Hacker News: alexmolas

What does " 2>&1 " mean?

alexmolas — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:58:46 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/818255/what-does-21-mean

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171233

Points: 429

# Comments: 250

Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module

alexmolas — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:14:28 +0000

Article URL: https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/text-classification-zstd/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942864

Points: 264

# Comments: 57

The longest possible chess game, and bounds on the number of possible games

alexmolas — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:13:47 +0000

Article URL: https://wismuth.com/chess/longest-game.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858429

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

It took 5 years to merge this PR

alexmolas — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:05:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/9598

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856812

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Bayesian A/B testing is not immune to peeking

alexmolas — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:32:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.alexmolas.com/2025/10/30/bayesian-ab-test-peeking.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921548

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

NASA let me test my weird chain theory in space [video]

alexmolas — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:12:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtZaP8VMv0c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602732

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 – macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling

alexmolas — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:52:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/summary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45501199

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

A History of Large Language Models

alexmolas — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:13:47 +0000

Article URL: https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2025/10/01/large-language-models/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45488892

Points: 301

# Comments: 26

Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?

alexmolas — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:37:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.alexmolas.com/2025/07/28/unexpected-benefit-llm.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45462877

Points: 177

# Comments: 192

Atomic Bomb Go Game

alexmolas — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:33:15 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_games

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45379414

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The Martians (Scientists)

alexmolas — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:29:28 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352992

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Music-Map – Find Similar Music

alexmolas — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:45:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.music-map.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301628

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by alexmolas in "[dead]"

alexmolas — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:25:43 +0000

Read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page [1] for a lot of sources claiming the opposite.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

Scream cipher

alexmolas — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:22:39 +0000

Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/scream-cipher

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45287474

Points: 300

# Comments: 102

We are starting a company to rethink email

alexmolas — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:29:06 +0000

Article URL: https://austinhenley.com/blog/startingacompany.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45272456

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Pope Leo XIV declares teen computer whiz Carlo Acutis the first millennial saint

alexmolas — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:40:00 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/leo-canonization-saint-acutis-frassati-vatican-3a90197181f4ea3b7d1e29eff5fb9a01

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243483

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Baby's first type checker

alexmolas — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:41:06 +0000

Article URL: https://austinhenley.com/blog/babytypechecker.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45113531

Points: 78

# Comments: 20

How big are our embeddings now and why?

alexmolas — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:45:46 +0000

Article URL: https://vickiboykis.com/2025/09/01/how-big-are-our-embeddings-now-and-why/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45101797

Points: 113

# Comments: 14

Big O

alexmolas — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:40:46 +0000

Article URL: https://samwho.dev/big-o/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45012028

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by alexmolas in "Wildthing – A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations"

alexmolas — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:23:59 +0000

Very interesting idea, but the result is a bit disappointing. It doesn't matter what I answer, the questions are always repeating