Hacker News: swasheck

New comment by swasheck in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults"

swasheck — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:37:17 +0000

this happens to me quite frequently. i grew up playing years of baseball and my throwing shoulder is a bit loose as it is. combined with the way i fall asleep (on my stomach with my forearm under my pillow) i tend to dislocate or severely strain it pretty regularly

New comment by swasheck in "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments"

swasheck — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:43:23 +0000

maybe more like google ngram viewer? https://books.google.com/ngrams/about

New comment by swasheck in "Biohub releases a world model of protein biology"

swasheck — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:26:25 +0000

> Biology doesn't work like that most of the time, it's squishy and weird and unpredictable, and the models we have of biology (including genomics!) are faulty at best, misleading at worst.

interesting. i came to tech from a molecular biology background and my impression was the opposite. biology is predictable most of the time, but sometimes random and squishy. the trick is that we’re trying to learn why things work predictably and what causes the variations, and that why/how unknown is what is most uncomfortable for people outside of the disciplines.

i’m not fully disagreeing with you because it sounds like you have experiences that inform your perspective. i find it interesting because my own experiences bring me in from the inverse perspective.

New comment by swasheck in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

swasheck — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:02:00 +0000

yeah. what are the effects of too much roughness? may be safer and easier to maintain at smooth than at a specific roughness spec

New comment by swasheck in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

swasheck — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:21:58 +0000

windmills cause cancer and kill bald eagles so we can’t do wind. /s

New comment by swasheck in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

swasheck — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:15:57 +0000

IP theft may only be part of the story though. it’s a question of priorities. US optimizes for profit which can place limits reinvestment. China seems to optimize for ubiquity and dominance, and has the capital to throw at those goals. when you’re beholden to the shareholder/ceo/investor, you make concessions to stay within their will. when you’re beholden to the state, you do the same.

New comment by swasheck in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

swasheck — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:28:29 +0000

the next season of natural selection just dropped. pop the corn (in olive oil, natch).

New comment by swasheck in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

swasheck — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:20:18 +0000

there is no logic - just fallacy. it is a red herring, wrapped up in equivocation. he commits appeal to emotion, non sequitur, false equivalence along the way.

New comment by swasheck in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

swasheck — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:12:39 +0000

this is how i took it as well. he’s creating a false equivalency between AI and immigrants, and attempting to justify it with “diversity of perspectives” and trying to tell you that to remain intellectually consistent you must embrace or reject both.

New comment by swasheck in "The AI water issue is fake"

swasheck — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:09:03 +0000

clicking a link to in the Contents section opens a new page instead of jumping to an anchor. wonder if he's getting paid by the click.

New comment by swasheck in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

swasheck — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:43:21 +0000

thank you. really appreciate that insight.

New comment by swasheck in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

swasheck — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:55:10 +0000

please educate instead of insult. happy to hear your response. that is why we’re here, after all.

New comment by swasheck in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

swasheck — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:35:31 +0000

agreed. i’m no aws apologist but if you’re going to try to monetize open source and then complain when someone else does it more efficiently/effectively, it really feels disingenuous. “we were going to do that, but they got there first. it’s not fair.”

i’m only familiar with the postgres side, but it seems like a more nuanced view of this debate would be to discuss aws monetizing open source relative to their upstream, community-beneficial contributions.

New comment by swasheck in "I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left"

swasheck — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:21:28 +0000

the pricing “API” is also a joke so it’s not like they have tried pushing people to apis and away from the console.

i just use vantage (https://instances.vantage.sh/) now. their api is functional and reasonable.

New comment by swasheck in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

swasheck — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:27:31 +0000

it was patently obvious. people were just blinded by xenophobia as the primary issue facing the nation and they bought it, peripheral consequences be damned

New comment by swasheck in "Ti-84 Evo"

swasheck — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:42:46 +0000

i created a program to make it appear like i wiped my formulas before before a calc 2 final in high school so that when the teacher witnessed us wipe the phones it seemed legit.

New comment by swasheck in "DeepSeek v4"

swasheck — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:04:54 +0000

zero _immediate_ results. hate is a powerful motivator and hard to overcome, and the political machinations also don’t really allow for immediate feedback. we will see what happens this midterm cycle. polls show repudiation of the current administration across all dimensions.

New comment by swasheck in "DeepSeek v4"

swasheck — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:01:56 +0000

as were the protests in the 60s. violent uprisings give greater permission for violent suppression. nonviolent protests that are met with violence draw greater scrutiny. the american behemoth rarely turns quickly.

New comment by swasheck in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

swasheck — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:12:18 +0000

along those lines, this is a “fun” (albeit tangential) read https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312?s=20

New comment by swasheck in "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"

swasheck — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:17:15 +0000

people really do struggle to differentiate between correlation and causation. we humans love our patterns so that we can make sense of existence.