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beacon294··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
I built a free (eventually free-mium) character card app for iOS: https://loreblendr.ai/app

These cards are super versatile prompts mediums and haven't been fully creatively explored.

beacon294··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
I built a free (eventually free-mium) character card app for iOS: https://loreblendr.ai/app
beacon294··on Structured Procrastination (1995)
By the way, the difference is not motivation by interest, but dependence on interest to initiate a task or even think about something.
beacon294··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
I use sony xm5 over ear if tha's the kind of product you mean? I want something overear for running and lifting though... I sweat a lot.
beacon294··on Structured Procrastination (1995)
Yes, this article is very helpful. The website is very noisy, maybe to keep hyperactive ADHD people around, but it's horrible for me. Try a reader mode:

https://www.additudemag.com/secrets-of-the-adhd-brain/?srslt...

beacon294··on Structured Procrastination (1995)
This is a testament to ADHD in the software industry.

The hallmark of ADHD is an "interest based attention system".

If you have ADHD, it may be completely shocking for you to hear that most people prioritize "extrinsically", meaning, whether or not something is "interesting" is *not* primary information in their prioritizations.

I never knew I had ADHD until I had a baby and had to start prioritizing tasks based on time.

And guess what, I can't easily prioritize on time constraints. Which is one of the two fundamental prioritization dimensions, the other being space (eg you only need one auth backend, pick one). I can do space.

Now I have no problem writing hours for each segment of a project and getting it within 100% error bars.

Where my life breaks down is daily tasks. I used to have a 5-7 PM sink. If I had a good day, I wrapped at 5 or just kept momentum to 7 PM. If I had a bad ADHD day, I just worked to 7, manufacturing urgency.

With a child you don't work til 7, so just lop off 10 of your 25-30 core productive hours for the week, unmedicated.

I suspect as I adjust I will come to see 2-3 PM as "ahh this is urgent because at 5 PM, death". But, at least I am medicated now and can work consistently at 9 AM.

beacon294··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
AI has been incredibly sticky. Look at the outrage, OpenAI couldn't even deprecate 4o or whatever because it's incredibly popular. Those people aren't leaving OAI if they're not even leaving a last gen model.
beacon294··on Increasing your practice surface area
What goes on in your head when you attempt to increase your mastery? What is your own loop from your perspective? What emotions are you feeling? Thank you.
beacon294··on Increasing your practice surface area
I've been reading about expertise and deliberate/purposeful practice, starting with "Peak" by Ericcson.

Experts, as a rule, augment their practice with a coach, and they never stop doing that. The quintessential example is the olympian.

So, that is how they increase their practice surface area.

I think interest is also generally relevant, but it's not the core in established fields: coaching is.

I am interested in unestablished fields too, which may be fundamentally interest driven. Although IMO that interest may be more about establishing frontiers than the specific topic.

beacon294··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
Appetite from adderall, yes.
beacon294··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
Ahh I can't stand that pressure feeling, makes me take them out instantly!!
beacon294··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
Would love an adhd one.
beacon294··on RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch
That's great news, I'll have to try to replace pyenv (again).
beacon294··on RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch
It doesn't handle python version management, it only handles pip. It doesn't solve bundling Python.
beacon294··on Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
Pie dough is quite simple, but I imagine they use some chemistry to improve, as per the other food chemistry posts...
beacon294··on Rendering a game in real time with AI
I thought so too, but looks like the OP wrote their own game that just has a similar ascii view.

However, no reason this can't translate to df!

beacon294··on Dangerous advice for software engineers
> There’s a big ego hit, in LARPing a highly-experienced engineer, when you’re not one, yourself.

There's a big ego hit in punching up, down, and sideways, and it's far too popular among engineers these days.

I wish that engineers overall were more humble with each other, but it's not going to change quickly. And regrettably it is the human condition. Humility is also unprofitable.

beacon294··on What if A.I. doesn't get better than this?
Google already did this, give free gemini deepresearch a spin. It's not perfect, but I have a feeling you'll be surprised if this is your honest impression.
beacon294··on Lessons learned from buying an open source repo
It seems like you wanted a short term boost from it, but you're most likely to get a long term latent boost from it.

Try integrating it more deeply and persistently into your product and brand if you haven't, interacting with the mcp userbase consistently and meticulously.

beacon294··on Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils
I'm journalling with Aider these days.
beacon294··on ChatGPT Agent – EU Launch
An agent is a while loop.
beacon294··on Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
Do you mind sharing your anecdote about mcp being useful? I haven't had time to experiment and I'm trying to learn from others time on the grind stone.
beacon294··on Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year
Definitely Gaas (generation)
beacon294··on Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
Could you provide some specific details about what is missing? I've been super busy studying and haven't been able to keep up with the gap between Aider and other tools. thank you!
beacon294··on Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
I'd like to try this out, are you renting on one of the open renting platforms?
beacon294··on Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria
The core principle of classic antibiotics is affecting the bacterial (prokaryotic) common ribosomal structure and not the eukaryotic ribosome, they are very diverged.

That's not to say there couldn't be some unrelated effect, but that's why we test medicine.

beacon294··on Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused
Switch doctors? Ask on dutch social networks I think? Some stuff will also not be approved/covered.
beacon294··on Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused
I think, politely, this perspective misses the forest for the trees (or maybe the trees for the forest).

Out of the approx. 250 million adult americans, a large cross section do manage their health.

While average outcome might be better in the UK, it's useless to lump the 60% (150 million) of americans who are not obese in with the 40% (100 million) who are obese. And while this is easily the most major, it is just one measure of health.

beacon294··on Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]
What is this "clerk" library he used at this timestamp to tell him what to do? https://youtu.be/LCEmiRjPEtQ?si=XaC-oOMUxXp0DRU0&t=1991

Gemini found it via screenshot or context: https://clerk.com/

This is what he used for login on MenuGen: https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/vibe-coding-menugen/

beacon294··on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
What is your workflow? Mine is add minimal files (2-5), keep sessions short, and ask for specific tasks generally in 1 file.
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