Hacker News: aspirin

New comment by aspirin in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

aspirin — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:14:06 +0000

Enterprise customers are not getting the subsidized subscriptions so for them the point is moot.

I Decoupled Attention from Weights [video]

aspirin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:46:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGR4zqpyKA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48627981

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

NATO has missed the drone revolution

aspirin — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 07:36:37 +0000

Article URL: https://youtu.be/gZL1KzV54Cw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749283

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by aspirin in "Medieval"

aspirin — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 14:38:58 +0000

Control + mouse scroll wheel works for me

New comment by aspirin in "Show HN: Quick tunnels to localhost with one command and no binary download"

aspirin — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:07:18 +0000

Looks great, but you should add an explanation about how it works. I’m hesitant to just run some command.

New comment by aspirin in "You probably don't need PostGIS"

aspirin — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 05:08:12 +0000

Yes, PostGIS supports projection agnostic ”geography” types: https://postgis.net/workshops/postgis-intro/geography.html

New comment by aspirin in "A guide to freelancing in Finland"

aspirin — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:50:15 +0000

In professional contexts as a software developer you will manage just fine with just English. Free time context and true integration to society will require learning Finnish. But you can take your time with that.

I’m a Finn.

New comment by aspirin in "QuickJS JavaScript Engine"

aspirin — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:48:54 +0000

Curious what ”The cycle removal algorithm only uses the reference counts and the object content” means in practice. Is it based on some well known algorithm?

New comment by aspirin in "Don't let TC39 use smoosh or smooshMap"

aspirin — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:11:11 +0000

It's a form of protest. If both flatMap and smooshMap are seen as equally "breaking the web", maybe TC39 will coose the less insane name for the method.

New comment by aspirin in "OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble"

aspirin — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:50:29 +0000

Currently there is nothing to stop mappers using tags in wrong ways. It should just be flat out impossible. If a field/tag isn't defined in the schema, it could not be used. The range of values should be limited in the same way, too.

New comment by aspirin in "OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble"

aspirin — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:28:22 +0000

Im my opinion the biggest problem is the data model (or lack of). Tags i.e. key-value pairs are used to add properties to geometry. Mappers use different combinations of keys/values to describe the same thing. The post touches on this, but does not offer solutions other than adding "layers".

There should be a strict schema that would be community managed through some process.

New comment by aspirin in "Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever""

aspirin — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 18:08:06 +0000

I hope this isn't the "Mac Pro successor" Apple was alluding to earlier this year...

Scientists made a detailed “roadmap” for meeting the Paris climate goals

aspirin — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:23:16 +0000

Article URL: http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/3/23/15028480/roadmap-paris-climate-goals

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13948150

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by aspirin in "Nyancat on the touchbar"

aspirin — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 07:40:05 +0000

You can do it still. No need to be "first", IMO.

New comment by aspirin in "WebAssembly Stack Machine"

aspirin — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 20:09:12 +0000

It makes me sad to see the AST go. I was thinking of writing my own WASM compiler just for fun, purely as an AST transformer.

Its funny how most of the WASM tools still use s-experssions as the text format. How does that even work, now that the AST is history?

New comment by aspirin in "WebAssembly Browser Preview"

aspirin — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 19:24:51 +0000

The high level goals of WASM do include access to browser APIs, but the MVP version that is being implemented now, does not yet allow it: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/JS.md

WASM code can call external functions defined per module, and the external code can be JS code that interacts with browser APIs. So indirect use of browser APIs is possible.

New comment by aspirin in "WebAssembly Browser Preview"

aspirin — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:26:36 +0000

WASM isn't related to JavaScript in any way. Maybe you were thinking of asm.js?

You cannot access the browser APIs from WASM so there is no tight coupling with the browser environment. I think non-browser use could make definately sense.

I Peeked into My Node_Modules Directory and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

aspirin — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:35:15 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/friendship-dot-js/i-peeked-into-my-node-modules-directory-and-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next-b89f63d21558#.n2uwodm5x

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12296525

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aspirin in "Time-travel queries in CockroachDB"

aspirin — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:52:24 +0000

Couldn't you do it with transaction isolation levels? for example in Postgres "BEGIN TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE READ;"

Inside the transaction you will see only changes made within the transaction.

The Log: data's unifying abstraction

aspirin — Mon, 30 May 2016 13:42:26 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11801279

Points: 3

# Comments: 0