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sicromoft··on The Valley of Webhooks
Can we ban AI slop posts?
sicromoft··on The case for becoming a manager
Yep, I stopped reading as soon as I saw the obvious AI language. It's a huge turnoff.
sicromoft··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
I didn't hear that one but I am a fan of Sklansky. And I also have a very vivid memory of learning the word, when I first heard the song Turn Around by They Might Be Giants. The connection with the song burned it into my memory.
sicromoft··on Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiety and pessimism
Pickleball courts
sicromoft··on You're Out of Here: A History of Umpire Ejections
The site is down. Here's an archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240711030040/https://sabr.org/...
sicromoft··on Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice
The 24hr notice is mentioned by OP in their comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682720
sicromoft··on Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025
It quite literally is not something else
sicromoft··on Things That Don't Work
Another thread on the same article, these need to be merged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39782278
sicromoft··on Things That Don't Work
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39779711
sicromoft··on The Death of Free Shipping
There's no such thing as a free lunch, regardless of how you distribute the costs. If a seller is refunding the cost of shipping on returns, they are passing that cost on to you in some other way (higher prices, membership fees, etc).

You could make the argument that if you return items more often than the average customer, your share of those costs may be getting subsidized by the customers who return items less often. But if you return items less often, you're probably worse off.

sicromoft··on Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
https://archive.is/rmMEb
sicromoft··on Show HN: I built an open source web calendar inspired by the Google calendar
https://www.dueapp.com/ is great for this (see the "So persistent you can’t forget" section on the home page)
sicromoft··on Seeing like a bank
It’s only illegal if you’re intentionally doing it to avoid reporting
sicromoft··on Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history
This is great to see. Some feedback: I entered the exact name of a doctor I knew would be in the database, formatted as "firstName lastName". The result was buried under 20 other less relevant matches. I had to search as "lastName, firstName", for it to come back as the first result.
sicromoft··on Sitting all day increase dementia risk – even if you exercise
Agreed. The HN Guidelines[1] already say "Please submit the original source" but I guess it doesn't get enforced very well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

sicromoft··on Sitting all day increase dementia risk – even if you exercise
This is the epitome of bad science journalism. The study says "X is correlated with Y", while the article says "X increases risk of Y".

Moderators, can you change this to the actual source study[1] and update the title?

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/28094...

sicromoft··on Why isn't chess popular in Japan?
The link no longer works. Archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230908050506/https://lichess.o...

sicromoft··on Why you’re going about recovering from perfectionism all wrong (2021)
https://archive.is/G5ZIm
sicromoft··on Requiring banks to issue long-term debt could make customers safer
https://archive.is/20230528170728/https://www.reuters.com/br...
sicromoft··on AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity
https://archive.is/0ZVdh
sicromoft··on Why “free” street parking could be costing you hundreds more in rent
https://archive.is/EKr6I
sicromoft··on Can intelligence be separated from the body?
https://archive.is/v5LjK
sicromoft··on Stop the Medicare “Advantage” Scam Before Medicare Is Dead
> they proactively sent a doctor out a few times for housecalls

The article talks about these housecalls:

"The home health visits are designed to look for illnesses or codings that can increase risk scores. They very much are not looking for conditions that require medical intervention. This “free home health visit” scam is so profitable that an entire industry has sprung up of companies that send nurses out on behalf of the insurance companies."

sicromoft··on How sugar and fat affect your brain
Without the paywall: https://archive.is/8VNeW
sicromoft··on Chris Seaton has died
Tenderlove wrote a nice tribute, "In Memory of a Giant":

http://tenderlovemaking.com/2022/12/07/in-memory-of-a-giant....

sicromoft··on We Become What We Behold (2017)
So true. And San Francisco is a prime example. A recent post (of many) highlighting this:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6988177...

sicromoft··on Hans Niemann Suing Magnus Carlsen, Chess.com, and Hikaru Nakamura
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure it's totally legal to be Norwegian.
sicromoft··on Yagni Exceptions (2021)
Counterpoint: https://brandur.org/soft-deletion

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32156009

sicromoft··on Stripe Migrated Its Largest JavaScript Codebase to TypeScript
https://archive.ph/Rn1O6
sicromoft··on UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
StableGains is just a thin layer on top of Anchor. See https://blog.stablegains.com/stablegains-earns-you-yield-by-...
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