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tlogan commented on Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email   unfuck.email... · Posted by u/kilroy123
GLdRH · 3 hours ago
Do americans really get that much spam? I don't see the point of this. You can unsubscribe most superfluous newsletters anyway and you have a spam filter. A few intelligently chosen folders and inbox zero is a piece of cake.
tlogan · 2 hours ago
If you are disciplined and unsubscribe from mailing lists, you will stop getting most of the spam in your inbox. Sure, your spam folder might still be full - but with actual spam.

Honestly, I think it all comes down to discipline. You should immediately unsubscribe if you do not want someone’s newsletter.

But my problem is different: I get a lot of emails that I do want to receive, but I do not need to read them right away - or sometimes never. For example, mortgage monthly statements, which I really only need at tax time.

tlogan commented on When did AI take over Hacker News?   zachperk.com/blog/when-di... · Posted by u/zachperkel
tlogan · 9 days ago
Yes. And this comment illustrates the trend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865256

But let me say something serious. AI is profoundly reshaping software development and startups in ways we haven’t seen in decades:

1) So many well-paying jobs may soon become obsolete.

2) A startup could be easily run with only three people: developer, marketing, and support.

tlogan commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy   theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
tlogan · 12 days ago
I just want to give one more example. I wanted to watch “Just Beyond” (2021 Disney), but it’s impossible to find anywhere. So what am I supposed to do?
tlogan commented on Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive   ghacks.net/2025/08/12/aus... · Posted by u/warrenm
tlogan · 14 days ago
And then they wonder why they get tarrifs…
tlogan commented on 36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens   academic.oup.com/mnras/ar... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
dweinus · 15 days ago
Using the formula for black hole density, a black hole of this mass would have an average density about the same as the near-vacuum atmosphere of Mars(!)

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26515/what-is-ex...

tlogan · 15 days ago
And it would take 10 days from event horizon to the singularity.
tlogan commented on Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?   nber.org/papers/w34033... · Posted by u/lxm
tlogan · 17 days ago
While pitched as “helping people,” California’s fast-food minimum wage law has a different goal: reshaping the state’s tourism appeal. By making dining out feel more distinctive (and by nudging the market toward small restaurants and local chains) it’s a strategic play to make California a cooler place to visit and eat.

That’s how I’ve interpreted it - because otherwise, it makes little sense why the wage for the same work would vary based on the size of the company.

tlogan commented on Ask HN: OpenAI GPT-5 API seems to be significantly slower – is this expected?    · Posted by u/tlogan
rickcarlino · 17 days ago
The conventional response to this seems to be "Lower reasoning effort".

I have already tried this.

Like you, I am seeing a 5x slowdown compared to GPT-4O. I have lowered reasoning effort all the way, set verbosity to lowest. Still not getting good results.

https://bsky.app/profile/rickcarlino.bsky.social/post/3lvycs...

tlogan · 17 days ago
OK - so we are not crazy.

The official response seems to be: set reasoning to the lowest and service_tier to priority, and it should work as fast as GPT-4o. But that is not the case.

They are probably still tuning it. Or maybe GPT-5 is not meant to be replacement for GPT-4o / GPT-4.1. Or this is going to be a new normal (slowest).

tlogan commented on A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees   newsroom.intel.com/corpor... · Posted by u/rntn
everfrustrated · 18 days ago
If true, questions should also be raised about the Board who must have signed off on any conflicts of interest.
tlogan · 18 days ago
> If true …

I don’t know about his investments, but one fact is clear: he was CEO of Cadence Design Systems, which has just pleaded guilty to federal charges for exporting technology to China. That alone should make him ineligible to lead a company with major government contracts.

If he resigns (and he will), the board should go with him.

tlogan commented on A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees   newsroom.intel.com/corpor... · Posted by u/rntn
tlogan · 18 days ago
The key question is this: how did the board of directors hire him knowing he had been subpoenaed to testify regarding Cadence Design Systems, and that the company has now agreed to plead guilty.

u/tlogan

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