Hacker News: r17n

New comment by r17n in "Prompt Injecting Contributing.md"

r17n — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:22:02 +0000

Perhaps people wanting to show their "high GitHub productivity" to potential employers.

New comment by r17n in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

r17n — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:10:18 +0000

I love this. I know I struggle with "I don't want to bother this person".

How do you deal with that?

New comment by r17n in "Termux"

r17n — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:22:21 +0000

Everyone posting seems to love this. Can folks provide some of their use-cases?

New comment by r17n in "Leaked software engineering recruiter selection guideline"

r17n — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:46:59 +0000

Honest question, are these startups not also asking "leetcode puzzles within strict time controls" ?

New comment by r17n in "Code Navigation for AI SWEs: What We've Learned So Far"

r17n — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:24:34 +0000

I'm interested!

New comment by r17n in "Zuckerberg's rightward policy shift puts Meta staffers on edge, targets Apple"

r17n — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:06:28 +0000

I think it's relative.

In the future, if Musk has a leftward shift, I think it would be newsworthy as well.

New comment by r17n in "A Short Introduction to Automotive Lidar Technology"

r17n — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:47:41 +0000

So there's a video of him addressing this - he doesn't hate the tech. He mentions that it's wildly expensive for cars. But, they use it heavily for SpaceX

New comment by r17n in "Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough"

r17n — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:31:09 +0000

I really like this idea. I hope this catches on.

New comment by r17n in "Google Med-Palm M: Towards Generalist Biomedical AI"

r17n — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:34:54 +0000

I feel “require” is a bit strong. But, I think there are some interesting possibilities.

Advertising your medical practice as an “LLM-consulting” (better name needed) one in the same way there’s “Montessori” schools could be interesting.

Another option I think that would be interesting would be making the LLM patient-facing and required as one of the check-in “docs”. And then attach the results to the patient’s file for the medical professional to view.

Could also be great for pre-screening and/or suggesting a virtual visit if appropriate.