Hacker News: sedgjh23

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

sedgjh23 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:04:08 +0000

I’m convinced consciousness isn’t the special thing we think it is.

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer"

sedgjh23 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:39:01 +0000

On a related note, for those interested, a quick about Peto’s Paradox was quite fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peto's_paradox

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion"

sedgjh23 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 07:57:28 +0000

I think the romance of authenticity is something only old people like me got to experience e.g. the early days of thefacebook. It died a few short years(?) after when the algorithms took over.

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Swarms of robots could go up your nose, melt the mucus and clean your sinuses"

sedgjh23 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 15:42:01 +0000

MiraLAX (or any of the generics) three times a week does this for me, and according to my doc is safe to drink for the rest of my life. Good luck soldier.

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device"

sedgjh23 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:36:49 +0000

Just a heads up, the EcoBee doesn’t use a CO2 sensor, it just guesses what the value is. I have the same thermostat and was getting wildly different readings than my more expensive AirThings View Plus. Checked the EcoBee support website[1] and it made a lot more sense.

“Based on the VOC measurement, it can also estimate carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. The sensor doesn’t directly measure CO2 but assesses CO2 levels based on the average correlation between VOCs and CO2 in exhaled human breath.”

[1] https://support.ecobee.com/s/articles/air-quality-sensor-faq...

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Optimizing My Hacker News Experience"

sedgjh23 — Tue, 13 May 2025 04:10:55 +0000

This is great, thanks for sharing!

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison"

sedgjh23 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:47:02 +0000

This is excellent, thank you.

New comment by sedgjh23 in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

sedgjh23 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 05:19:29 +0000

I was in the overeating column (4000+ calories a day, no sugar drinks) and going into month 3 I am fighting to hit 1500 every day except the day before shot day and shot day. YMMV of course, but it is very effective for me so far.

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Operator research preview"

sedgjh23 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:24:57 +0000

Even before AI, bots were inevitable. Take Reddit for example, bots farming karma in every large subreddit, indistinguishable to the average user. I think the concept of an implicitly trusting public square is mostly gone and it’s probably the smart thing to be very skeptical of what you’re reading/interacting with. Nowhere with a text input field has been safe for a long time. With recent developments in AI, audio, images, and video are out the window too.

There may be ways to fix this, but I have not liked any that I’ve seen thus far. Identity verification is probably the closest thing we’ll get.

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Waymo has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones"

sedgjh23 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 17:30:37 +0000

Ancient footage, they fixed this bug

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Waymo has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones"

sedgjh23 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 17:29:59 +0000

they said most, not all

New comment by sedgjh23 in "I Tricked Myself into Liking Running"

sedgjh23 — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:20:51 +0000

I absolutely can not do 10 minutes. I can barely run for 2 minutes without gasping for breath. I’d wager a majority of Americans are in the same boat as me. The obesity epidemic here is real. This solution is not as universal as you may think.

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles [video]"

sedgjh23 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 05:41:04 +0000

> What they fail to note is that Autopilot can ONLY be on while driving on a limited access highway.

This isn’t true anymore

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Ask HN: Are Certifications Useful in Infosec?"

sedgjh23 — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:04:12 +0000

Same with most "higher" education. Just hoop jumping.

New comment by sedgjh23 in "I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress"

sedgjh23 — Tue, 11 May 2021 20:01:27 +0000

If you’re stalking someone there are effective alternatives with much lower exposure risk.

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous"

sedgjh23 — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 07:07:08 +0000

Yea, as a development build

New comment by sedgjh23 in "SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for cars, boats, and planes"

sedgjh23 — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 04:36:45 +0000

I’m curious, why?

New comment by sedgjh23 in "It’s cheaper because we pass the risk on to you"

sedgjh23 — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:04:10 +0000

This assumes a rational population, which as we know, doesn’t exactly exist.

New comment by sedgjh23 in "OpenStreetMap in Realtime"

sedgjh23 — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 18:25:52 +0000

Neither does being a doormat.

New comment by sedgjh23 in "Ask HN: Any tips for a programmer wanting to switch into security?"

sedgjh23 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:20:10 +0000

Security Engineer here… after reading through this trainwreck of a comment section it was nice to get a laugh, thanks for that.