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insaideron Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

Agreed, currently aboard and on high alert, pray for me HN

insaideron Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

Is this big enough to produce a Tsunami? Apparently maybe only a small localised one, but I'm supposed to be getting the ferry from Lombok to Bali shortly and two of those have already burnt down the last 2 weeks!

insaideron What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

RIP Jon Skeet, stack overflow legend, guy must've spent 100k hours answering C# questions! (He's not dead, but SO is)

insaideron Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

Never seen xcancel before, love that!

insaideron I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

I think the focus should be more on creating governments that are resistant to those forces. Contrary to popular belief, governments are the greatest force for good in the world, the best ones are the ones that are best at keeping capitalism in check, companies will always be vulnerable.

Unpopular opinion but I'm very much pro-china and anti-us because of this.

insaideron I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

Hi Eric, thoughts on capitalism? Call it 'financial gravity' but I think capitalism is the underlying insidious force. Obviously there's nuance but a world ran by companies with shareholders and profit margins isn't going to be a good one, is it?

insaideron I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

Thanks man, yea I also have mononucleosis antibodies which I think caused it (EBV IgG and IgM) which I think was the trigger for me (Glandular fever). Seems like that virus in particular lingers and reactivates in many people.

My current line of research is into treatment for that, I've tried all the usual antivirals but they don't do much, but there's several new actual vaccines being developed which I'm trying to get into the trials for (in Australia).

Would be keen to know more about his story, thank you

insaideron I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

I wonder how close this disease, and the similar ones in the comments, are to a general 'chronic fatigue sydnrome' diagnosis is. Which I've been dealing with for a decade. Definitely a strong autoimmune component to it...

In case this might resonate with someone but from the 100s of tests i've done, the most significant result for me was a 5x normal renin, which led me to eventually try fludrocortisone, the first time i finally felt 100% relief but only for a couple of days before sliding back into fatigue...

Count yourself incredibly lucky OP that you both got a diagnosis and also have such support around you. It's tough out here

insaideron Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

WhatsYum - https://whatsyum.com

Ratings per dish instead of just the restaurant as a whole. 4 years in and working on a b2b intelligence offering for restaurants. b2c side has been too hard to get off the ground without solid investment and I've been unable to secure that.

Thoughts welcome :)

insaideron I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

"In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and has widely been considered as a bad move."

insaideron Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

Answering questions like "OK this place is a 4.7 but what's actually good here?" "Where's the best burger in Bali?"

insaideron Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

https://whatsyum.com Ratings per-dish instead of just the whole restaurant

insaideron Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

https://whatsyum.com

Got rejected by YC '24 but wanted to build it anyway

Just started fundraising for seed round

insaideron Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?

2 hours everyday trying to find a wife! What does that entail? Do you have some very specific requirements/high standards?

insaideron The math of shuffling cards almost brought down an online poker empire

Lame clickbait title. TLDR; shuffling algorithm's have improved since the 90s...

insaideron Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

https://whatsyum.com - app/website for dish-specific ratings, as opposed to just the whole restaurant. Bali focused for now.

insaideron Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps

Wonder if there will ever be a .net maui one

insaideron The quiet art of attention

Highly recommend his meditation app 'Waking Up' in which he explains and teaches these concepts better than any source I've yet found

insaideron Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain

I've had similar symptoms for 7+ years now so it's most likely for life. Have seen many infectious disease specialists and CFS/ME is the diagnosis (same as long-covid). Mine seems to have been triggered by Glandular Fever (Epstein Barr Virus).

Exertion is the biggest trigger for me, but also the prescribed cure (Gradual Exercise Therapy). Alcohol is a weird one, I often feel better with a hangover than I do on a bad fatigue day (immuno-suppressant?) but then way worse the days after. I also have recurring Mononucleosis symptoms and have tried anti-virals to no avail...

It's so obviously immuno-related, really hope the science progresses soon.

Some interesting articles: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/what-happens-when-you-dont... https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/12/health/ron-davis-covid-lo...

insaideron India's courts to rule on who invented butter chicken

I thought it was Australian, like how Chicken Tikka Masala is British

insaideron Scientists are working to bring the woolly mammoth back

Nice analogy!

insaideron Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

My favourite part of this whole fiasco is that 'Space Karen' is now trending on twitter

insaideron Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging

Whats your thoughts on the dosage? They use 1g per kg of body weight! If I drank Monster to get the equivalent dosage I think I'd probably die... How did they arrive on that dosage?

insaideron The QR-code menu is being shown the door

What are the companies? Interested to see their UI/UX

insaideron Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm generation in Great Britain

Nice! I worked on a similar project in Ireland - https://www.ux-design-awards.com/winners/2022-1-376-rtv-esb-...

insaideron CheatGPT

What if you actually asked the students what they think the best approach is? I wonder what they'd have to say when confronted with optimizing their own education.

As a CS grad I often felt such a large percentage of the syllabus was legacy theory I'd (mostly correctly) never need. Perhaps this can be the positive impetus to get teachers to really rethink syllabuses from a more practical, useful view point. "here students, use ChatGPT and all the tools available to you to create x..."

insaideron Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?

http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/

This one will stay with me for life i think

Though perhaps more of a visualization than an illustration

insaideron An analysis of the new World Cup ball

Is it fair to say then that this is the 'fastest' ball ever?

Since perhaps the average speed of the ball in-game is around the transition speeds and so this ball's lower transition speed makes it overall faster than the ball with lower drags at higher speeds (since the ball is rarely at those high speeds).

insaideron Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

You seem to have missed a detail in their replies "We confirm that your app has options to report and block abusive users but your app does not contain functionality to report objectionable content." You complain that they haven't answered the specifics of your emails yet you've actually failed to address theirs.

Unpopular opinion but it seems like their response was reasonable tbf.

insaideron Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when you saw it?

Ray Casting Algorithm is neat because it's immediately understandable efficiency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_in_polygon