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Tuhin Nair
Personal blog · idiotlamborghini.com/articlesstartupsprogrammingai
Tuhin Nair writes IdiotLamborghini, a personal blog at idiotlamborghini.com about startups, programming and ai. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Multi-Perspective Note-Taking: Mastering focus as a solo-developer”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Tuhin Nair's posts on focus and working alone, and an experiment using GPT-3 on Hacker News data. The comments cite the posts without judging the writing.
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Most-linked posts?
- Multi-Perspective Note-Taking: Mastering focus as a solo-developer3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-01
- Using GPT-3 and Hacker News for slightly creepy market research2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-12-18
What Hacker News says?
Apart from being a personal cache for your thoughts, it also catches you from going down rabbit holes. Keeping a log like this is one kind of guard. I've had to come up with my own set of tricks while working alone [0] but in general I think it helps to be a defensive developer. [0] https://www.idiotlamborghini.com/articles/mastering_focus_as...
Comment linking /articles/mastering_focus_as_a_solo_developer
on “Use a work journal”Submitted Metacognitive note-taking for creativity as a story · 84 points
HN discussionMy biggest tip: Have a system you can rely on even when you're struggling. Take the magic out of progress. Use curiosity and excitement when you can but don't let them be the only way you can work on something. Some practical strategies I've written about: - How to prevent stagnation while building products alone [0] - Multi-Perspective Note-Taking: Mastering focus as a solo-developer [1] [0] https://www.idiotlambor…
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on “On finishing projects”Submitted How to prevent stagnation while building products alone as a story · 31 points
HN discussionI made something for just this use. It's very simple, but it gives you all your data in compressed JSON. I use it myself for mostly diet and exercise, but I also log other things like movies and books I'm reading. I made it because I wanted a nice interface to review my logs. https://www.idiotlamborghini.com/strategies/weave
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on “Imagining a personal data pipeline”Submitted Weave: A Tool to Track How Your Habits Work Together as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI made a tool for capturing data in JSON [0]. It's not in real-time but when I want to use my logs to troubleshoot something I have a local React project with https://github.com/plouc/nivo to make my own visualizations. But for something you can host yourself I've used https://github.com/onejgordon/flow-dashboard in the past [0] https://www.idiotlamborghini.com/strategies/weave
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on “Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder”Submitted Perspective Jumping: How to focus as a solo-developer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThat's ok OP, I think feelings like this are inevitable when working alone. Especially on long projects. I wrote an article on the mental side of developing alone [0]. The gist of it is: You're racing against yourself when working alone. You're the limiting resource, and so, whatever you're building has to account for where you're in life and how you're feeling. Good luck! [0] https://www.idiotlamborghini.com/articl…
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on “Ask HN: How to finish last 30% of a side project?”Submitted Show HN: Weave – A tool to track how your habits work together as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy Latest Post: Using GPT-3 and Hacker News for slightly creepy market research Link: https://idiotlamborghini.com/articles/using_gpt3_and_hacker_...
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on “Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site”Submitted I'm scared of artificial stupidity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI tried to do this with hacker news data [0]. I wanted to feed the model the entire community's discourse and then ask it questions (like simulating an interview with a HN user). The main problems encountered were: - 1. Token limit: You can only input a limited amount of text at once. The challenge then becomes trying to compress data to fit into the window. But it can be lossy. - 2. Trust: This is the main one. It'…
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on “Prompt engineering DaVinci-003 on our own docs for automated support (Part I)”Submitted Hypermail: Content-Based Routing on Email as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat's close to the conclusion I come to in my experiment [0]. Focusing on the generational capabilities can make some cool demos but investing in good search felt like the most useful thing to do. - [0] https://idiotlamborghini.com/articles/using_gpt3_and_hacker_...
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on “Prompt engineering DaVinci-003 on our own docs for automated support (Part I)”Submitted Metacognitive Note-Taking for Creativity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think this explanation does a great job of showing just how large the bottom of the Email iceberg is. When I first worked with Email, I was overwhelmed by the work required to handle all the variation. I didn't even try to run my own mail server, I was just trying to parse and store email in a structured form. What I thought would be a quick evening's work turned into a full week. While building Hypermail [0], I a…
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on “Email: Explained from First Principles”Submitted Hone: A deadline-focused problem-solving tool for developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Software Products Alone: Orchestrating the Meta-Skills as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sustaining Drive: How to keep going while building products alone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi-Perspective Note-Taking: Mastering focus as a solo-developer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: The Hypermail Experiment: Social Note-Taking for Lurkers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using GPT-3 and Hacker News for slightly creepy market research as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Hone: A deadline-focused problem-solving tool for developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using GPT-3 and Hacker News for slightly creepy market research as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Market research using GPT-3 and Hacker News as a story · 1 points
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