Hacker News: cpa

New comment by cpa in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

cpa — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:34:45 +0000

Top comment of a frontpage post, you're not doing that bad at marketing.

New comment by cpa in "Trust signals as sparklines for Hacker News"

cpa — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:45:21 +0000

Interesting, but how is the trust signal measured? I couldn’t find this information

New comment by cpa in "Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps"

cpa — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:00:15 +0000

As member of OSCE, they have observers although it’s fairly light.

https://odihr.osce.org/odihr/elections/usa/580111

New comment by cpa in "The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]"

cpa — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:53:37 +0000

Another good read: https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/business-ethics/resou...

New comment by cpa in "Show HN: MOL – A programming language where pipelines trace themselves"

cpa — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:42:16 +0000

Pretty cool to have a first-class tracing mechanism. Obviously... it's a monad! Haskell has had a MonadTrace monad for a long time, that can be switched on or off depending on your environment.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tracing-0.0.7.4/docs/Con...

New comment by cpa in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"

cpa — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:50:15 +0000

It reminds me of when I used to write lisp, where code is data. You can abuse reflection (and macros) to great effect, but you never feel safe.

See also: string interpolation and SQL injection, (unhygienic) C macros

New comment by cpa in "Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes"

cpa — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:47:22 +0000

To add to sibling comment, if you have streaming data you have to update the whole index every time with r/kd trees whereas with H3 you just compute the bin, O(1) instead of O(log n).

Not rocket science but different tradeoffs, that’s what engineering is all about.

New comment by cpa in "Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes"

cpa — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:10:52 +0000

The big reason is that H3 is data independant. You put your data in predefined bins and then join on them, whereas kd/r trees depend on the data and building the trees may become prohibitive or very hard (especially in distributed systems).

Friend.com – An AI necklace that listens to you

cpa — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:59:00 +0000

Article URL: https://friend.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847042

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cpa in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

cpa — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:00:58 +0000

Absolutely true. It's even the subject of many memes! search for "c15 memes".

New comment by cpa in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

cpa — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:38:48 +0000

Am I reading an AI trying to trick me into becoming its subordinate?

New comment by cpa in "'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them"

cpa — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:01:54 +0000

Companies don’t have a legal obligation to publicly disclose revenue in many countries, so if you’re selling business insights you’re always on the lookout for indicators that can be used as a proxy to revenue.

New comment by cpa in "Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator"

cpa — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:43:53 +0000

In the same vein 4chan.org/b/ used to make every so often "This iw now a Hacker News thread", which were hilarious.

See: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/48696148 Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9788317

New comment by cpa in "Google Antigravity"

cpa — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:47:27 +0000

Chrome?

New comment by cpa in "What the hell have you built"

cpa — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:48:54 +0000

The cloud-native version of "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM"

New comment by cpa in "Reasoning is not model improvement"

cpa — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:56:31 +0000

I don't think 2 is true: when OpenAI model won a gold medal in the math olympiads, it did so without tools or web search, just pure inference. Such a feat definitely would not have happened with o1.

New comment by cpa in "Does anyone remember websites?"

cpa — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:07:56 +0000

It helps against this kind of stuff (2015) https://blog.fox-it.com/2015/04/20/deep-dive-into-quantum-in...

New comment by cpa in "Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report"

cpa — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:54:44 +0000

The people working inside the company may be both judge and party to the issue, it’s not always a bad idea to call in consultants. Do you prefer independent and somewhat misinformed or stakeholder to the issue and knowledgeable?

New comment by cpa in "What’s New in PostgreSQL 18 – a Developer’s Perspective"

cpa — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:45:31 +0000

Yes!

New comment by cpa in "Introduction to GrapheneOS"

cpa — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:41:12 +0000

Apple has RCS, compatible with Android, at least in the EU. You don't get the blue bubble though.