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chasebank··on Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California
The city of Santa Barbara painted a line through the town 25 years ago saying if we don’t stop global warming, the town will be under water to that line in 25 years…
chasebank··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
trainyard is/was an amazing game.
chasebank··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
In particular, season 2 is truly a work of art. As you said, it is just flat out brilliant. If you haven't watched the final episode of nathan for you (season 4 episode 7), watch it. it's equally fantastic.
chasebank··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
Have they tried GHB? I know it's used in narcolepsy patients with great success. If you "microdose" it, it's also one of the best drugs on the planet. Slippery slope, though.
chasebank··on If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
The answer is money.
chasebank··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
Do you think you would ever use LLMs in tandem in your practice to help diagnose and treat?
chasebank··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
Anecdote on healthcare, adjacent to this.

My dog had been acting off. Wouldn’t eat, was hunched over, looked sad. We took him to a local vet who did an X-ray because they suspected a blockage. They didn’t see one, so they sent us home with standard pain meds.

Randomly, we had a dinner party that night and another vet was there. She heard the story and immediately said, “Go home right now and take your dog to an emergency vet with ultrasound.”

Turns out, at the time, most vets had been trained to use X-rays to look for blockages, but newer evidence showed X-rays were only something like 20% effective compared to ultrasound, which was closer to 95%. (forget percentages but somethign like that)

The ultrasound found an avocado pit stuck in his intestine. He had emergency surgery that night.

That chocolate chunk of an English Lab ended up living until 15, and only needed two more blockage surgeries after that...

I know doctors hate patients reading the internet, and LLMs are going to make that 1000% worse for them. But hopefully over time, we all adapt together and end up better off in the long run.

chasebank··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
They call it 'onramping'. Moonpay is a big one, coinbase has one, onramper is another. Basically Applepay / credit card -> ETH or SOL or USDC, etc, then lose away!
chasebank··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
arb?
chasebank··on Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
Another data point.

California pistachios consume about 500–600 billion gallons of water per year.

chasebank··on Three of our worst VC stories
I came across this thread on twitter this morning but isn't he the CEO / co-founder and he's clearly a man? I guess I don't get the reference. I know he has a co-founder who's a female, maybe she was lead at the time?

"1. A Sequoia partner passed on Cloudflare because he didn’t think a woman could lead a security infrastructure company. Seriously. "

chasebank··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
ive had rappers offer me $10k for my ig username. i'm holding out for the bank to buy it.
chasebank··on Please Use AI
Every new technology promises to fundamentally change learning, education, personal growth and ends up being used in the laziest way by 99% of people. Radio, TV, internet, now AI. Eating right and exercise or GLP1?

I agree with the sentiment, however, by definition most people will not follow your advice.

chasebank··on Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”
how so?
chasebank··on What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
We have the same "problem" where I live in central coast CA. It's so rad to see kids ripping e-bikes all over town. Would I prefer the kid riding on the back seat isn't staring at her phone? Of course! But at least they are outside exploring! Fwiw most of the kids I see with this freedom are Mexican but that could be because I live closer to and work downtown, closer to lower income areas and not in the suburbs.
chasebank··on Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug
Have you tried losing weight and if so, did that help?
chasebank··on Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
Easy. It's all fake.
chasebank··on Claude for Small Business
FYI, the definition of small business in the US is fewer than 500 employees.
chasebank··on San Diego rents declined following surge in supply
You think "most people" save at least $75k a year?
chasebank··on Sauna effect on heart rate
News at 9, shorter people on average live longer than taller people...
chasebank··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
But why would they make the product shittier and not just more expensive? A lot of the complaints have been the model getting lost and going rogue.
chasebank··on Free stuff makes us irrational
For anyone who thinks there is flawed logic in this I encourage you to study JC Penney's pricing strategy failure. People, by and large, are not rational.
chasebank··on The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes
Ya but all the financial logic in the world doesn’t account for Elon god, number go up.
chasebank··on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
Ban them too. Make bets have to be placed in person.
chasebank··on Digg is gone again
I've talked about this on here before, but we think the solution is an auth layer built on top of credit score through an intermediary like creditkarma. The score itself doesn't really matter but it does solve big problems.

Plus, if you wanted to implement a filtering system for users, I personally would rather trust reviews / comments from credit scores over 650, they have less incentive to be astroturfing.

But yes, I think your conclusion is correct. This is the only way.

chasebank··on The Brand Age
I have a set of very expensive hand made japanese irons (golf clubs). I assure you I did not buy them from social influence or clout. In fact, nobody ever really sees them except me. I bought them because the craftsmanship and how truly beautiful they are. They make me smile.
chasebank··on Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products
Does nicotine?
chasebank··on Layoffs at Block
I write most of my emails purposely misspelling words / lacking proper capitalization so the recipient knows it wasn't written with ai. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
chasebank··on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
HN has been overwhelmingly astroturfed since at least 2010.
chasebank··on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins
Two of the fastest growing YC companies are crypto companies built on solana, Kalshi and Axiom. I'm pretty sure Axiom was the fastest to $100m in revenue, ever.
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