hanska's comments

On: Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

[hanska]

yes if you tell llm to do things it will be too verbose. either explicitly instruct the length ("add 5 lines bulletpoints, tldr format") or just write it yourself.

[blobbers → hanska]

Seems reasonable to give Claude instructions to be extra terse.

On: Using a fan can make older adults hotter in a dry heat

[hanska]

koreans knew after all what is up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

[jfengel → hanska]

Fan Death was my first thought as well.

Fan Death is still not a thing, because that supposedly kills perfectly healthy young people in not-especially-hot environments. It's the fan itself that's somehow deadly.

But yeah, once the air gets above body temperature, air (even moving air) isn't going to cool you off. And even somewhat below body temperature, you can get hotter because you're generating heat faster than even moving air can remove it.

On: Show HN: SweepIQ – A simple AI tool to help you learn more, faster

[hanska]

it's just considered marketing cost. they might not make $ from Bob, but they increase their client base by 1

any non-referral users, SweepIQ still keeps their amazon profit (and uses that to pay for the gpu's)

+ in future they might add another monetization, so perhaps Bob will pay $15/mo for SweepIQ Premium

On: Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference

[hanska]

The Groq interview was good too. Seems that the thought process is that companies like Groq/Cerebras can run the inference, and companies like Nvidia can keep/focus on their highly lucrative pretraining business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBMRL_7msjY

On: SpacetimeDB

[hanska]

i've tried it, it works, it's nice :) got a mini mmo running with several people at once running around

On: Show HN: I made a service to convert WordPress blogs to Hugo

[hanska]

not anymore! with this tool, we can get rid of all of that fluff and go straight back to pure content only.

On: Ask HN: Where do you keep your 401k investments?

[hanska]

"The only reason I can think of to buy a higher expense fund when a much lower expense variant exists is in the name of tax loss harvesting"

perhaps it's because they receive kickbacks from that specific fund.

On: Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty

[hanska]

not common knowledge I think.

all usd swift wires get routed through 2 of the major banks - think it was JP Morgan Chase & Wells Fargo. this allows them to check all of these transfers for aml/cft and other sanctions blacklists.

heard this from a guy who works closely with Tether so i'm sure he'd know well