Readit Newslazy_afternoons commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin
If true, this is the funniest thing I have seen an LLM generate.
lazy_afternoons commented on Programming peaked functional.computer/blog/... · Posted by u/Antibabelic
Wait until he discovers vercel and nextjs.
lazy_afternoons commented on School cell phone bans and student achievement nber.org/digest/202512/sc... · Posted by u/harias
I am reasonably confident that Smart Phones will take the route of cigarettes.
Restricted to adults over 21 years of age.
lazy_afternoons commented on Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs aloisdeniel.com/blog/bett... · Posted by u/barremian
IIRC from the red wild boar book, JSONs biggest win is that it got the adoption.
Getting everyone to agree on a standard was/is/will be the tougher part.
lazy_afternoons commented on All it takes is for one to work out alearningaday.blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/herbertl
This is why having a safety net and resources to try again is so powerful. Given enough chances you will make it, big. That means the #1 factor in success is the number of chances you get to fail and try again, not necessarily how inherently good you are. I try to remind myself of this often. I have been given so many chances, and I took them.
Completely Agree.
Both Romans and Mongols have lost/retreated many battles. They just had to regroup and raise another army over and over again. Some of their opponents could not even afford the war even after winning over them multiple times.
The other sides simply were more fragile, where you were defending and once your city falls, you are done.
Avoid risk of ruin. Keep the ability of taking multiple shots with upside in your favor.
lazy_afternoons commented on We're learning more about what Vitamin D does technologyreview.com/2025... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
There is a 5000 years old epic called Ramayana which dedicates a significant part of it to a conversation between the protagonist Ram and his guru, agastya.
The summary of that entire conversation is this:
If you ever feel demotivated, defeated or dull just pray to the sun or go into the sunlight.
This message was repeated dozens of times over and over with various metaphors.
I think they were trying to hammer the point that sunlight solves a lot of issues.
lazy_afternoons commented on You should write an agent fly.io/blog/everyone-writ... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
Seriously, what is the advantage of tools at all. Why not implement custom string based triggers.
First of all, the call accuracy is much higher.
Second, you get more consistent results across models.
lazy_afternoons commented on Auraphone: A simple app to collect people's info at events andrewarrow.dev/2025/11/s... · Posted by u/fcpguru
I built exactly this in 2016. I realised that Bluetooth requirement from both parties is too much friction.
It worked way better with a QR code.
That way there is proof of presence and the recieving person need not have the app installed.
lazy_afternoons commented on Show HN: Autism Simulator autism-simulator.vercel.a... · Posted by u/joshcsimmons
This is pretty interesting.
I wonder why in my 30 years of lived experience (in India), I never met or heard of anyone being autistic or needing meds for mental health, even amongst the software engineers. But this seems to be fairly prevalent in the US.
It might be under diagnosis but medical services and pharma are extremely cheap and fairly competent, at least for the engineers.
May be they don't openly talk about it due to stigma.
I can't imagine what they would go through here, it's a extremely social culture where you are socially forced into group festivals, gatherings and frequent visits from relatives.