Hacker News: guskel

New comment by guskel in "PHP's Oddities"

guskel — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:22:46 +0000

It’s not so irrelevant if your org is stuck on older versions of PHP.

New comment by guskel in "PHP's Oddities"

guskel — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:21:08 +0000

So it became sane as soon as late 2020.

New comment by guskel in "PHP's Oddities"

guskel — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:58:08 +0000

PHP 8.3.6:

$ php -r 'var_dump("01234" == "1234");' bool(true)

$ php -r 'var_dump("09223372036854775808" == "9223372036854775808");' bool(false)

New comment by guskel in "Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser"

guskel — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:34:20 +0000

This semi-quantized version targets the Jetson Orin Nano, but only comes with a simple inference engine.

https://huggingface.co/Teaspoon-AI/Voxtral-Mini-4B-INT4-Jets...

New comment by guskel in "Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser"

guskel — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:49:35 +0000

So random seeing her mentioned here today. I just discovered her yesterday, saw a Youtube short where she's operating a Eurorack synth at Switched On in Austin, TX. It's a cool little synth shop that's worth checking out if you're ever in town. Looks like they've moved locations recently though.

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

guskel — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:45:18 +0000

Very neat. As a heavy user of recordlinkage, this is definitely on my radar.

New comment by guskel in "Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander"

guskel — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:39:48 +0000

Hey I have cubital tunnel and also have an ulnar deviation in my left arm. Have you tried ergos with low profile keyboards? ZSA also makes a model called the Voyager, which is the best keyboard that I’ve ever had. Might be worth checking out. Like you with the Kinesis, the Voyager has been able to keep me in the game.

New comment by guskel in "Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model"

guskel — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:20:19 +0000

Chatterbox is also worth a try.

New comment by guskel in "PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator"

guskel — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:24:50 +0000

The $ symbol gave me RSI as a dev just starting out. I will never forgive PHP for that. Such an unergonomic syntax.

New comment by guskel in "Young graduates are facing an employment crisis"

guskel — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 03:46:54 +0000

If they’re talking about this now, it’s been going on for a while. Just finally reaching the public consciousness now where it’s a common subject on the news.

New comment by guskel in "The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous"

guskel — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 01:19:17 +0000

How many hours of interview prep did you include?

New comment by guskel in "Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age"

guskel — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:47:50 +0000

Yep, I've seen type hinting even be helpful without a type checker in python. Just as a way for devs to tell each other what they intend on passing. Even when a small percent of the hints are incorrect, having those hints there can still pay off.

New comment by guskel in "Merlion: A Machine Learning Framework for Time Series Intelligence"

guskel — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:25:46 +0000

The "Comparison with Related Libraries" section is notably missing comparison against aeon and sktime, which also aim to be the kind of holistic time-series library like Merlion.

New comment by guskel in "Turning the database inside-out (2015)"

guskel — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:06:08 +0000

Yeah, like 15th century old.

New comment by guskel in "Turning the database inside-out (2015)"

guskel — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:56:46 +0000

XTDB (inspired by datomic) also has bitemporal queries.

New comment by guskel in "The Simplicity of Prolog"

guskel — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 06:07:42 +0000

To each their own.

Others would say datalog elegant and makes it easy to compose statements whereas SQL has an ugly syntax. I mean, ORMs were invented to try to avoid writing SQL but they too have their own problems.

New comment by guskel in "Ask HN: How would you chunk a large Excel file?"

guskel — Mon, 27 May 2024 03:02:03 +0000

Can wall clock time be proportional to file size or is a parallelized approach needed?

New comment by guskel in "Battery-free Game Boy (2020)"

guskel — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 12:23:16 +0000

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BYxUC1X180o

New comment by guskel in "Ask HN: Why are PDFs still heavily used?"

guskel — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:49:33 +0000

Paper is useful for the individual but using it in an organization context certainly causes problems.

New comment by guskel in "GraphGPT: Extrapolating knowledge graphs from unstructured text"

guskel — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 04:37:58 +0000

I wonder if you could build an OWL 2 graph with this.