Hacker News: VeejayRampay

New comment by VeejayRampay in "How uv got so fast"

VeejayRampay — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:12:11 +0000

it is absolutely a huge deal, I suspect you work daily in python but with a small number of repositories that dont change too often

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:49:42 +0000

no, I find Gemini to be the best

New comment by VeejayRampay in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:29:08 +0000

what do you mean "catches up"

Gemini has been as good as GPT for more than a year

OpenAI still somehow gets the edge on the initial veneer of hype, and that's running thin

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Xkcd: Python Environment (2018)"

VeejayRampay — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:10:16 +0000

ruff is a blessing as well and soon ty will make type checking so much better (or pyrefly which also seems great)

New comment by VeejayRampay in "French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:18:15 +0000

thanks for this post

it should be repeated ad-nauseam that he is a crook, a shame for the country and its values and that the whole discourse about the injustice of the sentencing has heavy anti-liberal vibes

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

VeejayRampay — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:13:27 +0000

you're not in the minority, there's just intense fanboyism on Hacker News to promote OpenAI, because it serves the whole "LLM revolution" schtick better

Gemini has been dominating the field for about a year now, but I suppose Google is bit boring cause they just do things well

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files"

VeejayRampay — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:54:30 +0000

due to the nature of PDF, none of the tools mentioned here can do things as simple as detecting tables on pages with high accuracy

PDF is absolutely mint for display but it really suffers when parsing is involved

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Type Theory and Functional Programming (1999) [pdf]"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:59:37 +0000

python will be the last man standing with basically no functional goodies

people will keep on trucking with their "pythonic" for loops containg appends to a list that was initialized right before, their disgust for recursion, their absence of lambdas, the lack of monadic return types or containers

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Unified Line and Paragraph Detection by Graph Convolutional Networks (2022)"

VeejayRampay — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:41:45 +0000

remotely related, but I have yet to find a solution for page classification in a document for tables, i.e. a classifier that returns the index of pages containing tables in a document that is reliable

solutions using things like img2table or pymupdf are really bad (pymupdf is not even reliable for text pdfs)

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:25:23 +0000

for context, the author is Aaron Patterson of Ruby and Ruby and Rails fame, a proficient C programmer and overall hacker, he knows his stuff

New comment by VeejayRampay in "SpikingBrain 7B – More efficient than classic LLMs"

VeejayRampay — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:29:52 +0000

it's funny to observe how picky and cynical the HN crowd suddenly becomes when the disruptive technology is from china

New comment by VeejayRampay in "OpenAI Grove"

VeejayRampay — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 07:52:13 +0000

160 comments on this, OpenAI is definitely not the hype anymore

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Go is still not good"

VeejayRampay — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:51:12 +0000

it is pedantic, everyone knows what "node" means in this context

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Code formatting comes to uv experimentally"

VeejayRampay — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:26:57 +0000

and speed, it's way way faster

New comment by VeejayRampay in "The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning"

VeejayRampay — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:04:17 +0000

the whole event was shit, but we're all past the point where we can just say that, because the technology is now so entrenched that it's become unavoidable, so everything has now to jump through hoops to justify its existence and its greatness

New comment by VeejayRampay in "The BLS can't be replaced by the private sector"

VeejayRampay — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:02:02 +0000

don't you worry, people in the public sector who want everything to be private will make sure that the BLS becomes shit enough that the private alternative will end up being appealing, we've seen that millions of times before

New comment by VeejayRampay in "GPT-5"

VeejayRampay — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:04:48 +0000

reasoning effort is Gemini's thinking budget from 6 months ago

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Electric bikes might just be the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:52:06 +0000

that line of "someone says something I don't agree with so I will insinuate they didn't read the article" is tired, seriously

an excerpt from the article you pretend I didn't read (which I did)

  But let’s be honest: even throttle-only riding is more active than sitting on a couch

the article is literally saying that

it's also saying things about mental well-being, the sense of community, which I can get behind of course, but there's some sense of course to the bottom in our expectations

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Electric bikes might just be the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:35:16 +0000

your reply is oversimplistic as well

we're now in a world where the youth of developed countries are way more overweight than they were before, because of a radical shift in diet and exercise

upon reading that using electric bikes (that are basically mopeds disguised as bikes, i.e. which do not induce "real" physical activity due to assistance from the motor) are the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers, I have the feeling that the title is being a bit over the top

I'm not even talking about being fit or anything, just that actual bike riding (normal bikes) or just walking maybe would be actual good news. I understand that people in hilly areas benefit from ebikes, but is this the majority of the people mentioned here? or is it just that we're all like "well, I guess it's better than staying inside all the time eating doritos"? That's why I'm saying that this is a sign that we've given up, we're counting this as some sort of win, which I don't think it is

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Electric bikes might just be the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:16:31 +0000

so the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers is transportation devices that allow them to pretend they're exercising... we've really given up