Hacker News: ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ktimespiHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:04:43 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"]]>I think there are solutions to the UPI problem which are not whatever this is. Cash has been a huge pain point in India for a while now.

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:03:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342796ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342796https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342796<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"]]>Agreed, deterministically bounding permissions is the way. I don't know how this is not the first approach that people take.

]]>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:56:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023724ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023724https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023724<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "Everyone should know SIMD"]]>The biggest barrier I faced learning SIMD is the weird naming convention for intrinsics.

Once I got past that, it was fairly simple. mcyoung's articles were also super helpful

]]>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:37:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013795ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013795https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013795<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "How did I publish a paper in ACMKDD as an undergraduate"]]>An interesting article about how Jarret (author of the article) came up with the precursor to FSRS (Free Space Repetition Scheduler), the algorithm used by default in Anki now

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:33:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987730ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987730https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987730<![CDATA[How did I publish a paper in ACMKDD as an undergraduate]]>Article URL: https://medium.com/@JarrettYe/how-did-i-publish-a-paper-in-acmkdd-as-an-undergraduate-c0199baddf31

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987729

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:33:47 +0000https://medium.com/@JarrettYe/how-did-i-publish-a-paper-in-acmkdd-as-an-undergraduate-c0199baddf31ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987729https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987729<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "Job queues are deceptively tricky"]]>I find it very annoying when queue problems break into queue-of-queue patterns like in the `wait`scenario

]]>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:36:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929425ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929425<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh"]]>I'm a fan of this project. Great work!

]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:29:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876056ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876056https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876056<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"]]>It does need quite a bit of time to be productive with... That being said, Rust by Example is good

]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862496ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862496https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862496<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence"]]>Incredibly yucky of Zuckerberg do that. I found it very hard to read through that part.

]]>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:23:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703120ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703120https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703120<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"]]>Aren't decimal types BCD coded?

]]>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:57:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702583ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702583https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702583<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence"]]>The major allegations are about Meta bringing authoritarians to power while shirking responsibility for making that happen

]]>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:42:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702479ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702479https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702479<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"]]>If this can learn my patterns, that itself is enough. Google Keyboard used to do this, but mysteriously doesn't do it anymore.

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:18:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652257ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652257https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652257<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel"]]>Pretty cool to read it directly from the associated device XD

Did you write a metadata parser for most of the filesystems?

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:15:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652225ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652225https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652225<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel"]]>If the disk decides to falsely report a flush, there's not much you can do about it from the user side, no?

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:13:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652203ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652203https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652203<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "Claude Design"]]>Is this really that big of a moat for Figma to cross though? They would have a much easier time integrating AI than the other way around

]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:39:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807825ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807825https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807825<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts"]]>finally.

]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:27:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787186ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787186https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787186<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"]]>I guess this is breaking ToS?

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:04:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781960ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781960https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781960<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "S3 Files"]]>s3fs can do partial reads too with range queries, I'm leaning more towards the tradeoff.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:22:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697461ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697461https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697461<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "S3 Files"]]>This was my concern too. The whole point of using S3 as a file system instead of EBS / EFS (for me at least) is to minimize cost and I don't really see why I would use this instead of s3fs.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:27:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684188ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684188https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684188<![CDATA[New comment by ktimespi in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"]]>This is ideal for my use case, yeah. No need to fiddle around with another app's UI.

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:02:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669444ktimespihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669444https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669444