Yeah, I agree. I feel like the signal-to-noise ratio in traditional news can be quite low too. I would prefer a potential solution that is able to also pull opinionated commentary (blogs, and Twitter so on) from people close to the industry.

I don't believe simply asking a model to search through news sites and summarize occasionally would be helpful.

Energy, power generation, and wholesale energy markets. That's what I am looking into now. But I would like to diversify it as well if I find a reliable setup.

Industries often have industry publications (you can google for it). In addition, reading the financial news can give you a good pulse on the goings on.

Are you finding that you're not able to find good news sources?

What did you find so far?

Instead of willing to bet, you can do it yourself and prove it. It is not like there is a ceiling for doing what you are proposing. I am willing to bet that you are wrong.

nominative determinists are running the world

One can technically scrape a list of actual advice or quotes off the internet, randomly feed them to a coding agent, and ask it to interpret what they mean in the grand scheme of things and implement away on it. Once the agent is done, it randomly responds with either "yes, this is exactly what I meant" or "no".

In turn mimicking the average game industry executive giving vague directions that feel just right to them this month, or some other unspecified time period, and in turn achieving something closer to the real AAA game development lifecycle.

I actually have an "oblique strategies" skill that it can call if it figures out it's been spending too many turns on the same problem...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

AI can bring that figure up.

I started experimenting with a some form of LLM detox in order to get my brain more active again.

When I was in university, my instructor linked something like this for SQL practice (a crime solving minigame, just like this one).

I remember getting really into it, even going to the extreme of trying to find the most efficient one-liner solution.

Thanks for making this. I’ll be passing the torch by linking it to anyone interested in learning SQL.

For me the biggest issue is to connect with people. Having a some form of opt-in automatic email chain or private chat for people located in the same city to discuss and connect would be great.

> For me the biggest issue is to connect with people

Could you elaborate? what is painful to you?

> automatic email chain or private chat

Any more ideas about that? I think it's similar to the suggestion I made in the post about creating Telegram channels for each location, but I'm not sure.

Also, someone already said they wouldn't join a Telegram channel and would prefer Signal. That really illustrates the kind of challenges I'm facing in trying to bring the HN community together.

> Could you elaborate? what is painful to you?

People put one or many links to their accounts. Unless there is a email or an actual social media, it is very hard to pick one of these as a way of connecting people.

For example I saw a lot of accounts with just github (same goes with some of the social medias), I am not sure what to do outside of following it. I would assume there is also a understandable inertia to put your own social account or email directly here.

> Any more ideas about that?

Email-chain would be the easiest. I wouldn't rely on a third party service like Telegram or Signal directly as that would mean losing a lot of people because as you realised it is hard to convince everyone to agree on Apples to Oranges.

One thing that could also work is creating a some form of very simple forum board like interface on the website directly for people to post/comment their invitation/willingness to meet up or how they wish to be contacted about meeting up (maybe with a bit information about what they expect or what you can expect).

It could function like a Facebook Group in a way which served a similar purpose in past.

There could also be a Country/Nation board that will also share same posts as your city so more people can see them. If you would like to discuss in more detail, you can send me a email.

A lot of good points here, thanks a lot!

> Email-chain would be the easiest.

It would require users to share their emails to meet.hn, am I right?

> creating a some form of very simple forum board

Might be a good idea as well. It would require more work and maintenance but could be valuable.

Possibly unpopular here but how about a Discord server with a channel for every city? When you join Discord, a bot could ask which cities you want to join (allowing people who travel to join multiple cities, but maybe limit it to some sane number to prevent bots from trawling everything).

Haha and here I was going to suggest a discord channel for each location. I checked out the two cities I've worked in and was pleasantly surprised by the number of brave people who added their LinkedIn accounts, and doubly so when seeing some old colleagues as mutuals. Not sure I'd want to add meet.hn to my main, maybe make a "real me alt" specifically for that. I wonder if others have done the same since it's a lot of users with old accounts and no comment histories.

I made hn-pm.me exactly for that. You can sign up with your hn username only, no email required. You have to put a random key into your profile during signup, but you can remove it later.

You can glitch out Safari on IOS -by quickly pressing the play button for the video in the now playing interface after switching off from the Safari app- to play the audio of Youtube videos on the background.

I mainly use this to play membership only videos that don't play in the background even if you have a Youtube Premium.

Every IOS version I pray that they don't patch this "glitch".

Interesting, I don't use premium but is there a reason membership only videos don't support background audio? Seems like a weird exclusion