Hacker News: boyka

New comment by boyka in "AI is going to kill app subscriptions"

boyka — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:18:29 +0000

As if „deploying“ your app to your iPhone was free…

New comment by boyka in "How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants"

boyka — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:46:27 +0000

Someone chose to ignore Google Maps terms and publicly blog about it

New comment by boyka in "Shiller PE Ratio"

boyka — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:50:54 +0000

These are just 2, what happened to all the other 1999 tech companies?

New comment by boyka in "Shiller PE Ratio"

boyka — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:44:48 +0000

Because of the implication that markets are moved by amateurs and their hope?

New comment by boyka in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

boyka — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:04:11 +0000

> When we first launched native image generation in Gemini 2.0 Flash earlier this year, you told us you loved its low latency, cost-effectiveness, and ease of use.

I wasn't aware there is a channel where Google asks for feedback or where you are able to tell them that you love it. I only see a "report a problem button". Which channel is it?

New comment by boyka in "The “Frankfurt Kitchen”"

boyka — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:01:12 +0000

Frankfurt kitchen without a shower?

New comment by boyka in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

boyka — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:00:59 +0000

80%? So this is either same Trump style "art of the deal" with setting unreasonable pricing in the first place or desperately needing customers?

New comment by boyka in "Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button"

boyka — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:38:21 +0000

Regarding Rust, are we talking about a Rust backend with RPC/REST or is it simply WebAssembly compiled from Rust? If the latter, how is the data synced for CRUD?

New comment by boyka in "Google is publishing the home addresses of developers without their consent"

boyka — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:12:11 +0000

I'd say lawyer up, but then this is goliath..

New comment by boyka in "Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025)"

boyka — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:39:18 +0000

Absolute numbers are on a downward trend. But how about relative interest as a percentage of total?

New comment by boyka in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

boyka — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 10:46:23 +0000

I see a lot of "what did I tell you, look here, bad communist party product". But in reality most likely this startup isn't doing it out of malice. It's just one of many criteria that need to be met to do business in China. This does not lessen the achievement.

New comment by boyka in "[dead]"

boyka — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 05:55:26 +0000

According to conventional definition [0], they don't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding

New comment by boyka in "Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer?"

boyka — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:42:08 +0000

Not a manual, handbook, or guide per se - but I've learned an awful lot from reading

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

New comment by boyka in "Google reported a 13% increase in its emissions footprint in 2023"

boyka — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:11:07 +0000

I highly recommend the book „the big con“.

New comment by boyka in "I am starting an AI+Education company"

boyka — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:28:19 +0000

Can someone please provide the mentioned links? (For those without X account)

New comment by boyka in "Claude 3.5 Sonnet"

boyka — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:00:37 +0000

These models are clearly great with language, be it natural language or code. However, I wonder where the expectation comes from that a static stochastic parrot should be able to compute arbitrary first order logic (in a series of one-shot next word predictions). Could any expert elaborate on how this would be solved by a transformer model?

New comment by boyka in "What's up Python? Django get background tasks, a new REPL, bye bye gunicorn"

boyka — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:37:34 +0000

I've been looking for know anything resembling django's ORM _including_ migrations in rust, but haven't found a good replacement.

New comment by boyka in "Germany's autobahn bridges falling apart"

boyka — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 12:23:47 +0000

Germany decided to place the vast majority of freight transport on the autobahn instead of on rails as most countries do. I guess this is going to have a self-reinforcing effect with autobahns being increasingly congested and badly maintained.

New comment by boyka in "Google DeepMind shifts from research lab to AI product factory"

boyka — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:50:24 +0000

Likely that some McKinsey type consultants or ex-consultants in senior management deem this to be absolutely necessary and the only way to go.

New comment by boyka in "Maryland pardons 175,000 people of cannabis convictions"

boyka — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:17:56 +0000

Given that 175,000 people are roughly 4% of the working population, that’s quite a payday for all the lawyers in the state.