Hacker News: squishy47

New comment by squishy47 in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

squishy47 — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:20:55 +0000

if you take it right before bed it'll make you dreams loads and sleep haaard, if you can get to sleep; the restless legs are a motherfucker.

New comment by squishy47 in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

squishy47 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:48:04 +0000

you can add search filters to the search bar in youtube.

e.g this will return videos published in that time range with a duration longer than 2m

cat videos after:2014-01-01 before:2014-12-31 >2m

[edit] - the duration doesn't remove shorts I think there's just no shorts published in that time range.

New comment by squishy47 in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

squishy47 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:32:42 +0000

As long as they're not panting, I think it's generally not cannibalism.

New comment by squishy47 in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

squishy47 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:26:38 +0000

is there any particular reason why just here?

New comment by squishy47 in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

squishy47 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:05:26 +0000

A £3000 laptop doesn't come with a fucking charger. It's £99 extra for the one that came with the m4's. thanks a lot Apple, the enshitification is real!

New comment by squishy47 in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

squishy47 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:30:33 +0000

ugh the fucking noise. My house backs onto a road that's only really busy in rush hours. It's the mopeds and trash-can exhausts that are the pain, the actual traffic isn't that noisy. yeah, exhaust sound is fun but not on your corsa; save it for the race-track. At least the drug dealers are respectful and ride electric bikes. As much as we're heading to a police state, might almost be worth it if they regulated vehicle noise.

New comment by squishy47 in "Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toys"

squishy47 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:08:26 +0000

i have a Lab/Staffie mix and he has insane retriever drive when we get the tennis ball launcher out. pupils dilate and nothing else matters, to the point that we had to ban launcher because he kept loosing his thumb claws from sliding on the grass when the ground is too hard. Before we banned it his muscles were massive, rippling shoulders etc. When we had his (non-tennis) balls removed he developed insane food drive, the vet said this was common, to the point he'll raid the kitchen at night if we don't lock it down. The boy is build to do 1 of 2 things, eat or fetch!

Show HN: My lightweight prompt management and analytics tool.

squishy47 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:57:07 +0000

I’ve been working on a side project that helps compare and analyze AI prompts. You can test prompts side-by-side, collect ratings, and see which one performs best.

This came out of a chatbot project I built at work last year. We discovered how sensitive LLMs are to small prompt changes and with our setup being storing prompts in a `.ts` file checked into the repo, it meant analysing effectiveness of prompts was impossible. Existing tools I tried were either overloaded with data or locked me into their own models.

So over the last few months I’ve spent my very limited free time (new Dad) building something simpler:

- Compare prompts with real user feedback. - Clean analytics without information overload. - Bring your own OpenAI key and choose any of their LLM models.

It’s up and running and free to try (signup required, no credit cards though). This is no where near a finished product in terms of the website design, it’s a bit rough and ready since design is not my thing. Feedback on the idea and direction would be really appreciated.

https://testune.xyz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45293585

Points: 2

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New comment by squishy47 in "You’re a slow thinker. Now what?"

squishy47 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:09:55 +0000

Totally agree. It takes a while to "load" the project but then once it's loaded moving around a large codebase is a breeze but as soon at the code changes broaden and I slow right down cos I have to rebuild the map with the new additions. only way i can describe it: it's like loading google/apple maps and instead of it showing a low detail view with only the big roads displayed i'm loading the entire super details map, it takes a while but once it's loaded there's 0 lag.

also it's actually reassuring knowing someone else is similar, no-one in my life seems to work the same.

New comment by squishy47 in "You’re a slow thinker. Now what?"

squishy47 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:38:07 +0000

I think of myself as a slow thinker and feel the same as many other comments on this post but I always but this down to being a visual mind and having to draw/picture everything to think it. So in my experience slow thinking is topic dependant; maths, conversations, even code are slow because I have to draw it in my head and it takes time. But give me a spatial/visual problem, like coming up with a plan for garden landscaping, organising room layouts or will this object fit in this space and it takes like 1 micro-second. it's weird.

New comment by squishy47 in "Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale"

squishy47 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:32:48 +0000

really cool idea. rightmove is awful for searching for houses. I basically can't filter by features at all. though their map search feature is cool cos i might not want to search in an entire county. though i get your probs mvp-ing. really slick though

also there are no houses for Cheshire on your site. replication steps: type cheshire in the search bar and click the suggestion (Cheshire, UK) = 0 results.

New comment by squishy47 in "M4 MacBook Pro Uses Quantum Dot Display Technology"

squishy47 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:58:53 +0000

good to know, I didn't know we had such a law. thanks for posting this

New comment by squishy47 in "M4 MacBook Pro"

squishy47 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:50:27 +0000

I just pre-ordered the m4 pro. upgrading from a late 2013 mbp with a battery that would probably void my home insurance if they found out.

can't justify the constant upgrade when it doesn't make me money (work provide one). very excited about the new one though

New comment by squishy47 in "Show HN: Telemetry.sh – Simplifying Telemetry Measurement"

squishy47 — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 08:12:13 +0000

I my opinion this example should be on the website to support your code snippets. the top of the page should tell me what problem your solving for me rather than what features the product has. this post does it perfectly but without reading through this thread i'd still be struggling to understand why i should use the product.

I hope that didn't come across mean. the product looks really cool. congrats on the launch :)

New comment by squishy47 in "GitHub Profile Roast"

squishy47 — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 18:07:31 +0000

"let’s just admit it: your GitHub is the tech equivalent of a participation trophy"

great app OP :)

New comment by squishy47 in "City of Albuquerque Set to Host Fix It Clinic"

squishy47 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:03:13 +0000

this is great. more governments/councils need to run these.

New comment by squishy47 in "My 2023 Homelab Setup"

squishy47 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:08:10 +0000

somewhat related; My unraid server has been crashing over the last few days so I'm looking at setting up a syslog server using a spare pi4, so i can at least see why it might be crashing. never thought i'd need a supporting machine considering i don't have that many apps runnin, guess i do now though

New comment by squishy47 in "Solid State Phased Array Radar System"

squishy47 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:41:10 +0000

can't remember where i read it but apparently these things can detect an object the size of coke can in space or something.

whether it's true or not i dunno but it's kinda cook to think about.

New comment by squishy47 in "Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease"

squishy47 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:36:03 +0000

and Heroin too, according to Wikipedia.

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

New comment by squishy47 in "Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules"

squishy47 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 09:16:04 +0000

The point of food labels is help consumers make more informed decisions on what food they consume, especially when the food industry works to make food as addictive as possible. Lets not forget that the messaging behind many (most?) products, especially the unhealthy ones, is one of health and nutrition. When the only message about a food is it's health benefits it's not too farfetched that people may consider Froot Loops part of a healthy breakfast. Froot Loops is an extreme example, in most cases it's more subtle, like granola.