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New comment by fatihpense in "What's the best way to learn a new language?"

fatihpense — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:25:12 +0000

I like Anki because it is a calm piece of tech. It has been there for a long time with the same behavior. There is a merit to its boringness. You can also activate FSRS algorithm for supposedly better spaced repetition in profile/deck settings. This was an interesting read: https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki/wiki/Spa...

New comment by fatihpense in "A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team"

fatihpense — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:35:13 +0000

I agree that the vibe-coding definition is helpful.

Ideally, headcount can be seen this way: our company is giving many people the chance to do honest work and live dignified, meaningful lives. I think that should be a company's main social responsibility not superficial marketable stuff.

New comment by fatihpense in "A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team"

fatihpense — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:23:23 +0000

I like the post first explains just what happened in enough detail, then comes with conclusions. It is more helpful to me as a data point.

As the style, images seem weird at first, but they help conveying emotions, point of view. Somehow, they also help with attention for me.

As another commenter said, it seems that guardrails will be important. I believe, 'software is managing complexity' at the end of the day. The complexity and decision-among-options will continue to exist. They need to live and taken care of somewhere.

New comment by fatihpense in "A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe"

fatihpense — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:26:29 +0000

Thanks, I can't change the url now. Since it is just a gallery with minimal information, I forgot to submit translated url.

New comment by fatihpense in "A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe"

fatihpense — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:43:03 +0000

From the article: "The arm and hand reliefs on the T-shaped pillars found in and around Göbekli Tepe have long reinforced the idea that these stones symbolized humans. This new find at Karahan Tepe, the first to feature a human face carved into a T-shaped pillar, is considered a turning point in Neolithic research."

A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe

fatihpense — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:43:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.trthaber.com/foto-galeri/karahantepede-12-bin-yil-oncesine-ait-insan-yuzlu-dikili-tas-bulundu/73912.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45498887

Points: 411

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New comment by fatihpense in "'Rocks as big as cars' are flying down the Dolomites"

fatihpense — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:44:13 +0000

If you enjoy this kind of content, I recommend Myron Cook on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@myroncook/videos

Geological mysteries, pleasant scenery, and calm explanation. Great for listening in the evening.

New comment by fatihpense in "Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house"

fatihpense — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:55:44 +0000

Now I see the real value of games like Factorio. That kind of poison needs to go somewhere or it ends up in real life projects

New comment by fatihpense in "AGI is not multimodal"

fatihpense — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 02:14:49 +0000

Thanks for the comment, it triggerred a few thought experiments for me.

For example, if you focus on oral traditions you experiment and create more poems, songs, etc. If you focus on preserving food you discover jams, dried meat, etc.

Is it useful to focus on everything, or global optimal? Is it possible?

Also regarding competition and evolution, what stopped humans to get more capable brains? Is it just resource constraints, like not having enough calories(not having mini nuclear reactor with us)? Or are there other, more interesting causes?

New comment by fatihpense in "Swift and the Cute 2d game framework: Setting up a project with CMake"

fatihpense — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:36:28 +0000

I assumed the original developers might give free copies in the official discord

New comment by fatihpense in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""

fatihpense — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 01:33:58 +0000

Thanks for the unexpected laugh at the end. Maybe there is a typo in that imaginary world: "Applestantinople". But maybe it is as intended :)

New comment by fatihpense in "Hey Google, what happened to all the fun?"

fatihpense — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:42:24 +0000

App stores sometimes bring great discoverability and revenue opportunities. But if you don't have close connections working in related big companies, don't depend your future on it.

I categorically erased developing mobile apps from my work/dreams after my bad experience:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903489#37911184

I also advise against it to people around me with my limited ability.

New comment by fatihpense in "Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum"

fatihpense — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 17:46:04 +0000

Interesting argument, so you think the non-white particles of each layer might accumulate while layers of ice melt

New comment by fatihpense in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

fatihpense — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 01:30:45 +0000

I remember this blog post, it was also a chapter in their book Rework https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/dont_scar_on_the_first_cu...

New comment by fatihpense in "First satellite imagery of the Feb-13, 2024 landslide at Çöpler Mine in Turkey"

fatihpense — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:39:17 +0000

My pet theory: The daily agenda is dizzying. There is also always several existential/deeper issue looming around/inside. So we can't have time to discuss small daily things, that actually affect quality of life! It has been like this for decades, maybe more than that. It is sad really. Countries also have an attention span, and we can't pick long-term important stuff over immediate stuff.

New comment by fatihpense in "Social networks are getting stingy with their data"

fatihpense — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 22:59:43 +0000

reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

New comment by fatihpense in "'Baby Bust': Why Fewer Young People Expect to Become Parents (2013)"

fatihpense — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:12:51 +0000

I think having a healthy community where children can grow to be well-educated, good citizens benefit everyone in the long run. And it is not like zero-sum game, I think there might be very cheap solutions with good ROI. Solutions can be found if there is a will and concerted effort. I don't live in US, this is the model in my mind.

New comment by fatihpense in "Zig Roadmap 2024 [video]"

fatihpense — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 12:06:30 +0000

Yes, another valid case is passing heap-allocated pointers between WASM guest and host. I have an example here if anyone is interested: https://github.com/fatihpense/zig-wasm-string-and-struct

As a newbie in low-level programming, being able to return "heap-allocated pointer" instead of "stack-allocated pointer to a struct in heap" was a challenge at first :) But I love how everything is explicit in Zig.

New comment by fatihpense in "Zig Roadmap 2024 [video]"

fatihpense — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 12:02:25 +0000

From my experience, It catches memory errors in test blocks.

Here is more information: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Report-Memory-Leak...

New comment by fatihpense in "Postgres Incremental Backup"

fatihpense — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 10:46:06 +0000

Papyrus doesn't last :) You want clay tablets, buried in the ground. Looking at Sumerian tablets that would give you 5000 years.