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Re:LLM Inevitabilism
on Saturday July 19, 2025 @07:55AM (#44614754)
This is an excellent description of the mood that we are going through right now. It does feel inevitable that AI is going to be part of our life, whether we like or not.
Re:I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric
on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @07:17AM (#44432710)
hogged to death :/
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)
on Sunday May 04, 2025 @08:28AM (#43886329)
I'm a backend engineer and my professional interests lie in backend development, distributed systems, cloud computing, and building data-intensive applications. I enjoy tackling complex technical challenges and designing scalable solutions that can handle large amounts of data efficiently.
Location: UK
Remote: Prefer Remote and Hybrid
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Backend, data pipelines, Python, Java, Scala, some Typescript, Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres, GCP, AWS
Résumé/CV: https://blog.ammar.blue/about/
Email: ammarali121x AT gmail.com
Re:Give your brain time to think and remember
on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @01:05PM (#35978220)
I'd add cut off browsing news/reddit and scrolling social media. It also overload the brain with garbage.
Re:Ask HN: Is Recursion Worth It?
on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:07AM (#34543779)
Sometimes, it's a way to elegantly solve some problems. Imagine you have a binary tree and you need to find it's depth. The answer is the maximum depth of its left and right subtree plus one. This easily translates into a recursive code.
It's true that it's rarely used in production quality code, but nonetheless it's sometimes useful and you should have a good command of writing recursive code.
Re:Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff
on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:34AM (#34533959)
I'm more increasingly convinced that ceo are capitalizing on this occasion to lay off people they deem undesirable.
Re:Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3
on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:49PM (#34525259)
Very nice! I really find it useful. Would you mind sharing the tech stack?
Re:Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077
on Saturday December 24, 2022 @02:34PM (#34120307)
Thanks for sharing! will check it out later, but this looks great.
Re:What use is mental math in 2022?
on Monday February 28, 2022 @01:04PM (#30502893)
It's useful for the estimation part of system design.
Re:How do you guys come up with such an algorithm
on Friday February 18, 2022 @02:23PM (#30389983)
This pretty standard interview question. You should keep track of the current minimum when you do a push:
push 1:
[(v=1,m=1)]
push -1:
[(v=1, m=1), (v=-1, m=-1)]
push 3:
[(v=1, m=1), (v=-1, m=-1), (v=3, m=-1)]
get_min:
[(v=1, m=1), (v=-1, m=-1), (v=3, m=-1)]
returns m=-1
pop:
[(v=1, m=1), (v=-1, m=-1)]
returns v=3
get_min:
returns -1
Re:John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:29PM (#28964070)
Do you really think that metaverse will gain momentum?
Re:An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:28PM (#28964061)
What's the point of this? Will it make you rich?
Re:Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:27PM (#28964050)
I think this type of question is what make people go and work for the kind of Mark Zuckerbuerg.
Re:Fastmail is having problems again
on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:26PM (#28964034)
First time I'm hearing about Fastmail :D
Re:Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online
on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @06:40PM (#25576465)
algorithms illuminated isn't freely available. The links forward to amazon.
Re:How much math you need for programming (2014)
on Saturday December 26, 2020 @01:31PM (#25545329)
slightly off topic but do you have some resources that explain maths in simple language, or using visualisation and code samples? Although I had calculus, linear algebra, probability theory, and discrete maths at uni, I have forgotten most of it. This sucks especially because from time to time I bump into a problem that could easily be modelled elegantly using math.