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stevenmays··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
I built TryCatchUp: https://trycatchup.com

I kept hitting the same problem in Slack: a project channel can look fine until it isn’t. The real signal is usually buried in threads, stray blocker mentions, and a drop in channel activity. Then someone asks for status and you end up piecing it together by hand.

It sits in Slack project channels and:

* flags blockers, delays, and scope creep

* DMs the project lead when something needs attention

* sends a Friday digest with decisions, blockers, accomplishments, and recent activity

* keeps a pinned Canvas updated so stakeholders can check status without asking in-thread

* stays quiet when a channel is active and does lightweight check-ins when it goes quiet

* deactivates itself if a channel has been dead for 3+ weeks; it warns first, waits 7 days, then removes itself

Free tier covers 2 channels with weekly digests. Pro is $29/mo.

stevenmays··on Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
I read a hypothesis that it's birth control going to waste water facilities, and then getting back into the drinking water supply. From what I read a charcoal filter lessens the effects - which I believe gets filtered through a normal refrigerator filter. Please verify this information first, it's all conjecture and hypothesis.
stevenmays··on A T Cell Army against SARS-CoV-2
Also, I am not a virologist, but this is a common phenomenon known as viral interference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_interference

stevenmays··on AI-Powered JavaScript Completions
It says it right in the blog post. VSCode only does fuzzy matching for javascript. This is an "intelligent" autocomplete, so the suggestions should be better.
stevenmays··on Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon
+600 from the feds per week. In most states, it is higher.
stevenmays··on Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon
Unemployment compensation is high, so the incentive to show up to work has decreased.

They can solve this problem by paying more, although wage increases are hard to turn back time on. Maybe they should consider "hazard pay" during the pandemic.

stevenmays··on Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100
I am speculating:

1) pricing in the return of US manufacturing. In a pandemic, it's every country for themselves. We've outsourced items critical for national sovereignty and the ability to respond to crises. I think left and right agrees now, that's a risk which needs to be mitigated.

2) govt has unprecedented support, in terms of small business loans and benefits

3) bonds and stocks are usually inversely correlated, they are not because the fed is buying up a significant portion of the debt, at low rates. Meaning your not getting much return if you hold bonds.

4) Capital flight from foreign markets. If you can't trust China, and emerging markets are going to get hit worse, then the US is where you want your money.

5) Less uncertainty.

6) More speculation that this virus is not as bad as we think. We're well below the expected deaths on the models, which means the models are wrong, by a factor of multiples.

stevenmays··on Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
What'd you do? The only thing that seems to help me is hanging on a pullup bar for intervals of a minute or so. A hang a day keeps the pain away. =)
stevenmays··on Ask HN: What type of restrictions does your employer have on side gigs?
Until you get sued.
stevenmays··on What’s New in ES2019
I dig it too, but you could previously flatten an array with concat, and the spread operator. [].concat(...array)

Lodash wasn't necessary.

stevenmays··on Magnesium and major depression (2011)
Magnesium supplementation changed my life. Better sleep, faster recovery from work outs, better more stable moods
stevenmays··on Nearly half of young millennials get thousands in support from parents
It doesn't contribute to a lack of social mobility. It is a perceived result of a lack of social mobility. And if your parents are in an income bracket, you are probably going to be in that income bracket. The only thing a high number of people getting help from their parents indicates is they might end up worse off than their parents, in income. But you'd need to wait until they've reached their peak earning years to know for sure.
stevenmays··on Advanced JavaScript Injections
Anyone else getting a 500 error on this?
stevenmays··on [dead]
And that's not true? When you have to worry about maintaining a job you 100% have to watch what you say. We even have a saying which encapsulates this phenomenon - "FU money".
stevenmays··on The US Is Now in the Longest Bull Market in American History
Bonds because of inverse correlation with the stock market. Or cash.
stevenmays··on UPS Has 260,000 Union Workers and They've Just Authorized a Strike
I have a family member who drives for UPS. He shit himself while driving because he wasn't allowed to stop outside of assigned breaks. They also tried to fire him because he had to take off for cancer surgery (minor melanoma). He tells some horror stories.
stevenmays··on Ask HN: Recommendations on books and documentaries on tech companies/people?
Currently reading "The Making Of The Atomic Bomb" and it's so comprehensive.
stevenmays··on Why Men Love War (1984)
The book Tribe was also good.
stevenmays··on In theory, rocks from Oman could store hundreds of years of human CO2 emissions
I was under the impression it was phytoplankton, but I can't seem to find a source.
stevenmays··on The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
I posted this a few days ago... I wonder why HN didn't keep the original post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159589

stevenmays··on Three Delusions: Paper Wealth, a Booming Economy, and Bitcoin
The corporate nanny state is more then willing to let individual firms collapse (bear stearns). Your examples were a systemic risk, if those organizations collapsed there was going to be a lot of collateral damage.
stevenmays··on Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today
Still crashing. Down to 11k. ::grabs popcorn:: https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD
stevenmays··on Australia's Housing Frenzy
If money were an infinite resource it would have no value. Sure, governments have the ability to print more but they are constrained by inflation targets. And sure, more liquidity was put into the markets but that's because the markets had no liquidity and we were on the brink of financial disaster and deflation was on the verge of occurring. In deflationary events no one buys anything because the price tomorrow is cheaper then the price today so everyone waits to buy while businesses are unable to move their products and tons of people lose their jobs.

There are other circumstances at work here then more money in circulation, such as land use restrictions, building codes, nimbyism, credit costs/restrictions, tax policies, etc. If investors can build housing and make money they will certainly do it. It's not just the supply of money, but also the supply/demand of a product that effects prices.

stevenmays··on Facebook Still Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race
I think the issue here is the possibility of digital red-lining. While recognizing race is not racist, treating people differently because of their race is racist.
stevenmays··on Ask HN: Your experience with realty investment startups like RealtyShares?
Why not just buy a reit and be done with it?
stevenmays··on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016
This. I rebalance my portfolio to hold the "correct for me" allocation.
stevenmays··on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016
I wonder why the title of this post got changed from "US Median Household Income +3.2% to All-Time High..."
stevenmays··on The Line Between Aggressive and Crazy
Risk free rate = treasury bills (1.43%)

Putting 160% would mean using a leveraged S&P 500 ETF.

stevenmays··on Cryptocurrencies are the tulip mania of the 21st century
Read the OP, then read my comment... Yes, I understand why 2 different currencies have value. The OP does not. Rhetorical question.
stevenmays··on Cryptocurrencies are the tulip mania of the 21st century
My comment was rephrasing the OP so they'd understand why they're argument was wrong, not an actual opinion.
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