andrewrn
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I watched this film last night. It was very unique and not like anything I have seen before.
It's a pretty disorienting film, and I think that is part of the point. We're living in an age where presentation matters far more than substance.
Have you heard of the book Healing Back Pain by Sarno? I haven't personally experienced it, but people seem to swear by it. A pretty non-traditional approach to pain management.
Wow just a short reading of this wikipedia is fascinating. It reminds me of a thought I had years ago about what is lost with the introduction of abstracted currency (i.e. dollars). I assume this is an established concept, but when you barter with someone, besides the transaction, you learn about what that person needs. With abstracted currency, this information doesn't get transferred.
Anyway, seemed relevant to the wikipedia.
Seems reasonable. I'd like to hear your thinking on the automotive side. Is it the cost pressure at scale and durability requirements?
I work on autonomous submarines that image the seafloor, and let me tell you it is very hard to engineer deep ocean systems. Just operationally, testing things in rolling waves is a brutal job. Arguably at parity with space as an engineering design environment.
A great sci-fi book for this crowd that centers on this topic is "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. LeGuin
Perfect Hacker News link :)
You know what they mean though. Don't be so dense. This feed is not algorithmically built to maximize engagement, and it has no eye-catching and bait-facilitating photos. Meaningfully different.
This essay I read recently speaks about solitude in a way you might find interesting. Basically how valuable it is to be in solute but also become sensitive to how it feels when you’re not getting influenced by other minds, as you say.
https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
With the amount of money behind them, I regret to say I don’t think they’ll get legislated away. My best guess is that social shaming slowly dwindles their usage. It’s actively shameful to scroll at dinner among Gen Z, for example. The problem becomes using the apps alone at home.
Wow how does Meta think anyone trusts their brand now? The lack of self-awareness is sorta funny honestly
Super neat concept. One super low-lift way to improve its reception: change the styling of the landing page to not be blatant AI slop.
Posted by
andrewrn on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @02:23PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hi HN, I am curious what your teams' best practices are for facilitating human-agent collaboration on software teams.I want to take advantage of coding agents, but since my team works on robotic software, everything still needs to be human-reviewed. Some folks submit very voluminous and needlessly verbose PRs that are challenging to review.
And in the case where a team gets overworked, there are legions more fresh and bright engineers to burn.
This is definitely made by some bitter YC reject. Amazing the vitriol of those types
At one particularly reprehensible job for which I was overqualified (job market was kicking my ass), I noticed that the higher in the food chain someone was, the more convincingly busy they appeared.
The middle manager above me was genuinely skilled at this. All day, when you passed his office, he looked like he was absolutely concentrated on something.
Unrelated to AI, but it was pretty interesting.
I did a few flights in college but never got my license because there wasn’t an instructor light enough to meet weight requirements with me lol. Do you have yours? If so, how long did it take you?
“By 2018, several Y.C. partners were so frustrated with Altman’s behavior that they approached Graham to complain. Graham and Jessica Livingston, his wife and a Y.C. founder, apparently had a frank conversation with Altman. Afterward, Graham started telling people that although Altman had agreed to leave the company, he was resisting in practice”
You can subtly see residue of this frustration in Dalton and Michael’s videos when Sam Altman comes up. It’s only thinly veiled that Sam was a snake while at YC.
Posted by
andrewrn on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @11:41PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am trying to understand how long-tenured folks' retirements cause disruptions from loss of institutional knowledge. I've had some conversations so far, but I'd love to hear some more perspectives. I am particularly interested in fields that have embodied, tacit knowledge that walks out the door with retirees. Thanks in advance.
The author mentioned they’ve been self-employed for 15 years, then proceeds to make a bunch of claims about traditional employment, like being “your professional development being structurally supported,” but it’s important to remember the variance in normal employment, too.
When you’re valuable in a certain position at a company, trying to grow beyond it is like swimming upstream in a raging current. The pigeonholing that happens when you work for a big company is not to be underestimated.
Posted by
andrewrn on Saturday December 27, 2025 @02:35PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I’m trying to learn about how P&IDs are used by process safety, ops, and maintenance personnel.I’ve worked as a P&ID drafter mostly doing redline changes, but I’m trying to learn how these drawings are actually used more broadly.In your experience:What do you personally do with P&IDs?Would really appreciate perspectives from O&G, chemicals, or industrial ops.
This is a super cool game, nicely done.
As a counterpoint to the negativity in here. I purchased one of Angela Yu's basic webdev courses a couple years back and it springboarded my coding ability. I left it rather quickly to just build random stuff I wanted, but still, it was the spark.
True. I’m rooting for the lives as well.