Hacker News: sparklingmango

New comment by sparklingmango in "The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks"

sparklingmango — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:37:27 +0000

Excellent tip, thank you!

New comment by sparklingmango in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"

sparklingmango — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:33:53 +0000

Could you share the specific mg/week taper you did for Sertraline?

New comment by sparklingmango in "The Pay-to-Play Model Has Broken Youth Sports"

sparklingmango — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:49:18 +0000

Archive link: https://archive.ph/UCt6N

The Pay-to-Play Model Has Broken Youth Sports

sparklingmango — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:49:07 +0000

Article URL: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/youth-sports-private-equity-travel-leagues.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449144

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by sparklingmango in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

sparklingmango — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:16:55 +0000

> To people asking why, this is a good lesson on the Collison’s ambitions.

Where can I read more on Collison's ambitions?

New comment by sparklingmango in "Feral cats fail at urban rodent control (2018)"

sparklingmango — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:35:31 +0000

Cats make certain people's opinions about consent quite clear.

DingDuff: A Claude MCP connector for legal research

sparklingmango — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:49:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dingduff.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027096

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sparklingmango in "Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop"

sparklingmango — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:57:00 +0000

Can I make a feature request? I would love to be able to search by author. I recently started Caro's LBJ series (it's amazing so far) and I'm curious how many awards he's won. Anywho, I love non-fiction so I plan to visit this website often. Thank you and great work!

New comment by sparklingmango in "1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored"

sparklingmango — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:52:06 +0000

Beautiful. I'm going to use some of these to make a coloring book for my toddler.

New comment by sparklingmango in "Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]"

sparklingmango — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:18:59 +0000

Yes. We are right to be suspicious due to the main goal of start ups and corporations: profit for their shareholders. Theranos will always be in the back of my mind regarding healthcare technology start ups.

New comment by sparklingmango in "22% Layoff at ClickUp"

sparklingmango — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:44:41 +0000

> The wrong strategy is to push every engineer to use infinite tokens. Companies doing this are celebrating 500% more pull requests. But customer outcomes don't match the volume of code being generated.

The goal is 100x output BUT NOT 500% more pull requests, folks.

New comment by sparklingmango in "We are retiring our bug bounty program"

sparklingmango — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:31:05 +0000

Power dynamics. Usually the person making the giant PRs is the one with all the sway. An earlier-career engineer is unlikely to push back against that level of influence.

New comment by sparklingmango in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

sparklingmango — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:20:06 +0000

I loved it too. I audibly laughed at this one:

"Korean girl Short I didn't know how to start a conversation with her, so I just asked if she was Korean and she said yes. Then I made her guess what kind of Asian I am. Then I rambled about being Asian in Syracuse before leaving. I initiated one more conversation but now we don't interact"

So endearing!

New comment by sparklingmango in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

sparklingmango — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:16:06 +0000

> "Going to the gym, talking to strangers at the gym, ... these are both artifical replacements for human activity that is missing."

As opposed to what, our ancient hunter gatherer lifestyle? Going to the gym and talking to strangers at the gym isn't an "artificial replacement", it's a genuine activity lots of people do.

> "You try to form friendships with strangers because your daily routine lacks real and fulfilling interactions with other people."

How do you think people make friends? They make friends by interacting with people at shared spaces and activities.

New comment by sparklingmango in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

sparklingmango — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:27:28 +0000

In parallel, they're also starting to downgrade their quality. In the latest season of Stranger Things there's a wild amount of in-scene exposition, where the characters explain what's happening while it's happening. I did some digging and learned that they may be dumbing down their shows because they know users typically look at their phones while watching Netflix and users are more likely to drop off of a show if they don't know what's going on.

See here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jan/17/not-sec...

Edit: I did really enjoy Frankenstein.

New comment by sparklingmango in "Django 6"

sparklingmango — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:45:55 +0000

Whenever I use Django, I enjoy it. Simple as.

New comment by sparklingmango in "Fizzy"

sparklingmango — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:24:53 +0000

> "If I delete a card, does it count against the 1000 cards?"

> "Yes, every card you create is counted, even cards that are deleted later. Each card ID increments by 1, so the next card you create will always show you how many cards you’ve created so far."

Fizzy, the Kanban tracking tool for issues and ideas by 37signals

sparklingmango — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:22:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/basecamp/fizzy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46123725

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by sparklingmango in "What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?"

sparklingmango — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:54:35 +0000

No, my parents and in-laws have routinely expressed how much they love to watch and spend time with my kid. But they're also retired and have lots of trips and hobbies going on. They're getting older and aren't as physically able as I am in regards to picking up and chasing after a highly mobile toddler. My husband and I aren't their only kids either. They also spend time helping out our siblings.

So it's really more of a me thing why I don't ask them to take care of him "full time". If I really needed them to, they would (and happily).

New comment by sparklingmango in "What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?"

sparklingmango — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:33:18 +0000

It's a lot to ask grandparents to take care of an infant full time during the work week. Here and there, on occasion, that is a completely reasonable thing to ask for. It helps strengthen family bonds. But I would never ask my parents or my in-laws to care for my toddler 8-5 M-F. They already raised kids.