Hacker News: a_c

New comment by a_c in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

a_c — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:51:27 +0000

It's so simple that I didn't think much of it. Maybe I should

New comment by a_c in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

a_c — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:06:04 +0000

A browser extension to add a table of content widget into the chatbot pages (claude/Grok/Chatgpt). Making long conversation easier to navigate. Mainly used on firefox. Not tested on chrome

https://github.com/kmcheung12/tocic

New comment by a_c in "Poor Deming never stood a chance"

a_c — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:48:16 +0000

The analogy I used with the team was that, set the goal, present the map, and figure how to make a better map. Drucker was about the goal with a given map. It is not uncommon for people receiving the OKR not resonating with it. Sometimes they actually have insight into making a better map, but if OKR is OKR, one just have to follow, people swallow their thoughts

New comment by a_c in "10 years of writing a blog nobody reads"

a_c — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:30:30 +0000

Did not expect to see a book about night sky in this post. The book looks great. I'm getting one for my sons.

New comment by a_c in "Argentina's midterm election hands landslide win to Milei's libertarian overhaul"

a_c — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:06:52 +0000

The had a currency swap. US earns interest from argentina by taking USD$20B worth of pesos. Argentina get USD$20B. By the end of the swap, Argentina "swap" the borrowed USD$20B with their pesos. Argentina has to pay interest (quick googling didn't reveal the exact terms). They both get their own currency in the end.

New comment by a_c in "An opinionated critique of Duolingo"

a_c — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:10:09 +0000

Exactly. I know I’m not learning much. But it is a healthy/less harmful distraction and I managed to read some Spanish tweet. Can’t complain.

New comment by a_c in "Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres"

a_c — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:16:12 +0000

I find your article valuable. It shows me what amount of configuration is needed for a reasonable expectation of performance. In real world, I’m not going to spend effort maxing out configuring a single piece of tool. Not being the most performing config on either of the tools is the least of my concern. Picking either of them, or as you suggested, Postgres, and then worry about getting one billion requests to the service is far more important

New comment by a_c in "Show HN: Python Audio Transcription: Convert Speech to Text Locally"

a_c — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:43:31 +0000

I was using the same setup to try to transcribe a sound track of a video. A 60s aac audio took me maybe 10 minutes. I'm on a apple M4 and ran `whisper audio.aac --model medium --fp16 False --language Japanese`. Wonder if I'm doing something wrong

New comment by a_c in "Nine things I learned in ninety years"

a_c — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:35:41 +0000

It is the simple things that is the hardest. If anything, having children revealed many of the mentioned. To me, having children is enlightenment

New comment by a_c in "Celestia – Real-time 3D visualization of space"

a_c — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:12:23 +0000

If someone from celestia is reading this, the english documentation link is not working https://celestiaproject.space/cc/cel-guide-en (Accessed from https://celestiaproject.space/guides.html)

New comment by a_c in "Eels are fish"

a_c — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 08:28:37 +0000

"The Book of Eels" touched a lot of topics you mentioned, not sure about the witch bit though. It was published in 2020 so probably not the one you are looking for. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51938590-the-book-of-eel...

New comment by a_c in "What does it mean to be thirsty?"

a_c — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:49:43 +0000

I used to have warm and sweaty hands. Since I picked up bouldering I realised everyone is using chalk but I hardly sweat in my hands (I still sweat). My hands felt colder, and I don’t feel thirsty that if I don’t drink enough water it triggers headache. Took me quite some time to associate the headache with dehydration. Thanks for the reply. I will try to get myself a check up

New comment by a_c in "Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%"

a_c — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:54:20 +0000

It feels like reading news nowadays. Lots of noise, nothing relevant.

New comment by a_c in "Amazon and the “Profitless Business Model” Fallacy"

a_c — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:02:46 +0000

The 2013 me wouldn’t make any sense out of this article. I’m glad the Theseus ship worked a fair bit on me

New comment by a_c in "DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results"

a_c — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:59:58 +0000

I have used ddg for many years. But I think the search results were too irrelevant to me most of the time now I have moved on

New comment by a_c in "Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"

a_c — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:06:56 +0000

Missionary as founder, mercenary as employee, everyone happy

New comment by a_c in "Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots"

a_c — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:13:06 +0000

Use the very fund to feed generated contents to LLM crawler is the only right move

New comment by a_c in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

a_c — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:01:06 +0000

I have the book around for several years. Time to flip it open before my children do lol Thanks for the wise words!

New comment by a_c in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

a_c — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:44:32 +0000

Any recommendation how to start learning repairing a car? I have absolutely zero experience. A friend of mine said just learn to change a tyre first and I have been procrastinating since.

New comment by a_c in "Thnickels"

a_c — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:07:09 +0000

I like your page. Wish more web pages are like that. Would you ship to the UK when open to order again?