Hacker News: rjurney

New comment by rjurney in "Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists"

rjurney — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:46:27 +0000

So try Mounjaro. It works better.

New comment by rjurney in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

rjurney — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:09:28 +0000

I've tried the Perplexity browser and... I can't figure out what it does or how it is better?

New comment by rjurney in "Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres"

rjurney — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:40:17 +0000

One bad message in a Kafka queue and guess what? The entire queue is down because it kills your workers over and over. To fix it? You have to resize the queue to zero, which means losing requests. This KILLS me. Jay Kreps says there is no reason it can't be fixed, but it never had been and this infuriates me because it happens so often :)

New comment by rjurney in "Ask HN: I made a new kind of AI, how do I make money from it?"

rjurney — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:36:06 +0000

You need a sales / product cofounder to be CEO. Create a compelling demo of it doing amazing things, then put all your energy into finding a cofounder. Startups are a team sport and you need help with customer development.

New comment by rjurney in "Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music"

rjurney — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:35:48 +0000

This is not a surprise to anyone that has engaged in prolonged meditation, especially across more than one day. It makes shortcuts like psychedelics look foolish. During a ten day Vipassana retreat time slowed down to such a great extent it changed my entire perception of time thereafter. The space provided by the mental quiet created by Anapana is so profound.

TLDR Anapana: Sit comfortably and monitor the sensation of the breath exiting the nose and return to it as your thoughts wander. Don't get mad when you wander, it's part of the process. Just return and try to maintain equanimity, to not react. If you get frustrated at first, you can increase your exhale slighlty to make it more noticeable.

That's about all there is to it. After you do this for a while your thoughts become less and less frequent and... you only have important, creative thoughts :) It turns out conscious thought is just a refection of a deeper process and most of it is garbage: worries, self doubt, fears.

I have just inspired myself to take up daily Anapana by writing this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anapanasati

New comment by rjurney in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

rjurney — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:29:19 +0000

Workers in denial are like lemmings, headed for the cliff... not putting myself above that. A moderate view indicates great disruption before new jobs replace the current round being lost.

New comment by rjurney in "I let Claude Code write an entire book"

rjurney — Fri, 30 May 2025 12:11:34 +0000

As a writer, this is deeply comforting. The book is total shit. It sounds like an AI, not like something a person would connect with for even a moment. Not even in the opening lines.

New comment by rjurney in "Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?"

rjurney — Mon, 12 May 2025 23:15:58 +0000

When AI is cheap, why use juniors, regular software engineers or off-shore labor at all? AI replaces these things. Why not use the best available talent to oversee and guarantee the work of coding agents? To define requirements and translate them into maintainable code? This is the trend. It takes mastery to produce good, maintainable code from vague requirements using coding agents. This seems like value add a human will continue to provide.

I also see the blending of engineers and data scientists with product managers.

New comment by rjurney in "Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?"

rjurney — Mon, 12 May 2025 23:15:37 +0000

When AI is cheap, why use off-shore labor at all? AI replaces it. Why not use the best available talent to oversee and guarantee the work of coding agents? To define requirements and translate them into maintainable code? This is the trend.

New comment by rjurney in "Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?"

rjurney — Mon, 12 May 2025 23:08:24 +0000

Yes, you rarely hear specifics like this as to where new jobs will come from. Hear, hear!

New comment by rjurney in "Gemini 2.5 Flash"

rjurney — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:12:48 +0000

I am building a knowledge graph using BAML [baml-py] to extract documents [it's opinionated towards docs] and then PySpark to ETL the data into a node / edge list. GPT4o got few relations... Gemini 2.5 got so many it was nuts, all accurate but not all from the article! I had to reign it in and instruct it not to build so vast a graph. Really cool, it knows a LOT about semiconductors :)

Ask HN: If aliens transmit using neutrinos, can we hear them?

rjurney — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:12:24 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43656135

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by rjurney in "Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers"

rjurney — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 01:54:09 +0000

I don't really mean you, but let's say you are compromised... if I put a localhost http server up on the web using your stuff, am I now compromised? Not clear how this would work...

New comment by rjurney in "Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers"

rjurney — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:39:52 +0000

This thing is really cool, I want to pipe data between systems... can I trust you to have that kind of access?

New comment by rjurney in "US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted"

rjurney — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:16:44 +0000

Well... that's one solution the the problem.

New comment by rjurney in "GIMP 3.0"

rjurney — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:45:11 +0000

There isn't one for those three apps.

New comment by rjurney in "GIMP 3.0"

rjurney — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:01:08 +0000

I'm really tired of shelling out $90/month for Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat...

New comment by rjurney in "Mistral OCR"

rjurney — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 23:23:34 +0000

What about tables in PDFs?

New comment by rjurney in "Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage"

rjurney — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:47:35 +0000

Sparta buried her war dead on the field in mass graves. A hoplon shield isn't useful to carry a body in the first place. This is the first I've heard that attributed to Plutarch, however...

New comment by rjurney in "You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)"

rjurney — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:31:12 +0000

You're not a... engineer, engineer if you haven't worked on a legacy project. You're a junior engineer. Title inflation.