Hacker News: gashad

The Interest Rate on Your Codebase: A Financial Framework for Technical Debt

gashad — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:51:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chiply.dev/post-technical-debt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096213

Points: 4

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New comment by gashad in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

gashad — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:14:07 +0000

Ken Kifer wrote a bunch of amazing bicycle content! Here's a mirror of his pages: https://www.phred.org/~alex/kenkifer/www.kenkifer.com/

New comment by gashad in "AI companies cause most of traffic on forums"

gashad — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:27:10 +0000

What sort of effort would it take to make an LLM training honeypot resulting in LLMs reliably spewing nonsense? Similar to the way Google once defined the search term "Santorum"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_the_neologism_%22... where

The way LLMs are trained with such a huge corpus of data, would it even be possible for a single entity to do this?

New comment by gashad in "Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs"

gashad — Fri, 10 May 2024 18:21:06 +0000

Not saying anything about the current storm, but a storm as strong as the Carrington Event[1] would make modern day life on Earth pretty unpleasant. Some of the potential impacts are documented in Severe Space Weather Events: Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event [2] https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12507/severe-space...

NSA's Top Ten Cloud Security Mitigation Strategies

gashad — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 14:07:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/3699169/nsa-releases-top-ten-cloud-security-mitigation-strategies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39641161

Points: 2

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Relevance in Mapping according to Paul Ramsey (2015) [pdf]

gashad — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:22:25 +0000

Article URL: http://s3.cleverelephant.ca/2015-ccog.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38467466

Points: 1

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Fundamentals of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

gashad — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:13:52 +0000

Article URL: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/20d8cd2ce11a4d5d81a8a65711d5ec29

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34807095

Points: 1

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New comment by gashad in "A large network of fake Google Maps comments/reviews and fake businesses"

gashad — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 06:19:57 +0000

I researched duct cleaners recently and found a similar set of dubious businesses. There are several businesses named "American Air Duct Cleaning of [insert city name]". Google Maps has 70-120 5 star reviews. They all say things like “David and Oscar did a great job”…. from Florida to Texas to other states... always David and/or Oscar for each place! All the reviews are in the last 6 months or so. All the reviews are relatively unique and the reviewers are not new Google reviewers… there’s definitely some sort of weird Google Review scam going on here. All the websites say “Family/Locally Owned & Operated" yet they're identical web pages.

I'm surprised by how unsophisticated the approach appears. Interesting to see the problem is not limited to duct cleaning businesses.

What You Need to Know

gashad — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 17:49:29 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2022/10/need-to-know.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33251268

Points: 2

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Fix bugs as soon as you find them

gashad — Sun, 29 May 2022 04:27:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/ten-reasons-why-you-fix-bugs-as-soon-as-you-find-them

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31546382

Points: 2

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OMG Engineering Tenets

gashad — Sun, 29 May 2022 04:17:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.onemoregame.com/blog/engineering-tenets/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31546331

Points: 1

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Buggy Image Resizing Operations

gashad — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:38:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clean-fid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26943704

Points: 1

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New comment by gashad in "Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop"

gashad — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:37:37 +0000

I just learned about the Citadel/Robinhood connection from this https://marketsweekly.ghost.io/what-happened-with-gamestop/, which the author https://twitter.com/alexisgoldstein/status/13546053632874864... explained as "Why it's not Robinhood/Reddit vs. Hedge Funds. It's Hedge Funds vs. Hedge Funds vs. Wall Street, with Robinhood as a fig leaf". The sidebars in the article explain a lot of the lingo.

New comment by gashad in "Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump"

gashad — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:12:07 +0000

Anyone else not logged in to Facebook find the "See more of Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook" pop-up a bit disconcerting?

Recreating historical streetscapes using deep learning and crowdsourcing

gashad — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 21:12:04 +0000

Article URL: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/09/recreating-historical-streetscapes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24497985

Points: 1

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Getting Comfortable with Death and Near-Death Experiences: How Doctors Die(2013)

gashad — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:50:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179868/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24344568

Points: 1

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DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (2018) [pdf]

gashad — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:40:00 +0000

Article URL: https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05.PDF

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23962722

Points: 107

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New comment by gashad in "Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?"

gashad — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:08:49 +0000

Maxar (Formerly DigitalGlobe) is hiring a software engineer for the Product R&D group based in the Westminster, Colorado office. Maxar operates the highest resolution commercial imaging satellites in the world. See some Maxar images here https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000007013566/cor... and apply for the software engineer position here: https://digitalglobe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MAXAR/job/W...

Google Maps 101: how imagery powers our map

gashad — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:49:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.blog.google/products/maps/google-maps-101-how-imagery-powers-our-map/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21786352

Points: 3

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Original Diablo Pitch Document (2016)

gashad — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 05:05:04 +0000

Article URL: https://graybeardgames.blogspot.com/2016/03/original-diablo-pitch-document.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21177685

Points: 1

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