Hacker News: wayoverthecloud

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business"

wayoverthecloud — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 03:45:40 +0000

Could you share what worked for you? Is it B2B/b2c? I guess that matters too for the type of marketing to focus on?

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living"

wayoverthecloud — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:41:36 +0000

On a side note, I find that this flow state has it's addiction of it's own. I find myself doing whatever I can to find time for it. I feel like the reason mathematicians, physicists and artists of the past produced such great results is, they found the flow state so addictive, more addictive than balancing your health or family life, and thus dedicated almost entirety of their lives on it. Just have to be careful on that one. After all, our purpose is (I think) is not just working.

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "The Unicorn Boom Is Over, and Startups Are Getting Desperate"

wayoverthecloud — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:54:59 +0000

Without going into too much details, could you share some niche areas? And what kind of tech adoption are missing?

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Show HN: Turn Screenshots into Designs Instantly"

wayoverthecloud — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:51:26 +0000

Impressive for CustomTkinter. Well done with the UI design.

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Ask HN: PhDs/students, how do you come up with viable problems/solutions?"

wayoverthecloud — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:36:44 +0000

Thanks. Yeah there are papers that I am interested on, in fact, I am interested on too many things at once which doesn't help. Also, I think I am always thinking of solving bigger problems where it's hard to make progress on.

Also, since you mentioned scaling systems and equations, are you by any chance working on numerical linear algebra stuffs like iterative solvers etc.? MPI/HPC etc? If so, I am in HPC as well.

Ask HN: PhDs/students, how do you come up with viable problems/solutions?

wayoverthecloud — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:20:23 +0000

While I do have the support of advisor, and in general know the bigger research direction, coming up with a relevant doable+innovative research problem is still somewhat upon me and hard. I wanted to read on other researchers' perspective on how they do it, what works and what doesn't. Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42912928

Points: 28

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Structural Engineering Matrices from Boeing

wayoverthecloud — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:27:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/mat/Boeing/README.txt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42880609

Points: 2

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New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Italy's privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek"

wayoverthecloud — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:12:28 +0000

Considering EU is so far behind on AI and tech as a whole, I hope they see this an opportunity to develop something of their own with better data privacy or whatever suits their boat(I don't know how though). I am really rooting for EU and their economy to bounce back. The world desperately needs a balance from all sides.

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "C is not suited to SIMD (2019)"

wayoverthecloud — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:23:53 +0000

In C++ there is the align_alloc specificier. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/memory/aligned_alloc

Not sure for C

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Emotional support across adulthood: A 60-year study of men’s social networks"

wayoverthecloud — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:37:00 +0000

I am doing my PhD and occasionally my supervisor and I come across papers that don't have any meaningful results/statistics but you gotta publish somehow. Like, they conclude with "We observed that the latency can be reduced by 2x-300x." I feel like the group that did this research spent a decade, and their supervisor was like, well, we gotta publish something. Choose an age interval that fits the whole data. 30-90.

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?"

wayoverthecloud — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:08:10 +0000

My father-in-law's stage 4 brain tumor was discovered when he was 50. He's in good health now. They operated on him and removed the tumors and did chemotherapy. They continuously monitored for regrowth but it didn't happen. He did yoga religiously for most of his adult life. Even his hair has grown back.

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?"

wayoverthecloud — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 03:03:28 +0000

Very valuable advices. Do you mind sharing how you got the starting customers? Did you find customers and then build the product?

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Show HN: It took me 5() months to build a Plausible alternative"

wayoverthecloud — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:42:24 +0000

So this is where the Indie developer trend is right now: open source analytics. I think I have been seeing replica of Plausible every other day. But I am glad the trend as shifted from the AI wrappers.

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse"

wayoverthecloud — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:56:22 +0000

Reading a book is not really passive. Especially if it's a good book. You have to constantly imagine the layouts and the connections the book is trying to draw. For me, after years of Internet, getting back to books made me appreciate my younger self because books need active imagination and follow-through in the brain. I was able to do that effortlessly when I was a child. In fact, if you read all the HN comments the way you read books, it will be challenging(if you have no book reading habits).

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "It is humiliating to have to do LeetCode grinding for"

wayoverthecloud — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:57:49 +0000

Agree with everything but I don't know think James Maynard was actually being interviewed during that video.

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone"

wayoverthecloud — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:22:13 +0000

Genuine question, I also like to use my smartphone less, but what about when you are in the lavatory? I have a habit of using my smartphone else I cannot go. Has anyone been able to solve that?

Ask HN: How to validate B2C software ideas?

wayoverthecloud — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:44:17 +0000

Find customers before building is a popular tactic in B2B SaaS where you conduct user interviews before even building the MVP. I think that works well because business people are used to getting cold calls/meetings. But what about B2C ideas? How do you conduct interviews? Are non-business people used to getting sales call? Or is there a better way for a software that costs say $30/yr?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42224519

Points: 5

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New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Ask HN: Anybody used Retool for production, user-facing app?"

wayoverthecloud — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:36:20 +0000

This is really actionable, incredible advice. Thanks for breaking down to pieces. This is so much better than the startup books that get too winded and never explain the exact steps to actually talk to customers. I am toying an idea for about 6 months and I think that while there are products in the market that do what I am thinking, I can position myself better. It's targeted towards lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, etc. Do you think LinkedIn is a good channel to reach them? Do you also use LinkedIn premium? Have you tried cold emails? Sorry to bombard you with so many questions. Do you have a way to reach you besides HN? If you are fine with it of course.

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Ask HN: Anybody used Retool for production, user-facing app?"

wayoverthecloud — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:09:41 +0000

Any advice on how to talk to potential customers in the beginning say even before writing the code? Do you cold email/cold call? How do you start to talk about their problems?

New comment by wayoverthecloud in "Ask HN: How to Emigrate from EU and Where?"

wayoverthecloud — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:24:43 +0000

If you're working remotely, Nepal.