Hacker News: drfunk

New comment by drfunk in "A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events"

drfunk — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:43:55 +0000

sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !

New comment by drfunk in "Scientist creates 'mini‑universe' to measure time without a clock"

drfunk — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:12:25 +0000

Rick-and-Morty-esque title

New comment by drfunk in "Private AI for Original Thinkers"

drfunk — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:54:44 +0000

In my head I read "okara.ai" as "okarai", which sounds an awful lot like "o caralho" in Portuguese, and I had a good chuckle out of it...

New comment by drfunk in "Lights (at sea): See every lighthouse across Europe on an interactive map"

drfunk — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:27:13 +0000

Very cool, I thought about building exactly this a few months ago! Glad to see someone did :)

New comment by drfunk in "The Engineering Behind Fast Analytics: Columnar Storage Explained"

drfunk — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:34:56 +0000

Very good summary / starting point to better understand what makes OLAP databases get far better performance than OLTP DBs on analytical tasks!

How I Solved SQL Testing Hell: A Framework for DuckDB ↔ Snowflake Test Parity

drfunk — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:08:22 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@Yaltar/how-i-solved-sql-testing-hell-a-framework-for-duckdb-snowflake-test-parity-547a029b2e4d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44453791

Points: 1

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New comment by drfunk in "Bank transactions cleared by FTP-ing files"

drfunk — Tue, 27 May 2025 12:16:05 +0000

Started reading the thread, and stopped because I realized I was hyperventilating

New comment by drfunk in "Mom of child dead from measles: "Don't do the shots," my other 4 kids were fine"

drfunk — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:50:11 +0000

Of course she's doubling down. Anything else would mean facing the extent of her responsibility in the death of her child, which would be absolutely crushing to her ego and self-image as a parent. She's protecting herself psychologically, that's not surprising.

New comment by drfunk in "Get Better Results by Asking the Right Questions"

drfunk — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:01:05 +0000

Looks really interesting! I've been looking for resources on how to ask better questions, it'll surely come in handy. I wonder if there's a PDF / single-file version somewhere, for easier consumption on e-readers?

New comment by drfunk in "Stingray machine vision software and high-precision laser kills fish parasites"

drfunk — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:08:13 +0000

Wtf that's incredible

New comment by drfunk in "I made a site that teaches languages using AI"

drfunk — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 13:01:36 +0000

Ha! I went through half of the Turkish course but stopped around two years ago, thanks for the reminder, I resumed my progression! I'll be looking at the new courses too :) And thanks a lot for making all of this work available to all!!

New comment by drfunk in "Macquarie Dictionary names 'enshittification' as 2024 Word of the Year"

drfunk — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 13:59:21 +0000

One point for Cory Doctorow!

New comment by drfunk in "Yemen's 'uninhibited' attacks push French warship to exit Red Sea"

drfunk — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:46:04 +0000

Worth noting that the article dates back from April

New comment by drfunk in "Ask HN: How do you track your work contributions effectively?"

drfunk — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:43:37 +0000

Use a journaling app, and write a few notes on what you did everyday. Each week, write a summary, grouped by topic: on project A, did 3 MRs, assisted pre-sales team on product X... At the end of the quarter, review the weekly summaries. Done.

I've been doing a version of this for the past 14+ years. Every manager I've had always told me I have the most detailed yearly review. It's been invaluable to me, as my work has usually been very fragmented on different topics / activities.

New comment by drfunk in "ML Code Exercises"

drfunk — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:31:04 +0000

Nice project! I have a few qualms with the instructions (sometimes misleading or unclear) and the implementation. For instance some problems fail, because 0. is considered different from 0.0

Using np.testing.assert_allclose in your asserts would solve this I think (https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.testi...).

Happy to contribute / elaborate if you think it's be useful! :)

New comment by drfunk in "Show HN: Tesseract Doing Double Rotation"

drfunk — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:02:58 +0000

Nice work, I really like it! Do you plan on adding a small explainer as a blog post? That would be neat!

New comment by drfunk in "How Useful Are Interns?"

drfunk — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:23:22 +0000

Mostly good for talent pipeline imo. I try to look for curiosity and autonomy when interviewing prospective interns. That way I can let them explore cool topics that we don't have the bandwidth for. Bear in mind that (at least where I'm located) they are still students / in the middle of their training. They require more supervision than new employees. I consider this to be a plus, for instance if you want one of your team member to level up in coaching/management skills.

New comment by drfunk in "Ask HN: Keeping Up with Medical Developments"

drfunk — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 17:33:39 +0000

I find that most nice resources are paywalled unfortunately... (commenting to hopefully get pointers)

New comment by drfunk in "Ask HN: Estimation/planning tools that support confidence intervals?"

drfunk — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:20:27 +0000

You can play with Guesstimate, a spreadsheet-like tool handling uncertainty.

Here's an example of estimating the duration of a task (shopping): https://www.getguesstimate.com/models/19512

New comment by drfunk in "How do I relearn mathematics for machine learning?"

drfunk — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:06:27 +0000

3blue1brown's visualizations made a lot of things click for me, years after learning algebra and calculus. In my opinion they're the perfect companion to a more formal study with textbooks.

Playlist for linear algebra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...