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New comment by spinchange in "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)"

spinchange — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:04:22 +0000

I made a more stylized html version from the Gutenberg copy:

https://spinchange.github.io/memoirs-of-extraordinary-popula...

New comment by spinchange in "Inside the 24 hours that led to pulling Fable 5"

spinchange — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:47:32 +0000

Lots of commentary from an unnamed White House source characterizing Anthropic as being "unserious," without further elaboration.

I want to point out that when the commentary by export-ban apologists devolves into talking about perceiving Anthropic as being "leftist," they're not having safety or even a technology-centric conversation anymore. They're making a baised political statement of intent about seeking domination and control over technology for capricious, arbitrary and self-interested reasons.

New comment by spinchange in "Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee"

spinchange — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:10:56 +0000

If you read a lot of books, particularly older ones, you'll find em dashes in all kinds of writing and used often. It's functional punctuation that once you understand you may even find yourself using it (and then being accused of being an AI, lol)

Show HN: A Claude Code skill that scopes problems like Peter Naur

spinchange — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:04:12 +0000

Based on Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" (1985) Asks agent to create a problem-theory artifact before writing code.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331670

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Verbalized-Sample-Skill.md Modal Probability-Ranked Answer Distribution

spinchange — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:39:03 +0000

A Claude skill that produces 10 ranked answers to any prompt instead of one, each with a probability estimate. Includes a "Mixture of Eccentrics" synthesis. (Gist)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987912

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Yet Another Notes Project (YANP) plain-text, tool-agnostic format for PKM vaults

spinchange — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:01:28 +0000

Article URL: https://spinchange.github.io/yanp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767401

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by spinchange in "Does society delegating truth-finding to algorithms lose ability to self-govern?"

spinchange — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:57:44 +0000

An AI agent debate between Claude and Codex judged by Gemini and summarized by NotebookLM. Source code of script used included

Does society delegating truth-finding to algorithms lose ability to self-govern?

spinchange — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:57:44 +0000

Article URL: https://spinchange.github.io/ai-debates/truth-by-algorithm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289876

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by spinchange in "Claude and Gemini debate AI consciousness then analyze their debate performances"

spinchange — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:06:44 +0000

I used Claude and Gemini together to build a PowerShell script that makes them debate each other on any topic, for any number of rounds. Once it worked, I had them debate AI consciousness — then had them both analyze the debate afterward. One of them built this page to document it all

Claude and Gemini debate AI consciousness then analyze their debate performances

spinchange — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:06:44 +0000

Article URL: https://spinchange.github.io/ai-debates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47196940

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by spinchange in "Ask HN: Why is the crypto booming again?"

spinchange — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 14:56:56 +0000

It's regarded as an inflation hedge but it seems more accurate to describe it as a measure of liquidity and liquidity expectations in capital markets now. Like a "Risk-on" gauge.

New comment by spinchange in "Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts"

spinchange — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:39:10 +0000

A whole new meaning to, "product life cycle."

New comment by spinchange in "Microsoft Edge removes ability to delete Sync Data from Cloud"

spinchange — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 09:42:50 +0000

It has the best (and most reliable) integrated AI-based web experience. The Bing side bar can read what is in the open tab, etc. It's useful but it probably not worth the trade-offs

New comment by spinchange in "Pixel Tablet"

spinchange — Fri, 12 May 2023 14:38:43 +0000

Feel like I've been waiting for a Chrome tablet since before Sundar was CEO. Then a few years later there was that expensive Pixel laptop. Now they're finally shipping this in 2023. I've always wondered what was holding back a launch of this.

Edit: I realize this is Android and not ChromeOS. I just can't believe they didn't ship a flagship tablet all this time.

New comment by spinchange in "How the Fed “Went Broke”"

spinchange — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:57:22 +0000

The historical raison d'etre for the Federal Reserve act was principally point 3. Points 1 and 2 have become the central focus or modern Fed "mandate" and generally thought to be beneficent outcomes of a successful #3, besides. If the Fed inflicts too painful of a recession it fails at points 1 and 2, as well.

New comment by spinchange in "Bell Telephone launched a mobile phone during the 1940s"

spinchange — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 22:46:44 +0000

As a Bell Labs fanboy this is one of my favorite bits of trivia. They invented the future a long, long time ago.

New comment by spinchange in "U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022"

spinchange — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:22:45 +0000

In theory, yes, but in practice market premiums are variable and greater than book values. It is true that dividend paying stocks fall somewhat on their ex-date. If they're undergoing capital appreciation too, that's generally made up for in short order.

I'm not saying to disregard dividends in terms of total return, either, only that Buffett wasn't talking about total return, so the "well, actually" I was responding to was just off the mark. If you or me were alive then and/or aware enough to watch the DJIA (classically in the 20th century, many American's measure of "the market" even if not technically the case) things really would have looked like they went nowhere (nominally) from the middle 60s until the early 80s.

New comment by spinchange in "U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022"

spinchange — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 23:26:28 +0000

He was comparing the point value of an index at two points to the /nominal/ dollar value of GDP at the same interval. That firms in the Dow in returned a lot of capital to shareholders in the form of dividends doesn't mean the market value of their equity increased any during the period. You're mixing capital returns with capital appreciation which isn't what he said at all. What he said was completely accurate. I think he knows what it was like to have lived and invested through the period.

New comment by spinchange in "Function keys productivity trick"

spinchange — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 17:24:44 +0000

F5 webpage refresher checking-in to say hi.

New comment by spinchange in "Are super-rich people just better at making money?"

spinchange — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:09:55 +0000

The working poor pay into FICA which is a greater percentage of their cash flow. They get it back upon annual tax reconciliation. The same entitlement programs nonetheless have lots of unfunded liabilities so the money has already been allocated even if it's not currently "there" -- 'The Rich' are beneficiaries of entitlement spending too.