Hacker News: gp

New comment by gp in "Go's Sweet 16"

gp — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 05:49:04 +0000

The language has changed a lot since then. Give it a fresh look sometime.

New comment by gp in "US falls out of 10 most powerful passports list for first time in 20 yrs"

gp — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:36:29 +0000

There are multiple ties in the list that actually put the US passport tied for 37th in the ranking.

https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/ranking

New comment by gp in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

gp — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:31:28 +0000

I have been building a mostly free website and API to interact with sec EDGAR filings, get realtime new filing alerts (and preview those alerts), and see the historical impact of financial filings.

Right now I am working on adding historical tables extracted from filings, as well as historical financials and their calculations.

https://www.secblast.com

Still a work in progress, but please check it out

New comment by gp in "Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial"

gp — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:21:48 +0000

I worry about developing sleep apnea, not only for the effects on my health, but also on my relationship with my partner.

A medicine that treated sleep apnea would be revolutionary for so many people.

New comment by gp in "European Parliament removes curbs on lawmaker meetings with China"

gp — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:49:38 +0000

We have abandoned Europe, why should we expect them to stay loyal to us?

New comment by gp in "Show HN: Search and analyze millions of SEC filings with AI."

gp — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:15:26 +0000

Getting all the filings is a lot of work, too - you have to build an old load parser

New comment by gp in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

gp — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:32:22 +0000

This was my take, as well.

New comment by gp in "Paxlovid: You'd have expected more"

gp — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 02:56:13 +0000

I took Paxlovid twice. Horrible bitter taste, but kept the symptoms at bay. No long covid or persisting brain fog unlike some of my friends. Tested negative by the end of the treatment. My fiancé didn't catch it from my while I isolated.

Derek doesn't have to take Paxlovid next time, but I will.

New comment by gp in "Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers"

gp — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 14:30:35 +0000

370 degrees Celsius? Hopefully a typo

Last time I was in Rwanda I had banana wine. It comes in beer bottles.

I think it’s an acquired taste - I didn’t have the acumen to acquire it myself.

New comment by gp in "Web Assembly audio decoders highly optimized for size and performance"

gp — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 04:41:28 +0000

Do you have a recommendation for having frame by frame control of a file?

I am trying to synchronize multiple video files that have uneven framerates. I have separate metadata containing the frame timing.

The video files are .ts (mpeg stream) files.

New comment by gp in "RabbitMQ 4.0"

gp — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:36:54 +0000

I have found it to be more trouble than it is worth, as well

New comment by gp in "Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed"

gp — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:01:38 +0000

I used to walk across this bridge every day. You could feel whole bridge shake when heavy vehicles would drive over it (Lived in Reagent Square 2017 - 2019). I remember one morning I was trapped on the bridge for an hour in traffic on my drive to school because the city of Pittsburgh could not afford to keep the roads plowed.

Very thankful that nobody was hurt when it collapsed, and as other people have pointed out it is representative of all of the infrastructure that many cities have but can no longer afford to maintain or replace.

New comment by gp in "CPI for all items rises 3.4%; shelter and gasoline up"

gp — Wed, 15 May 2024 17:15:42 +0000

A lot of people and businesses use debt to finance the things they want to do. (Buy a home, build a new facility, pay back management). When money is cheaper, people do more.

If you can issue at 6% instead of 7%, your interest expense on that debt has decreased by 16%.

I don't think anyone expects say the fed funds rate to go to 1%, but it could go to 3.5% or 4%. [0]

[0] Fed funds: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1mM6j [-] Const 10yr Treasury https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1nYkd

New comment by gp in "[dead]"

gp — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 03:42:46 +0000

The article appears to be syndicated (at best), or lifted, from its original source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-25/javier-mi...

New comment by gp in "The Stainless SDK Generator"

gp — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:24:39 +0000

This is a very exciting product - I'm surprised this didn't exist until now. Would love to see C++ support in the future.

New comment by gp in "Why is 1 GB equal to 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30?"

gp — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:30:42 +0000

Gigabytes were renamed to Gibibytes (2^30), and a new "Gigabyte," (10^9) replaced the old meaning of the word.

It is always sad to see an 8TB SSD come back with only 7.2TiB

New comment by gp in "Tell HN: NetworkSolutions.com lost the ability to update root DNS w/ custom DNS"

gp — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:01:45 +0000

I once worked for a firm that used NetworkSolutions and spent a lot of time in their online portal and with their support. I do not have anything nice to say about them, their services, or their billing practices.

New comment by gp in "Chinese company's rocket debut makes waves by launching from the sea"

gp — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:40:12 +0000

Sea Launch, as mentioned in the article, did this for years.

I remember seeing the fuel tanks being wound in the 9-101 in 2013. More parts were made than used, and the launches were seemingly never publicized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Launch

It was very weird.

New comment by gp in "Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird"

gp — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:20:22 +0000

Plenty of people believed it would fail from the beginning - are they prescient or just lucky?

New comment by gp in "The industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative"

gp — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 02:28:56 +0000

I believe it was Clayton Christenson who pointed out that disruptors took the lowest value activities first.