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Founder here, Having strong friendships is one of the most important things for happiness and wellbeing. It's been especially hard to be social since the pandemic hit, and people i…

Hi HN, I’m the founder of Junto. I’ve personally struggled with maintaining close relationships in the past couple of years. With WFH becoming the norm in the tech industry, friend…

You may have forgotten that the purpose of a lock is not to be opened in many useful ways, but actually to remain closed when you want it.

How does this compare to https://www.warp.dev/ ?

For many (including me), Apple products are real pocket computers that do everything we wish. Apple products are built with a set purpose in mind. I couldn't care less about side-l…

Preface: I have a lot of respect for YC. It's created a lot of successful companies. As an outsider, here's why I think it will be difficult for YC to create substantial value in t…

Yes, if your definition of active is that you had to make a decision, yes. Pretty much everything we do is active. In the same way that sleeping is exercise because your muscles mo…

If we take the premise of the article, that Trump was anti-mask and Fauci was pro-mask (although slower than we would have liked, either by mistake or by political pressure) - I'm …

I agree. Intense political pressure from half of the country would have immense negative consequences on whatever Fauci would try to accomplish. He would have instantly lost any cr…

I'm thinking of a globally diversified portfolio of index funds based on modern portfolio theory. You can read about the investment strategy, but basically it comes down to risk ad…

All these traders are playing in a casino. Yes, the casino favors the house. Yes, people have figured out how to make big bucks by counting cards. The rules will probably change so…

> have you tried using pen and paper for things? Yes. If I can express something through writing (as with the cases you mention), there is no faster, more convenient tool than a no…

The reality is that companies at an early stage don't have validation of their idea yet. That is priority #1. The scaling part comes only after you know your idea has merit. It's a…

Your only metric of "good" code generation is # of bugs. My assertion was that this is not accurate. I also disagree with the premise that code generation by AI will be very useful…

I agree with most of the points the author makes. > Pencil and paper are the best programming tools and vastly under used I'm not convinced of this one. I grew up with digital tool…

This is naive. The point is that code is a well defined system with clear rules that can be expressed through logic and mathematics. GPT is suited to approximate systems where the …

Yep, every language is fundamentally broken. Fortunately, some are useful. Go has proven to be useful in building stuff that matters, at the end of the day. This unfortunately can'…