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New comment by ebonnafoux in "Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell"

ebonnafoux — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:11:17 +0000

That is confusing, I thought it was monads who are Burrito. So is Biology made of monad ?

New comment by ebonnafoux in "GTFOBins"

ebonnafoux — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:30:37 +0000

Indeed, I check and the solution was already on stack overflow https://askubuntu.com/a/1483248

New comment by ebonnafoux in "GTFOBins"

ebonnafoux — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:07:18 +0000

In a previous employer, they block the chmod command. I took the habit to python -c "import os; os.chmod('my_file',744)".

Glad to see LLM re-discover this trick.

New comment by ebonnafoux in "Laws of Software Engineering"

ebonnafoux — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:34:44 +0000

Oh OK, that is something I learn today.

New comment by ebonnafoux in "Laws of Software Engineering"

ebonnafoux — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:14:36 +0000

There is a small typos in The Ninety-Ninety Rule

> The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of development time; the remaining 10% accounts for the other 90%.

It should be 90% code - 10% time / 10% code - 90% time

New comment by ebonnafoux in "A perfectable programming language"

ebonnafoux — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:41:19 +0000

Also, I dislike that they are using Github as the default package registery. But as this langage was created inside Microsoft, it makes senses.

New comment by ebonnafoux in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

ebonnafoux — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:17:29 +0000

They repeat only six sentences during 100+ comments:

Worked like a charm, much appreciated.

This was the answer I was looking for.

Thanks, that helped!

Thanks for the tip!

Great explanation, thanks for sharing.

This was the answer I was looking for.

New comment by ebonnafoux in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

ebonnafoux — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:05:25 +0000

The question is can you be trained? Beside the obvious case, some IA generated photo could not be distinged from real one.

New comment by ebonnafoux in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

ebonnafoux — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:40:13 +0000

You can easily make a RLAIF loop.

- Take a list of n animals * m vehicule

- Ask a LLM to generate SVG for this n*m options

- Generate png from the svg

- Ask a Model with vision to grade the result

- Change your weight accordingly

No need to human to draw the dataset, no need of human to evaluate.

New comment by ebonnafoux in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

ebonnafoux — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:02:47 +0000

There can be a lot of definition but I propose " a wage where you do not need to annoy your customer for tip".

New comment by ebonnafoux in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

ebonnafoux — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:50:55 +0000

China is a 1.4 billion people country, more than US + Europe, so it is expected that there is a wild gap between high end product and low cost there.

New comment by ebonnafoux in "Anthropic is Down"

ebonnafoux — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:39:39 +0000

It's wild that people check the box

> I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet

when the first 50 issues are about 500 error.

New comment by ebonnafoux in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

ebonnafoux — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:36:44 +0000

https://ebonnafoux.bearblog.dev/ Started two weeks ago, but my resolution is to publish at least once a month

New comment by ebonnafoux in "The Q, K, V Matrices"

ebonnafoux — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:44:48 +0000

Yes but in practice, if you compute K=X.wk, Q=X.wq and then K.tQ you make three matrice multiplication. Wouldn't be faster to compute W=wk.twq beforhand and then just X.W.tX which will be just two matrices multiplication ? Is there something I am missing ?

New comment by ebonnafoux in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

ebonnafoux — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:08:08 +0000

Now divide "coal consumption", "executions" and " CO2 emission" by capita, it is also interesting.

New comment by ebonnafoux in "The highest quality codebase"

ebonnafoux — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:10:16 +0000

I have seen some codebase doubling the number of LoC after "refactoring" made by humans, so I would say no.

New comment by ebonnafoux in "Python is not a great language for data science"

ebonnafoux — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:34:27 +0000

In the article

> Contrast this with equivalent code that is full of logistics, where I’m using only basic Python language features and no special data wrangling package:

   n = len(values)
   # Calculate mean
   mean = sum(values) / n
   # Calculate standard deviation
   variance = sum((x - mean) \* 2 for x in values) / (n - 1)
   std_dev = math.sqrt(variance)

He doesn' t know about the statistics package in the standart library of Python (https://docs.python.org/3/library/statistics.html). Of course, if you do not know to use Python, you will have a lot of boilerplate.

New comment by ebonnafoux in "Fifty Shades of OOP"

ebonnafoux — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:05:27 +0000

Python can be somehow consider OOP since evrything inside it are Object, even function and module.

New comment by ebonnafoux in "You can just read 25 books"

ebonnafoux — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:28:10 +0000

He has a lot of impact it's true. But is he a figure to be inspired of ? I don't think so, his hubris kill more than 400k men (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia).

One can argue that Hitler or Mao were also impactful people, but do we want to learn from them ?

New comment by ebonnafoux in "You can just read 25 books"

ebonnafoux — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:17:37 +0000

> Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

Napoleon kill the first French republic and actually reduce the size of territory control by France. Napoleon is IMO one of the most overrated historical figure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_%281815%29