Hacker News: engine_y

New comment by engine_y in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

engine_y — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:51:12 +0000

It's like it's trying to impress you with poetry in comment: "What the function does, it does well, and only just once"

New comment by engine_y in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

engine_y — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:13:16 +0000

Tons of pictures and videos were published by both sides.

New comment by engine_y in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

engine_y — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:12:20 +0000

What makes you believe this? Please show hard facts, not just wand waving

New comment by engine_y in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

engine_y — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:11:33 +0000

Unfortunately this is a story as long as time itself, with tons of narratives to it so I can't write as a HN comment.

I wish I was eloquent and knowledgeable enough to write it, I'd probably write a book.

New comment by engine_y in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

engine_y — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:50:10 +0000

There are several factors involved as I see it - a lot of money from Qatar flowing to make sure Israel is always shown as the aggressor, anti-semmitism is still prevalent, most people can't grok what the issue is in the Middle East anyway, people don't understand what living 10km from people who want to kill you looks and, and war is horrible and it's always easier to side with the people who seem to be the underdog.

New comment by engine_y in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

engine_y — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:36:46 +0000

What was there before Hamas?

New comment by engine_y in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

engine_y — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:33:04 +0000

have you seen the extent of tunnels that were there?

New comment by engine_y in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

engine_y — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:17:48 +0000

Over engineering is subjective / evolving.

You could have bought a bell...

New comment by engine_y in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

engine_y — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:38:40 +0000

Could it be related to the anagram it's planting?

If it's wasting inference attempting to also fit in some anagram, it would make sense why answers are so dogmatic.

New comment by engine_y in "Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)"

engine_y — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:11:22 +0000

Yes, I think that with all these videos what you actually see is aliasing...

New comment by engine_y in "The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation"

engine_y — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:25:46 +0000

There's another parameter worth considering - how efficient is it to convert sunlight vs. gamma radiation into biologically usable energy.

What if for some reason gamma radiation changes the equilibrium constants for ADP --> ATP?

DS-STAR: a versatile data science agent (Nov-2025)

engine_y — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:55:35 +0000

Article URL: https://research.google/blog/ds-star-a-state-of-the-art-versatile-data-science-agent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45868602

Points: 1

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New comment by engine_y in "Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza"

engine_y — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 03:39:18 +0000

Yes... that's what the Muslim media monitoring organization says.

It's like the olden Google days - where people were doing SEO campaigns measured in deepness of the links...

New comment by engine_y in "Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza"

engine_y — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 03:06:51 +0000

Like Qatar?

New comment by engine_y in "Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza"

engine_y — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 03:06:23 +0000

I read the article but not sure which pro Israeli editorials the BBC has published.

My experience is quite the opposite with BBC having a clear anti war stance.

New comment by engine_y in "Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice"

engine_y — Mon, 12 May 2025 17:49:27 +0000

The article starts with statistics. Quoting deaths / person. Is this the right metric?

Since the US is huge and sprawling - it'd probably be better to use Death / km driven.

I checked this: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/road-accidents.html?...

Which paints a very different picture than what's stated in the article.

New comment by engine_y in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

engine_y — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 06:58:15 +0000

I pay our lawyer quite a lot and he also makes mistakes. What have you not - typos, somewhat inconcise language in contracts, but we work to fix it and everything's ok.

People are looking for perfect instead of better.

New comment by engine_y in "Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS"

engine_y — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:28:18 +0000

Welp. We used it in prod for ~18 months or so but the experience was not something we'd repeat.

The configuration of Traefik, in our case, embedded in the docker-compose file was not clear. What was supposed to be a 'auto-detection' of services ended up looking like a hodge-podge of configs between several files.

The logging was sub-par - we couldn't properly debug issues.

And then we ended up migrating terminating HTTPS on AWS's ELB so the let's encrypt integration became not relevant which catalyzed us going back to nginx.

New comment by engine_y in "Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS"

engine_y — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:39:13 +0000

A couple of years ago, we tried replacing nginx with Traefik. The main reason was its https integration with lets encrypt.

Let's just say it takes a lot these days to choose something that is not nginx.

New comment by engine_y in "Ruby in Jupyter Notebook"

engine_y — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:06:25 +0000

Well maybe it should be. I was thinking the same about languages which are better suited for data wrangling. But to me, the reason python is the DS language shows how good evolution is and survival of the fittest. You and I would probably argue that a DS language should have strong static typing but in nature what prevailed was the opposite. A nimble, easy, no fuss, comedy oriented named language.