<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kyt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kyt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:22:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kyt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I must be the odd man out but I am not a fan of uv.<p>1. It tries to do too many things. Please just do one thing and do it well. It's simultaneously trying to replace pip, pyenv, virtualenv, and ruff in one command.<p>2. You end up needing to use `uv pip` so it's not even a full replacement for pip.<p>3. It does not play well with Docker.<p>4. It adds more complexity. You end up needing to understand all of these new environmental variables: `UV_TOOL_BIN_DIR`, `UV_SYSTEM_PYTHON`, `UV_LINK_MODE`, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:24:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751751</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45751751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "Introducing Qodo Gen CLI: Build and Run Coding Agents Anywhere in the SDLC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been doing software for 25 years and just had to look up SDLC ;).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:57:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378098</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378098</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "The Policy Puppetry Prompt: Novel bypass for major LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is an FM?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:49:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794906</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does anyone actually believe this is the full story? It has one primary source: her parents.<p>It says clearly in the article that she violated the terms of her visa according to ICE. Her parents never mention what the violation was. The idea she was deported for doing some chores around the house is laughable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:56:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426600</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "Show HN: We built an agentic image editor that preserves the original structure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting project. What makes this an agent? Just looks like an image transform that uses LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:00:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416017</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416017</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "Code reviews: A success story"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Disagree. It's <i>only</i> the author's fault. We can't expect engineers to write code and find every last bug in other people's code especially when PRs can be thousands of lines to review.<p>A broken culture would be expecting engineers to find every last bug in other people's code and blaming them for bugs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:45:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719456</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "Show HN: I built an open-source data pipeline tool in Go"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why use this over Meltano?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:41:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42444005</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42444005</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42444005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very interesting product!<p>I consider myself pretty financially literate, but I had no idea what an "expense ratio" was for certain. I assumed it meant fees but I had to look it up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:58:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42378645</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42378645</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42378645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "GGML – AI at the Edge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used the GGML version of Whisper and I had to revert back to the PyTorch version released by OpenAI. The GGML version simply didn't work well even for the same model. I am assuming it has to do with the quantization.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 04:26:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36222819</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36222819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36222819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "I talked to Leonardo da Vinci"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And here is the response generated by GPT-3:<p><i>This is a fictional but realistic interview with Leonardo Da Vinci based on his notebooks, and the biography by Walter Isaacson. His responses are either based on his writings, or research by Isaacson.</i><p>DKB: Did you struggle with perfectionism?<p>Leonardo: I sought perfection in everything I did, whether it was my art, my science, or my personal relationships. I was never satisfied with anything that I created, and always strived to improve upon it. This desire for perfection sometimes led to frustration, as I would often spend hours – even days – perfecting a single work, only to scrap it and start again if it didn’t meet my standards. But I believe that it was this striving for perfection that made me the renowned artist and scientist that I am today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 01:54:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32338488</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32338488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32338488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "It's legal to download The Great Gatsby in most of the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is the difference between inheriting money and inheriting copyrighted works?  One is a lump sum payment and the other is an annuity.  They're viewed vastly differently, but they're essentially both just winning the lottery.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 07:07:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5679185</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5679185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5679185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "No email at AngelList"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We looked into switching to HipChat, but we're sticking with Skype.  We really liked HipChat's interface and API, but there were a few negatives.<p>1) HipChat doesn't support audio only calls and conference calls.  This was a dealbreaker for us.
2) Skype has a much larger user base overall and we can use it with other non-company members.
3) One of our developers wrote a plugin to inline images into Skype, which is a nice feature of HipChat.
4) Skype is free.
5) Skype's messaging is P2P and works in our office when our internet goes down. (Thanks Time Warner)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:21:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5425861</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5425861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5425861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "Allstate compares SAS, Hadoop and R for Big-Data Insurance Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He forgot 5) Write it in C/C++.  150M records is not that large and using Hadoop, which is generally used for I/O bound problems, seems like overkill.  A lot of these problems can be avoided by simply dropping down to a lower level language.  For example, I was able to write a C implementation of a matrix factorization algorithm (100M records) that ran on my laptop in ~5 minutes.  The same algorithm took over 24 hours to run on a Mahout/Hadoop cluster (it also cost about $30 to run on AWS EMR).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:56:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5116377</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5116377</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5116377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "A year without caffeine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I haven't, but I wouldn't be surprised if I did.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:39:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5010107</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5010107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5010107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "A year without caffeine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm actually doing the opposite.  Up until a year ago I didn't drink coffee or any other caffeinated beverages.  In fact, I really didn't understand why people liked coffee as the taste never appealed to me.  Nonetheless I started off trying mochas from Starbucks in the afternoon at work and noticed a huge boost in productivity.  I felt energized and started to  cruise through projects.  Before I started drinking coffee I would get so tired that I would have to take naps during the day (and this is on 8-9 hours of sleep).  Now it's a reason to get up in the morning.<p>I've switched over to normal coffee and I'm still a pretty moderate drinker (5-6 cups a week).  I don't drink soda either, so it's my only source of caffeine generally.  I think it's fine in moderation and there are definitely some health benefits as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:37:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5009723</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5009723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5009723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "Brad Feld created a Hacker News-esque site, Startup Revolution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I doubt Brad spent much time on this.  If you notice, it's powered by "SocialEngine", which got its seed funding from TechStars where Brad is a mentor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:52:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4872904</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4872904</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4872904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "Programmer Time Translation Table"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've seen the inverse of this, though.  For example, I estimated it would take me a couple days to do finish one part of a project, but I told the PM one week.  She in turn multiplied it by 3 when she actually turned in the project schedule.  So at the end I was given 3 weeks for an estimated 2 day task.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 09:14:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4622946</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4622946</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4622946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "Myspace previews complete redesign"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Too little, too late.  Their brand is tarnished forever and they'll never recover.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:58:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567235</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "Google Spanner's Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Maybe this time Open Source efforts should focus elsewhere, innovating rather than following Google?"<p>There's a ton of innovative projects in the open source community, but it's difficult to convince people to use them.  Developing a clone of a Google tech has a built in marketing advantage: "Google uses something like this."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:12:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4565751</link><dc:creator>kyt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4565751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4565751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kyt in "App.net: or why you shouldn't copy a successful company"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All social networks suffer from 90/10 rule (90% of the content is generated by 10% of the users), so this really isn't surprising.<p>Other posters have mentioned this as well, but I think Twitter has too much momentum.  Someone trying to do the exact same thing from the end-user perspective isn't going to be able to compete.</p>
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