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KerryJones

1,674 karma · joined August 31, 2015

Engineer and fitness hacker, and Co-Founder of HubHaus.
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KerryJones··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
I am also reading the Count of Monte Cristo -- I suggest reading up on its origin, it's fairly interesting.
KerryJones··on “I just chose words carefully”
I think about this all the time. The first several years of Laravel had just absolutely beautiful code to see (both from an engineering, OCD and aesthetic perspective)
KerryJones··on Don't use your phone while you poop
Ive read quite a bit, including one of my favorite articles, "It's probably the phones": https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/honestly-its-probably-the-phon...

But then you kind of dove into the deepend there. Spy devices, 1984, etc. I think a more tempered approach is useful here

KerryJones··on Show HN: 18 Words
I'd like more common words?

"Baith" is incredibly esoteric.

KerryJones··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
This feels more nuanced than you are giving it credit for? Much of the training data that was available has been withdrawn, atleast for OpenAI we know that much of the training data was garnered in less-than above the board methods
KerryJones··on Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
Curious on your "Top" algorithm? I see many 1-voted items there.

Also, how do you vet your blogs?

KerryJones··on Claude Opus 4.8
"GPT 5.5 has already been shown to be as adept as Mythos at finding vulnerabilities."

Do you have any data on this (other than benchmarks)?

KerryJones··on The IBM-ification of Google?
Most people would argue that Stadia would have many. Many people loved Google Reader. There are numerous examples of things that were great and were killed, because they hadn't monetized enough or "fast enough", and when you are chasing results on a quarterly basis, you can't always get things that will generate tremendous value with more time.
KerryJones··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
I think this is misleading as a few other folks say -- otherwise you'd expect Visa/Mastercard stock to drop dramatically at losing that many folks in a single announcement.
KerryJones··on Implications of AI to schools
It seems like a good path forward is to somewhat try to replicate the idea of "once you can do it yourself, feel free to use it going forward" (knowing how various calculator operations work before you let it do it for you).

I'm curious if we instead gave students an AI tool, but one that would intentionally throw in wrong things that the student had to catch. Instead of the student using LLMs, they would have one paid for by the school.

This is more brainstorming then a well thought-out idea, but I generally think "opposing AI" is doomed to fail. If we follow a montessori approach, kids are naturally inclined to want to learn thing, if students are trying to lie/cheat, we've already failed them by turning off their natural curiosity for something else.

KerryJones··on Why aren't smart people happier?
This is from 2022

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32409811 - https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-peopl...

KerryJones··on Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20
This is not necessarily true. Hypothetical, if most breakthroughs are coming from PHDs and they aren't making any PHDs, then that pool is not necessarily larger.
KerryJones··on Flunking my Anthropic interview again
I recently interviewed for Anthropic, 6 rounds, recruiter was great, said they were putting together an offer letter. I met one of the managers, then another came back from vacation... and then they decided not to give me an offer.

I asked for feedback, and the recruiter sounded frustrated (about the internal process), because they had a moving bar on what was wanted from the hiring managers. I know I hadn't completely aced one of the interviews (they had me do a second one), and apparently they thought it was good enough on initial review, but when coming back to review it again it was not good enough.

It seems like they are going through growing pains as a company.

KerryJones··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
I'd be interested in this for different REI -- multi-family, storage, single family, co-living, sober living, etc.
KerryJones··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Great job on the design. I like the idea here, but the app was unresponsive on Windows > Chrome to most clicks
KerryJones··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Create a two-sided deal review app: https://dealcred.com

I work a lot with smaller investors, in real estate, private money lending, etc. It's sometimes hard to do due diligence on someone, and after having a couple bad deals and realize over 30 people were scammed, I wished there was a simple review site where you could see someone's past reviews.

Site is 80% there, hoping to enter beta in the next month.

KerryJones··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
I like this idea a lot -- feels like there's a lot of room to grow here. Do you have any sort of historical price tracking/alerting?

And/or also curious if there is a way to enter in a list of items I want and for it to calculate which store - in aggregate - is the cheapest.

For instance, people often tell me Costco is much cheaper than alternatives, and for me to compare I have to compile my shopping cart in multiple stores to compare.

KerryJones··on Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database
I typed in "Avocado" and got a list of 20+ items, none of them being avocado.
KerryJones··on Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
Love the idea! Any chance you could get Mandarin?
KerryJones··on Happy 10k Day
Didn't know about this -- that's cool. I'm excited to see where it goes in the future
KerryJones··on Finland applies the “Housing First” concept (2020)
The title should mention this is from 2020
KerryJones··on Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative
I read ~4 books a month via Audible, and tend not to find the time to add to Goodreads (maybe there's an auto connection I'm missing). I love the idea of systems like this (your design is beautiful) but there's no way I'm going to try to reimport all my ratings for 300+ books.

Is there anyway to sync with Audible? Even if it's a hacky chrome extension reading off the audible website?

KerryJones··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
Thanks for noting this -- it's actually pretty important in my work.
KerryJones··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
I complain about this all the time, despite me saying "ask me questions before you code" or all these other instructions to code less, it is SO eager to code. I am hoping their 3.7 reasoning follows these instructions better
KerryJones··on Five coding hats
This comes across more as styles than hats. Hat's, typically, refer to a "role description". Put on my "eng manager hat", put on my "product manager hat", not doing the same thing differently.

I'm not sure "style" is the right word, but "hat" feels like the wrong one.

KerryJones··on The Cantonese Scrolls (粵卷) – A Cantonese Language Learning Mental RPG
Came here to ask for the same thing.
KerryJones··on We're bringing Pebble back
Based on what data? I've found them to be as accurate or more accurate (and the data I've seen says the same) except around sleep tracking, where Garmin is worse. But it's not hard to create a function to correct for that if you really care about it, it is good enough unless you need vanity metrics
KerryJones··on DOOM CAPTCHA
Stated elsewhere: hold alt + (left/right) to strafe
KerryJones··on Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
* 747/770 https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/747-of-770-openai-employees-...
KerryJones··on [dead]
Wow, strong start with an introduction to bolt.new, I'm impressed and might use this in my day-to-day
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