Hacker News: thuanao

New comment by thuanao in "Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed"

thuanao — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:07:50 +0000

They don't share chats with others unless you click the "Share" button to share the chats.

They are private by default. It's basically the same as every other AI chat app.

New comment by thuanao in "Ask HN: Any good tools for viewing congressional bills?"

thuanao — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:48:42 +0000

Government Publishing Office and Library of Congress provides XML formatted bills and all their amendments and a feed of all changes to every bill.

Oh and on the topic of party politics, Bill Clinton was the one who had them put things online in the first place with the GPO Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act, and Barack Obama and the Democrats expanded it via American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - not the do-nothing Republicans.

New comment by thuanao in "Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed"

thuanao — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:35:43 +0000

Mozilla: Stop lying. Now.

New comment by thuanao in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

thuanao — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:22:36 +0000

As if we needed another reason to hate NYT and their paywall...

New comment by thuanao in "IRS Direct File on GitHub"

thuanao — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:16:55 +0000

It was cut because tax preparing companies pay the politicians to cut it.

New comment by thuanao in "IRS Direct File on GitHub"

thuanao — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:30:37 +0000

In my experience the paper forms are so much easier and more reliable than using tax software. A pen and a form just works. No account logins and passwords, no janky UI, no advertisements, no issues saving your progress... The instructions are much better too. Each box is numbered and there's an instruction manual detailing what to put in that box. If you make mistakes the IRS will simply correct you.

New comment by thuanao in "Machine Code Isn't Scary"

thuanao — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:10:43 +0000

I think machine code and building something like a Forth is way easier to understand than any contemporary programming language toolchain.

New comment by thuanao in "Cuss: Map of profane words to a rating of sureness"

thuanao — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:45:46 +0000

Somewhat related: What is with the rampant cursing nowadays? In the US people are openly saying f-word in professional settings, in public to strangers or acquaintances, in writing and video... seemingly everywhere even in calm normal conversations.

I don't remember it being like this decades ago. Is it just me? I remember people used to curse only in private conversation, when angry, and never at the office in meetings and professional contexts.

New comment by thuanao in "Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?"

thuanao — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:16:20 +0000

Recall.ai is exactly this. Using them at my current company and it works well. It even supports live transcription.

New comment by thuanao in "Ask HN: New Economics of Software Development Lifecycle"

thuanao — Sat, 31 May 2025 03:52:54 +0000

How else are product managers and designers supposed to justify their existence?

New comment by thuanao in "US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal"

thuanao — Thu, 29 May 2025 00:42:45 +0000

Not Congress - Republicans, who have a congressional majority.

New comment by thuanao in "Ask HN: Why that many more US-based companies are hiring "US-only" remote?"

thuanao — Wed, 28 May 2025 14:27:08 +0000

They’re hired through outsourcing firms. The company pays the outsourcing firm as a subcontractor. It’s quite common, even amongst the Silicon Valley startups I work with.

My experience is that outsourcing has only accelerated since Covid made remote work commonplace. It never used to be a thing amongst trendy startups.

New comment by thuanao in "Ask HN: Almost a thousand dollars for a 20 minute new patient visit?"

thuanao — Sat, 24 May 2025 01:25:51 +0000

Yes it’s broken. The solution is and has always been a comprehensive single-payer system combined with price controls.

Roosevelt tried to do it almost a century ago in 1935, but the moron greedy traitor racist fascist conservatives blocked it.

New comment by thuanao in "MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0"

thuanao — Fri, 23 May 2025 20:20:57 +0000

I think so. Though the premise of MCP betrays that AI isn't human-level intelligent. If it was there would be no need for a standard interface. It would be able to read API docs, navigate UIs to generate the proper keys, enter in billing info, and use all of that to make API requests by trial and error. That's what humans do.

New comment by thuanao in "MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0"

thuanao — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:09:09 +0000

Not understanding that businesses don't want open data or open protocols. Internet businesses want to monopolize information and charge rent for it. Capitalists don't want to commodify software, as that means lower profits and competition. They want to monopolize it. That's the whole game, except for companies selling physical goods over the Internet.

New comment by thuanao in "Show HN: apply.coop - Matching people with jobs that fit their values & passions"

thuanao — Wed, 21 May 2025 03:51:35 +0000

Cool. Though I see a job with Ghost listed under co-ops but the Ghost Foundation is not employee owned or a cooperative.

New comment by thuanao in "The principles of database design, or, the Truth is out there"

thuanao — Tue, 20 May 2025 02:36:21 +0000

> When a collection of such propositions is stored in a computer system, we call it a database.

Is it? A database is a place data is stored and retrieved. It is literally a data base. No more, no less. Whether it logically models a domain may be completely irrelevant to store and retrieve data.

I would argue that a database should not logically model a domain. Why? Because every database must store and retrieve data. Therefore data should be modeled to store and retrieve data as efficiently as possible. And the structure that most efficiently stores and retrieves data most likely does not logically model a domain.

New comment by thuanao in "InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel"

thuanao — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:53:58 +0000

As it is now, wood pulp and waste products are recycled into plywood and wood composites by binding them with glues and resins. This process allows us to take the wood pulp and produce wood beams and boards without using the glues and resins. With the added benefit that it's even stronger than existing wood composites.

If I understand correctly this process enables recycling wood pulp and waste with less inputs and less environment impact.

New comment by thuanao in "InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel"

thuanao — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:49:09 +0000

Trees are still farmed for the wood. This is only a method for processing the wood into a stronger material.

New comment by thuanao in "The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020)"

thuanao — Fri, 16 May 2025 13:38:41 +0000

2-3 a week? I’m jealous. I’m just a programmer (or “IC senior software engineer” in corpo-speak) and I have 2-3 per day. Most days I only have about 3-4 hours after lunch to get any work done.