Hacker News: izhak

New comment by izhak in "Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal"

izhak — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:25:19 +0000

vd (visidata) is amazing. The only tool that really works for me with millions of rows csv's

How the cochlea computes (2024)

izhak — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:01:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dissonances.blog/p/the-ear-does-not-do-a-fourier-transform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45762259

Points: 484

# Comments: 150

New comment by izhak in "Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser"

izhak — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 05:25:22 +0000

The guys behind have decent lisp and hacking skills and zero to none product thinking. The project is around for a while but the complete lack of ability to think about users or from the users perpective makes it a dead end

New comment by izhak in "Oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app"

izhak — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 04:11:21 +0000

UDP wouldn't route?..

New comment by izhak in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)"

izhak — Fri, 02 May 2025 11:20:17 +0000

Hey guys, Notion says: "No access to this page"

New comment by izhak in "Message stuck in Kafka queue for months delivered, writes bestselling novel"

izhak — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 05:08:52 +0000

llm-generated?

New comment by izhak in "Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass"

izhak — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:09:27 +0000

I live in Finland. Any chance I can get a "touch snow" option? Thanks.

Ask HN: Why do we organise files in pages?

izhak — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:23:56 +0000

It’s a common pattern found everywhere: ELF is paged based, most of dbs’ files, PDF is page based and what not.

Why is that? Whats the major point(s?) behind this design?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42802617

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Just a photo of a dog on the ruins of its house destroyed by a missile, today

izhak — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:10:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.facebook.com/inukraine.official/photos/a.1448141988826234/3016448055328945/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083598

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

Antifragile reduced to 600 words (2012)

izhak — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 11:20:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/02/antifragile-nassim-nicholas-taleb-review

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34856605

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by izhak in "Estonia: Become an E-Resident"

izhak — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:44:55 +0000

…and pay 50%+ taxes the moment you withdraw your money

Tell HN: Check TAOCP knwldge instd of Leetcode as a standard interview process

izhak — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:29:45 +0000

That's it, that's the whole idea. Should be so much practical and rational than what we have now.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33587014

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by izhak in "The German School of Lisp (2011)"

izhak — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 13:51:00 +0000

You could change the “Lisp” in your comment to “Programming Language” to make the answer less unobvious.

New comment by izhak in "Why mathematicians study knots"

izhak — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:25:11 +0000

As for knots - they say there is a significant interception in the center of the venn diagram of shibarists, scouts and climbers, not that sure about mathematicians though

New comment by izhak in "History and effective use of Vim (2019)"

izhak — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:49:27 +0000

Just asked my Emacs to open the link, read it and summarize it out loud for me with emacspeak.

New comment by izhak in "About communication safety in Messages"

izhak — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 20:31:10 +0000

So, this article is not about using Messages in a way that could get you safe through Russian filtration camps (in case you haven't manage to evacuate before your city was occupied) where you phone is thoroughly examined and both having some suspicious messages and not having them at all could get you into trouble (meaning torture/death). It's about nude photos.

New comment by izhak in "Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store"

izhak — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 12:46:28 +0000

Not trolling or trying to downplay anybody here, but honestly - how “kvass” (readed as “k-v-ass” given it is a “key-value” storage) is a good name?..

New comment by izhak in "Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam"

izhak — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 06:33:57 +0000

If that's true then:

1. Either LinkedIn is hacked by drug mafia 2. Or drug mafia has people inside LinkedIn

But first thing - you should share you full report that you've sent to LinkedIn. You don't risk outing yourself - since mafia already knows your account.

New comment by izhak in "Ask HN: Examples of good technical writing?"

izhak — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 17:08:48 +0000

All W. Richard Stevens books.

New comment by izhak in "I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX"

izhak — Tue, 24 May 2022 13:41:48 +0000

I would disagree. You can play the violin firstly because the violin was designed so that it could produce beautiful sounds under _human_hands_. This way, not another.