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jgbuddy··on Does creatine make you smarter?
I have definitely noticed improvements taking a larger dose with my energy when low on sleep, check out McMorris et al. (2006) which is not cited here. I agree it probably doesn't make you generally more 'smart' but it does may improve function under stress, e.g. when sleep deprived, also see Gordji-Nejad et al. (2024). I think the sleep benefits should at least be mentioned in this article.

Also search for 'sleep' in this comment section, seems many see similar improvements!

jgbuddy··on Does creatine make you smarter?
Does creatine make you stronger?

Yes. It’s very rare for a supplement to have such strong and consistent evidence.

A widely-cited review says that short-term supplementation increases maximal power/strength by 5-15%. This in turn may increase the long-term gainz from strength-training exercise. Creatine also increases sprint performance by 1-5%. Though, there seems to be little if any benefit for endurance exercise like long-distance running.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5469049/#CR46

jgbuddy··on Does creatine make you smarter?
This is not true. Did you read the article?
jgbuddy··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
It's based on the Artificial Analysis "Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task" here:

https://artificialanalysis.ai/#intelligence-comparison-tabs

Differences in token "density" are accounted for by pricing per task

jgbuddy··on Gemini 3.6 Flash
It is both less intelligent and more expensive than GLM-5.2, while being closed weight.
jgbuddy··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
It is both less intelligent and more expensive than GLM-5.2, while being closed weight.
jgbuddy··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
Why even write Claude code in JavaScript at that point, assuming they write the application logic in node and also include the interpreter in the application?
jgbuddy··on Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
What metric are you using to say the entire economy is betting on it?
jgbuddy··on Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
Right, at this point its ~150 person cohorts, 4x a year. 105 is a drop in the bucket.
jgbuddy··on Codex Micro
8th openai product named codex btw
jgbuddy··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Open to

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

* AI/ML- AWS Strands, Langchain, Langgraph, Vercel AI SDK. Agent steering, structured output, autonomous workflows, and multi-agent orchestration.

* Web - Rect / Next.js / vercel

* Embedded - C/C++. Broad experience working on bare metal

* Robotics - Warehouse automation at scale

* Infra - Extremely fluent in AWS / terraform / CDK

* Other - Java, Swift, JS / Node, Python

See resume for additional details

Résumé/CV: gasek.net/resume

Email: hnhired@gasek.net

Highly autonomous, motivated engineer and founder. Experienced in taking products from 0-1 and shipping MVPs to real customers. Seeking Series-A or late seed stage companies with opportunity for broad impact, ownership and growth potential.

jgbuddy··on GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
I fear sovereignty is not a adoption-driving feature
jgbuddy··on I Won't Buy You a Coffee
This is how you end up with paywalls and ads, calling people greedy for providing a way to donate is crazy. Does the same argument go for open source software / organizations funded by donations?
jgbuddy··on Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
Yes
jgbuddy··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
Asking if Taiwan is a part of China works as well
jgbuddy··on OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
great for consumers, great for OpenAI, great for Amazon, not so great for MS / Azure (seems like they don't care anyways)
jgbuddy··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Open to

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

* AI/ML- AWS Strands, Langchain, Langgraph, Vercel AI SDK. Agentic workflows and orchestration

* Web - Rect / Next.js / vercel

* Embedded - C/C++

* Infra - Extremely fluent in AWS / terraform / CDK

* Other - Java, Swift, JS, Node, Python

See resume for additional details

Résumé/CV: gasek.net/resume

Email: hnhired@gasek.net

Highly autonomous, motivated engineer and founder, seeking opportunity for broad impact and ownership and growth potential

jgbuddy··on The Nvidia Tax
I will never understand why people post these clearly ai-generated articles under their personal name without at least disclosing they didn't write it. If you don't tell the agent otherwise, they have a very predictable markdown structure (these 5-6 word summary headers before every paragraph), a predictable length, and of course full of em dashes. Immediately removes credibility- no issues reading something that's ai-written but when you see these markers it just screams low effort. Like you're being duped, used some AI article to get traffic to their site and you fell for it.
jgbuddy··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
100%, a driving factor will likely be how good we can make models that are so small they use almost no compute. Until then it is a race for adoption and moat-building (or screwing people over?) once you have users
jgbuddy··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Yes, and they were accepted. A year or two ago I would have been less confident but now almost UX is happy to cite sources.
jgbuddy··on Lombardy increases tax on data centers built in green and agricultural areas
Agreed- my comment was tongue-in-cheek.
jgbuddy··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
A literal example is that I can use AI to file my taxes instead of spending a weekend and hundreds of dollars to have an accountant do it for me. It costs me like $5. that 245$ delta is the value of that output to me, as long as I am confident it is correct.
jgbuddy··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
You are making the assumption that the models are only used / paid for by 2.5% of the population (your knowledge workers value). There will be new value created by these models which people are happy to pay for which simply did not exist at all before. It is also naive to say that the hyperscalers are going to be expecting a return on this in 5 years, it will be entirely propped up by investments / IPOs as has been the case with any tech company for decades now to reach scale. The hyperscalers are currently spending ~650b combined annually, which they have the cash for and can sell in future compute instantly.
jgbuddy··on Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas
This is surely a huge blow to all the hyperscalers looking to build datacenters in the agricultural regions of Italy.
jgbuddy··on Why AI Agents Cannot Change Software Systems
Exactly
jgbuddy··on Why AI Agents Cannot Change Software Systems
How to get to HN front page: 1) AI generate an article about why AI sucks 2) Profit
jgbuddy··on Shunning AI is the human choice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
jgbuddy··on Shunning AI is the human choice
True
jgbuddy··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
agreed completely
jgbuddy··on Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
Funny the European and US models have the same price. effectively a 20% discount buying it in europe.
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