Hacker News: _visgean

New comment by _visgean in "Many "serious" mathematicians are aghast"

_visgean — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:13:36 +0000

he is a professor at quebec. I am pretty sure he knows serious mathematians that he perhaps does not want to name directly.

New comment by _visgean in "Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks"

_visgean — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:18:47 +0000

its still in progress https://www.railbaltica.org/progress-today/

New comment by _visgean in "YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood"

_visgean — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:28:35 +0000

Yes but for that you need to focus on the quality. There are probably horrible issues on backend as well.

New comment by _visgean in "Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant"

_visgean — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:31:59 +0000

this gets repeated over and over again but its false:

> Nuclear power plants are routinely used in load following mode on a large scale in France, although "it is generally accepted that this is not an ideal economic situation for nuclear stations".[42] Unit A at the now decommissioned German Biblis Nuclear Power Plant was designed to modulate its output 15% per minute between 40% and 100% of its nominal power.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_plant#Flexibilit...

New comment by _visgean in "Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)"

_visgean — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:27:26 +0000

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135382922... this is better source on the underlying study

New comment by _visgean in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

_visgean — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:52:04 +0000

not really. Most of the technology is not black box but something of a grey box. You usually choose to treat it as a black box because you want to focus on your problems/your customers but you can always focus on underlying technologies and improve them. Eg postgresql for me is a black box but if I really wanted or had need I could investigate how it works.

New comment by _visgean in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

_visgean — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:58:14 +0000

Or maybe the americans will pay for the VPN to get normal non-addictive version of tiktok.

New comment by _visgean in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

_visgean — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:22:20 +0000

Waypoint AI | Senior Backend, Fullstack, Frontend | Prague + REMOTE (CZ) | Full-time | Equity

We're building Chip — an AI support engineer that autonomously triages, routes, and resolves complex technical support cases. Think: a teammate that reads every Jira ticket, every Intercom thread, and every runbook, then actually acts on them.

Czech-American B2B startup, raised $3.1M. Already in production with Volvo, ClickHouse, and others.

We're a small eng team where early architectural decisions still matter. We use AI daily as a collaborator (Claude Code) — not as a gimmick, but because it genuinely makes us faster. We value craft, ownership, and shipping in small slices.

Stack: Django + Django Ninja, Postgres, Dramatiq (background jobs), React/Next.js/TypeScript/Tailwind.

Hiring for three roles:

Senior Backend Engineer (AI Systems) — Own APIs, data pipelines, and durable workflows. LLM product experience (evals, cost/latency, vector search) is a plus. https://mywaypoint.ai/open-positions/senior-backend-engineer...

Fullstack Engineer — Backend-heavy with enough frontend to be dangerous. End-to-end ownership from schema to UI. https://mywaypoint.ai/open-positions/fullstack-engineer

Frontend Developer — Build interfaces that make complex AI feel simple. React/Next.js/TS/Tailwind. Product-minded, not just pixel-pushing. https://mywaypoint.ai/open-positions/frontend-developer

Office in Prague 7 (Holešovice), remote-friendly. Competitive CZ-market comp + meaningful equity.

To apply: joinus@mywaypoint.ai — include a project you shipped end-to-end and how you use AI tooling in your workflow. Mention HN.

New comment by _visgean in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

_visgean — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:38:10 +0000

The email that made him angry reminds me of this youtube classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uraG-z0grkc

New comment by _visgean in "Fun with uv and PEP 723"

_visgean — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:59:56 +0000

I honestly don't like that this is expressed as a comment but I guess it makes the implementation easy and backwards compatible...

New comment by _visgean in "Obscure islands I find interesting"

_visgean — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 01:44:17 +0000

There is a good scifi "Jumping Off the Planet" by David gerrold about space elevators if you have not read it yet.

New comment by _visgean in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

_visgean — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:07:35 +0000

Those words have different meaning:

1. Libgen domains are "seized" - only the domains got seized, the website is still operational.

2. tiktok "goes dark", yes because it was an action of tiktok to go dark with the hope that they will be operational next week. Nobody banned them and even Biden said he would not enforce it so they could have simply do nothing and wait for the next week.

3. "censor" porn or news outlets, I think thats common usage.

New comment by _visgean in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

_visgean — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:56:19 +0000

The comment said payment, that does not neccesarily mean money. There are things that tiktok can do for him and the money is least of it.

New comment by _visgean in "TCL's bet on screens that look like paper"

_visgean — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:51:54 +0000

I dont think this is e-ink and that the point of this article.

New comment by _visgean in "Will even the most advanced subs have nowhere to hide?"

_visgean — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 01:35:50 +0000

OK but if you actually read the article you will see that this is mostly about australian position, not US.

New comment by _visgean in "Launch HN: Azalea Robotics (YC S24) – Baggage-handling robots for airports"

_visgean — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:02:24 +0000

Have you considered using handles on the luggage? Seems like with some sort of hook you would have better hold on the luggage, but i guess it would be challenging to identify and approach each handle.

New comment by _visgean in "My Brand New Digitizing Workflow Using a 25 Year Old Film Scanner"

_visgean — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:48:26 +0000

Some fujifilm cameras support it seedms: https://fujifilm-dsc.com/en/manual/x-h2_connection/overview_.... Overall this seems better suited for tethered shooting with direct usb-c transfer.

New comment by _visgean in "Apple acquires Pixelmator"

_visgean — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:04:44 +0000

i tried them with fuji 50mb raw files, it was super slow compared to capture one

Show HN: Burgher – a static site generator focused on galleries

_visgean — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:43:01 +0000

Hi this is another static site generator. Its different to other generators because the main focus is on generating gallery websites from existing folder structure. I found that most existing solutions did not handle nested galleries. I use it to generate my gallery website where I have 44GB of photos. Its still a bit rough around the edges.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42008581

Points: 1

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New comment by _visgean in "Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab"

_visgean — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:27:41 +0000

In edinburgh we had this: https://devpost.com/software/the-marauder-s-app which showed who was using which computer based on logins.