Hacker News: stranded22

New comment by stranded22 in "Demand for autism care is soaring"

stranded22 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:51:41 +0000

It’s now viewed as levels depending on the amount of support needed. Level 1 may be able to mask compared to level 2 or 3, allowing them to be more part of society, but we still need accommodations otherwise we will burn out.

New comment by stranded22 in "Demand for autism care is soaring"

stranded22 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:48:25 +0000

I was similar - primary school teacher wrote home to my parents asking their permission to slipper me (it was a no).

Diagnosed with adhd last year at 45, scored ridiculously high on self test aspie but no incentive to get an autism diagnosis atm (my wife is worried the far right will get in and they’ll go after the autistics).

Would have been nice to have had a diagnosis as a kid though - my life would have been quite different (maybe more hugs less drugs)

New comment by stranded22 in "Slopware AI: Ship Garbage Even Faster"

stranded22 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:40:42 +0000

Nice.

Is this the new Rick Rolled for the AI vibe coding world?

New comment by stranded22 in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

stranded22 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:40:14 +0000

looks good although Mistral Voxtral would be a good choice, wouldn't it?

https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-transcribe-2

New comment by stranded22 in "White House launches direct-to-consumer drug site TrumpRx"

stranded22 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:32:18 +0000

Cute.

‘If’, not ‘when’.

New comment by stranded22 in "Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir"

stranded22 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:17:46 +0000

Spin article and not worth reading

New comment by stranded22 in "Kagi Small Web"

stranded22 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:26:51 +0000

Stumbleupon?

Fun though for a moment

New comment by stranded22 in "Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?"

stranded22 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:01:23 +0000

Elvanse

New comment by stranded22 in "Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?"

stranded22 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:59:51 +0000

Audhder here - work remotely, more likely to be able to get work done!

New comment by stranded22 in "Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?"

stranded22 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:58:11 +0000

Pardon?

This comment literally shows why you do not understand ADHD.

Reckon people haven’t TRIED?

And how dare you call someone lazy if they have ADHD?!?

I’m the hardest working person I know - but because of meds, I have been able to focus better. My long term planning is 0, and my executive function is low. But sure, I’ll just try a bit more.

Smh.

New comment by stranded22 in "Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document"

stranded22 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:27:06 +0000

Good. It is barbaric and mutilation.

New comment by stranded22 in "NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service (2020)"

stranded22 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:04:22 +0000

That’s by someone who hasn’t discovered controld.

New comment by stranded22 in "Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?"

stranded22 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:30:31 +0000

When I first started new business sales, I used the sales bible by Jeffrey gitomer. He’s written quite a few books and I found them useful.

New comment by stranded22 in "Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors"

stranded22 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:26:21 +0000

What the f is ‘early stage’ and ‘advance staged’ diabetic?

My wife is a T1D - you’re either diabetic or not.

Freestyles are not reliable to be used purely for managing immediate levels of glucose - it is more about trends and give an idea of whether it is going up or down.

This appears to be an education issue, for the users and also for the writer.

New comment by stranded22 in "How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little?"

stranded22 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:42:44 +0000

Because it was about Elon musk’s companies getting out of being investigated. His pay off for helping Trump.

New comment by stranded22 in "Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?"

stranded22 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:41:59 +0000

Controld can route the dns through different countries, so I expect you could combine with wind scribe vpn?

I route twitter and Reddit through Moldova to avoid ads

New comment by stranded22 in "Don't push AI down our throats"

stranded22 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:34:24 +0000

That’s something that really pisses me off - I WANT to use the Gemini pro that is £1.50 more than the £7.99 subscription I was originally paying Google; I said no to using my data to train the AI, and I can’t have history. That’s just ridiculous and means I won’t use it for anything more than maybe images. I’ve had a discount with Claude and that works well for me (audhd translator mostly).

New comment by stranded22 in "Shopping research in ChatGPT"

stranded22 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:03:01 +0000

I’m starting to research (hyperfocus) in this area for affiliate marketing.

The terms are: Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO)

(s>z for American cousins)

https://digiday.com/media/wtf-are-geo-and-aeo-and-how-they-d...

New comment by stranded22 in "ADHD and monotropism (2023)"

stranded22 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:10:46 +0000

It’s disregulation.

Not being able to focus on the things you need to focus on (or doing the boring routine stuff).

I’m audhd which adds a bit of extra fun - diagnosed adhd in August. Meds have been amazing

New comment by stranded22 in "As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media"

stranded22 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:44:09 +0000

Harris may have called for it, but the incitement and Jan 6th was the cause for Facebook and Twitter to suspend his account.

Positioning any other way is to lead the conversation unjustly.