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Posted by
mvind on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:46AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://icrave.food/
Small experiment flipping the discovery mechanism for restaurants. Instead of finding a good restaurant and having no clue about what the best dish is on the menu is, crave flips the script, you start with what you are craving and then find the best restaurants.No sign up, totally free to use. Tell me what you think, mostly just build it for myself.
Great read, thanks for sharing.
Posted by
mvind on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @06:43AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hi HNI am about to blow a gasket! Is there someone on here who has managed to create a stable jupyter lab setup using vim mode? I am constantly switching between two subpar solutions:1) Use Jupyter lab GUI + Jupyter lab vim extension. The vim extension is super unstable and inconsistent, for example pressing "ESC" you can not enter insert mode again without manually clicking a code cell.2) Use...
Leetcode is great. If you can't solve a couple of easy LC questions, I would question your problem-solving skills.
I saw a picture a couple of weeks ago about a person on Twitter who lost around 90% of his followers because they were bots. He complained that he had spent the last +7 years building up this "community", which in the end consisted of bots.
As late yesterday I saw two youtube shorts videos using deep fakes models of celebrities pushing crypto Ponzi schemes. I wonder how widespread bot usage is, and their connection to "echo chambers" that seem to echo louder and louder into mainstream media.
Have you experienced a caveat in terms of coding quality?
I study mathematics, and I think it is pretty standard for mathematicians to disregard theoretical run times when experimenting and doing "napkin" computations. Invariably this leads to relatively poor code quality. Speaking from experience, I just failed a coding interview because I solved the question like a mathematician would do, i.e. a quick and dirty way. What is your experience with this phenomenon? I know academics often gets railed lacking concepts in data structures etc.
The prototypical HN poster.. this site sucks nowadays
* assuming you have a pagan slave population which can be worked to death in order to provide for the intelligentsia utopia fantasy
After going through 1000's of articles this is what remained?
I dont regard HN as a news site. Not that much of critical importance is discussed here.
Crypto currencies (or atleast DeFI) is trying to solve a pretty pragmatic problem: There is 1.7B unbanked people in the world and banking services are outdated and unavailable for large portion of humankind.
I mean that is pretty good problem to work on IMO. I think articles like this that talk about monetary politics are missing the point a bit.
I live in Denmark, and even then it takes approx ~10-24 hours to transfer funds between banks, imagine if we could reduce that time to mere seconds- or minutes?
"The president of the Ford Foundation, Mr. Walker, said in an email that he had confidence in Ozy. “We need new media companies to challenge the status quo, shake things up, and go deep on the issues that matter most,” he said. “In an increasingly diverse world, it’s no coincidence that a company with co-founders of Black and Indian descent would be so successful.”
Remember this is the sort person investing capital nowadays..
I matter to myself, hence my existence seems to answer your question
Number 5689 note taking app on HN.
working out and eating plant based.
Why not just train on your codebase/IDE? The best practice you can get is by actually using vim when developing. I do not see a need to go "practice" on a website.
Why would I use this over the already included tutorial in vim?
I built an online flashcard platform (memordo.com) which support live-rendering of latex and codeblocks, and custom study/repetition schedules. Memordo has totally replaced Anki for me, which is nice to build something you actually prefer to use.
I expect to see a landing page with questions instead of an registration page.
Posted by
mvind on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:36AM
from the show-hn dept.
Posted by
mvind on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:31AM
from the show-hn dept.
Why would I ever use this over overleaf?
One point as a researcher working in a central bank and studying state-of-the art macroeconomic theory, is the absolute conviction that some crypto holders have that society is rotten to the core and that the financial industry (and for that matter the broader well established large cap economy) is a malfunctioning/rotten machine only benefiting the 1%.
I mean reading journals on monetary policy transmission, central banking, and finance in general, it is an extremely complex arena (understanding the global economy might be the most complex man made "game" to try to understand). And those researchers will readily admit faults and shortcomings of our current theories. I never ever see any statements from researchers that carries the same strength of conviction about any of the aforementioned topics compared to the crypto crowd, whatsoever.
Some perspective might lend itself useful.
Posted by
mvind on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:25AM
from the show-hn dept.
I'm struggling with
https://memordo.com which is a minimalist flashcard platform where you can create public and private decks.
I use the tool religiously because I prefer my tool over the others tools available. I think the strategy forward for me is to create some public decks that others people would like to study.. Do you guys have any cool ideas for decks?