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greenwallnorwayon Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

Engineers are running 8 instances of Claude Code at once. That doesn't mean they are completing work 8x faster.

If you must hold the context for 8 agents in your head at once, your expertise as an engineer is wasted.

See https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/ - One man + one agent in 72 hours, did better than thousands of agents over weeks.

Staying focused on one or two important tasks still works. You won't fall behind.

greenwallnorwayon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://writing.peercy.net

I try to send semi-regular links of the interesting stuff I read.

greenwallnorwayon The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform

I did some analysis on top title patterns. Both of these make the list pretty handily: https://projects.peercy.net/projects/hn-patterns/index.html

greenwallnorwayon Hacker News Title Patterns

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of... (13 titles)

...for Fun and Profit (13 titles)

...the Age of AI (29 titles)

greenwallnorwayon I used Lego to design a farm for people who are blind – like me

From what I can tell in the image:

2x6: white

2x4: blue

2x2: grey

This makes interesting patterns, since you are more likely to use certain bricks in certain positions.

greenwallnorwayon Spherical Snake

People are having fun submitting their fake scores to the leaderboard: https://kevinalbs.com/spherical_snake/leaderboard/

I see a person or two I know in there haha

greenwallnorwayon Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

Projects about hn on hn get a lot of attention here. I've sure done it before.

They're a lot of fun! And super easy to vibe code, if I'm looking to test a new model.

greenwallnorwayon Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

I've done it before. Projects about hn on hn get a lot of attention.

They're a lot of fun! And super easy to vibe code, if I'm looking to test a new model.

It's hard to restrain myself from navel-gazing, the lint in there is fascinating.

I'm not sure they satisfy curiosity as much as many posts with fewer votes, but that's okay.

greenwallnorwayon Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

I've written many variations of my own "quick, take a note!" app, and they all succumb to the same problem: I can't safely write a note when I'm in a car.

Driving by myself and listening to podcasts is when I have so many thoughts I want to write down.

I'll give this a serious consider.

greenwallnorwayon Making RSS More Fun

What about email?

Email is a cousin to RSS - everyone has their email feed.

Senders push to an email inbox, rather than readers pulling feeds into an inbox.

greenwallnorwayon Helm 4.0

Can I hear from those of you who have had a good IAC experience? What tools worked well?

greenwallnorwayon Hacker News Headlines (game)

ui idea: show the distribution over the slider

greenwallnorwayon Hacker News Headlines (game)

Ah! Good idea. Hurts replayability though, since we probably get not more than one 1000 pointer each week.

greenwallnorwayon Hacker News Headlines (game)

Yea - I didn't think too long on how to calculate points well. Is there a more balanced strategy?

Identifying some of the truly high-scoring articles (>1000) should be rewarding, and 200 vs 400 points is a pretty big difference on hn

greenwallnorwayon Hacker News Headlines (game)

I average a score in the range 1500-2000 (out of 2500).

I imagine those who spend more time on hn will ace it.