Hacker News: jxub

The Pale

jxub — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:38:47 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242620

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Problem Solving vs. Problem Picking

jxub — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:04:26 +0000

Article URL: https://gkk.dev/posts/problem-solving-vs-problem-picking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42005978

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Shanghai Before the Foreigners

jxub — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:42:49 +0000

Article URL: https://jaapgrolleman.com/shanghai-before-the-foreigners/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41890642

Points: 75

# Comments: 42

Eating Through the Chinese Far North East

jxub — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:36:11 +0000

Article URL: https://stickystories.net/2020/05/16/eatingthroughharbin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839143

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jxub in "I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs"

jxub — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:53:55 +0000

Apologies - it didn’t cross my mind!

I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs

jxub — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:23:09 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/mohapatrahemant/status/1809135345683841050

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40882077

Points: 183

# Comments: 130

Taking a Look at (Some) Tokenizers

jxub — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:06:05 +0000

Article URL: https://martnquesada.github.io/blog/2023/05/taking-a-look-at-some-tokenizers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40716300

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How to Do the Jhanas

jxub — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:12:32 +0000

Article URL: https://nadia.xyz/jhanas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40705817

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Pu Erh Tea Market Crash: The Boom and Bust Revisited (2017)

jxub — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 15:47:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.teasenz.com/chinese-tea/2007-pu-erh-tea-market-crash-boom-bust-crisis-recession.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618325

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

China's tiered city system explained (2016)

jxub — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:00:36 +0000

Article URL: https://multimedia.scmp.com/2016/cities/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043367

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

In China, what you eat tells who you are (2011)

jxub — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 13:58:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2011-sep-16-la-fg-china-elite-farm-20110917-story.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38854081

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Strange Survival of Guinness World Records

jxub — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:20:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/may/25/guinness-world-records-norris-mcwhirter-ashrita-furman

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36403547

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Notes on Nigeria

jxub — Thu, 11 May 2023 07:20:58 +0000

Article URL: https://mattlakeman.org/2023/05/09/notes-on-nigeria/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35898873

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Accent Addition: Prosody and Perception Facilitate Second Language Learning

jxub — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:27:59 +0000

Article URL: http://olle-kjellin.com/SpeechDoctor/ProcLP98.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32217356

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Wages and Prices in the Soviet Union (1936)

jxub — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 22:05:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/vol03/no03/wollenberg.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31855700

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

English Is Not Normal

jxub — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:22:45 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31643181

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by jxub in "What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?"

jxub — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 19:28:24 +0000

Anywhere in Southern or Eastern Europe that’s pretty much always the case.

Explaining the Brilliance and Insanity of the Russian Language

jxub — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 10:07:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.slavadoesamerica.com/not-to-be-penis-like-explaining-the-brilliance-and-insanity-of-the-russian-language/

Hacker News: jxub

The Pale

Problem Solving vs. Problem Picking

Shanghai Before the Foreigners

Eating Through the Chinese Far North East

New comment by jxub in "I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs"

I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs

Taking a Look at (Some) Tokenizers

How to Do the Jhanas

Pu Erh Tea Market Crash: The Boom and Bust Revisited (2017)

China's tiered city system explained (2016)

In China, what you eat tells who you are (2011)

The Strange Survival of Guinness World Records

Notes on Nigeria

Accent Addition: Prosody and Perception Facilitate Second Language Learning

Wages and Prices in the Soviet Union (1936)

English Is Not Normal

New comment by jxub in "What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?"

Explaining the Brilliance and Insanity of the Russian Language

New comment by jxub in "Zas Editor"

New comment by jxub in "Thank You HN"