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Re:AI Tokens Are Mana on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:19PM (#47576260)
"The dealer is always going to tell you to do more drugs — that’s not insight, that’s a revenue projection dressed up as wisdom."

Classic Claude turn of phrase and em dash give-away...

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:59AM (#46585045)
Working on a new generative art collection of works: https://socratism.io/feed
Re:GPU-Friendly Stroke Expansion on Saturday July 06, 2024 @08:29AM (#40890042)
Does anyone know of ways to expand this towards 3D paths with consistent screen-space stroke width?
Re:Finite and Infinite Games [pdf] on Sunday June 18, 2023 @11:19AM (#36381061)
One more comment as this is a tech website:

‘Meanwhile technologist Kevin Kelly praised it for "alter[ing] my thinking about life, the universe, and everything."’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games

Re:Finite and Infinite Games [pdf] on Sunday June 18, 2023 @11:16AM (#36381022)
Love this ‘self-help’ book to reframe where you might need to compete for profit or where it can be competitive/play for fun.

But more importantly to interpret the competitive behavior of others and identify where its not even necessary to compete at all. Because you can choose to play a different level of game than those around you. (Hint: its usually people playing too small finite win/lose games that you’d like to not engage with wherever possible)

Re:Interactive ASCII art face study on Saturday May 27, 2023 @03:54AM (#36092866)
Re:Synthea: Open-Source Synthetic Patient Generation on Friday May 19, 2023 @02:33PM (#36005326)
Yeah so many cards stacked against potential start-ups who could potentially bring some quality to the industry :/ Curious to see though that Google cloud / AWS etc are building fhir store APIs.
Re:Synthea: Open-Source Synthetic Patient Generation on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:04PM (#36004274)
Played around with this in my soon-to-be previous health-tech job and its great.

Actually the entire hl7-fhir ( https://www.hl7.org/fhir/ ) standard seems to me quite solid. It would be wonderful if a new cohort of start-ups would leverage it to drastically improve the digital UX of healthcare generally.

Re:Get Started Making Music on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:32PM (#35954095)
Love what the team over there does with these web demos. They previously made this amazing interactive synthesizer learning resource: https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
Re:CIAM vs. IAM: What's the difference (2022) on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:05AM (#35912125)
Also a bit disappointed in the article that it doesn’t connect the dots between WIAM and CIAM for B2B. One companies customer is another companies workforce.

Many of the apps you want to have for your workforce are actually third party, but you want to give SSO etc with an employee account. These saas apps need to not only provide CIAM ala “sign in with google” but allow the Customer to set up the connection with the WIAM to give employees access.

Daily user and posts growth graph based on the previously posted data dump: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35845504
Re:Mastodon Has Already Won on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @03:18PM (#35718641)
Agreed, the critical article does raise some good points that these more decentralized/fedarated/self-hosted/self-custody protocols need to incorporate in their designs at some point of they really want to scale to challenge the current status quo of social media.
Re:Mastodon Has Already Won on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @12:21PM (#35716187)
Interesting contrast to have both

“Mastodon is doomed?”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35713894

And

“mastodon has already won”

On the front page

Re:Show HN: Use ChatGPT on a 2 Dimensional Interface on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @01:11AM (#35709814)
This resp has very chatgpt tone of voice…
A bit off-topic but the post title will probably attract relevant people.

What are the thoughts on OCaml on HN?

Re:How to Become a “Designer Who Codes” on Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:49AM (#35663737)
My journey has been to start with data visualization using d3.js etc and gradually moved into much more complex tech stacks for vis & data processing.

Data visualization is very much user facing and lots of opportunity to let your more designerly intuitions in visual storytelling, communication motivate you along the way.

Then gradually you start to learn more about UI programming, but also data preparation with larger and more complex datasets.

Re:E-Sports economics by president of esports at Riot on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:44PM (#35643507)
Some interesting reflections by Riot Games on the unique aspects of e-sports and how it plays out in terms of market structure and monetisation.
True from a pure solo experience perspective, blockhains are a social construct so only relevant between people. I can imagine e.g. wanting to matchmake against only those players in a tcg who will play with the cards they have on-chain.
Stuff like this would be interesting but I think could only work if all art assets are then also uploaded to IPFS, game code is made open source so anyone could run/build/modify the game experience without any permission of the original publisher.

No game business seem to be really committing to that full picture yet…

Re:Instead of Freaking Out, Try Geeking Out on Monday March 27, 2023 @02:28PM (#35330375)
Searched to upvote this comment. More than happy to get some bad karma for shaming this kind of website behavior.
Re:React: You Might Not Need an Effect on Thursday March 23, 2023 @03:08AM (#35271389)
Wait so in the prop change example they are now recommending that you can update state during a component render?
Re:Microsoft Designer on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:30AM (#35065919)
Getting strong startup hustler vibes from msft with some corporate sprinkled on top
Re:Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing on Monday December 26, 2022 @06:47PM (#34143219)
johnson seems to be hyper self aware of what he is doing and i’m here for it! In a way its a similar debate to the one on SW VIII where he was going too meta on the nature of the force which caught a whole bunch of fans off guard.
Re:Application-as-a-Function Thinking on Sunday October 16, 2022 @08:40AM (#33223141)
In a way for me smart contract blockchains are a good example of developers focussing on creating very efficient functional building blocks. A smart contract has 'functional' aspects in that it produces operations that update the state/storage. Developers are incentivised to think about direct cost due to gas/storage fees. Chain-level transaction standards create a base-level of interoperability.

All of this being on-chain basically gives 'event logging' out of the box so all functions (i.e. contracts) on a chain can be monitored by any developer involved.

(Building this part myself: https://thestackreport.xyz/dashboards/tezos)

Re:Energy vs. Sovereign Bond Markets on Monday October 10, 2022 @09:01AM (#33150807)
I don't really get crypto as inflation hedge. Yes there can be specific coins with minimised supply but its also basically a toolbox for anyone to create new bubbles by simply deploying a smart contract. See for example all of the different token pairs that exist on even a relatively low liquidity (non-vc boosted) chain:

https://thestackreport.xyz/dashboards/tezos?search_term=plen...

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