Hacker News: tacon

New comment by tacon in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

tacon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:18:53 +0000

If you want to do Super Slow, great, but that is the original HIT, High Intensity (Strength) Training from Arthur Jones of Nautilus fame. I just went to YouTube and searched for HIIT. I don't see any videos of "moving slowly with form" (which is exactly what Super Slow is built around - 10 seconds concentric, 10 seconds eccentric, one set to failure).

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

https://youtu.be/2PdJFbjWHEU

New comment by tacon in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

tacon — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:58:02 +0000

Just ask the orthopedists down the street from any CrossFit box.

Or their journal articles.

New comment by tacon in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

tacon — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:17:12 +0000

You might be able to be a diesel mechanic and clean up in tech. This video is almost a year old, about applying Claude Code to boring businesses, a mobile diesel mechanic service in this case study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWNFna6fgS8

How Does Google Maps Work? [video]

tacon — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:00:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-CGkiPetQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339559

Points: 2

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New comment by tacon in "Colossus: The Forbin Project"

tacon — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:01:20 +0000

And when that movie played on the Caltech campus in the early 70s, everyone waited for the point when the US and Russian computer started exchanging a private language and one engineer exclaims "That's like five years at Caltech in thirty seconds!" The entire theatre exploded and my ears hurt from the screams.

Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality

tacon — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:34:47 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3524843.3528091

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063842

Points: 3

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Ten simple rules for optimal and careful use of generative AI in science

tacon — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:44:05 +0000

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013588

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042881

Points: 4

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Is your business idea good?

tacon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:40:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/is-your-business-idea-actually-good-this-claude-hack-provides-the-cold-hard-truth/91328813

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851203

Points: 1

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New comment by tacon in "Why I love NixOS"

tacon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:45:26 +0000

I put a Claude Code token on all my machines, local and cloud. Machines now practically fix themselves. Especially with NixOS, as soon as the basic install runs, it gets the Nix claude-code package. It's all downhill after that. OpenClaw hit a few weeks ago, so I took an ancient PC lying around, put NixOS on it, added Claude Code, and then Claude installed OpenClaw. Claude, tell me about the security posture of OpenClaw. "Would you like me to turn on the exec permissions feature and disable dangerous commands?" Claude does that and then turns around and tests that they are really turned off. My Telegram bot gets confused: "I'm sorry, I don't have a shell/exec to run that command. How did I run anything a few minutes ago?"

Nvidia Just Made the Claw Enterprise-Ready

tacon — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:27:49 +0000

Article URL: https://nervegna.substack.com/p/nvidia-just-made-the-claw-enterprise

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416387

Points: 1

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New comment by tacon in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

tacon — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:33:58 +0000

Are you sure about that? The sustainable operation of modern cars is in doubt, from very specialized parts and fully integrated modules, to critical software that will not be updated, to dealer keying required for most every substitute part, the era of anyone being able to run cars for 200,000 miles long after the warranty is over will soon be in the history books.

New comment by tacon in "Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB"

tacon — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:26:17 +0000

I got Connect by T-Mobile a few years ago when it was $10/mo prepaid ($11.03 with tax), and I am grandfathered in. It has a hard cap of 1GB/mo, then nothing. Then I got Hello Helium with a physical SIM on my exercise phone (out in the rain, at the gym) and it is completely free with ... wait for it ... 3GB/mo of data. Go figure. The Hello Helium app used to require location permission on at all times, but they eliminated that.

New comment by tacon in "World Logic Day 2026"

tacon — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:10:37 +0000

Founding of World Logic Day

Why creating a World Logic Day? Human beings are classically considered as "Logical Animals" (Latinized as "Rational Animals"). Logic, as reasoning, is a central feature of human beings. It is not very difficult to see what can be promoted on January 14, considered as the World Logic Day: rationality, understanding and intelligence.

World Logic Day 2026

tacon — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:10:37 +0000

Article URL: https://worldlogicday.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621079

Points: 2

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New comment by tacon in "America's economy looks set to accelerate"

tacon — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:18:39 +0000

>>What legislation makes you think America is going to be re-industrialized? >Several actually.

BBB passed. The others died. This Congress passed an historically low number of bills. If reindustrialization of America depends on Congress, we are doomed.

AI on Drugs: AI Hallucination and Optimization Fatigue

tacon — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:04:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonsnyder/2025/12/22/this-is-your-ai-on-drugs-ai-hallucination-and-optimization-fatigue/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357520

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Signaling in the Age of AI: Evidence from Cover Letters

tacon — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:23:28 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25054

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339300

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

New comment by tacon in "The Future of Programming (2013) [video]"

tacon — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:55:01 +0000

Isn't that part of Paul Graham's startup lore? They were running lisp web servers for their ecommerce store and while a customer was on the phone with an issue, they would patch the server live and ask the customer to reload. Customers would hang up convinced it was their personal glitch.

New comment by tacon in "A $1k AWS mistake"

tacon — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:47:21 +0000

I have found Claude Code is a great help to me. Yes, I can and have tinkered a lot over the decades, but I am perfectly happy letting Claude drive the system administration, and advise on best practices. Certainly for prototype configurations. I can install CC on all VPSes and local machines. NixOS sounds great, but the learning curve is not fun. I installed the CC package from the NixOS unstable channel and I don't have to learn the funky NixOS packaging language. I do have to intervene sometimes as the commands go by, as I know how to drive, so maybe not a solution for true newbies. I can spend a few hours learning how to click around in one of the cloud consoles, or I can let CC install the command line interfaces and do it for me. The $20/mo plan is plenty for system administration and if I pick the haiku model, then CC runs twice as fast on trivial stuff like system administration.

Validating your ideas on strangers (2017)

tacon — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:48:23 +0000

Article URL: https://jeremyaboyd.com/post/validating-your-ideas-on-strangers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45696438

Points: 67

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