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Fair.

There are, however, people who have to seriously avoid certain ingredients, and it is a pain to go through all the fineprint, which is sometimes made quite difficult to read. For example, check the Asian section in your grocery store.

If you are shopping for multiple people in the family, some of which have some restrictions, it is hard to map everything confidently when shopping.

If you are traveling abroad, like Japan for instance, especially with dietary restrictions, an app like this can be quite handy.

justanotheratomon You won't be talking to AI in natural language for too long

with skills, model can easily learn the jargon.

justanotheratomon You won't be talking to AI in natural language for too long

exactly. to mind-meld with your AI, you will have to use/understand quite dense language.

justanotheratomon You won't be talking to AI in natural language for too long

Would love some critique of my thoughts.

justanotheratomon Teaching Codex to Test a Voice-First Calendar App

How I used Codex, FlowDeck, and Loopback to automate testing of Voice Interactions for my Voice-First App: https://www.elicited.blog/posts/teaching-codex-to-test-a-voi...

justanotheratomon Is Data Curation the New Feature Engineering?

I am not an expert in either ML or AI, so appreciate expert feedback on my thoughts and learnings.

justanotheratomon Non-Obvious Things I Learned About GEPA

haven't succeeded at GEPA yet..

justanotheratomon GEPA: Reflective prompt evolution can outperform reinforcement learning

anyone working on an dspy optimizer for this?

justanotheratomon Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server

make a video on how to "take" this course

justanotheratomon OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

RE: product-focused moves

These are tentacles that AGI will need.

justanotheratomon Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard

I’m confused. the declaration does not say anything about swearing fealty to a genocidal foreign government.

justanotheratomon Starcloud

Interesting. I was assuming that cooling is basically a non-issue in space. I'll need to read up on that.

justanotheratomon Starcloud

wow, one year back, I had made a prediction to a friend that this is the direction that Starlink will head in. I was thinking it would proceed like this:

1. provide internet. 2. provide CDN. 3. Edge Compute. 4. Full-on cloud.

These guys see to be focussing on what is basically offline processing (AI training).

justanotheratomon Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

I have released two apps to the Apple Store, and initial 100's of users is easy to get through just organic searches on App Store, and you posting links to some places.

https://kincalendar.com/ https://ingredicheck.app/

justanotheratomon Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down

RE: why would people not hold the one that preserves their purchasing power best and that they have most trust in?

That is exactly what they are doing right now - USD.

But for arguments sake, what is the emerging alternative?

justanotheratomon Build iOS Apps on Linux and Windows

Note: you can also use it to replace Xcode on macOS for building iOS software!

Also, there is an MCP Server to bypass Xcode from Cursor: https://github.com/cameroncooke/XcodeBuildMCP

justanotheratomon Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down

I understand the hypothetical trend being mentioned, and I would even agree with it in absence of stablecoins. See, today, if China & Russia want to trade, they may trade in Ruble or Yuan. Ruble or Yuan don't have to be universally accepted for them to trade. But if I am transacting in stablecoin, I don't want to use anything that is not universally accepted from the get-go. Otherwise, I might as well use Ruble or Yuan. So, even if in theory the stablecoin could be backed by any currency, I am not going to use just any stablecoin, only the one most widely accepted.

In other words, I think Stablecoin is winner-take-all, and USD has already won.

justanotheratomon Email Forwarding for Your Domain

I would like to hear a response to this query too.

But just leaving it here that Gmail has a limit of about 30 custom emails in a single mailbox, no?

justanotheratomon Even Tesla's Insurance Arm Is Getting Wrecked

one legitimate explanation I have heard is that when a Tesla gets in an accident, even with minor damage, they have to replace the Battery, because they are not able to accurately assess the damage to battery and the risk of not changing it. This balloons the insurance cost.

justanotheratomon Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

hey atleast it is a for-profit, so no chance of that particular rug-pull.

"Tools for Humanity (TFH), a for-profit company co-founded by Sam Altman, Alex Blania, and Max Novendstern in 2019."

justanotheratomon Show HN: Code Claude Code

Is "Code Claude Code" a play on "Bob Loblaw"?

https://arresteddevelopment.fandom.com/wiki/Bob_Loblaw

justanotheratomon A critical look at MCP

It is indeed quite baffline why MCP is taking off, but facts are facts. I would love to be enlightened how MCP is better than an OpenAPI Spec of an existing Server.

justanotheratomon Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down

According to your argument and the article of this post, there should already be prominent stablecoins backed by other currencies. Yet there is not such thing AFAIK. Reason is simple. USD is the common denominator for people the world over. Almost everyone know what a dollar is, and that is reflected in the dominance of USDT and USDC. And since this is a relatively recent phenomenon, it goes counter to the narrative of the decline of the US Dollar.

justanotheratomon Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down

I think you are referring to the last administration when you use the term "balloon"

https://chatgpt.com/share/681e9040-edf8-8008-ae3d-370bb5a0d2...

justanotheratomon Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down

Tax evasion could certainly be a use case until govt's sort out the implications. But the lasting use case I think is - fast and cheap transfer of money, anywhere.

Disclaimer: I have never used stablecoins myself.

justanotheratomon Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down

You can certainly estimate the amound of USD held as StableCoin Collateral:

"The total market capitalization of USD-pegged stablecoins exceeds $220 billion, with over 99% backed by fiat currencies, predominantly the U.S. dollar." https://chatgpt.com/share/681e95fe-4308-8008-ab25-61be94a418...

RE: Nobody wants to own stablecoins, they want easier transactions. Agree but that does not mean anything. Stablecoins seem to be solving a problem, and there is not evidence of any traction by any currency other than USD.

So this phenomenon definitely runs counter to the conventional intellectual wisdom that USD is in decline.

justanotheratomon Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down

Federal Revenue actually went up after Trump Tax Cuts. I hope we can agree that there was some justification for a big spending bill in Covid time window. But after that, there was no justification IMO for the crazy spending that happened in the last 4 years.

Data: Table of Federal Revenue vs Spending: https://chatgpt.com/share/681e9040-edf8-8008-ae3d-370bb5a0d2...

justanotheratomon Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down

USD Stablecoins could be driving real demand for USD, no?

"The total transaction volume for USD-pegged stablecoins in 2024 was approximately $27.6 trillion, based on industry reports from CEX.IO and other sources."

justanotheratomon Trump's NIH axed research grants even after a judge blocked the cuts

you are assuming that all cancer research has been defunded altogether. And that if the government takes away some money, any ongoing research will come to a halt and we are doomed. And why are we so dependent on government dollars to begin with?

Also, maybe research dollars should emphasize prevention.