gregorymichael

My favorite post on HN. Upvote it everytime. Use this phrase so often now.

What a great video. From the talk track, to the visuals, to the "flow", to the confident but accessible sprinkling of technical terms. Loved this.

Go Bills.

Agreed. When building an app that sends email, bcc-ing yourself is an unreasonably effective logging mechanism.

Just listened to the first suite. The Menuet was soulful and haunting. The Gigue was fierce and fascinating in contrast to Yo Yo Ma’s. I felt a profound sense of “there’s not enough time left in life to fully appreciate this piece of music.” Thank you for sharing.

I’m listening to this now for the first time now. Somehow I had never heard of him. Thank you. I sense this music will be with me for a long time.

I love this so much, as someone who tends to listen to a single piece of music on repeat (especially while coding) and has spent a lot of time with Yo-Yo Ma's "Six Evolutions".

Loved learning about the deep diversity of recordings from other artists, the ambiguous history of the music, and that there's a question if the music was even originally written for a cello!

Also loved that the site recommends different recordings based on the mood of interpretation.

This all reminds me of the HN favorite, "Reality has a lot of detail." Feel like I just discovered fractal complexity in a piece of music I naively thought I knew well.

This seems super reasonable.

One of my favorite AI How-tos in the last year. Barry and Erik spend 80% of the post saying ~”eh, you probably don’t need agents. Just build straightforward deterministic workflows with if-statements instead.”

And then, when you actually do need agents, don’t over complicate it!

This post also introduced the concept of an Augmented LLM — a LLM hooked up to tools, memory, data — which is a useful abstraction for evolving LLM use beyond fancy autocomplete.

“An augmented LLM running in a loop” is the best definition of an agent I’ve heard so far.

I have ADHD, and my daughter was recently diagnosed as well.

Been reflecting on this post as it's been soaking up the front page for the last 24 hours.

I want to commend you for shipping maybe the perfect HN post:

- Personal Journey

- Old school hardware

- DIY software

- Productivity hack

- Great title

- Quantified results (2-3x productivity) over non-trivial duration (few months)

- A low-effort offline solution that delivers real value for the 98% who will never build the thing

- Great polish on the reading experience with lots of little details

- Effective call to action (subscribe to get the software in a few weeks)

You inspired me to get my organization back on track. After researching receipt printers for 30 minutes, I realized what I actually need is to dust off the system that has worked for me in the past. But I'm picking up some post-its today and my daughter and I are going to try implementing your system for her over the weekend.

Thank you for putting the time into this!

Unlimited Claude Code for $100 on the Max plan is a game changer.

Huge +1. Please.

AirBnB and Uber both have a dynamic where the host/driver has often taken out a loan and modified their lifestyle to depend on this income, which makes them the easier party to squeeze.

A lot of folks use it to get started quickly and then realize the unnecessary abstractions are obfuscating the actual hard parts.

Yes agreed. In most regions/groups in America, "you guys" does not carry the same meaning as "a group of guys"

Love this.

Fun litmus test, if the person challenging this assertion happens to be a straight male: "how many guys have you slept with?"

"Sexist" does feel like too strong a word. "Gendered" perhaps more appropriate.

"Guys" is certainly gendered, so I understand folks feeling like "you guys" is as well.

Three-way group chats have been really great for me (as a 45 year old male) for keeping connection with my guy friends. Have a dozen of them or so. Small enough to still feel intimate. Big enough that someone replies / keeps the conversation going.

Our tradition: fried chicken.

If turkey was good, we’d eat it more than once a year.

Fried chicken is delicious and you still get to do the whole over-involved preparation of poultry.

pixelmator's great. congrats!

My experiments with computer use clocked in at $15/hour

What a beautiful response

I've read all 20+ of the Jack Reacher books, some multiple times. Best bedtime reading I've found. Fun enough I actually want to go to bed. Shallow enough that if I miss a page or two because I'm drowsy, no big deal.

Yes! We just moved out of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and my biggest lament was losing this type of community. Wrote about it here: https://baugues.com/last-days-nyc

What’s the option if Starliner is not cleared for return? Elon to the rescue?

Check out the book From Strength To Strength by Arthur Brooks. It’s a bit of a mid-life crisis book that addresses this. In short: develop hobbies, invest in friends/community, explore spiritually.

same way the NYPD helicopter pilots do now.

:slowclap:

Parody?

Yes, but with fresh unground beans.