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Re:How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:50PM (#49412487)
> “How do you find problems worth working on?”

They usually find me.

Begun, the noise-cancelling wars have.
Re:Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @04:55AM (#47320664)
I used to play with Lotus on my mom's work computer when I was a child. Today I'm doing AI Safety research and when I'm examining experiment data I use the closest modern tool to Lotus: https://www.visidata.org/
Re:Python PEP 814 – Add frozendict built-in type on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @03:37AM (#47134487)
I'm happy to see this. It belongs in the stdlib and not a third-party module.
Re:Good Riddance, 4o on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:48PM (#47005473)
Interesting insight.
Re:STFU on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:39PM (#46651906)
It's my fantasy to do this. Congrats on having the courage.
> What’s left behind are opaque, black box systems with almost no one who understands how they work.

Maybe 50-year-old COBOL programs are the original neural networks.

Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:28AM (#45680632)
I wrote it in a way that's too intertwined with my other shit to be shareable with people, but honestly you can copy-paste my comment to your friendly neighborhood LLM and you'll get something decent. Indeed it uses `env`.
Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time on Thursday October 23, 2025 @02:25AM (#45678794)
The most useful script I wrote is one I call `posh`. It shorten a file path by using environment variables. Example:

  $ posh /home/ramrachum/Dropbox/notes.txt
  $DX/notes.txt
Of course, it only becomes useful when you define a bunch of environment variables for the paths that you use often.

I use this a lot in all of my scripts. Basically whenever any of my script prints a path, it passes it through `posh`.

Re:Just Let Me Select Text on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:22AM (#45361645)
Dating apps are not meant to be efficient, definitely not to someone with a developer mindset.
I wrote this Chrome extension to solve this problem for myself 2 years ago: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/focustoscroll/jbcpo...

Apparently no one else was interested in it. I still use it daily.

Can you share a photo of the backpack?
Re:Show HN: A playable game of Tetris inside a PDF on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:10AM (#42646997)
I printed it but it doesn't work :(
Re:Mouseless – fast mouse control with the keyboard on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:58PM (#42403843)
I developed a similar solution for Windows over a decade ago which I've been using every day. It works but it needs to be made easy for people other than me to use (Readme, requirements file, etc.) If anyone volunteers to spend a few hours polishing it, email me and I'll open-source it.
Re:Francois Chollet is leaving Google on Thursday November 14, 2024 @05:12AM (#42134716)
> > I was a L5 IC at the time and that was an L8 decision

> omg, this sounds like the gigantic, ossified and crushing bureaucracy of a third world country.

No, it sounds like how most successful organizations work.

Re:Mergiraf: a syntax-aware merge driver for Git on Saturday November 09, 2024 @12:52PM (#42095740)
I'm flummoxed at the lack of Python support.
I wonder why various outlets, including DeepMind's blog, say that John Jumper is a "Senior Research Scientist". That's L5 which sounds like quite a low rank for a Nobel prize winner. I checked his LinkedIn and he's a director, which is around L8. I thought that maybe he was L5 during the publishing of the results, but no, he was either L6 or L7.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2024) on Monday September 02, 2024 @11:04AM (#41425978)
SEEKING WORK | Israel | Remote first

Software engineer with 12 years experience. PSF Fellow and Ex-Googler.

Anything Python-related. Bonus points if I get to work with JAX.

CV: https://r.rachum.com/cv

I want to feed it not only the code but also a corpus of questions and answers, e.g. from the discussions page on GitHub. Is that possible?
Bad UI. You need to double-click the desired area. Not sure what to do on mobile.
Re:Safe Superintelligence Inc. on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:27PM (#40730394)
Right, true safe super intelligence could only be developed in countries that finished genociding their indigenous populations centuries ago.
I can't find whether it's effective against snoring or not. Can someone help?
Re:See a Fish? Ring the Bell on Monday March 25, 2024 @05:19PM (#39821382)
This might be the first actual livestream.
Re:The Best Essay on Sunday March 10, 2024 @05:27PM (#39662661)
First sentence reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lK4cX5xGiQ
Re:Gemini Ultra now available in Google Bard on Thursday February 08, 2024 @09:39AM (#39302421)
Can you please give your impressions of Perplexity Pro?

Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to scroll pages without the mouse

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focustoscroll/jbcpolobfciagbjpodgfpgnifdmcbhgg/I like to use the keyboard and avoid touching the mouse whenever possible. One challenging situation is when I'm on a web page that has multiple scrollable elements, like my Facebook feed. When I press up or down in that situation, Chrome scrolls the entire page rather than the specific element I want to...

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