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by jspann 15d ago
I feel like this take is for a more passive form of stoicism. No you don't have to care about what is going on around you, but you do need to somewhat engage with your life to solve problems, pay bills and take care of loved ones.
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by jspann 23d ago
(Disclosure: I'm getting a PhD in CS now) > The hard part of startups is product: knowing what to build, and being able to build it Funny enough, this is why I think a PhD is undervalued by many. You spend years focused on a single
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by jspann 27d ago
This got a laugh out of me! Thanks for sharing!
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Ask HN: What was your big failure? How did you get around it?
9 points by jspann 1mo ago|5 comments
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by jspann 4mo ago
-My spreadsheet is in Google Sheets -The hosting is in AWS -The server itself uses the FastMCP library, in python
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Creating another MCP server, but this one is for research(jspann.me)
2 points by jspann 4mo ago|3 comments
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Using an LLM for Research(jspann.me)
1 points by jspann 4mo ago|0 comments
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by jspann 4mo ago
> Quell doesn’t store your messages — they’re processed and discarded in real time. Are you using a 3rd party system to generate the numbers and forward them to your number? How can you audit that they 3rd party that creates the Quell nu
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Creating an MCP Server to answer questions about me(jspann.me)
3 points by jspann 5mo ago|0 comments
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Using a local VLM to organize my screenshots folder(jspann.me)
3 points by jspann 6mo ago|1 comments
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by jspann 9mo ago
> Ivan was born at a very young age, this has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move. Lol
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by jspann 9mo ago
> 50% of buyers don't even finish the first video. Just wondering - Is that a guess or a backed up statistic? Would be eye opening if that really was the case
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by jspann 9mo ago
I've had a project idea in the back of my mind for a long time: take all of my locations that I've saved in Swarm ( https://swarmapp.com ) and 3D render all of the buildings that I've been to. The issue was a lack o
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by jspann 10mo ago
What was the Texas patent case?
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by jspann 1y ago
This is fun!
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by jspann 1y ago
Maybe I'm reading the headlines wrong, but it doesn't seem like a lot of people read the actual press release and earnings report from the August 11th, 2025[1]: 1) The "Going Concern Assessment" that they put out was a r
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by jspann 1y ago
This is a very cool project / startup! I'm curious, how do you get the ground truth data? Is that just you marking down where you are as you walk through the store?
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by jspann 1y ago
> 100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially in this deal > 100% of Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived for their work to date > 100% of Windsurf employees will receive fully accelerated vesting for thei
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Ask HN: Best way to make the most of WWDC?
1 points by jspann 1y ago|0 comments
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by jspann 2y ago
> It’s unclear whether Trump can legally pause the TikTok ban. Irrespective of my political leaning, Trump's legal scenarios have made me learn more about how the U.S. government works and question hypothetical scenarios that I&#x27
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OpenAI to become for-profit company(reuters.com)
1346 points by jspann 2y ago|745 comments
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Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?(economist.com)
72 points by jspann 2y ago|118 comments
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by jspann 2y ago
I love the concept and loved the results I got. I tried it out and found a lot of papers both from my lab group and ones related that I had missed. I'd happily pay for it but as a grad student the price is a little steep - would it be
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by jspann 2y ago
I remain skeptical until I see it in action. On the one hand, Apple has a good track record with privacy and keeping things on device. On the other, there was too much ambiguity around this announcement. What is the threshold for running so
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by jspann 2y ago
I'm on Google Domains right now, was disappointed when I heard the change to SS, and have been putting off moving to someone else before the transfer but want to now. What are other registrars other there that I should move my domains
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by jspann 2y ago
> NetBSD sits in the middle. It is a relatively small, clean, and simple OS. The "build.sh" system for compilation is so easy to use for compiling your own toyOS that I initially felt like I had done something wrong. Linux is a
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Parkinson's Disease Can Now Be Detected Through the Skin(wsj.com)
18 points by jspann 2y ago|4 comments
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I looked out the window and saw it was grey outside(jspann.me)
2 points by jspann 3y ago|0 comments
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by jspann 3y ago
> What has your experience been in starting a tech blog? I made one in 2014 (Blogger) then got bored and stopped. I tried again a few years later (Bloger, Medium, Wordpress), then got bored and stopped. I recently got interested in anoth
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by jspann 3y ago
Being in Rochester, I always wonder how this will affect the local community here, where the Xerox was founded and where the majority of its workforce still is [1]. Still, I'm surprised they announced this after the holidays. I'm

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