felideon (u/felideon)

felideon commented on Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does deadstack.net/recent... · Posted by u/dreadsword

dreadsword · 2 months ago

How about now? Story titles are still clickable links, but are black. Made the story count a link as well, and kept it blue as a visual cue.

felideon · 2 months ago

Some additional feedback:

There's no reason for both the story count and the story summary to be clickable. It's confusing because:

(a) It's not clear what the number in parentheses even means (until you click and infer)

(b) Separate links makes you think they lead to different pages

Also, echoing another comment, it's not really clear what "incoming" and "outgoing" stories mean. Maybe "new" vs. "stale"?

felideon commented on Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy anthropic.com/news/update... · Posted by u/porridgeraisin

JohnnyMarcone · 4 months ago

I got a pop-up when I opened the app explaining the change and an option to opt out. That seems very transparent to me.

felideon · 4 months ago

> seems very transparent

Except not:

> The interface design has drawn criticism from privacy advocates, as the large black "Accept" button is prominently displayed while the opt-out toggle appears in smaller text beneath. The toggle defaults to "On," meaning users who quickly click "Accept" without reading the details will automatically consent to data training.

Definitely happened to me as it was late/lazy.

felideon commented on Fast catherinejue.com/fast... · Posted by u/gaplong

old-gregg · 5 months ago

Fun story time!

Early in my career as a software engineer, I developed a reputation for speeding things up. This was back in the day where algorithm knowledge was just as important as the ability to examine the output of a compiler, every new Intel processor was met with a ton of anticipation, and Carmak and Abrash were rapidly becoming famous.

Anyway, the 22 year old me unexpectedly gets invited to a customer meeting with a large multinational. I go there not knowing what to expect. Turns out, they were not happy with the speed of our product.

Their VP of whatever said, quoting: "every saved second here adds $1M to our yearly profit". I was absolutely floored. Prior to that moment I couldn't even dream of someone placing a dollar amount on speed, and so directly. Now 20+ years later it still counts as one of the top 5 highlights of my career.

P.S. Mentioning as a reaction to the first sentence in the blog post. But the author is correct when she states that this happens rarely.

P.P.S. There was another engineer in the room, who had the nerve to jokingly ask the VP: "so if we make it execute in 0 seconds, does it mean you're going to make an infinite amount of money?". They didn't laugh, although I thought it was quite funny. Hey, Doug! :)

felideon · 5 months ago

So, did you make it faster?

felideon commented on Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus

cjbgkagh · 7 months ago

It is Tirzepatide which is a GLP-1 agonist, like Semaglutide (Ozempic). I don't know how much of the co-occurring issues from sleep apnea are caused by the sleep apnea or are comorbidities for something else. I suspect quite a lot of the later. I think we're going to find that GLP-1 agonists are really good for a lot of things beyond obesity including many auto-immune conditions which I think underlies many mental conditions.

felideon · 7 months ago

Hmm? Article says it’s a combination of atomoxetine and aroxybutynin.

felideon commented on Offline-First with CouchDB and PouchDB in 2025 neighbourhood.ie/blog/202... · Posted by u/felideon

matlin · 8 months ago

PouchDB and CouchDB were what inspired me to build Triplit[1]. The idea of having an identical (or merely similar in the case of Pouch/Couch) query engine accessible on client and server is insanely powerful.

The author links to a much longer post on handling conflicts which is worthy of its length because it's not a pleasant experience with this setup.

I highly recommend trying a modern setup from one of the many new local first solutions [2]

1. https://triplit.dev

2. https://www.localfirst.fm/landscape

felideon · 8 months ago

Is Triplit overkill (over PouchDB) if multi-user collaboration is not a use case?

felideon commented on Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic theatlantic.com/games/bra... · Posted by u/brgross

thaumasiotes · 8 months ago

> Some of the clues are confusing due to inconsistent punctuation.

> The first line uses a comma, the second line uses "or", the third and fourth lines don't have any punctuation at all, so the sentences make no sense.

... There is no inconsistency there. The 'or' and the comma in lines 1 and 2 are not parallel to each other; they're doing different things. Neither could be replaced by the other without changing the meaning of the clue.

Similarly, in line three, nothing in it could be replaced by a comma or by a disjunction. (But, and I want to emphasize this, line 2 doesn't even contain a disjunction; you appear to have misunderstood all of the clues.)

Line four is a bit different in that it contains a grammatical mistake. It should say [rocks that when added to soda will NOT cause your stomach to explode]. Other than that... it's a fourth style of clue. It isn't comparable to the other three, and there's still no inconsistency.

What do you imagine would add "consistency" to these clues? #s 1, 2, and 4 could be unified like so:

    [to ____fish, to lure someone in using a fake internet persona]
    [____ or cut bait, common idiom]
    [____ rocks, rocks that when added to soda will NOT cause your stomach to explode]

But clue 3 can't be rendered in this style; the closest you can come is [pay ____, taking one of these is a bummer], and the parenthetical isn't really the same as it is for the other three.

felideon · 8 months ago

Good points. I think clue 3 is weird because what is a "pay one"? You can't take a "pay one", but I get how to read it now---it's like an anaphor for the word. But yes, for consistency a blank space would have worked: [taking a pay ____ is a bummer]

I think my confusion with clue 2 was that I had never heard of the idiom "[to] fish or cut bait" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_or_cut_bait

felideon commented on Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic theatlantic.com/games/bra... · Posted by u/brgross

brgross · 8 months ago

I posted Bracket City to HN on February 24th and the game went live yesterday on The Atlantic (!)

The game will stay free to play (and not require logging in). Also, I'm still making all the puzzles!

HN provided the first real infusion of players that weren't my mom's friends. So thanks everyone.

FWIW The Atlantic's team is amazing and got this live exactly 2 weeks from when we signed the deal.

This happened quick and I feel very lucky. The HN community of solvers keeps me honest with much helpful technical and editorial feedback. I love it all -- here or at mayor@bracket.city

T[Tom who befriended a volleyball] HN

PS my original post! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160542

felideon · 8 months ago

Congrats! Some feedback, if you're taking any:

- Without the tutorial, it's confusing that you're not supposed to click and you're supposed to start typing. I wonder if placing the text box at the top would make that more clear.

- Some of the clues are confusing due to inconsistent punctuation. For example:

  [to ___fish, to lure someone in using a fake internet persona] = cat
  [do this or cut bait] = fish
  [taking a pay one is a bummer] = cut
  [rocks when added to soda will NOT cause your stomach to explode] = pop

The first line uses a comma, the second line uses "or", the third and fourth lines don't have any punctuation at all, so the sentences make no sense.

felideon commented on A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn mattgiustwilliamson.subst... · Posted by u/MattSWilliamson

felideon · 8 months ago

Isn't this the gap TinySeed tries to fill?

felideon commented on Chatbots-Are-AI-Antipatterns hello-jp.net/building-bey... · Posted by u/jpoersc

grouchy · 9 months ago

A ui is worth 1,000 tokens (at least).

I agree that chat isn't the end interface for AI powered applications.

That said the ability to describe desires in "fuzzy" ways is a usability value unlock.

My take is that natural language should be use surface functionality, translate between structures, and generate personalize defaults.

Its a hybrid approach and why my co-founder and I started https://tambo.co

felideon · 9 months ago

I think there’s merit in a hybrid approach, and more people should do this instead of slapping a chatbot everywhere, but your approach seems completely backwards from a usability perspective. Chat interfaces (edit: and similarly, CLIs) are at complete odds with discoverability[1]. In your demo, I’m trying to understand the point of the chatbot when all it does is convert a button, with a pretty decent CTA (“try sending us an email”), to a sentence in the first person? Why not a large “Compose Email” button? And if the chatbot can do more than one thing, how many of these potential “conversation starters” are you going to display?

What we need are designers who can help establish a foundational structure (information architecture) that leads to discoverable and simple UIs to nudge users in the right direction. Once users are at a place where they know what’s possible/available, then perhaps you can allow some fuzziness to help them cross the line to accomplish their task.

[1] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/discove...