Hacker News: _zachs

New comment by _zachs in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

_zachs — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:30:45 +0000

Do you mind sharing which type you take (brand as well)? I tried magnesium glycinate supplements for two nights in a row and they kept me wide awake.

New comment by _zachs in "The Pentagon threatens Anthropic"

_zachs — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:28:09 +0000

Yeah I'm sure the Uyghurs there can tell you all about the cool shit going down for them!

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

New comment by _zachs in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

_zachs — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:14:43 +0000

I think that's a pretty loaded statement and honestly wild way to make comparisons. What do "The Jews" have to do with this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvxV4knxpLQ

This isn't some claim, Hamas is happy to film themselves doing things like this, e.g., October 7th.

New comment by _zachs in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

_zachs — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:18:26 +0000

This is super important - even if it's not currently the best measure of degradation yet. Anecdotally, Opus 4.5 has gotten so bad for me it's almost adding time to my workflow instead saving it. It'd be nice to have more 3rd party measurements like this to hold Anthropic accountable.

New comment by _zachs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)"

_zachs — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:08:03 +0000

MeritFirst | Software Engineer | Austin, TX (onsite)

MeritFirst is a VC-backed startup building a new way to identify talent, where intelligence, problem-solving, and adaptability matter more than credentials. We're a small, profitable team using a modern stack (TypeScript, Next.js, Postgres/Drizzle, Vercel).

You'll work side-by-side with the founders, own features end-to-end, and have direct input into product decisions. Competitive salary + equity.

Apply here: https://meritfirst.us/candidate/tests/46e6bb96-3c1e-4451-ac8...

New comment by _zachs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

_zachs — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:07:58 +0000

MeritFirst | Software Engineer | Austin, TX (onsite)

You'll work side-by-side with the founders, own features end-to-end, and have direct input into product decisions. Competitive salary + equity.

Apply here: https://meritfirst.us/candidate/tests/46e6bb96-3c1e-4451-ac8...

New comment by _zachs in "Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer?"

_zachs — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 14:27:46 +0000

You can take kahnclusions' word for it, or you can take Eugene Wigner's:

> I have known a great many intelligent people in my life. I knew Planck, von Laue and Heisenberg. Paul Dirac was my brother in law; Leo Szilard and Edward Teller have been among my closest friends; and Albert Einstein was a good friend, too. But none of them had a mind as quick and acute as Jancsi (John) von Neumann. I have often remarked this in the presence of those men and no one ever disputed. But Einstein's understanding was deeper even than von Neumann's. His mind was both more penetrating and more original than von Neumann's. And that is a very remarkable statement. Einstein took an extraordinary pleasure in invention. Two of his greatest inventions are the Special and General Theories of Relativity; and for all of Jancsi's brilliance, he never produced anything as original.

New comment by _zachs in "Show HN: I created a game to memorize the fretboard"

_zachs — Fri, 26 May 2023 19:02:49 +0000

Really cool! Like i_c_b mentioned my only feedback is that, even in the practice mode, there's a lot of negative feedback.

I'd recommend adding a step to the practice mode where whatever highlighted region of the fretboard you're practicing has all of the notes visible, and then over time the notes are taken away as you build up your memorization.

New comment by _zachs in "Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast"

_zachs — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 05:01:11 +0000

Thanks for the insight! At a high-level, how did Likes work when you were at Twitter? Were a certain amount of Like requests batched then applied at the DB level at the same time to ease writes?

New comment by _zachs in "GHC 9.4.1 is now available"

_zachs — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:53:44 +0000

Not too long ago I tried getting Haskell Language Server, GHC, Cabal, Stack, etc. to play nice together in Neovim but didn't have much luck. Has anyone else here had luck with Neovim + Haskell?

New comment by _zachs in "Understanding higher-kinded types"

_zachs — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 17:46:56 +0000

Agreed! I was excited because I thought I was going to get a better explanation of Foldable than what the linked docs provide!

New comment by _zachs in "Goodbye, Clean Code (2020)"

_zachs — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:25:31 +0000

Agreed! The article seems more geared towards a lesson teaching teamwork and not being a code cowboy than about clean code.

New comment by _zachs in "Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly"

_zachs — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 17:20:35 +0000

This looks awesome! Any way to subscribe for when a Linux version is available?

New comment by _zachs in "The Vale Programming Language"

_zachs — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:59:20 +0000

Interesting! Is this supposed to be an easier-to-read Rust?

New comment by _zachs in "Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review"

_zachs — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:20:06 +0000

Once they remove the touch bar and add back normal function keys I'll switch back from my ThinkPad to a Macbook Pro.

New comment by _zachs in "American Airlines Is Quietly Bringing Back the 737Max"

_zachs — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:42:44 +0000

> Through 2015, the Airbus A320 family has experienced 0.12 fatal hull-loss accidents for every million takeoffs, and 0.26 total hull-loss accidents for every million takeoffs; one of the lowest fatality rates of any airliner.[3]

New comment by _zachs in "Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver"

_zachs — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:41:37 +0000

That's just completely not true: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-most-dangerous-cities-i...

New comment by _zachs in "Elixir 1.11"

_zachs — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:57:01 +0000

I'm stuck between learning Clojure and Elixir (for a backend that will power a web app). The one thing pulling me towards Clojure is ClojureScript, and the fact that I'd be able to write a frontend and backend with the same syntax.

New comment by _zachs in "How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers to Ensure They Stick Around?"

_zachs — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:53:36 +0000

My experience is very anecdotal, but there's a point where the pay/stock options are definitely enough to keep people around. I have a few friends in this exact position now, where the golden handcuffs are too sweet for them to walk.

New comment by _zachs in "Show HN: Mailbrew – Automated Email Digests from HN, RSS, Reddit, Twitter"

_zachs — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 20:08:38 +0000

I'll build you a clone and charge $0.83 a month! Sound good?