Hacker News: hermanschaaf

New comment by hermanschaaf in "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era"

hermanschaaf — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:28:45 +0000

At first glance, it looks similar to Conductor (https://www.conductor.build/). It seems like a lot of these tools are converging on the same general ideas.

Could you share a comparison with the other tools out there?

New comment by hermanschaaf in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

hermanschaaf — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:37:59 +0000

https://hermanschaaf.com/

New comment by hermanschaaf in "Show HN: FFlags – Feature flags as code, served from the edge"

hermanschaaf — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 10:51:39 +0000

Love the simple landing page! How big is the free tier? The pricing slider seems to show that you pay $39 for anything more than 0 requests.

Six Months with ClickHouse

hermanschaaf — Tue, 06 May 2025 08:23:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cloudquery.io/blog/six-months-with-clickhouse-at-cloudquery

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43902818

Points: 4

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New comment by hermanschaaf in "Effective Spaced Repetition"

hermanschaaf — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:35:18 +0000

Thanks for the great article, you've inspired me to take another shot at making a habit of learning through spaced repetition!

I had a question: how much time do you typically spend on this activity in a day? Do you have tips for how to adjust based on the time you have available?

Show HN: Schema-aware Postgres extension for natural language queries using GPT

hermanschaaf — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:58:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cloudquery/pg_gpt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35357359

Points: 8

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Introduction to Kage – Write Shaders in Go

hermanschaaf — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:27:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/tinne26/kage-desk/blob/main/docs/tutorials/intro/00_introduction.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35174264

Points: 1

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Show HN: Export from Hacker News to any destination

hermanschaaf — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:51:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cloudquery.io/integrations/hackernews

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34912095

Points: 1

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New comment by hermanschaaf in "Programming trick questions"

hermanschaaf — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 19:33:48 +0000

Here is another one I thought of the other day.

Q: Given V (the number of vertices), E (the number of edges) and L (a list of the edges) for a connected undirected graph, determine whether the graph is a tree.

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A: It can be done in O(1) by: return V == E + 1

The number of vertices in a tree is always one more than the number of edges. We also know that the graph is connected, so it has to be a tree.

New comment by hermanschaaf in "Ask HN: Best office chair for home office work?"

hermanschaaf — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:53:45 +0000

Out of interest, how do you find such auctions in the UK?

Can data science help you pick a baby name?

hermanschaaf — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:24:17 +0000

Article URL: https://towardsdatascience.com/can-data-science-help-you-pick-a-baby-name-b7e98a98268e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19450336

Points: 1

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New comment by hermanschaaf in "Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books"

hermanschaaf — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:40:24 +0000

At least some of the books you mention arguably can be (and are by Google) classified as biography, so they would not be removed by the rule of thumb. But perhaps a better way of phrasing the rule would be "Don't read books by journalists on technical subject matter if your intention is gaining an understanding of that subject". If you want to read journalistic works like Bad Blood because it's a heck of a story, then that's a different matter. I am still failing to find a succinct way to express this thought though :)

New comment by hermanschaaf in "Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books"

hermanschaaf — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:32:01 +0000

Although I haven't read Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine", Google categorizes it as Biography, so if you buy that then by the rule of thumb it would not be off limits. And thanks, I have added it to my to-read list!

How I choose nonfiction books

hermanschaaf — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 20:39:56 +0000

Article URL: http://herman.asia/how-i-choose-nonfiction-books

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17634943

Points: 2

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New comment by hermanschaaf in "Regex Puzzle"

hermanschaaf — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:23:15 +0000

It is indeed machine-solvable; I wrote a solver for regexcrossword.com puzzles a while back (https://github.com/hermanschaaf/regex-crossword-solver). It was great fun, maybe even more than solving the puzzles by hand!

New comment by hermanschaaf in "Does LinkedIn access your email or contact list?"

hermanschaaf — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:18:42 +0000

I'd like to know whether this is true, and if it is, how are they accessing information from a different open tab?

My hope is that the Linkedin support staff is misinformed in this case, and that the suggestions are really being generated from the other side (email correspondents uploading their contact books on Linkedin, not this particular user.) But I have also noticed suspicious suggestions on Linkedin, and am a little concerned with this support answer, to say the least.

Does LinkedIn access your email or contact list?

hermanschaaf — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:15:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quora.com/Does-LinkedIn-access-your-email-or-contact-list?share=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12615973

Points: 3

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Teleport Eightball

hermanschaaf — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 06:17:46 +0000

Article URL: https://teleport.org/salaries

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11914354

Points: 1

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New comment by hermanschaaf in "Ask HN: Toys to help children aged 3-7 learn the basics of coding?"

hermanschaaf — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:50:37 +0000

Robot Turtles looks great, thanks!

Ask HN: Toys to help children aged 3-7 learn the basics of coding?

hermanschaaf — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 06:37:51 +0000

Do you have any recommended toys (preferably physical, touchable objects, not software) for teaching young children the fundamentals of coding? I understand that at this age they may be too young to grasp all of it, but if it lays the foundations for understanding how you can use basic building blocks and rules to solve problems, that would be a great start.

The only toy I'm aware of is the Cubetto by Primo Toys, and I'm not sure how effective it is. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11494699

Points: 20

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