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New comment by purplerabbit in "Great Salt Lake Tracker"

purplerabbit — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:51:16 +0000

Doesn’t scratch the itch, but I will concede that this is a fair point

New comment by purplerabbit in "Great Salt Lake Tracker"

purplerabbit — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:21:17 +0000

I crave an industrial megaproject to solve this. Specifically: A pipeline from the ocean. But alas, only China has a social structure capable of getting projects of this scale done anymore. So I guess I'll keep tracking the AQI and keeping my kids indoors when it's bad.

New comment by purplerabbit in "American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were"

purplerabbit — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:56:41 +0000

I'd love to see statistics as well.

My wife self-reports as very happy and talks a lot about how proud she is of the decision. I'll acknowledge that we are privileged in terms of support -- 3 relative families within 30 minutes and most people in a 100 meter radius attend the same church. Even in our setup, however, we really wish we could swing a multi-generational setup and have grandparents around all the time.

Maybe the Amish are on to something!

New comment by purplerabbit in "American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were"

purplerabbit — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:07:45 +0000

So confidently stated! My wife had ludicrous options and chose it — what draws you to this conclusion?

New comment by purplerabbit in "American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were"

purplerabbit — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:29:36 +0000

And guess why trad household structures are (still) popular in some circles

New comment by purplerabbit in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

purplerabbit — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:01:53 +0000

Something freeing to me that my wife said:

"If you get rid of clutter, there will be cases where you'll have gotten rid of something useful at that moment. It's not about avoiding that -- it's about accepting the right tradeoff between cleanliness and functionality."

New comment by purplerabbit in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

purplerabbit — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:53:48 +0000

Anyone know any interesting OSS Slack alternatives with a decent API?

Solve Everything

purplerabbit — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:23:35 +0000

Article URL: https://solveeverything.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015184

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Outcome Engineering

purplerabbit — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:18:11 +0000

Article URL: https://o16g.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978648

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by purplerabbit in "Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6"

purplerabbit — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:33:43 +0000

I know plenty of nondeterministic accountants

New comment by purplerabbit in "Claude Opus 4.6"

purplerabbit — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:29:18 +0000

The lack of broad benchmark reports in this makes me curious: Has OpenAI reverted to benchmaxxing? Looking forward to hearing opinions once we all try both of these out

New comment by purplerabbit in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

purplerabbit — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:24:04 +0000

You could have to your chat give them direction

New comment by purplerabbit in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

purplerabbit — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:18:25 +0000

Have you checked out t3 stack? Curious which pieces are missing from that that you'd deem critical

New comment by purplerabbit in "Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at"

purplerabbit — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:53:03 +0000

Most of us probably do the same thing when we read a HN comment about something specific: "This rando seems to know what they're talking about. I'll assume it as fact until I encounter otherwise."

Not doing this might actually cause bigger problems... Getting first-hand experience or even reputable knowledge about something is extremely expensive compared to gut-checking random info you come across. So the "cheap knowledge" may be worth it on balance.

New comment by purplerabbit in "Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol"

purplerabbit — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:12:39 +0000

Just to throw into the mix: apparently sitting in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber does. Who would've thought.

New comment by purplerabbit in "Study mode"

purplerabbit — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:07:03 +0000

In case you find it interesting: I deployed an early version of a "lesson administering" bot deployed on a college campus that guides students through tutored activities of content curated by a professor in the "study mode" style -- that is, forcing them to think for themselves. We saw an immediate student performance gain on exams of about 1 stdev in the course. So with the right material and right prompting, things are looking promising.

New comment by purplerabbit in "We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails"

purplerabbit — Sat, 03 May 2025 20:30:48 +0000

Everyone ITT will hate me for saying this, but: T3 stack.

New comment by purplerabbit in "GPT-4.1 in the API"

purplerabbit — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:38:33 +0000

What model are you personally using in your aider coding? :)

New comment by purplerabbit in "Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS"

purplerabbit — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 20:44:53 +0000

Maybe they just mean for the type of projects they care about

New comment by purplerabbit in "EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future"

purplerabbit — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:39:44 +0000

Have you tried drizzle? If so, what's your beef? (The only one I've had is lack of down-migrations)