Hacker News: YuriNiyazov

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

YuriNiyazov — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:21:33 +0000

Don't know about GCP, but our AE on AWS was also continuously rotating, and as best I can tell, their job was to figure out what we are planning to build, and to ensure that we should always use for that, rather than a competitor product or build it ourselves.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

YuriNiyazov — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:38:38 +0000

Me too. It's great that my employer pays for it and there's basically no budget, because this configuration is 10x more expensive than the regular default Sonnet.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Show HN: How Useless Are You? A brutally honest skills check"

YuriNiyazov — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:41:38 +0000

I got 99/100

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Claude Code 2.0"

YuriNiyazov — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:12:20 +0000

Editing Jupyter notebooks in VSCode side by side with Claude Code extension is a pretty good workflow.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Google's new AI mode is good, actually"

YuriNiyazov — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:08:47 +0000

The example itself that Simon puts up is questionable. I might be wrong about this, but I thought I read elsewhere that the “buy, scan, destroy” method was explicitly not the problem, and instead the issue was that anthropic downloaded libgen, and the settlement was for libgen.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143392

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method"

YuriNiyazov — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:14:14 +0000

Why are you at azure and not at a frontier ai lab?

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "o3 and Grok 4 accidentally vindicate neurosymbolic AI"

YuriNiyazov — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:02:00 +0000

Thanks for your reply; I can’t edit the original comment but I have updated my personal understanding of Marcus’ position.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "o3 and Grok 4 accidentally vindicate neurosymbolic AI"

YuriNiyazov — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:01:52 +0000

Thanks for your reply; I can’t edit the original comment but I have updated my personal understanding of Marcus’ position.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "o3 and Grok 4 accidentally vindicate neurosymbolic AI"

YuriNiyazov — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:01:35 +0000

Thanks for your reply; I can’t edit the original comment but I have updated my personal understanding of Marcus’ position.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "o3 and Grok 4 accidentally vindicate neurosymbolic AI"

YuriNiyazov — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 19:10:49 +0000

motte, meet bailey. Gary Marcus' shtick the entire time has been "LLMs are the wrong approach", and now the claim is "actually, the entire time I've been claiming something much weaker: LLMs that call out to code interpreters are sufficient for neurosymbolic AI"/

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Jank is C++"

YuriNiyazov — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:20:51 +0000

A long long time ago, at ClojureConj 2014, I asked Rich Hickey whether a cpp-based clojure was possible, and his answer was "well, the primary impediment there is a lack of a garbage collector". There were a lot of conversations going on at the same time, so I didn't get an opportunity to "delve" into it, but:

1. does that objection make sense? 2. How does jank approach that hurdle.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Knowledge-based society, my ass"

YuriNiyazov — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 04:51:50 +0000

Ex-iron curtain, amirite?

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Ask HN: Who is accountable for cloud costs in your org?"

YuriNiyazov — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 04:39:40 +0000

Visibility is essential, and visibility is owned by the devops team. ALl the resources have to be tagged with the team that owns those resources, and you should have a meeting once a month or so with that team where you bring to them a report of "here are all the resources we have assigned to you, do you agree?" and if they agree, then great, they are responsible for it, and if they don't agree, then now you have to have a conversation where you bring in the PMs and the EMs, and the head of finance if you need to.

And it's essential that you check in regularly, rather than just give them a dashboard and say "ok, you go look here and tell me if anything is amiss", because they will never look.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Dookie Demastered"

YuriNiyazov — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:10:16 +0000

Me too (Oracle Park), and I also relate to the not feeling old for a couple of hours - except the few times when I saw parents bring their kids to this show, and the kids were definitely not older than like, nine or ten, and were (!) mouthing the words to songs from Dookie.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Ask HN: Management keeps assigning me IT work unrelated to my responsibilities"

YuriNiyazov — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 07:40:25 +0000

First read "The Phoenix Project".

Then tell your manager to read "The Phoenix Project". Or just extract the relevant lessons directly from there and send them to him.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Should I fight a forced resignation?"

YuriNiyazov — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:18:30 +0000

How does this work again?

"Sign here that you are resigning"

"No thanks, you'll have to fire me if that's what you are trying to do"

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Ask HN: Do you see the AI/Nvidia bubble popping any time soon?"

YuriNiyazov — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 21:39:05 +0000

Read https://situational-awareness.ai/

If you can't develop a counter-argument to that, there's no reason to believe another AI winter is coming.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Offer got rescinded cause of layoffs"

YuriNiyazov — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:37:37 +0000

sure. email in bio.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "Ask HN: Direct report is a senior beginner"

YuriNiyazov — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:03:35 +0000

Sounds like a company where they don’t like PIPping or firing people.

I’ve been in your situation, and IMHO there’s no amount of time that will fix it. He’s reached his ceiling.

Do the hard thing. Or transfer him to a yet another team.

New comment by YuriNiyazov in "My primality testing code is faster than Sir Roger Penrose's"

YuriNiyazov — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 07:26:30 +0000

The "Beware the Alan Turing Fetish" link doesn't point to an existing page anymore.