Hacker News: hglaser

New comment by hglaser in "The Voice of Google"

hglaser — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:52:32 +0000

Agreed. From firsthand experience, it's accurate, captures the feeling of being there at that time, and is more restrained than I would have been.

New comment by hglaser in "Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026"

hglaser — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:28:07 +0000

Once again, a moment of gratitude for the San Francisco Chronicle. In a time when local news is mostly gutted, I'm grateful to live in the rare mid-size city that has a robust local paper. Real investigative reporting, a serious local political beat, and features that win Pulitzer prizes. Plus a great sports section and restaurant critics!

New comment by hglaser in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

hglaser — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:12:11 +0000

It is incredible how far the overton window has moved on this issue.

When I graduated in 2007, it was common for tech companies to refuse to let their systems be used for war, and it was an ordinary thing when some of my graduating classmates refused to work at companies that did let their systems be used for war. Those refusals were on moral grounds.

Now Anthropic wants to have two narrow exceptions, on pragmatic and not moral grounds. To do so, they have to couch it in language clarifying that they would love to support war, actually, except for these two narrow exceptions. And their careful word choice suggests that they are either navigating or expect to navigate significant blowback for asking for two narrow exceptions.

My, the world has changed.

New comment by hglaser in "A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh"

hglaser — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:56:28 +0000

Yep. We had to do a surprising amount of work to solve this in our product: https://www.kitewing.ai/blog/stateless-agents-stateful-produ...

Very weird that the foundational LLM companies' own chat pages don't do this.

Building a Resilient, Multi-User Agentic Streaming Application

hglaser — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:05:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kitewing.ai/blog/stateless-agents-stateful-product/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081706

Points: 1

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New comment by hglaser in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

hglaser — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:14:15 +0000

It was indeed originally conceived as 5 seasons, but the creator Tony Gilroy has consistently said shortening it was his decision because the production was too long and taxing:

"We were halfway through shooting season 1, coming through Covid, and the monumental size of the show, the effort, and everything else was just dawning on us. We realized that I didn't have enough calories to do it, and Diego's face couldn't take the timing, because it just takes too long to make it."

https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/star-wars-tv-shows/...

"By that point, the work that was required to make the show, at its minimum, was just dazzlingly blinding to look at. And Diego was like ‘Oh my god, we told them we’d do five years.’ Nobody, if we were gonna do it like this, you couldn’t physically do it. It was just impossible."

https://screenrant.com/andor-tony-gilroy-original-five-seaso...

New comment by hglaser in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

hglaser — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:36:47 +0000

Am I the only one who feels like this is obviated by Docker?

uv is a clear improvement over pip and venv, for sure.

But I do everything in dev containers these days. Very few things get to install on my laptop itself outside a container. I've gotten so used to this that tools that uninstall/install packages on my box on the fly give me the heebie-jeebies.

A 127-year old ham sandwich ekiben

hglaser — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:56:11 +0000

Article URL: https://frankbear.substack.com/p/the-story-behind-the-story-of-a-127

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428826

Points: 2

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Our relationship to technology is broken

hglaser — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:31:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.harryglaser.com/our-relationship-to-technology-is-broken/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44903244

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Don't Start an Analytics Company

hglaser — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:36:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.harryglaser.com/dont-start-an-analytics-company/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39412676

Points: 2

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What I learned selling my company

hglaser — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 23:24:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.harryglaser.com/what-i-learned-selling-my-company/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38975561

Points: 275

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Snowflake Snowpark Python First Impressions

hglaser — Tue, 31 May 2022 18:42:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.modelbit.com/blog/snowpark-python-first-impressions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573234

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

How to call a Lambda function in another account from AWS Redshift

hglaser — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:44:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.modelbit.com/blog/how-to-call-a-lambda-function-in-another-account-from-aws-redshift

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443904

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How to deploy an ML model to production with one line of code

hglaser — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 17:28:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.modelbit.com/blog/how-to-deploy-an-ml-model-to-production-with-one-line-of-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275337

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hglaser in "Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript"

hglaser — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 19:48:47 +0000

Always happy to talk! harry at periscopedata.com

New comment by hglaser in "Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript"

hglaser — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 18:34:39 +0000

Appreciate the feedback!

Yeah, the hack you described for CIs is typical of "80% charting". We have a list of probably thousands of longtail visualization requests and we're way past the 80/20 point.

These days customers who want to go 100% use the Python/R editors and do their custom visualization there. So you do your SQL query like usual, but then pipe it to Python/R for the visualization. Have you tried that, and has it worked for you? Or do you prefer another model?

New comment by hglaser in "Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript"

hglaser — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:25:35 +0000

Hey `cpsempek, Periscope Data CEO here.

In a perfect world, how would the charting in Periscope work? How would you want to go from getting 80% very fast, to going to 100%, in the same software?

A Whole New World for Data Teams

hglaser — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 19:36:28 +0000

Article URL: http://dataconomy.com/2018/02/whole-new-world-data-teams/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16327337

Points: 1

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New comment by hglaser in "Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Steps Aside, Focuses on Initialized Capital"

hglaser — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 19:34:40 +0000

It's likely that the largest advertisers don't use the self-serve ad manager. They call their rep who operates the system for them. This is why the self-serve ad managers for AdWords, Facebook Ads, etc. are all pretty unloved.

Periscope Data Community for Data Analysts

hglaser — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:19:59 +0000

Article URL: https://community.periscopedata.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15510792

Points: 3

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