Hacker News: edvardas

New comment by edvardas in "Weight-sparse transformers have interpretable circuits [pdf]"

edvardas — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:52:25 +0000

HTML version: https://arxiv.org/html/2511.13653v1

New comment by edvardas in "Bach Cello Suites (2024)"

edvardas — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:59:27 +0000

When tuning down those two strings, would the player need to "relearn" the positions of fingers on the strings when playing? Or would they play at the same positions and ignore the conflict in expected and actual sound?

New comment by edvardas in "Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps"

edvardas — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:01:00 +0000

I was tired of constant popups in stock apps for features I don't want.

Fossify apps get the job down surprisingly well, no more no less.

I use their apps for messaging, gallery, file manager, paint, contacts

New comment by edvardas in "Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine"

edvardas — Tue, 27 May 2025 08:01:32 +0000

In your situation where LLMs can cover most material better than the university, what benefits does the university still provide you, if any?

New comment by edvardas in "Dependency injection frameworks add confusion"

edvardas — Sun, 25 May 2025 09:22:14 +0000

His AutoFixture C# NuGet takes away so much pain from unit test maintenance. It does have a learning curve.

https://github.com/AutoFixture/AutoFixture

New comment by edvardas in "eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read"

edvardas — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:05:04 +0000

Do you happen to know how the Braille website's style is called? The high contrast, button shadows with big offsets. I've seen it in several places now and would like to use it myself

New comment by edvardas in "Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines"

edvardas — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 15:35:54 +0000

Mermaid Gannt[0] diagram type might be similar to what you have in mind.

[0] https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/gantt.html

New comment by edvardas in "Futexes in TLA+"

edvardas — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 18:47:42 +0000

Succinct and rigorous. This article has a clear problem statement, explicitly calls out assumptions and expected properties, shows how to express them in TLA+/PlusCal, and even adds a sanity check by refining the mutex model. I wish I had seen this article when writing my BA thesis.

New comment by edvardas in "Software Friction"

edvardas — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:48:29 +0000

Can you elaborate on how you made the connection between the article and BEAM languages? I suppose you experienced a lot less friction when working with Erlang or similar, care to share your experience?

New comment by edvardas in "Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck"

edvardas — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 21:34:24 +0000

> He gives some examples of ways that programmers, even after being taught in intro classes not to use magic numbers, still litter their code with constants like 404. But I wish he’d tell Python programmers to stop designing APIs where you write string constants like “r--” and “bs” to denote that your scatterplot should use red dashes and blue squares.

Intriguing. I assume the author would prefer a stronger-typed alternative like explicit parameters and enums. Yet I wonder if having a small DSL-like syntax is actually the better for a scripting language. Most of these plots will be hacked together in a local notebook anyway.

What would be a better alternative to this terse DSL in such case?

New comment by edvardas in "KeyDB: A Multithreaded Fork of Redis"

edvardas — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 23:38:10 +0000

Can you explain what lead you to believe it's dead?

Looking at the Issues in their Github, a couple of days ago they mentioned to be working on some features in a branch.

https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB/issues/798#issuecomment-20...