please include a screenshot of your app somewhere on your website or repo. why would I download an app if I don't even know what it looks like?

It looks like signal

this is sick

it's the uncertainty that kills me, I'm never sure if i've missed anything/double counted something

In general, it's pretty easy to get the 8x or 19x correctly — these are the large dimensions. So really, you are only looking at being wrong on the 102, and off by two (100-104) is not such a big difference (1.52M-1.58M).

Once you realise that the error bars are small (and it was mostly intuitive for me, probably looking at counting up to a hundred, so a few percent off is not a big deal), you stop worrying about the uncertainty as much ;-)

oof my googling skill so bad I didn't find this

Mine either. An LLM found it for me.

And I'm glad you didn't find it because that lead to a great post.

The latest use for AI in 2025: replacing obsolete and non-functional search engines like Google

Can we confidently say that top engineers have lost the battle with SEO spam ?

Or they just gave up ?

Or something else ?

With Google, at least, it was one division losing the battle with another division. https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.pdf

Searching some terms from this PDF (not in Google) brings up https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/, which has a clearer narrative.

Thanks for the links, very interesting!

engineers have nothing to do with it any more, is the entire issue.

uhhhh... isn't that the latest use for AI in like 2023?

Glad you didn't:)

glad you like my website. it's there due to the lack of other meaningful achievements

I was nodding in modest agreement with @behnamoh's comment on self-aggrandizement, but your reply brought a huge smile to my face. And visiting his linked website dialed the mirth up to 11.

in that case you would have to assume they stacked the money first, measured, then build a box to fit it

thanks for the tip! I just wanted all the numbers to look the same

Oh, that makes sense! I was so caught up on the article beginning that way that it didn't occur to me that there'd be formulas later on, and it makes sense to want the numbers to appear the same in and out of formulas. Thank you for fixing the spacing, and nice article!

if it's in $100 bills you can fit it in a suit case easily with lots of space left

there's only one way to find out

Hacker News heist plan initiated.

For scientific purposes only obviously.

We'll count it and give it back. Promise.

still cheaper than https://countthings.com/

That's 0.80€ per count and it's automatic. Still seems too expensive.