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Re:Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:43AM (#49466668)
Really spectacular analysis – thank you for sharing, fun to scroll and easy to understand.
Is it possible to expand this analysis beyond words to other Claude ticks? Contrastive framings, sentence length, caveating, for instance.
Re:How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:26PM (#48911077)
my "belt and suspenders" are "load-bearing"
Re:Has_not_been_viewed_much
on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:27AM (#48806017)
Tangentially related. I built a little app to help me find art for my home art frame (Meural) -- it searches through the Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Museum of Modern Art APIs.
You can try it here https://artfindr.mohitbhasin.com/
Re:Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packagi...
on Monday February 23, 2026 @10:40AM (#47123748)
Very exciting!
Re:A deep dive into the RSS feed reader landscape
on Friday October 10, 2025 @12:53PM (#45541039)
Google Reader was killed by Vic because it was the only "social" app at Google at the time. He wanted to grow their FB competitor (G+) and insisted on migrating users over from Reader to G+, which never happened.
Re:Effective Spaced Repetition
on Monday April 10, 2023 @05:26PM (#35517586)
Agreed. Logseq changed the game for me. Because SRS is closely coupled with note-taking and is as simple as adding "#card", it eliminates any friction and excuses I had for not using SRS. I look forward to adding new cards as much as I do reviewing old ones.
Re:Ask HN: Solving problems by mapping to other problems that we know ...
on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:29AM (#29976550)
Godel numbering does this for Logic. Reading GEB rn so top of mind.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:56PM (#27305214)
https://www.climaticthoughts.com/
Nitin discuss from a fresh perspective what it will take to prevent climate change. He distills and synthesizes books and articles into short essays that push my thinking forward.
Re:Why I Work on Ads
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:08AM (#27064341)
Thanks for sharing. This was a compelling argument that nudged my understanding in a new direction.
I recently started paying creators on Patreon and subscribing to news outlets I wanted to support. But within a year, I realized that this was inefficient, I didn't like/read/watch most of the content that my subscriptions were supporting. As much as I wanted to support the content creators and quality journalism, I questioned the value of my subscriptions and cancelled - I felt like I signed up for a gym membership on Jan 1st that I wasn't using anymore.
Ads allow me "to pay" with my attention for only the content that I value. I don't like ads, I generally use an ad-blocker, but I appreciate the post and the perspective.
Re:RIP Google Reader
on Thursday March 25, 2021 @10:24PM (#26588174)
Using Google Reader felt like hanging out and having a beer with my favorite friends. It was teeming with conversation threads waiting to be pulled.
Seeing a new share was like getting a tiny intellectual present, filled with all the right connotations - "Here's this thing I think you would find interesting," "I care about your opinion, what are your thoughts on this," "It's not important, but it is entertaining," "not trying to share this with the world, just you, my friend."
Google Reader was our company's post-lunch ritual. A way to balance a mornings worth of engineering effort and soporific pad thai with a jolt of fresh news and virtual office banter.
RIP.
Re:Launch HN: June (YC W21) – Two-click analytics reports on top of Se...
on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @02:50PM (#26157968)
Congratulations, this is exciting. Canned solutions are a good way to get young companies from zero to one quickly
Re:Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL
on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:16PM (#25739418)
Amazing work here. The slow build, the clear code with highlighting, and the suggested improvements at the end - all made this easy to read and follow along!
Re:U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid
on Thursday November 05, 2020 @12:35PM (#25000127)
Also maybe, try to innovate instead of suffocating innovation with a pillow stuffed with cash.
Re:Launch HN: Osmind (YC S20) – software for better mental health ther...
on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:25PM (#24791170)
As a data scientist excited about the potential of psychedelic therapies, I like that you are helping bring rigor to the space. I imagine supplementing clinical data with feedback from daily in-app experience sampling could help validate or invalidate new therapies. Keen to follow along and possibly get involved in the future.
Re:Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @02:43PM (#24074111)
Much needed! Analysts struggle with this all the time - trying to explain why an analysis is off and having to manually debug every column in a new database
Re:Quotebacks – Quote the Web
on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:18PM (#23468591)
This is exciting! Thanks for doing this.
An MBAs guide to breaking into Data Science
Re:Ask HN: Who Is Firing?
on Thursday April 16, 2020 @07:00AM (#22888156)
Checkout this airtable tracker
https://layoffs.fyi/tracker/
Re:Language Learning with Netflix extension
on Monday January 13, 2020 @01:00AM (#22032183)
Ef yes! Been looking for this, can't wait to try it.
Re:Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @08:43AM (#16473226)
I read the article and thought it was generally vapid.
People sleep in different ways. Here are some pictures of things related to sleep. Sleep is poorly studied we should study it more.
The thermoregulation and serotonin studies were helpful.
Re:Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: what are you ...
on Friday June 09, 2017 @01:31PM (#14522892)
Perhaps, if you did a bootcamp and are gainfully employed, you are busy and have less time to read HN.
Re:CausalImpact: Causal Inference using Bayesian structural time-serie...
on Thursday October 29, 2015 @12:26PM (#10472254)
Agreed, this documentation is exceptional - It makes something rather complicated look trivially easy to implement.
It would great to have a "Analysed with CausalImpact" page like a "built with AngularJs" where we can explore how this was used in the wild.
I'm tempted to start applying this immediately, but I look forward to reading http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co... before starting.
Re:Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data
on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @02:27PM (#8264484)
Lynn, FYI - these numbers reported to the DoL are not necessarily accurate and thus should only be used as a ballpark estimate. They are likely to be overestimates of actual numbers.
Having seen H1B document submitted to the DoL, I know that firms misrepresent these numbers. An H1B is granted to immigrants for positions that ostensibly couldn't be filled by US citizens, this is rarely the case. Firms have to show that a job application was life for a certain amount of time and they were unable to fill it.
Finally they need to claim that because the position is so hard to fill, they are willing to pay above prevailing wage. See H1B LCA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Labor_Condition_Appli...
They however do not need to prove that the claimed wage is what is actually being paid. These numbers are thus overestimates and I would guess >10% off the mark.
That said, it is obviously illegal to misrepresent these numbers and some firms are more scrupulous than others.
Re:Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll?
on Friday February 28, 2014 @12:29AM (#7317395)
Ingenious. Now if only I could Ctrl-F through unloaded elements I'd be a happy camper.
The Threat of Wikipedia Zero
Ask HN: What reading does PG recommend for Marketing?
I wanted to ask anyone that has been in a YC batch: What are the resources that PG recommends regarding sales/marketing and gaining initial traction?I imagine that many talented, ambitious engineers and entrepreneurs on HN follow the lean method, but still frequently end up with a solid product that they need help growing. Technology doesn't sell itself, and sales can be extremely difficult for...
Improve your short-term memory using the Memory Montage technique
Re:Things I Did Wrong with My Last Startup
on Monday February 25, 2013 @07:31PM (#5282956)
Great advice. Thanks for sharing. I'm working on my own project and know that the failures you note are universal. It's helpful to hear them again and use it to channel my efforts on building an audience especially when development is slow.
Re:Ask HN: What are your side projects? 9/12
on Thursday September 27, 2012 @07:45PM (#4583524)
This is awesome! really excited to try it out.