Hacker News: gorn

New comment by gorn in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

gorn — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:43:55 +0000

It still did.

Eertree – An Interactive Guide

gorn — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:03:15 +0000

Article URL: https://ufukhaciogullari.com/blog/eertree/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46402331

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gorn in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"

gorn — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:52:37 +0000

Reminds me of the poker scene in Peep Show.

New comment by gorn in "Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?"

gorn — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 18:51:47 +0000

I just found this thread and it's so great. You are an inspiration dear sir/madam. Do you still exercise?

New comment by gorn in "Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?"

gorn — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:39:51 +0000

Great read! Thanks.

New comment by gorn in "Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website"

gorn — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:39:02 +0000

You can try mermaid https://mermaidjs.github.io/

This was the only tool I could find that would work with version control.

New comment by gorn in "Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices"

gorn — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 11:28:27 +0000

Could someone explain why tip#9 is a good idea? To me it makes more sense to build the application in the CI pipeline and use Dockerfile only to package the app.

The post is focused on Java apps but, for example, there is a distinction on runtime and SDK images in .NET Core. If you want to build in Docker, you have to pull the heavier SDK image. If you copy the built binaries to image, you can use the runtime image. I guess there could be similar situations in other platforms too.

Other than that, it looks like a decent guide. Thanks to the author.

New comment by gorn in "Jepsen: TiDB 2.1.7"

gorn — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:58:36 +0000

Hi @aphyr. I'm a great fan of your work with Jepsen although I know very little about the fault tolerance of distributed systems. Are there any resources you would recommend on the subject? I am an application developer so I don't see myself writing a database in the future. Still it would be great to learn about the concepts.

Cheers!

New comment by gorn in "Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI"

gorn — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:38:30 +0000

Well, he started the Mono Project :)

New comment by gorn in "International System of Units overhauled in historic vote"

gorn — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 00:24:15 +0000

Recently I have been thinking about if any of our units makes sense in cosmic perspective. Let's take speed of light for example. It's approximately 300000 km/s. But then what is a second? It's 1/60 of a minute which is 1/60 of an hour which is 1/24 of a day(and so it goes) and all those numbers are arbitrary. A day doesn't make any sense outside our planet anyway, I doubt that there is another celestial body in the universe that takes the same time to complete a rotation. Period of some natural phenomena (like atomic electron transition) sounds better as a unit but it's a really tiny period of time so we have to scale it to make it practical for us. We will use decimal numeral system to do that, another arbitrary choice. What if we had 12 fingers or 8? This can be extended to all kinds of measurements so I wonder if any of this would make sense to another civilization. What would a cosmic system of units would like? Any reading about this would be greatly appreciated.

New comment by gorn in "Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star"

gorn — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:40:07 +0000

I dream to be there during the launch as well. Could you enlighten me on how JWST could find the evidence of life?

JavaScript is getting real tired of your jokes[video]

gorn — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:21:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/8tlqo9/javascript_is_getting_real_tired_of_your_jokes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17399580

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gorn in "Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency"

gorn — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:13:29 +0000

Never thought of that. Nice point!

New comment by gorn in "Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase"

gorn — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:35:04 +0000

As a blockchain!

New comment by gorn in "Firefox 57.0 Released"

gorn — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:38:09 +0000

Is there a way to import bookmarks from Chrome?

Ericsson presents focused business strategy

gorn — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:50:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ericsson.com/news/2091169

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13986159

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gorn in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)"

gorn — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 19:28:40 +0000

It looks very cool. Can you sponsor visas? It's not mentioned in the ads.

New comment by gorn in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)"

gorn — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 19:23:15 +0000

From your ad on Stack Overflow careers:

Note: this job is open to US Residents only. Foreign nationals can apply but only if you live within the US.

New comment by gorn in "Placebo Button"

gorn — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:24:11 +0000

This is a great blog!

New comment by gorn in "Show HN: Streaks, a todo list that helps you form good habits"

gorn — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 04:23:40 +0000

Take a look at https://chains.cc/