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Re:Sharp on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @12:43AM (#46285188)
"Unsplash > Gen3C > The fly video" is nightmare fuel. View at your own risk: https://apple.github.io/ml-sharp/video_selections/Unsplash/g...
Re:Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks on Monday December 08, 2025 @07:58PM (#46199999)
> the sidewalk is in the front yard, stupid.

> So there’s a little live reporting on the situation in the streets.

> I offered no aid.

I just want to say I find this writing style refreshing as it’s a bit out of distribution for typical HN comments. Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience.

Why not just ytd=“uvx yt-dlp”?
Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:00AM (#44959385)
This post is pretty meta now that it's on the front page. A nice follow-up post would be:

The Value of 'The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page' Hitting the HN Front Page

I guess the value would be people might be more likely to prepare with CDNs or engage with comments etc. I wonder if that's measurable.

Do you mind sharing a specific concrete example? I'm curious.
> The term references an Internet meme depicting the fallacy using Goombas, which was first posted to Twitter by @supersylvie_ on January 29, 2024.

The history of this term goes back… one year? (from a rather unpopular meme) I’m all for introducing new vocab in english but it feels like there should already be a term for this.

Maybe “population fallacy”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy ?

Wikipedia has a nice size analogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...

> […] if the Sun were a ping-pong ball, […] the average distance between stars […] is analogous to one ping-pong ball every 3.2 km (2 mi).

Intuitively this visualization actually makes it seem like stars are pretty close? Usually with galactic dimensions it’s hard for our mere monkey minds to grasp the scales but this is actually pretty easy to imagine.

I went searching for more info on this and found https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/faked-beta-amyloid... which was an interesting read.
Re:Show HN: Open-source Hacker News apps on Friday February 07, 2025 @04:31PM (#42977708)
I’m going to try it out. My first feedback is that links in text posts (like this very post) aren’t clickable and the <a href… tags show up as plaintext (iOS). Also it’s not possible to make new lines in comments on iOS? Also I can only see the comment I’m currently typing in a single line. Otherwise, the app looks nice!
Re:Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent on Sunday January 26, 2025 @07:27PM (#42835887)
I’m surprised this is the only comment mentioning devicepixelratio. Most of the roasts from deepseek seem to involve roasting the window size but that’s misleading without DPR
Re:Coding Font Selection 'Tournament' on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @06:46AM (#42558153)
I ended looking for the link then clicking the apparently first link “Via Jason Snell”. In that page the link to the tournament is also the header (which I did not notice). The last paragraph on that page had a link to the tournament and that’s what I ended up clicking. I’m glad I’m not the only one
Re:The English Esoteric Programming Language on Sunday November 24, 2024 @10:40AM (#42228442)
It'd be fun to play code golf too. It's probably highly dependent on the niceness of the "English compiler".
Butter is actually quite low in lactose content (like 9x less than milk) and the serving size is relatively small: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance#:~:text=Ty...

So generally butter is not a problem for people with lactose intolerance anyway.

Re:Cargo Cult Science (1974) on Thursday August 01, 2024 @12:44PM (#41131025)
Thanks for the link.

> It's a trick I learned from pg for keeping the focus on content rather than personalities.

IMO none of us would’ve bothered reading this if it were just some random person’s commencement address. I personally would’ve been bummed if I skipped this post just because I didn’t find the nonsense title (nonsense unless you read the article) interesting enough.

Re:Cargo Cult Science (1974) on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @05:02AM (#41117491)
We should add “- Richard Feynman” to the title. I was pleasantly surprised to notice that only after clicking the link
Re:A Git story: Not so fun this time on Monday July 01, 2024 @05:30PM (#40850932)
Great read!

I’m sure I’m not the first to point out that Junio (the appointed git “shepherd”) works at Google where mercurial is the “recommend local vcs” internally instead of git.

Re:Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative on Thursday June 13, 2024 @11:43AM (#40671042)
I super duper highly recommend iterm2 (macos) + its integrated tmux support. It was relatively popular in my circles at google when I was there.

It comes with this tool’s benefit of native scrolling/cp paste PLUS the huge benefit of “right click to split vertical/horizontal”.

Re:I think I kind of hate lazy loading on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @11:39PM (#37504704)
I feel this comment in my very core. I have an unusually hard time remembering “yt-dlp”. Glad I’m not the only one
Re:Stack: The Magic of Embeddings on Saturday June 24, 2023 @10:01PM (#36464512)
This is a good example thanks for posting. Here’s what I got from chatgpt4:

====ME====

I would like you to pretend to be google search. I search “ implementing stackoverflow in typescript”. What are your results

====chatgpt4 default====

As an AI, I can't browse the internet in real time, but I can provide information and examples based on my existing knowledge as of September 2021. Here's an idea of what you might find when searching for implementing a Stack Overflow-like platform in TypeScript:

Creating a Simple Stack Overflow Clone in TypeScript: An in-depth tutorial that walks you through the creation of a basic Stack Overflow-like site using TypeScript, perhaps incorporating Node.js and Express for the backend and React for the frontend.

GitHub Repository: StackOverflow-Clone-TypeScript: A repository where someone has already implemented a simplified version of Stack Overflow using TypeScript, likely along with a database like PostgreSQL or MongoDB. You can download, view the source code, and even contribute to the project.

Stack Overflow Discussion: Building a Q&A Site with TypeScript: A forum thread where developers discuss best practices, tools, and frameworks for creating a Q&A platform similar to Stack Overflow using TypeScript.

TypeScript & Node.js: Creating a REST API: Tutorials and articles discussing the creation of RESTful APIs using TypeScript and Node.js, which would be crucial for a Stack Overflow-like application.

TypeScript & React: Building a Frontend: A guide to using React with TypeScript for building user interfaces, which can help you to create the front-end of your Stack Overflow clone.

Auth0 Blog: User Authentication in Node.js and TypeScript: Authentication is an important part of any web application like Stack Overflow. This blog post from Auth0 could help you to understand how to implement it.

Best Practices for Developing in TypeScript: An article or guide that offers best practices for working with TypeScript. This could help you avoid common pitfalls and write cleaner, more efficient code.

Please note, the exact results would depend on the specifics of the search engine algorithm at the time of the search. These are indicative results based on the general topic you're interested in.

Re:AI Art Panic on Friday November 25, 2022 @09:54PM (#33749424)
In case you’re genuinely curious about the referenced law:

“conversely, as the price of a good decreases (↓), quantity demanded will increase (↑)”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_demand

Re:Renaissance Technologies on Monday November 11, 2019 @12:52PM (#21506955)
It blows my mind how much RenTech does with some ~300 employees. I recently had a phone screen with them (no offer otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this) and all of my communication was with this MIT math PhD. No HR, just the PhD.

Compare them with a Big N that has 10,000s of SWE’s. It’s a safe assumption that each engineer is individually less talented but even so, how do they iterate/experiment with such few employees?

Re:Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way? on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @05:20PM (#21140853)
> But where is it vertically in the cake? Right in the center of that frosting layer, or off by a bit up or down?

Did the author answer these questions? How far above the center of the cake is 55 light years?

Re:OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000 on Monday February 05, 2018 @01:29PM (#16310810)
If you've got a minute, you should check out https://www.testufo.com/ just to see a comparison of different framerates.