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hkxer··on I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
Why don't you just name the company?
hkxer··on 'Weird and Daunting': 7k Readers Told Us How It Felt to Focus
I tried this exercise just after finishing the article. Feels silly to say, but really a remarkable experience.

I recently left tech to go back to school, but the program that I got into is very different than what I had envisioned.

As I reflected on this recent negative event, my perception changed in those ten minutes, reframing the challenge as an opportunity.

hkxer··on Return to Office Is a Mistake
Not true. I work at FAANG and my colleagues making 400k work in a “cubicle farm” and also cannot afford a nice house bc we are in an HCOL area.
hkxer··on Things Are Going Great at Netflix, So It's Raising Prices
I’m inclined to think the reason for that is that location is a major factor in people’s content preferences, not purely because stuff is cached in one area, that seems extreme.
hkxer··on Tesla is launching their developer APIs
No one’s forcing you to use them
hkxer··on Draggable objects
Drawflow is good
hkxer··on Show HN: A website chatbot that also uses APIs
Website link isn’t loading for me
hkxer··on Record whistleblower award went to a tipster on Ericsson
Work email
hkxer··on Instead of paying adults more, states let companies hire kids for labor shortage
My understanding is that “The Jungle” spurred a huge improvement in safety regulations. Why do you think the conditions are still bad?
hkxer··on IRS accidentally releases taxpayers’ private data again
Using your own stat, it is objectively probable (66% chance) that this was someone outside the US.
hkxer··on The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
archive.ph
hkxer··on Google combines Maps and Waze teams in restructuring move
Not dissing on you by any means, it’s just crazy to me how different this is than London. My train station in Surrey is a good 1.3km walk from my home, but all of my neighbors do the exact same thing.
hkxer··on Acoustic pornography recognition using CNN and bag of refinements
Porn has been proven to have severe detrimental physical and mental effects, including: erectile dysfunction, depression, changing perceptions of sex, etc.

Feel free to google them (going on google scholar and typing in “pornography negative impacts” is a good start), or I can cite a laundry list of studies saying the same thing.

hkxer··on Ask HN: What is the most efficient way to do good?
Especially in this next generation, an increasing number of people are not planning to work for 40 years. Personally, I’m on a path to retire by 36 (16 years of work). Many of my friends and colleagues are on the same path.
hkxer··on Show HN: Metadocs, kinda like Reddit, but built into every documentation
This is pretty cool, nice job!
hkxer··on Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
Finishing an ironman competition. Training is really hard right now but hopefully it’ll be worth it.

Had to try to pick swimming back up for the first time in 10 years ;)

hkxer··on Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?
Noise canceling headphones?
hkxer··on The Search for a Pill That Can Help Dogs–and Humans–Live Longer
I don’t understand modern healthcares obsession with extending life.

Part of the allure of life is because it’s temporary, so each moment is more valuable.

In a life where everyone lives to 200, the value of each moment (of your family, of the choices you make) is less, because you’ll probably have another chance sometime in the future.

Personally, I don’t want to live a day past 80.

hkxer··on Human brain cells transplanted into baby rats' brains grow and form connections
I’m surprised that there have not been more ethical concerns about this
hkxer··on Space billboards could cost $65M and still turn a profit
I think people would work on taking down these satellites. Whether by shining coordinated lasers at them, homemade projectiles, or some other method.
hkxer··on Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?
WhatsApp is end to end encrypted, but it can still detect what you are typing and can use that info to target you. It just can’t detect anything once you click send.
hkxer··on Analysis of a Spotify Scammer
I wonder what the motivation for this is? It’s not like anyone is listening to these chopped and shifted tracks right? Maybe bots are streaming these?
hkxer··on In leaked memo, Facebook tells managers low performers don’t belong
Is this supposed to be surprising?