Do you want to help people learn or do you want to make money? Those are very different incentives. I think the gamified apps learn too much towards retention vs learning; because ultimately someone who learns the material isn't a customer anymore, unless they keep using your app for another subject.
Readit Newshooverd commented on Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? · Posted by u/hussein-khalil
hooverd commented on Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers andrewmccalip.com/space-d... · Posted by u/flinner
hooverd commented on Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? · Posted by u/embedding-shape
Yes please. I don't care if somebody did their own research via one, but it's just so low effort.
hooverd commented on Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs macrumors.com/2025/12/01/... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
I support the no global leaderboard. I was in 7th place last year but quickly got bored maintaining the aggressive AI pipeline required to achieve that. If I wanted to maintain pipelines I'd just do work, and there will never be a good way to prevent people from using AI like this. Advent of Code should be fun, thank you for continuing to do it. I'm looking forward to casually playing this year!
this is why we can't have nice things
hooverd commented on All it takes is for one to work out alearningaday.blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/herbertl
This always sounded intuitively correct to me, but looking back over the past two decades basically all of the successful entrepreneurs and business owners I know didn’t come from families with a lot of resources and didn’t have much of a safety net. They just went all in on their goals when they were young and had many years ahead of them to start over if it all went wrong.
Contrast this with some of the people I grew up who came from wealthy families: A lot of their parents pushed them toward entrepreneurship and funded their ventures, but to date I can only think of one business from this cluster of friends that went anywhere. When you come from such resources and wealth that you don’t need to succeed and you can drop the business as soon as it becomes difficult, it’s a different situation.
I don’t know exactly what to make of this, other than to remind myself to keep pushing through the difficult times for things I really want even when I could fall back to an easy path and give up.
Well, how many non-successful entrepreneurs and business owners do you know?
hooverd commented on · Posted by u/incomplete
Truly, Elon Musk's capabilities are unparalleled in every realm.
Maybe I'm an obscure case, but I'm just not sure what I'd use an image generation model for.
For people that use them (regularly or not), what do you use them for?
Nonconsenual pornography is the killer app.
hooverd commented on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla manualdousuario.net/en/mo... · Posted by u/rpgbr
We do need to restrict the franchise drastically. I don't know if this is where I'd draw the line, but it is actually one of the better ideas.
Other ideas: net tax payers, veterans, citizens