thepablohansen
Re:Show HN: I Made a Hot or Not Benchmark for AI Design
on Saturday July 05, 2025 @12:36PM (#44473855)
Very surprising results!
Re:LLM Codegen go Brrr – Parallelization with Git Worktrees and Tmux
on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @01:36PM (#44118548)
This resonates- my engineering workflow has started shifting from highly focused, long periods of building out a feature to one that has much more context switching, review, and testing.
DryMerge (YC W24) promises to connects apps that don't talk to each other
Ask HN: What should I build this weekend?
Hey HN! Have any software products (preferably web applications) you've always wanted to see built out but never had the time to implement yourself?I'll pick one idea from the comment threads and do my best to build it this weekend!
Show HN: Analyze Politicians' Tweets
Source code here: https://github.com/pablojosecodes/CandidlyVotingFunctionality demonstrated here: https://go.votecandidly.com/Hey HN! I've been wondering for a while how we might be able to make the process of evaluating the politicians we vote for more transparent. In the most recent SF election- for example- I only really had a few promotional websites and some loose policy statements to go...
Re:Show HN: Candidly, a (hopefully) better way to learn about politicians
on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:06AM (#40072850)
You can test the functionality at https://go.votecandidly.com/ if you want to skip the marketing page
Show HN: Candidly, a (hopefully) better way to learn about politicians
https://github.com/pablojosecodes/CandidlyVoting
Hey HN! I've been wondering for a while how we might be able to make the process of evaluating the politicians we vote for more transparent. In the most recent SF election- for example- I only really had a few promotional websites and some loose policy statements to go off of.This seems quite inefficient, especially considering how much signal- social media posts, policy decisions, interviews-...
Ask HN: How do you decide who/what to vote for?
Over the past few election cycles (local, state, and national), I've generally had a difficult time gathering enough information to determine which political initiatives or representatives align with my notion of a high-functioning government.Why is there no platform that contains the political history of candidates (what they voted for, recent remarks, etc.) and similar information for...
Re:A Seemingly Fake Person Was Running OpenAI's $175M Startup Fund
on Saturday March 30, 2024 @01:27AM (#39872087)
Bizarre- the repos I looked at all had obvious signs of being GPT-generated.
Some examples
1) https://github.com/Jrbiltmore/Quantum-Transformers/blob/root... - notice the ChatGPT-reminiscent "Example usage" and "Placeholder for _ implementation" which is common across the repos
2) https://github.com/Jrbiltmore/QuantumOS/blob/root/ai-framewo... - "Example ___" and "Assume the model has _"
Re:Reinforcement Learning Kinda Works Now
on Friday February 02, 2024 @06:09PM (#39235723)
In case this sparked anybody's interest, I went through the tweet's author's course on RL [1] recently and it was extremely insightful. I heartily recommend it (slides, lectures, assignments are all public)
Re:Ask HN: Project idea – mood tracker for your online activity
on Thursday February 01, 2024 @02:16PM (#39219949)
Hey! I happen to be building something very similar in my free time- started off as a hackathon project. Feel free to reach out! Only spent around 10 hours on the current deployed iteration but you can check the idea out here- https://www.withtal.com/
Re:Synctify – Sync a music drop with a time in the real world
on Sunday December 31, 2023 @03:48PM (#38827403)
I ran into the same issue out of nowhere with my Spotify app a few months ago- after hitting around 300 users. Apparently, Spotify has a limit [0] on their API quota for auth (around 25 users or so in theory), but don't feature the limit very prominently in their documentation.
Have you requested and obtained a quota extension? I gave up on my app altogether after a couple of weeks and seeing in their documentation "[this] review process can take up to six weeks."
0. https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts...
Re:Ask HN: How to figure out a good direction/goals for the year ahead?
on Sunday December 17, 2023 @02:58PM (#38675828)
This seems like a great practical framework- I've noticed that establishing habits like the ones you mention are the only reliable first step to long projects in my life.
Very curious about what you would do on a daily bases that would qualify as "interesting"? Any particularly rewarding "interesting" activities? I'd love to inject some routine variety in my life.
Ask HN: How to get started with practical hardware?
Hi HN!For a long time, I've wanted to learn how to build projects which "bridge" the gap between software and hardware. I've learned to solder decently well and operate 3d printers, but have found myself absolutely stumped with progressing to a real practical project.Sample projects which get me excited: microcontroller to turn coffee machine on some basic SMS controlled minibot- really...
Re:Combating Loneliness in the Digital Age: Can New Social Platforms H...
on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @07:27PM (#38538910)
Agree on relatively strict self-selection being a necessary component for any thriving community. Also, most (dare I say all?) of my friendships have been formed not because I stumbled across an interesting person I decided to bond with, but because some external circumstance (living situation, hobbies) made it so that we were in close contact over an extended period of time.
Re:Combating Loneliness in the Digital Age: Can New Social Platforms H...
on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @07:25PM (#38538889)
I've thought a bit about this issue and technology's potential role in fixing it. A generalized app that promises community isn't going to reach mass adoption outside of an extremely viral built-in mechanism. Mostly because the required user density is inevitably so high (also why most new dating apps fail). If you (or any other entrepreneur) is focused on tackling this issue, I'd do it incrementally, by fixing a clear problem in one very specific segment of your potential audience's life, and expanding from there.
Look at an website like https://www.lu.ma which is in some sense accomplishing a similar mission.
Re:Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the company
on Monday December 04, 2023 @09:24AM (#38517600)
What would you have them study instead? If you're optimizing for what AI is least likely to be able to accomplish, some forms of blue collar labor would probably rank highest on the list.
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT has become a joke with all the restrictions
on Monday December 04, 2023 @04:25AM (#38515287)
Which restrictions specifically? What's your use case? I'm curious because I've completely shelved some projects when I realized I wouldn't be able to prompt GPT to respond in a natural way to specific classes of prompts- ie. some classes of writing.
Ask HN: How many tasks are on your daily todo list?
I've found that the single highest leverage modification I've made to my daily schedule is decreasing the number of tasks on my todo list (which I write out each night for the proceeding day). Wondering what other people's experiences with daily todo lists have looked like.
Re:Show HN: Oasis – A Repository of Project Ideas
on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @04:12PM (#38465390)
Seems like a great idea, but a heads up from https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.
Re:Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?
on Sunday November 26, 2023 @03:12PM (#38424563)
Fascinating that the human benchmark is 63%- I wonder what the benchmark would look like were it to have been established, say, 30 years ago, before the prevalence of LLMs; I'd wager it would be very close to 100%. Speaks to the moving goalposts.
P(doom) N=5
Re:Greg (2017)
on Saturday November 18, 2023 @02:20PM (#38323298)
> with an average email response time of about 5 minutes to anything.
Seems like he's always considered this a good measure of a founder's quality.
From a 2019 interview- https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-altman/
> You know, years ago I wrote a little program to look at this, like how quickly our best founders — the founders that run billion-plus companies — answer my emails versus our bad founders. I don’t remember the exact data, but it was mind-blowingly different. It was a difference of minutes versus days on average response times
Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to?
on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:12AM (#38114631)
I'm an avid consumer of podcasts. Here are my recommendations
Interviews
- Sam Harriss
- Sean Carrol
- Lex Fridman
- Possible (Reid Hoffman)
- Manifold
Lifestyle/Thoughts
- 80k hours
- Hackers Incorporated
- Startup Therapy
"Creator Economy"
- Colin and Samir
- Media Empires
- The Editing Podcast
- Creator Science
(Tech) News
- The Journal
- Hard Fork
Investing/Business
- Art of Investing
- Acquired
Re:A review of Her by Ray Kurzweil (2014)
on Sunday October 29, 2023 @02:42PM (#38061369)
Very interesting time to rewatch and discuss this film