Hacker News: lrobinovitch

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal"

lrobinovitch — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:36:00 +0000

A modern launch of a similar tool: https://github.com/maaslalani/sheets

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

lrobinovitch — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:36:47 +0000

The reasonable suspicion around random people wearing secret face cameras is consistent with the idea that both more government and more corporate surveillance are bad.

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Beets: The music geek’s media organizer"

lrobinovitch — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 03:17:01 +0000

Nice! Have you figured out how to manage album art with beets-alternatives?

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Show HN: Sculptor – A UI for Claude Code"

lrobinovitch — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:55:58 +0000

Been fortunate to get to try out Sculptor in pre-release - it's great. Like claude code with task parallelism and history built in, all with a clean UI.

New comment by lrobinovitch in "The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding"

lrobinovitch — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 03:05:16 +0000

Also linked in the article, https://esolangs.org is worth a read if this is up your alley

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Python developers are embracing type hints"

lrobinovitch — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 23:14:26 +0000

What exactly drove you nuts? The python ecosystem is very broad and useful, so it might be suitable for the application (if not, reasonable that you'd be frustrated). With strict mypy/pyright settings and an internal type-everything culture, Python feels statically typed IME.

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Jujutsu for everyone"

lrobinovitch — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:18:55 +0000

That makes sense, good to know, thanks.

> I basically always force push

How do your colleagues deal with this, or is this mostly on experimental branches or individual projects?

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Jujutsu for everyone"

lrobinovitch — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:56:51 +0000

You have to force push each time you do this, right? How do your coworkers find the incremental change you made to commit 1 after you force push it, and how do you deal with collaborative branches effectively this way? And if I don't want to work this way and force push, are there other benefits of jj?

Change the Game: Economic and Social Game Theory

lrobinovitch — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:29:58 +0000

Article URL: https://mallman.notion.site/articles

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43748505

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

lrobinovitch — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 05:10:46 +0000

Ha, I made something in the same vein a few years ago: https://colorcontroversy.com/

Administrivia: Reconsidering the Engineering and Management Tracks

lrobinovitch — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 15:03:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.colinbreck.com/administrivia-reconsidering-the-engineering-and-management-tracks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41093671

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Oscar Zariski was one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry"

lrobinovitch — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 14:15:49 +0000

It's unclear to me what you're defining as real. Coal mining? Childcare? Community centers? Through hiking? Interesting theoretical realms can have enormous consequences in the physical/tangible world, as I'm sure you know :). Maybe it's more of a "presence factor" in relation to this story: a measure of how aware you are of the roles and responsibilities you have and how engaged with them you are.

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)"

lrobinovitch — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:07:41 +0000

NYC was also my least favorite part of Recurse. I had to move 2 weeks in because my first apartment was right next to the train.

I absolutely loved Recurse though and credit it for a lot of my development as a programmer and it's my favorite programming community.

Luckily you can also do Recurse remotely now!

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Do you really need foreign keys?"

lrobinovitch — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:46:38 +0000

This github issue is often linked when this topic is discussed: https://github.com/github/gh-ost/issues/331

> Personally, it took me quite a few years to make up my mind about whether foreign keys are good or evil, and for the past 3 years I'm in the unchanging strong opinion that foreign keys should not be used. Main reasons are:

> * FKs are in your way to shard your database. Your app is accustomed to rely on FK to maintain integrity, instead of doing it on its own. It may even rely on FK to cascade deletes (shudder). When eventually you want to shard or extract data out, you need to change & test the app to an unknown extent.

> * FKs are a performance impact. The fact they require indexes is likely fine, since those indexes are needed anyhow. But the lookup made for each insert/delete is an overhead.

> * FKs don't work well with online schema migrations.

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?"

lrobinovitch — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 16:57:21 +0000

Myst has parity with most reST features and is equivalent to markdown for users not using those features: https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/v0.13.7/using/syntax.h...

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?"

lrobinovitch — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 16:28:23 +0000

A Sphinx plugin[0] allows for writing in markdown, and I'd heavily encourage using it if you're looking to get widespread adoption of sphinx on a project or at a workplace. Rst is fine once you learn it but removing barriers to entry is useful.

[0] https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/markdown.html

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Pigz: Parallel gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines"

lrobinovitch — Fri, 12 May 2023 14:16:48 +0000

All the episodes of your podcast are excellent. Thank you for making it and keep it up! Just became a Patreon supporter, been meaning to for a while.

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Learning DNS in 10 Years"

lrobinovitch — Tue, 09 May 2023 09:12:32 +0000

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Learning DNS in 10 Years"

lrobinovitch — Tue, 09 May 2023 09:11:23 +0000

> Ten years isn't seeming nearly long enough anymore.

I'm getting better at feeling energized by this view rather than sad and overwhelmed. Something about embracing my inner dummy and keeping the beginner's mind attitude at the forefront.

Every day I interact with coworkers who know way more about computer stuffs than me and coworkers who I know way more about computer stuffs than them. We are all on this exciting bottomless journey of knowledge and mastery together and it's awesome.

Each level of abstraction unveiled is itself interesting, even if it's still hundreds of layers above the ground floor. Reminds me of the Feynman quote “Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough”.

I feel lucky to have found a career in which I enjoy the minutia as well as the bigger picture, and it also happens to be able to create incredible real world value when applied to the right problems in the right ways.

New comment by lrobinovitch in "Ink: React for interactive command-line apps"

lrobinovitch — Mon, 08 May 2023 21:31:07 +0000

Similarly there is Lipgloss for the Go ecosystem