<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: richardlblair</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=richardlblair</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:58:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=richardlblair" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by richardlblair in "ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Think of growing up feeling inadequate. Even in the eyes of your parents. Then learning that you don't suck and were completely undeserving of being mistreated as a child.<p>(No child is deserving of being mistreated but that's a whole other bag of worms)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:55:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946728</link><dc:creator>richardlblair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by richardlblair in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One should not question the seriousness of ADHD or the benefits of an appropriate treatment plan.<p>One should question the rate of which it is diagnosed, and who is getting diagnosed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:49:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477781</link><dc:creator>richardlblair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by richardlblair in "Being ambitious and being a dad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"People telling you"<p>That's the real problem. People need to stay in their damn lane.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:48:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353901</link><dc:creator>richardlblair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353901</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by richardlblair in "Does creatine make you smarter?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184046">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184046</a><p>"Other studies already proved those effects with creatine with a normal dose schedule, what they were testing is if a single high dose would have a beneficial effect too, which it did.
A normal schedule is 3-5g per day with an optional loading phase of 10-20g per day during 7 days.<p>In the study they used a single dose of 0.35g/kg which means 20-40g per dose. How do they not get diarrhea? The loading phase is usually split into several doses to avoid diarrhea and I can personally attest to that being a good idea."<p>What the above doesn't tell you is that taking a loading dose can draw water into your intestines causing diarrhea. You probably can guess how I found this out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:54:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009783</link><dc:creator>richardlblair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009783</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by richardlblair in "Does creatine make you smarter?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I slam a lot of water. I also have a toddler and baby who suck at sleeping (I've done all the things, these kids just suck at sleeping).<p>Since taking creatine I feel so much more energized. I can make it through the day with just 2 coffees (was previously drinking 5 coffees and an energy drink).<p>Maybe it's placebo. Maybe it's not. I don't really care. I feel the benefit and I love it.</p>
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<p>It doesn't need to be as good. You can route to the appropriate model and save so much money.<p>I have sonnet do the thinking, deepseek does all the tasks. I've massively reduced costs with this approach.</p>
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<p>I've been using oh-my-pi for a while and I'm very happy with it. If you're not going to build out your own Pi setup I'm not sure why you'd pick this over oh-my-pi.</p>
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<p>And someone will start a competing company in a sane environment.</p>
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<p>> Thank you for your attention to this matter.<p>Had me in stiches</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:36:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708314</link><dc:creator>richardlblair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708314</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by richardlblair in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been using omp with deepseek as my task and quicktask agents, and sonnet as everything else.<p>It's drastically reduced my AI spend. I went from spending $40/day to $10/day.</p>
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<p>This thread is firewood splitting sim 2.0.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:55:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549990</link><dc:creator>richardlblair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by richardlblair in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He's just pointing out that after putting so much work into getting their life turned around it can easy be ruined by indulging in high risk behavior.<p>It's not bad advice, just unlikely to land. Thrill seekers seek thrills.</p>
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<p>I find the same. We have abstractions with multiple concrete implementations, examples of patterns and examples of anti patterns.<p>I usually find I can achieve 90% of the outcome I'm trying to achieve. I use sonnet for planning, qwen for coding, sonnet for review.</p>
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<p>I find fhe discourse here hilarious. Haven't most of us built our skillsets and careers out of side quests?<p>There is so much I wouldn't know or understand if I didn't go down the odd rabit hole.</p>
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<p>Then hop on those comments.</p>
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<p>The feedback wasn't that though.<p>The worst thing they said was that it was "kinda disappointing". Which is perfectly valid. They really want to use inkscape but can't.</p>
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<p>Cursor is great. I was using it up until recently. Then I switched oh my pi, and honestly I haven't looked back. I've also heard great things about open code.</p>
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<p>Another comment lacking any compassion.<p>The man was reeling from what happened. He blames himself and his work. He sat and he wrote, naturally it came back to OpenAI. Should he of? Probably not. But it's understandable that he did.<p>We can meet the moment with some understanding and give the guy a little wiggle room.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:53:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729451</link><dc:creator>richardlblair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by richardlblair in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I grew up in a very violent neighborhood. You know what I learned? Most don't want to be violent, they feel they have to.<p>Its dishonest to say it's incredibly common for people to want others murdered. That's not a belief that needs normalizing.</p>
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<p>To say that people often want others to be murdered is an overstatement.<p>Some people want others to be murdered. And those people do not need representation.<p>It's a bad take especially considering the context. And to be explicit - the context is a molitov cocktail being thrown at a home a child is sleeping in.</p>
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