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New comment by hikarudo in "Mistral OCR 4"

hikarudo — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:53:37 +0000

Fun fact: one of Yann LeCun's first 'deep learning' projects was on OCR for postal codes (MNIST).

New comment by hikarudo in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

hikarudo — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:38:35 +0000

In Japan, I learned to drink water upside down to stop hiccups. Works for me, whereas drinking normally doesn't.

New comment by hikarudo in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

hikarudo — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:25:53 +0000

Thanks for the correction. You're absolutely right.

New comment by hikarudo in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

hikarudo — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:14:25 +0000

It's not a market failure, it's just supply and demand. There are many computer components competing for the same resources (fabs, wafers). Demand for GPUs, RAM etc. has increased a lot due to AI, but supply is still the same due to new fabs being huge investments that take years to build. Of course the price goes up.

New comment by hikarudo in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"

hikarudo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:39:40 +0000

WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted. No one at Meta can read your messages.

New comment by hikarudo in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

hikarudo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:36:18 +0000

> Once you reach this stage, the only escape is to first cover everything with tests and then meticulously fix bugs

The exact same approach is recommended in the book "Working effectively with legacy code" by Michael Feathers, with several techniques on how to do it. He describes legacy code as 'code with no tests'.

New comment by hikarudo in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

hikarudo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:29:09 +0000

Also checkout Deepmind's "The Gemma 4 Good Hackathon" on kaggle:

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/gemma-4-good-hackathon

New comment by hikarudo in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

hikarudo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:57:56 +0000

One trick I use all the time:

You're typing a long command, then before running it you remember you have to do some stuff first. Instead of Ctrl-C to cancel it, you push it to history in a disabled form.

Prepend the line with # to comment it, run the commented line so it gets added to history, do whatever it is you remembered, then up arrow to retrieve the first command.

$ long_command

$ #long_command

$ stuff_1 $ stuff_2

$ #long_command

$ long_command

New comment by hikarudo in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

hikarudo — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:37:28 +0000

Why 25%, shouldn't it be 12.5%? 8 ECC bits for every 64 bits.

New comment by hikarudo in "Show HN: Quibbler – A critic for your coding agent that learns what you want"

hikarudo — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:15:55 +0000

A gentleman's gentleman!

New comment by hikarudo in "Why Property Testing Finds Bugs Unit Testing Does Not (2021)"

hikarudo — Wed, 21 May 2025 14:32:16 +0000

Here's a great talk by John Hughes, one of the authors of QuickCheck, with real-life examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi0rHwfiX1Q

New comment by hikarudo in "Show HN: memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode"

hikarudo — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 19:37:56 +0000

I used a similar setup for a while: Obsidian for taking notes in markdown, and vscode for coding.

Eventually I moved to using vscode for both. My gigantic notes.md file is always open in tab 1, so I can go to it immediately with Ctrl + 1.

Finding notes in a single file is easier for me than finding them in a bazillion tiny files. And there's less friction whenever I need to make a note (no need to create and name a new file).

New comment by hikarudo in "The race is on to build the most complex machine"

hikarudo — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:06:40 +0000

Also see "I Pencil" by Leonard Read (1958).

New comment by hikarudo in "A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter"

hikarudo — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:02:29 +0000

> we've had that idea since at least Hofstadter and his sentient ant nests.

A similar idea is present in Herbert Simon's 'The sciences of the artificial', where he describes a sentient city.

New comment by hikarudo in "F-strings for C++26 proposal [pdf]"

hikarudo — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:38:16 +0000

Sincere question: what's wrong with Python f-strings?

New comment by hikarudo in "Ask HN: Programmers who aren't front/back end/web developers, what is your job?"

hikarudo — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:29:58 +0000

Computer vision. C++ and Python.

New comment by hikarudo in "System design and the cost of architectural complexity (2013)"

hikarudo — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 04:11:55 +0000

That was Blaise Pascal.

New comment by hikarudo in "Jaron Lanier on the danger of AI"

hikarudo — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:46:51 +0000

"Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

New comment by hikarudo in "Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?"

hikarudo — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 01:59:10 +0000

What an awesome story! Thanks for sharing.

New comment by hikarudo in "What's the most portable way to include binary blobs in an executable?"

hikarudo — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:41:21 +0000

You can split it up into several files, then concatenate the arrays at runtime.