Hacker News: tchock23

New comment by tchock23 in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

tchock23 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:19:32 +0000

I love when they use making a restaurant reservation as the example. On a list of things keep me up at night that is somewhere around #6,054, yet apparently for many tech bros that’s a top 10 life problem.

New comment by tchock23 in "Chuck Norris has died"

tchock23 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:35:57 +0000

First Wade Boggs and now this. Just awful.

New comment by tchock23 in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

tchock23 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:39:52 +0000

Fortnite does that as well. Annoying dark pattern.

New comment by tchock23 in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

tchock23 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:18:29 +0000

I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. These are valid criticisms of platforms like Lovable, Bolt, Replit, etc. that cater to "fast MVP" type customers. I'm not sure how you sustain the valuations if the churn inherent to those type of "hobbyist" or "solopreneur" type customers isn't solved.

New comment by tchock23 in "How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs"

tchock23 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:46:42 +0000

Researchers just demonstrated that you can use LLMs to simulate human survey takers with 99% ability to bypass bot detection and a relatively low cost ($0.05/complete). At scale, that is how ‘elites’ shape mass preferences.

New comment by tchock23 in "Product Hunt is dead"

tchock23 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:09:54 +0000

All you have to do is look at the minuscule number views on any YouTube video links shared with a new product on PH.

I've seen products with upvotes in the hundreds, yet it has single digit views on the related product video.

One would think if there was real interest someone would click to watch a video?

New comment by tchock23 in "The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody"

tchock23 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:10:55 +0000

That assumes Bitcoin maximalists ultimately see it as a means of transaction. The ones I come across in the wild are purely maximalists for speculative purposes and couldn’t care less about the “practical” use cases for it.

New comment by tchock23 in "Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows"

tchock23 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:36:59 +0000

I was enjoying Base44 but found out midway through a project that it doesn’t support websockets so it wouldn’t work for my needs.

Switched back to Lovable and have been happily hacking away at that same project so far (although its early, and I know vibecoded projects tend to get gnarly later in the build).

New comment by tchock23 in "Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows"

tchock23 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:36:48 +0000

I want to like this and dig into it as someone who has recently used Lovable and Base44 (and been using Bubble for a while), but the YouTube ‘demo’ video is really weak.

The pace is too fast and you spend barely any time showing off your visual workflow feature, which according to your description is your differentiator.

I would strongly recommend using some of your YC money to have a professional recreate that demo and show off what makes you unique. Even if it goes longer than two minutes - if I’m interested I’ll keep watching.

I’ll still try it out because I’m a sucker for trying out new vibecoding tools, but you’re not doing yourself any favors with that video…

New comment by tchock23 in "California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters"

tchock23 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:40:33 +0000

Create the problem. Fix the problem. Win!

New comment by tchock23 in "Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs strategic Bitcoin reserve bill into law"

tchock23 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:36:21 +0000

I looked into Tether and that was all I needed to see.

New comment by tchock23 in "Cholesterol treatment can cut levels by 69% after one dose"

tchock23 — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:33:24 +0000

It’s great you’ve been able to maintain a keto diet for over 20 years (longest I’ve ever heard of), but most people can’t do strict keto for that long. Long-term adherence is the issue.

New comment by tchock23 in "Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen"

tchock23 — Thu, 29 May 2025 23:29:01 +0000

I used to run a usability testing service way back in the day and had the same feelings about Nielsen - way too rigid and pedantic for my tastes and the reality of the tests I was running every day.

New comment by tchock23 in "Show HN: BetterFriend – a CRM just to be a better friend"

tchock23 — Sun, 25 May 2025 17:21:55 +0000

Yeah, that was my first take as well. If you can’t be bothered to spend the time or money to put this on a custom domain, why should I spend my time or money either?

New comment by tchock23 in "Find Your People"

tchock23 — Sat, 24 May 2025 13:35:57 +0000

Really liked the recap in the last paragraph. I wish more speakers would do that.

New comment by tchock23 in "The cult of doing business"

tchock23 — Sat, 10 May 2025 15:26:18 +0000

I will never, ever understand the praise for that book.

It can be summarized in one sentence: ‘Get a monopoly if you can.’ Brilliant insight there - thanks captain obvious!

If the author wasn’t famous it wouldn’t have even been published, and certainly wouldn’t have appeared as a ‘best business book.’

New comment by tchock23 in "High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill"

tchock23 — Fri, 09 May 2025 00:39:53 +0000

Unlikely: https://taxfoundation.org/blog/trump-tariffs-tax-cuts/

New comment by tchock23 in "Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule"

tchock23 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:46:51 +0000

Like launching a private $500k membership club for elites:

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/donald-trump-jr-m...

True to their word!

New comment by tchock23 in "Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed"

tchock23 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:15:32 +0000

Nicely done! UI is clean and I really like that you give different options on how to calculate the zones since most apps just take the simplified % of max HR for zone calculations.

New comment by tchock23 in "Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed"

tchock23 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:10:45 +0000

Sort of. You can only see your real-time heart rate on your phone when you're doing a cycling workout for some weird reason. Otherwise you have to awkwardly look at your watch if you're walking/running.