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chrisgdon Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

I would disagree. I think what you see is the popular, but less well done material. Dept Q was an original 8-10 episode detective drama that was highly thought of. It received no press but it likely showed up on your carousel. Netflix knows eventually you will find it but not sure they can bring you everything.

chrisgdon Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions

Nice job!

chrisgdon Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal

The market (over)reacted to the OpenAi announcement sending Oracle’s share price up and now may be overreacting to Altman’s interview with an investor pushing their stock price down. And we are measuring (what seems like) a non-binding investment against market cap which swings everyday.

chrisgdon Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)

For two years I wrote notes in class on yellow legal pad. After class, I rewrote into a spiral notebook, one for each class. That way I only carried a legal pad to each class everyday.

Not surprisingly, my grades those two years were great. Never had the fortitude to keep it up.

chrisgdon Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high

A lot of the tech in the space is workflow related right now. The AI scans triage to the top those cases that are deemed clinically significant, potentially saving time. I can’t tell you it isn’t solely responding to the referring doctor’s urgent stamp though.

chrisgdon An illustrated guide to OAuth

Love the illustrations! Great descriptions, thank you

chrisgdon New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients

My dad had his bladder removed. Cancer came back 18 months later and he was gone 4 months after that. It sucks.

Plus, I regret that he had to live with a colostomy bag for that time. His quality of life probably higher if they do the other option (name escapes me).

chrisgdon At a Loss for Words: A flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019)

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sold-a-story/id1649580...

A link to the multi episode podcast this article is the basis of. Incredible reporting

chrisgdon M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued

Just downgraded to advisory in Hawaii (10:44pm HST)

chrisgdon More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves

Seems hard to believe but I want to believe

chrisgdon Intel CEO Letter to Employees

Why does everyone hire McKinsey? So they keep their job. If you are CEO and go the board with a cost savings plan and layoffs you keep your job. You may not if you say we are going where the puck is. Lifestyle creep probably makes it very hard to envision taking this kind or risk.

chrisgdon ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action

Great point. Plus, working on your laptop on a couch is not ideal for deep excel work

chrisgdon Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves?

Funny you used astronomer as an example today

chrisgdon Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?

This is my dream. I started building something that would upload all my photos from my phone to my desktop, back them up somewhere and then present them 6 at a time on a local website solely so you could look at them again and decide if you wanted to keep them. Heart any you wanted to keep, favorite some, and delete the rest then show me 6 more.

The addition of an AI tool is a great idea.

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

Sounds really great. Good luck

chrisgdon Ask HN: AI Replacing Engineers – Firsthand Stories?

Duolingo made this announcement today about replacing contractors with AI

https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-repla...

chrisgdon The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE

Medicare fraud perpetuated by individuals is u likely to be that high. Overbilling by hospital corporations and medical device companies could be possible. But corporations aren’t the target of DOGE.

chrisgdon Show HN: I made a mini golf in my lunch time

Very cool thanks for building. Would echo some of the other comments about how to play but I figured it out. Is a hole in 1 possible on any holes?

chrisgdon Year old startup overloaded GitHub – Incident report

Fair points

chrisgdon Year old startup overloaded GitHub – Incident report

If I reach out and they can’t direct me to the right solution, that doesn’t seem like something I need to continue to solve for them. Seems too onerous.

chrisgdon I shut down my startup. Here's the honest truth

As someone who spends a lot of time in healthcare tech, the overwhelming problem in care navigation is you need an employer to pay you a low PMPM fee and then a higher fee for usage as most people who need this can’t pay for it on there own.

Payors may have some kind of care coordination program but generally they are looking at higher fee patients they are trying to soften their spend.

It is a hard problem when there are people who need help but you have to pay every speciality you see even if they don’t alleviate the problem.

chrisgdon The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists

It’s crazy we still hire so slowly and fire so quickly when it should be the exact opposite.

chrisgdon US braces for cicadas by the trillion as two broods of periodic insects coincide

I upvoted you, but would say - Only if you assume markets are perfectly efficient. It seems there is often some money to be made.

chrisgdon FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines

Pro Publica has done a lot of good reporting on this topic.

https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-kept-warnings-abo...

chrisgdon Let fever do its job

The article is making the point that in the time before the COVID vaccine, we should stop providing Tylenol or Advil to patients as the fever is the body’s response designed to kill infections.

My 5-year old has had a 102 feverfor 4 days this week and every time we give him something I wonder if we are extending the length of his sickness, but he is too cute to let him be in pain.

Next time I get sick, I will try to ride it out and see if my typical 3-5 sickness is shorter.

chrisgdon Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away

The Thomas Keller method was on Instagram all summer and I tried it really liked it. Sprinkle with salt 20 minutes before cooking and a lot of the water content will come to the top, wipe it off. Then you can carmelize a lot more with butter or high-temp oil (avocado for example). Tastes a lot better this way

chrisgdon GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving

Can we just admit that this likely isn’t possible in our lifetime and put more money into early childhood education, better healthcare and geriatric care?

chrisgdon Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy

I wouldn’t worry too much about it. With more and more investors having the opportunity to get 5% almost risk free from US treasuries, PE will slowly fade back. The roll up strategy of medical clinics is especially risky now that many of these are trading at 11% interest rates. When ebitda margins are usually 30% when perfect, it doesn’t give you a lot of breathing room.

chrisgdon Bank of America's unrealized losses on securities rose to $131.6B

Also, SVB filed to raise equity capital thereby saying to the market they needed to raise money and we’re trying to do so. They could have been selling some of those liquid bonds at a discount and taking gaap losses.

chrisgdon OpenAI is too cheap to beat

I have been struggling to understand the use case. Would you still be using it to ask questions and receive answers, you get the benefit of not having to go to their website and being able to use the GPT-4 model, or is there another use case for the API to return specific data?