Hacker News: hyencomper

New comment by hyencomper in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

hyencomper — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:54:29 +0000

Awesome! Joby needs trained pilots so that may be a bottleneck to scaling. I am guessing they would have to create autonomous air taxis like EHang to scale.

New comment by hyencomper in "I Don't Like Magic"

hyencomper — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:51:01 +0000

If your project is on Github, you can also use https://deepwiki.com/. I have used it to get an overview of a new codebase quickly.

New comment by hyencomper in "Scientists genetically engineer a lethal mosquito STD to combat malaria"

hyencomper — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:45:03 +0000

Great work! Does this method have any distinct advantages over infecting mosquitos with Wolbachia? Thank you.

New comment by hyencomper in "I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it"

hyencomper — Thu, 22 May 2025 01:13:05 +0000

There was an earlier thread on tinnitus https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21572827 where people had some techniques for relief. Maybe this could be useful.

New comment by hyencomper in "Why lead is still bad for your brain"

hyencomper — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:47:10 +0000

You can buy a Lead Test Kit and check it yourself https://www.epa.gov/lead/lead-test-kits

New comment by hyencomper in "100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013)"

hyencomper — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:22:23 +0000

I think there would be open-source machine variants that many people could own and modify. As population growth is slowing, finite resources should hopefully have a better and wider distribution among people as they would not be constraints.

New comment by hyencomper in "Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort"

hyencomper — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 01:00:32 +0000

Incredible news! This should be replicated in tropics everywhere. In Singapore, the government is using Wolbachia mosquitoes to control the spread of vector mosquitoes, which looks like another effective solution.

New comment by hyencomper in "Laziness Death Spirals"

hyencomper — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:20:54 +0000

I checked if Algophilia is a thing. Algophilia. noun. - sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain

New comment by hyencomper in "Scaling up linear programming with PDLP"

hyencomper — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:54:46 +0000

In a professional context, I use it to help a client (chemicals company) optimize their deliveries to customers. They have > 100 production sites and thousands of customers, so LP is used to allocate customers to production sites based on the product-cost and availability at supply site and trucking costs. We have evaluated multiple solvers (Gurobi/ Llamasoft/ GAMS/ LocalSolver etc) for optimizing deliveries, as well as evaluating the cost impact of changes to the delivery network.

New comment by hyencomper in "Seoul authorities find Shein products contain high levels of toxic chemicals"

hyencomper — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 03:12:03 +0000

Nonplussed can mean either, just discussed here a month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40197346

New comment by hyencomper in "Calculus with Julia"

hyencomper — Sun, 19 May 2024 05:57:52 +0000

IMHO a HS student learning Calculus should first learn the subject with pen and paper for a while before programming. It is important to work through the problems and think about the fundamental concepts involved, rather than thinking about the syntax involved in coding their solutions. Practising with pen and paper helps to internalize the subject matter better.

New comment by hyencomper in "My coffee maker just makes coffee"

hyencomper — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:51:27 +0000

Just being pedantic - it is dyed in the wool, not died :)

New comment by hyencomper in "Ask HN: Why haven't bookmarks been re-invented?"

hyencomper — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 02:10:50 +0000

Chrome history has a Journeys tab which groups links together based on the same principle.

New comment by hyencomper in "A crash course in Python “comprehensions” and “generators”"

hyencomper — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:12:47 +0000

For cases like these, I use sql views - CREATE VIEW view as SELECT * .. Then DROP VIEW view.

New comment by hyencomper in "Predict HN: In 10 years, AI partners are the norm"

hyencomper — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 17:31:58 +0000

AGI has always been 10 years away.

New comment by hyencomper in "Life in the slow lane: how the slow cooker changed the world"

hyencomper — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:58:15 +0000

Have you tried a toaster oven. It heats up almost instantly, and makes great toast so you don't really need a toaster either.

LavaRand in Production: The Nitty-Gritty Technical Details (2017)

hyencomper — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 05:13:05 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty-gritty-technical-details/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31832288

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Startup Cerebral Soared on Easy Adderall Prescriptions. That Was Its Undoing

hyencomper — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:54:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cerebral-adderall-adhd-prescribe-11654705250

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31714117

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by hyencomper in "Wordle Now Redirects to NYT"

hyencomper — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:29:11 +0000

It did not redirect me on Edge. I'm in Singapore, so maybe that's why.

New comment by hyencomper in "Vitamin D supplementation reduces autoimmune disease risk in trial findings"

hyencomper — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 03:55:33 +0000

For Vitamin D synthesis, the sun needs to be at an angle of 50 degrees or higher. Depending on the latitude where you live, the sun may not get that high all winter so you may need to supplement.