Hacker News: ahurmazda

New comment by ahurmazda in "Shopify Is Down"

ahurmazda — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:38:32 +0000

@river fix it please.

https://x.com/tobi/status/2053121182044451016

New comment by ahurmazda in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

ahurmazda — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:20:04 +0000

A few of my relatives who grew up on a farm drives that way (right for gas, left for brakes)

New comment by ahurmazda in "White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released"

ahurmazda — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:00:10 +0000

Mobster admin so checks out

“Nice model you got there… shame if someone prompt injected a regulatory framework into it.”

New comment by ahurmazda in "HEALPix"

ahurmazda — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:47:42 +0000

I recall when I first saw Ubers’s H3[1], it really reminded me of healpix (from grad school). I know the algorithm is different but similar problem space: “given a point on a sphere, assign it to a stable cell ID”

1. https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/h3/

New comment by ahurmazda in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

ahurmazda — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:54:09 +0000

aside: YT has a AI/summary option (unless creator opts out). Look for the sparkle button. Personally, it gets me 80% there most days.

New comment by ahurmazda in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

ahurmazda — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:18:22 +0000

Hail Zorp

New comment by ahurmazda in "A Brief History of Ralph"

ahurmazda — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:53:12 +0000

Anyone get a feeling that we are “inventing” a bunch of things that will be subsumed by the model in near(ish) future? Like the whole context refresh thing? Codex is already better (ime) than CC.

And then all these planning steps … if CC/codex interviews a ~million senior devs, next iteration of models will perhaps know how to plan way better than today?

New comment by ahurmazda in "Why Arab states are silent about Iran's unrest"

ahurmazda — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:44:01 +0000

Once the Iranian “autocrats” are dealt with who do you think is next? Many of these Arab states have absolute monarchy fwiw

New comment by ahurmazda in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

ahurmazda — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:32:56 +0000

I had a miserable experience with it. It could not do as simple task as discovering my python interpreter! IDEs are a dime a dozen these days — most are fast enough. But common workflows need to be air tight.

New comment by ahurmazda in "The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup"

ahurmazda — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:02:17 +0000

https://xcancel.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177

Docker Sandboxes

ahurmazda — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:11:54 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436798

Points: 1

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New comment by ahurmazda in "Sharp: High performance Node.js image processing/optimization"

ahurmazda — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:01:18 +0000

Also worth mentioning libvips[0] the underlying engine behind sharp. We use the golang wrapper at work and love the simplicity and speed (ofc)

[0]https://github.com/libvips/libvips

New comment by ahurmazda in "The Death of Arduino?"

ahurmazda — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:19:42 +0000

Really appreciate the link. I simply had no idea about this history. Just the sheer intellectual dishonesty is mind-boggling.

New comment by ahurmazda in "NASA pushes back after Kim Kardashian claims the 1969 moon landing was fake"

ahurmazda — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 03:18:53 +0000

Hear hear. Also, Carl Sagan’s famous warnings about the decline of science (from 1995) is equally prescient [1]

1. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474-i-have-a-foreboding-...

New comment by ahurmazda in "US Treasury Sells Dollars to Keep Peso Within Argentina FX Band"

ahurmazda — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:41:54 +0000

This was on nytimes just a few days ago. Quoting the bits that might be relevant[1]. A lot more in tfa

> Those efforts have been complicated by the fact that major hedge funds, including those led by friends of Mr. Bessent, stand to benefit financially from an Argentina economic lifeline. Funds at investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina, as are investors such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone, both of whom worked with Mr. Bessent when he was an investor for George Soros.

1. https://archive.ph/6bWMv

Trump Fires Fed Governor Lisa Cook

ahurmazda — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:42:13 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-lisa-cook-trump-6fca3d2fbb54ba204cc91398e6a7b020

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45020924

Points: 55

# Comments: 20

New comment by ahurmazda in "AI is different"

ahurmazda — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 02:41:07 +0000

When I hear folks glazing some kinda impending jobless utopia , I think of the intervening years. I shudder. As they say, "An empty stomach knows no morality."

New comment by ahurmazda in "U.S. may require visa applicants to post bond up to $15,000 to enter country"

ahurmazda — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:47:14 +0000

The famous “see-what-sticks” school of thought/economy/X/Y/Z

New comment by ahurmazda in "Google's Sergey Brin: Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI"

ahurmazda — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:08:57 +0000

7am-7pm

60hr/wk implies that after accounting for traffic etc, they are essentially signaling the need for sweat labor from ppl in their 20s without family etc.

It’s ofc Google’s right to demand whatever.

I hope this opens up other brilliant folks for the other companies. Google’s loss is hopefully others’s gain.

IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

ahurmazda — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:28:49 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-27-ibm-completes-acquisition-of-hashicorp,-creates-comprehensive,-end-to-end-hybrid-cloud-platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43199256

Points: 488

# Comments: 385