Hacker News: kristaps

New comment by kristaps in "Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard"

kristaps — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:16:12 +0000

The article specifically mentions US banks and as I personally didn't see any disruption over here - is there (anec)data on how popular CrowdStrike is in the US vs the EU?

New comment by kristaps in "Advent of Code 2023 is nigh"

kristaps — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:48:49 +0000

Try todays puzzle and let us know how part 2 goes!

New comment by kristaps in "Advent of Code 2023 is nigh"

kristaps — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:47:48 +0000

Yeah, that touch of ambiguity looked very deliberate, to give LLMs a hard time.

New comment by kristaps in "Advent of Code 2023 is nigh"

kristaps — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:41:04 +0000

Last year there were people solving the puzzles with LLMs, but I don't think I saw anyone get past day 5 or so.

I'm interested in how well it goes this year.

Please reply if you are trying yourself or can link to public attempts by others

New comment by kristaps in "Advent of Code 2023 is nigh"

kristaps — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:37:01 +0000

This year they politely ask people not to use LLM solutions until the days leaderboard is full.

New comment by kristaps in "An Internet of PHP"

kristaps — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 12:05:07 +0000

77% of top 10M sites - sounds like reeling in the long tail for effect, has to be way lower for the top 1K sites.

New comment by kristaps in "Podman v4.6 Introduces Podmansh: A Revolutionary Login Shell"

kristaps — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 07:57:50 +0000

Probably an 80s sysadmins dream, but are multi-user Unix machines really that much of a thing currently?

New comment by kristaps in "Python in 2023 still sucks at importing modules from another folder"

kristaps — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 04:27:25 +0000

For all the things wrong with node, I envy the relative filename importing they have when writing Python.

New comment by kristaps in "MusicGen: Simple and controllable music generation"

kristaps — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 18:38:16 +0000

Eh, could fit into a busier "Acrid avid jam shred", I think

New comment by kristaps in "Why the Ferrari F355 sounds so good"

kristaps — Sun, 07 May 2023 16:46:33 +0000

> As a four-stroke engine only fires twice for every rotation of the crankshaft

Should be the other way around, each cyinder fires once every two revolutions.

New comment by kristaps in "Mercedes-Benz workforce to receive record profit-sharing bonus"

kristaps — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:07:57 +0000

Meanwhile at Tesla ..

New comment by kristaps in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022"

kristaps — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:47:40 +0000

If your oven has an electronic timer, it should have a function to finish at time x, so you could even wake up to done ones. Great, for coming home from work to perfectly slow-cooked ribs, for example.

New comment by kristaps in "Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?"

kristaps — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 16:26:32 +0000

How are you coordinating the topics? Maybe by voice within earshot of a phone with Meta apps?

New comment by kristaps in "The Beloved Eagle 66 Squirt Oiler (2019) [video]"

kristaps — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:31:10 +0000

Yep, certified internet treasure

New comment by kristaps in "More content by people, for people in Search"

kristaps — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 09:33:28 +0000

Could it be that the results have gotten so bad that less people even bother with search, hurting ad revenue?

New comment by kristaps in "Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds"

kristaps — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:26:05 +0000

To nobodies surprise.

New comment by kristaps in "Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?"

kristaps — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:49:58 +0000

While I like Kubernetess generally, I agree that the OOM handling is not ideal, feels quite a bit like "exercise left to the reader".

New comment by kristaps in "China mortgage boycott data erased by censors as crisis spreads"

kristaps — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 18:21:53 +0000

Two things that come to mind: whip developers and if that doesn't do it, bail them out.

New comment by kristaps in "Dangit, Git?"

kristaps — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 17:57:55 +0000

Thanks, will be much more comfortable passing this one to my juniors!

New comment by kristaps in "Bitcoin Falls Below $20k for the First Time Since 2020"

kristaps — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 08:52:02 +0000

Dumb money drying up?