Hacker News: ahpeeyem

New comment by ahpeeyem in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

ahpeeyem — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:45:07 +0000

but there is punctuation: there's one comma and two apostrophes! everything we need to comprehend, nothing more

correctly using those tells me it was a stylistic choice not to use capital letters and omit the periods.

fwiw the HN guidelines say more about not posting "shallow dismissals", not complaining about "tangential annoyances" and being "kind, not snarky" than about grammar and punctuation: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by ahpeeyem in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

ahpeeyem — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:58:51 +0000

NPM supply-chain attacks spread really quickly.

If a popular NPM package was compromised and included a copy.fail exploit, it would make lots of systems vulnerable to root privilege escalation.

New comment by ahpeeyem in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

ahpeeyem — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:49:01 +0000

I like these product names :) keen to give tailgator a try

New comment by ahpeeyem in "Solving the first 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages"

ahpeeyem — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:32:38 +0000

Yeah when I read that they "started this journey in March of 2024 and...completed it in January of 2025" I was like :o

New comment by ahpeeyem in "Logging Performance Comparison"

ahpeeyem — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 01:52:19 +0000

    for (; counter < 1_000; counter++) {
        // ... I know this doesn't make much sense :)
    }

I think the JVM would optimise away this loop because it doesn't do anything. e.g. if the loop optimisation method is to unroll the loop into 1000 inline statements, there's nothing there.

This makes "No Logging" result not quite a fair comparison; maybe something like the sum of 1000 random numbers do some actual work in the loop.

New comment by ahpeeyem in "Direct conversion of CO2 to solid carbon by Gallium-based liquid metals"

ahpeeyem — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:24:37 +0000

Unless you're Australia, where we shut down our geothermal trials after some early success.

Ignore those rocks that are already hot, let's keep digging up these black ones and burning them!

New comment by ahpeeyem in "AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next"

ahpeeyem — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 16:58:26 +0000

I didn't know that, but it's cool, and I think shows that Microsoft had a healthy culture.

If you can laugh at yourself, you can learn and grow. Companies aren't a monolithic hive-mind (even Microsoft!)

I still love that video.

New comment by ahpeeyem in "AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next"

ahpeeyem — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 16:29:57 +0000

Ah yes, we call them BUAs

New comment by ahpeeyem in "Dr. Kati Kariko, inventor of the mRNA tech behind Covid-19 vaccines"

ahpeeyem — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 06:12:54 +0000

Good point, I should have clarified that it's two specific vaccines. I can't edit the submission now.

Dr. Kati Kariko, inventor of the mRNA tech behind Covid-19 vaccines

ahpeeyem — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 22:16:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26744507

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by ahpeeyem in "What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?"

ahpeeyem — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:43:45 +0000

What [future gigantic corporation] is this the [first small product] of?

New comment by ahpeeyem in "Wouldn't it be fun to build your own Google?"

ahpeeyem — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 04:22:33 +0000

After Google Plus was released, Google changed its search syntax slightly so that you now need to "quote" mandatory terms instead of prefixing them with a + symbol.

http://waxy.org/2011/10/google_kills_its_other_plus/ https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/3oI...

The user is drunk - UI design [video]

ahpeeyem — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 01:16:34 +0000

Article URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2CbbBLVaPk&t=0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6791994

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Orange Juice Test

ahpeeyem — Tue, 28 May 2013 15:57:11 +0000

Article URL: http://insideintercom.io/the-orange-juice-test

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5780750

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ahpeeyem in "The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power"

ahpeeyem — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:13:57 +0000

http://theyrule.net/

This is pretty old now (2000-ish?) but is a pretty great graphical and interactive demonstration of how interlinked the big corporations' boardrooms are.

Check out the 'popular maps' for some good examples.

Edit: It was connected to littlesis.org in 2011 ("a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government")

New comment by ahpeeyem in "Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's Resume. Anyone interested?"

ahpeeyem — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:14:44 +0000

I enjoyed that Norvig listed being co-recipient (along with 6 billion others) of Time's Person of the Year award in 2006!

New comment by ahpeeyem in "Unix v6 Ported to ANSI C"

ahpeeyem — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:59:31 +0000

"Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935. With the goal of founding all of mathematics on set theory, the group strove for rigour and generality. Their work led to the discovery of several concepts and terminologies still discussed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

New comment by ahpeeyem in ""How To Write Good" by Frank L. Visco"

ahpeeyem — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:07:44 +0000

"Everyone else thought they were really too young to cope with adult responsibilities"

If you word it like this, the emphasis of 'really' is moved to 'too young' but the sentence's meaning is the same, right?

New comment by ahpeeyem in "This is why memory fragmentation is bad"

ahpeeyem — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:21:03 +0000

But then the Ctrl+Shift+T feature to reopen closed tabs wouldn't work so well. Try it, you can reopen closed tabs as far back as you like; it's pretty awesome and has saved me more than once.

It doesn't work in Private Mode (for good reason); I wonder if browsing in private mode consumes less memory?

New comment by ahpeeyem in "iPhone 4-digit passcodes more secure when containing only 3 unique digits"

ahpeeyem — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:53:47 +0000

I found it easier to pick up visually as well, and thus more difficult to hide from anyone who may be trying to see it.

On the other hand it's really hard to describe your gesture to someone if you're lending them your phone, unlike a PIN which is easy to relay verbally; you really need to demonstrate the gesture.