreaks of measles popping up because the antivaxxer movement is growing, I am wondering, what, as an adult can I do day to day to ensure that my immune system is safe from any wanton disease (to the extent it can be). Any checkups that are beneficial that I may be missing?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070002

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by preciousoo in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"

preciousoo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:44:34 +0000

Or create "blind" benchmarks.

10 groups of 3 researchers, all have their own benchmarks that they do not share (testing it without the authors knowing is a different problem, maybe they only run the benchmarks when the gen-pop has access to the models).

that's 10 different tests. Aggregate pass rates

New comment by preciousoo in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

preciousoo — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:27:22 +0000

“Exam Question: {prompt}” was enough to get me the right answer on whatever model you get with logged-out ChatGPT.

Neither prompt was enough for llama3.3 or gpt-oss-120b

New comment by preciousoo in "Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI"

preciousoo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:29:54 +0000

Pydantic + FastAPI are my two favorite python shops right now, they’re always dropping fun new projcts

New comment by preciousoo in "Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives"

preciousoo — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 05:07:18 +0000

The PhD can't read minds, the quality if the request from a moron would be worse than the quality of the request from someone with avg intelligence. And the output would probably noticeably differ accordingly

New comment by preciousoo in "Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)"

preciousoo — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:41:16 +0000

I guess we’ll be rebuilding society from scratch anyways

New comment by preciousoo in "Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)"

preciousoo — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:19:19 +0000

It depends on if the people with weapons can find the people with food. With no rule of law, everything is on the table. Warlords still exist in many parts of the world today

New comment by preciousoo in "Show HN: H-1B Salary Data Explorer"

preciousoo — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:02:59 +0000

Search/Data in general is incomplete and doesnt match the heatmap. Good idea though

New comment by preciousoo in "Ask HN: How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit"

preciousoo — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:11:48 +0000

makes sense, I didnt know you could have multiple (learned in this thread)

New comment by preciousoo in "Ask HN: How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit"

preciousoo — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:44:31 +0000

I’m wary ofhardware 2fa because I’m prone to losing things. Do you have a plan for if that happens?

Ask HN: How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit

preciousoo — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:06:48 +0000

I am acutely aware that if I were targeted by a non sophisticated actor (like a very motivated hacker, or a phone/laptop thief with programming knowledge), I would be toast if they figured out, e.g my windows password, as that is the key to my Chrome keychain, for e.g, which allows them into a pandora's box of accounts.

Even more likely, if I were to get a laptop stolen while unlocked, they could get access to my primary email(s), which could lead them to getting access to accounts via password reset. There were a lot of similar other failure points I used to keep enumerated mentally, but now there's too many to count. The biggest ones are email access however.

Is there a process or method I can use to enumerate/track and fix those kids of failure points in my personal cybersecurity?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424143

Points: 24

# Comments: 12

New comment by preciousoo in "Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025"

preciousoo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:14:03 +0000

The take home assignment is to create a web service that changes the color of a cube, hardly anything cutting edge. Do you expect to be paid for coding interviews too?

New comment by preciousoo in "Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025"

preciousoo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:28:16 +0000

Click the link of the take home and tell me if you expect it to take you more than 20 minutes. I don’t understand the resections here

New comment by preciousoo in "Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025"

preciousoo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:27:21 +0000

I wonder if the people replying bothered to look at the take home question. I wish I had an interview like that, it would be the second easiest interview I’ve ever done in my life, and then task is interesting and easy to me, as someone who just started learning unity a week ago

New comment by preciousoo in "Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025"

preciousoo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:25:06 +0000

> Hi, I’d like to work for your company > Great, state your price and availability If match: > create a simple project(<1 hour of work) that demonstrates familiarity with technologies that will be used on the job. If done, check for team fit.

This is toxic to you???

New comment by preciousoo in "Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI"

preciousoo — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:45:18 +0000

Seems like a self fulfilling prophecy

New comment by preciousoo in "Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence"

preciousoo — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:24:37 +0000

Coming into the thread(and general discussion about chatgpt being used as evidence) with this context, I’m confused about the reactions to this. Online activity has been used as evidence as far as I remember. OpenAI also has a couple high profile cases against them with chatgpt history used as the primary evidence

New comment by preciousoo in "Python developers are embracing type hints"

preciousoo — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:22:43 +0000

classes are optional in python, does that violate the spirit?

New comment by preciousoo in "H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022"

preciousoo — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:34:36 +0000

That's ~6% of the 9M. Not nothing but not a glaring amount. I'm seeing that there are 1.7M total SWEs in the US, which would bring the H1B % to 30%, assuming all are SWEs. This would make it a significant amount, not sure if it's enough to suppress wages / pass on US persons if they attempted it.

One look at the top H1B employers should stop this narrative however, because those companies do not pay near peanuts.

https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employe...

New comment by preciousoo in "LLM Daydreaming"

preciousoo — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:37:17 +0000

It’s an absurd statement because you are human and are aware of how research works on an individual level.

Take yourself outside of that, and imagine you invented earth, added an ecosystem, and some humans. Wheels were invented ~6k years ago, and “humans” have existed for ~40-300k years. We can do the same for other technologies. As a group, we are incredibly inefficient, and an outside observer would see our efforts at building societies and failing to be “brute force”