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New comment by guy4261 in "The “JVG algorithm” only wins on tiny numbers"

guy4261 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:24:59 +0000

> (yes, the authors named it after themselves) The same way the AVL tree is named after its inventors - Georgy Adelson-Velsky and Evgenii Landis... Nothing peculiar about this imh

New comment by guy4261 in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

guy4261 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:28:18 +0000

Running on the Meta Cognition Protocol server near you.

New comment by guy4261 in "Linux Kernel Explorer"

guy4261 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:19:58 +0000

Talmud - the original hypertext (tm)

(*maybe, not 100% sure)

New comment by guy4261 in "Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults"

guy4261 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:51:38 +0000

A sad name collision :/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2084:_The_End_of_the_World

New comment by guy4261 in "The 10x Team (CppNorth '25)"

guy4261 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:30:53 +0000

A talk by Tom Sellek about producing 10x teams, not just 10x developers. This is not a C++ talk, it just took place there.

The 10x Team (CppNorth '25)

guy4261 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:30:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WexvfUA3bSs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474537

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by guy4261 in "ChatGPT Pulse"

guy4261 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:14:33 +0000

Oh, just let two instances chat with each other and either let me read the conversation logs or have them present me what they learned/came up with since I've last checked on them. And that would be the end of all it all.

New comment by guy4261 in "Telefon Hírmondó"

guy4261 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 05:17:02 +0000

I don't know about other places/communities - but in the Jewish Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) communities this is still in common use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haredi_news_hotline

New comment by guy4261 in "Yagri: You are gonna read it"

guy4261 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 02:55:34 +0000

Author is very kind! In practice, many times I saw only the CR/CRU of CRUD getting implemented.

For example: as a company aspires to launch its product, one of the first features implemented in any system is to add a new user. But when the day comes when a customer leaves, suddenly you discover no one implemented off-boarding and cleanup of any sort.

New comment by guy4261 in "'Hey Number 17 '"

guy4261 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:53:45 +0000

> what they're designing the software for

They are designing it to sell. Their potential buyers are sociopaths just like them. These buyers, in turn, will also not benefit from the software, but I do imagine it would sell nicely. SNAFU.

New comment by guy4261 in "Beastie Boys dismantled their gold record plaque"

guy4261 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:39:37 +0000

Very Beastie of them - like in Johnny Ryall where they rap on how the titular character is "better off drinkin’ than smokin’ the rocks".

New comment by guy4261 in "Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest"

guy4261 — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:42:36 +0000

Good that does not sustain itself is quite sad - you can see the efforts going down the drain. Aligning good and sustainable (utilitarian) is worthwhile imho.

New comment by guy4261 in "BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers"

guy4261 — Fri, 17 May 2024 01:47:01 +0000

I have a similar monitor at work. I find my adhd deals better with a single, wider monitor than with multiple monitors. That said, as I type, my keystrokes make the monitor shake. This is visibly irritating and I still haven't solved this issue. Looking at this monitor I'd sadly expect the same to happen.

New comment by guy4261 in "Ask HN: What are some must-read books about video games and gaming history?"

guy4261 — Thu, 16 May 2024 13:06:35 +0000

I read a few titles from https://bossfightbooks.com/ . As it happens much, I read about games I did not actually play. It was a nice reading though. The Majora's Mask and Spelunky books were particularly sweet, and encouraged me to watch playthroughs of both games (which I still haven't played).

New comment by guy4261 in "Show HN: Hashquery, a Python library for defining reusable analysis"

guy4261 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:59:43 +0000

Looks pretty darn cool! Two questions please:

1. How does this compare to dbt? If we're already using dbt, why migrate?

2. Will you consider making a tool that tries to transpile SQL back to Hashquery models? This way I can work against my database, then merge the changes back to the model.

Good luck!

New comment by guy4261 in "AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life"

guy4261 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:08:12 +0000

Did the Game of Life change anything in your world view? Your belief in god, or how you view society and societal changes? Even if the change is not rigorous or logical but something anecdotal that nonetheless changed your emotions, I'd be glad to hear about it.

New comment by guy4261 in "The Curse of Monkey Island"

guy4261 — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:53:02 +0000

> In more practical terms, however, it steered the burgeoning Monkey Island franchise straight into a cul de sac with no obvious escape.

Without getting into (almost any specific) spoilers of the last 10 seconds of the game... this claim is completely untrue. The hint at a sequel is right there in the open, as the ending implies LeChuck is still at large.

New comment by guy4261 in "The boiling frog of digital freedom"

guy4261 — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 12:37:16 +0000

Your and others' comments on this thread remind me of a though I had lately. In the "before times", you would buy things that would last. So naturally, the companies that made them could not sell new products.

Planned obsolescence was one natural outcome that we ended up with. An electrical engineers I know told me how designing a CPU that would last a lifetime is relatively easy compared to designing an equipment that will fail only 5 years from now, but not earlier.

I wonder if there was a way we could take the other path. Keep manufacturing solid, long lasting products but also being financially sound. Right now economy, to me, seems like a thing of perpetual growth, but in a cancer-like way.

New comment by guy4261 in "Python in 2023 still sucks at importing modules from another folder"

guy4261 — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 04:29:32 +0000

Package visibility is actually one of the things I dislike the most about golang :(

Coming from Python, I got used to the "explicit is better than implicit" Zen. With "import *" being discouraged, usually when you see something in your Python code, you know exactly where it came from. When I started out with golang, seeing references to things that came out of nowhere (to my eyes) annoyed the hell out of me. I still consider this a cognitive burden.

New comment by guy4261 in "Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees"

guy4261 — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 19:42:10 +0000

I thought about this yesterday.

There is actually something very cute and personal about WhatsApp.

I would go to Telegram to get movies or some restricted (conspiracy?) news feeds.

Spam, payment notes, etc. come via regular Messages/SMS.

But when something comes via WhatsApp... Dunno, it just feels more personal from me. As if, it's someone I personally know or care about / involved with.

I think some of this magic is preserved just because it does not add any other features that dilate the original use case and how it makes one feel.