Hacker News: sicromoft

New comment by sicromoft in "The Valley of Webhooks"

sicromoft — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:03:03 +0000

Can we ban AI slop posts?

New comment by sicromoft in "The case for becoming a manager"

sicromoft — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:27:47 +0000

Yep, I stopped reading as soon as I saw the obvious AI language. It's a huge turnoff.

New comment by sicromoft in "Gemini 2.5 Flash"

sicromoft — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:07:51 +0000

I didn't hear that one but I am a fan of Sklansky. And I also have a very vivid memory of learning the word, when I first heard the song Turn Around by They Might Be Giants. The connection with the song burned it into my memory.

New comment by sicromoft in "Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiety and pessimism"

sicromoft — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:13:56 +0000

Pickleball courts

New comment by sicromoft in "You're Out of Here: A History of Umpire Ejections"

sicromoft — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:40:06 +0000

The site is down. Here's an archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240711030040/https://sabr.org/...

New comment by sicromoft in "Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice"

sicromoft — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:18:53 +0000

The 24hr notice is mentioned by OP in their comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682720

New comment by sicromoft in "Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025"

sicromoft — Wed, 22 May 2024 21:41:40 +0000

It quite literally is not something else

New comment by sicromoft in "Things That Don't Work"

sicromoft — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:02:58 +0000

Another thread on the same article, these need to be merged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39782278

New comment by sicromoft in "Things That Don't Work"

sicromoft — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:30:43 +0000

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39779711

Defecting by Accident – A Flaw Common to Analytical People (2010)

sicromoft — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 06:43:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GG2rtBReAm6o3mrtn/defecting-by-accident-a-flaw-common-to-analytical-people

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39498274

Points: 15

# Comments: 6

New comment by sicromoft in "The Death of Free Shipping"

sicromoft — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 18:26:29 +0000

There's no such thing as a free lunch, regardless of how you distribute the costs. If a seller is refunding the cost of shipping on returns, they are passing that cost on to you in some other way (higher prices, membership fees, etc).

You could make the argument that if you return items more often than the average customer, your share of those costs may be getting subsidized by the customers who return items less often. But if you return items less often, you're probably worse off.

New comment by sicromoft in "Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy"

sicromoft — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 17:01:24 +0000

https://archive.is/rmMEb

New comment by sicromoft in "Show HN: I built an open source web calendar inspired by the Google calendar"

sicromoft — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:01:26 +0000

https://www.dueapp.com/ is great for this (see the "So persistent you can’t forget" section on the home page)

Exploring ChatGPT's Knowledge Cutoff

sicromoft — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:58:54 +0000

Article URL: https://mattmazur.com/2023/11/14/exploring-chatgpts-knowledge-cutoff/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38279003

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sicromoft in "Seeing like a bank"

sicromoft — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 21:41:07 +0000

It’s only illegal if you’re intentionally doing it to avoid reporting

New comment by sicromoft in "Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history"

sicromoft — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 17:34:20 +0000

This is great to see. Some feedback: I entered the exact name of a doctor I knew would be in the database, formatted as "firstName lastName". The result was buried under 20 other less relevant matches. I had to search as "lastName, firstName", for it to come back as the first result.

New comment by sicromoft in "Sitting all day increase dementia risk – even if you exercise"

sicromoft — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 20:16:07 +0000

Agreed. The HN Guidelines[1] already say "Please submit the original source" but I guess it doesn't get enforced very well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by sicromoft in "Sitting all day increase dementia risk – even if you exercise"

sicromoft — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 16:33:15 +0000

This is the epitome of bad science journalism. The study says "X is correlated with Y", while the article says "X increases risk of Y".

Moderators, can you change this to the actual source study[1] and update the title?

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/28094...

New comment by sicromoft in "Why isn't chess popular in Japan?"

sicromoft — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 05:24:44 +0000

The link no longer works. Archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230908050506/https://lichess.o...

Sightread: Open-source synthesia (piano hero)

sicromoft — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:58:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sightread/sightread

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36774568

Points: 2

# Comments: 1