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nreeceon Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

Likely related, what psychologists call "counterfactual thinking", and why a silver medal stings more than bronze for many Olympic medalists.

https://theconversation.com/for-many-olympic-medalists-silve...

nreeceon Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

I occasionally use https://hckrnews.com to catchup on the top 20 daily posts.

nreeceon Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

> hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from

I don't thing 'hide' applies to the domain of the post, but only the post itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#:~:text=What%20do%...

nreeceon Now AI agents need what RSS does

I wouldn't limit it to RSS. They need any structured data (JSON, XML/RSS, CSV etc.).

Systems and agents need to monitor and extract public web content into fresh structured data for their ingestion, intelligence workflows and analysis.

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nreeceon Avoid Using "< [Cdata[ ]]>" in RSS

Imo, ease and multi-line HTML readability of CDATA outweighs that one edge case (it cannot directly contain its own terminator).

nreeceon Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees

http://archive.today/l3EEo

nreeceon Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from?

Rundown AI newsletter: https://www.therundown.ai

nreeceon Ubuntu 26.04

Linux Mint.

nreeceon Framework Laptop 13 Pro

I would have liked the option of non-touch display, and although the display is variable rate (30-120Hz) it's not going to be as optimal as the 1-120Hz panel in the Dell XPS 14 getting it to 40+ hours (https://x.com/dhh/status/2040139744445673938).

nreeceon JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

That is not the same extension OP is referencing/discussing: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/json-formatter/bcji...

nreeceon Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars

Very cool.

Now why didn't an AI think of that? :)

nreeceon Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL

Partnership confirmed by Moonshot:

Cursor accesses Kimi-k2.5 via FireworksAI_HQ hosted RL and inference platform as part of an authorized commercial partnership.

https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2035074972943831491

Cursor teams take:

Only ~1/4 of the compute spent on the final model came from the base, the rest is from our training. This is why evals are very different.

https://x.com/leerob/status/2035035355364081694

nreeceon Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

https://mitchellh.com/feed.xml

nreeceon Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets

https://archive.is/2LCPb

nreeceon My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs

Am I understanding it right that for each new text (tweet) you generate its embedding first, try to match across existing vector embeddings for all other text (full text or bag of words), and then send the text to the LLM for tag classification only if no match is found or otherwise classify it to the same tag for which a match was found.

Will it be any better if you sent a list of existing tags with each new text to the LLM, and asked it to classify to one of them or generate a new tag? Possibly even skipping embeddings and vector search altogether.

nreeceon Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky

I'm trying to like Bluesky. X has a large tech community and some deep thoughts/discussions on tech and philosophy matters, but I can't find similar people or groups on Bluesky yet.

nreeceon Ask HN: Would you soft-launch a landing page in 2025?

Landing pages can still save time to validate an idea/concept, build a leads list, and with cold outreach even.

Dev tools or B2C: landing page (collect email) with app/product tour video or mockup screenshots

B2B: landing page with video or mockup screenshots, and 'book a demo' link/form (collect as much info)

nreeceon Measuring the Impact of AI on Experienced OSS Developer Productivity [pdf]

Before starting tasks, developers forecast that allowing AI will reduce completion time by 24%. After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%—AI tooling slowed developers down.

nreeceon Future of Work with AI Agents

Here's a good summary of the study: https://x.com/RubenHssd/status/1934968317627998534

In short, workers don't want full automation. They want partnership.

nreeceon Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me

Heard someone say the other day "AI coding is just advanced scaffolding right now." Made me wonder if we're expecting too much out of it, at-least for now.

nreeceon Modern dog ownership has redefined family and parenting

From the article: " The authors are currently running a new study to deepen the understanding of the dog-human relationship. Dog owners across the world are invited to answer the following questionnaire: https://tally.so/r/nPXKPb "

nreeceon Tell HN: Cloudflare billing issue that is over 6 months old and no support

Haven't noticed any billing issue. Maybe try reaching out to them at https://x.com/CloudflareHelp

nreeceon Stripe adds yet another additional $15 dispute fee, unless you use their AI

Really! Is there an official mention anywhere by Stripe?

nreeceon Stripe adds yet another additional $15 dispute fee, unless you use their AI

If Stripe Radar (has a small fee per transaction) is enabled in an account, then an early warning (before chargeback) is sent via the `radar.early_fraud_warning.created` webhook event, which can be used for a pre-emptive manual review, or an automatic refund and cancellation. No dispute fee on a refunded transaction!

There are services like Chargeblast, ByeDispute etc. which also help avoid disputes and chargebacks.

nreeceon Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage

Related: just today came across this post on X..

"Sri Lanka will become next Bali as long as it gets fiber."

https://x.com/strzibnyj/status/1890628037529727220

nreeceon What Are the Latest Scraping APIs or Services/Websites?

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https://newsloth.com

nreeceon Ask HN: Where Do Thou Blog

Bearblog is simple and easy for personal blogging. For something more advanced, you can't go wrong with Ghost (self-hosted or cloud).

To block AI bots, you'll need to add known AI bots[1] to your blog's robots.txt file [2].

[1] https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/rob...

[2] https://docs.bearblog.dev/neat-bear-features/#edit-robotstxt or https://ghost.org/help/modifying-robots-txt/

nreeceon Ask HN: Payment processing for micro SaaS outside USA?

Can't you just use PayPal for accepting one-time or subscription payments?

Paddle and Rebill also seem to support Argentina.

https://www.paddle.com/help/legal/sanctions/which-countries-... https://www.rebill.com/en/payment-and-subscription-solutions...

nreeceon Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps

Looks good!

I wonder if there's a way to combine a simple tool like yours (or Balsamiq, which I've used for many years) with generative AI to create plain HTML/CSS pages from mockups/wireframes. Figma seems bloated, v0 is React/Tailwind only.

nreeceon Ask HN: Best AI Code Assistant?

Been hearing great things about Cursor, and its been impressive in my few days of use.

https://www.cursor.com