Hacker News: janis1234

New comment by janis1234 in "Microgpt"

janis1234 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:23:10 +0000

I found reading Linux source more useful than learning about xv6 because I run Linux and reading through source felt immediately useful. I.e, tracing exactly how a real process I work with everyday gets created.

Can you explain this O(n2) vs O(n) significance better?

New comment by janis1234 in "Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?"

janis1234 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 01:38:25 +0000

Have you considered EBPF filter that looks for 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; crawler)' and drops packets from that IP for 1 hr where it just straight drops packets. I.e, this is probably best way to handle bots, don't even reply so they have to timeout which usually is a few seconds.

New comment by janis1234 in "Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week"

janis1234 — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:07:07 +0000

good sick of all the cheap Chinese products that break in a week and have to order another. Even the clothing seems to fade and be useless in 6 months.

New comment by janis1234 in "Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production"

janis1234 — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:05:13 +0000

from my understanding RISC-V chips are slower and more expensive and less optimized compilers, so why in the world would an end user use one?

New comment by janis1234 in "America's financial system came close to the brink"

janis1234 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:05:01 +0000

Can what you explain what the significance of the US 10 year yield going up is?

New comment by janis1234 in "Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms"

janis1234 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:39:50 +0000

Book is 10 years old, isn't it outdated?

New comment by janis1234 in "L.A. man stabbed, shot and pushed off cliff lives to testify about alleged hit"

janis1234 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:51:04 +0000

Wonder what percent of illegals are criminals (other than being illegals). My guess is 10 percent (but no idea Trump probably thinks 80 percent) and is why most people in California consider illegal immigration as acceptable.

New comment by janis1234 in "Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals"

janis1234 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:23:43 +0000

interoperability with subpar user experience is just an excuse for poor engineering or low resources. I.e, my x-wifi-network card doesn't work in Linux. No one is spending time making it work / too many devices to test properly. It is the manufacturers responsibility to make it work with linux and they don't care so there are a few people that make it work and write generic drivers that may or may not be optimized to the specific manufature. Same story for all " interoperability subpar user experience"

New comment by janis1234 in "NASA chief scientist fired in first round of Trump-ordered cuts"

janis1234 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:39:58 +0000

Unfortunately many of these scientist stopped doing science and became activist.

New comment by janis1234 in "Mistral OCR"

janis1234 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:14:36 +0000

$1 for 1000 pages seems high to me. Doing a google search

Rent and Reserve NVIDIA A100 GPU 80GB - Pricing Starts from $1.35/hour

I just don't know if in 1 hour and with a A100 I can process more than a 1000 pages. I'm guessing yes.

New comment by janis1234 in "An observational study of programming and cannabis intoxication"

janis1234 — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 20:45:19 +0000

Don't really need a study for something you can figure out fairly easily on your own. I tried to smoke and program probably 3 times and results were always the same. Significantly less productive. Started working on tasks not aligned with larger goal. Had many ideas that seemed amazing at the time and later found out to be dumb. In that sense it is creative enhancement in that you consider more idea, but just in general most ideas are dumb. Difficult to stay focused on the most important task and makes me wonder more. Loss of focus.

The real question is: How do I use cannabis correctly? What can it actually do for you?

From my experience smoking once every 2 months has net benefit... It cannot help you program but it can help you higher level ideas related to programming. It can answer the why better than it can answer the how. It can be a reset and motivation and prevent you from burn out even if you are working more than 60 hrs a week. But it is dangerous in that you want to get the relief constantly, so from my experience once every 2 months is fine.