Hacker News: malingo

Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007)

malingo — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:50:30 +0000

Article URL: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44515058

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by malingo in "Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit"

malingo — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 03:50:25 +0000

"when you ask him anything, he never answers 'no' -- he just yesses you to death and then he takes your dough"

New comment by malingo in "A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon"

malingo — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:15:42 +0000

No "level set"?? Booo

New comment by malingo in "Show HN: Time Flies"

malingo — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:40:43 +0000

Miles Davis, 1953: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEfofdhwpc

New comment by malingo in "Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park"

malingo — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 03:59:39 +0000

Just this morning when I couldn't sleep I was reading the Wikipedia E-M algorithm page with its illustration of clustering the bimodal eruption distribution of Old Faithful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%E2%80%93maximiza...

New comment by malingo in "Guide to attending a space launch in person"

malingo — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:25:35 +0000

I've always loved Penn Jilette's account of attending a space shuttle launch: https://web.archive.org/web/20221026023636/https://www.tumbl...

New comment by malingo in "Advantages of incompetent management"

malingo — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 23:24:48 +0000

> Decisions should be made by those with the best information.

Sounds a lot like the Chevron Deference doctrine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820949

New comment by malingo in "Subducting plate structure and megathrust morphology at Cascadia"

malingo — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 05:39:28 +0000

Obligatory link to "The Really Big One" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

New comment by malingo in "In Praise of Idleness (1932)"

malingo — Sat, 04 May 2024 21:50:49 +0000

Reminds me a little of hammock-driven development [1]

> the background mind is good at synthesizing things. It's good about strategy

[1] https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...

New comment by malingo in "Prostate cancer cases worldwide likely to double by 2040, analysis finds"

malingo — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 04:41:19 +0000

PSA tests are easy and cheap enough that any concerning single result should be followed up with several more to see if there's an increasing / accelerating trend. An elevated but flat trend could be BPH, and as others have mentioned, a single elevated result can be caused by many things (prostatitis, etc).

New comment by malingo in "The Tale of Daniel"

malingo — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 05:52:40 +0000

The story of Daniel killing the dragon with hair cakes is also pretty good: https://biblehub.com/catholic/daniel/14-26.htm

New comment by malingo in "Error Handling in Baby Toys"

malingo — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 05:35:58 +0000

Ha I did the same thing after that apple was on our fridge a few days. I wondered "how does it know which letter tile is inserted?" Looked at the back of a couple of the tiles, sure enough, binary. Good catch on the ASCII values!

New comment by malingo in "Git as a debugging tool"

malingo — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 20:57:56 +0000

git diff-tree [1] is also super helpful. I've use it a lot to ensure the codebase after a complex rebase is in an identical state as before.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff-tree

On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV

malingo — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/knowledge/trivia02/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39700655

Points: 349

# Comments: 259

New comment by malingo in "Crime rings trafficking sand"

malingo — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:41:45 +0000

"Sand is one of our most widely used natural resources, but it’s scarcer than you think."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-r...

New comment by malingo in "Send Me to Heaven"

malingo — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:24:24 +0000

I had heard of this before..

>Sergey [Brin] wrote an app that lets you throw phone up in the air, measure how many seconds until you catch it or it hits the floor.

https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/9/our-favorite-part-of-...

New comment by malingo in "Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’"

malingo — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 04:29:19 +0000

Still remember seeing the first episode of Æon Flux on late night MTV when I was 13. Good stuff

AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video]

malingo — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 06:35:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37841620

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by malingo in "Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages"

malingo — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 15:05:32 +0000

Similar in spirit to the `until` loop.

New comment by malingo in "Why Craigslist still looks the same after 25 years"

malingo — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:54:08 +0000

I think it's the certain markets that determine how useful CL is--I'm also in LA. I've mainly dealt in furniture & electronics, and CL in other cities, particularly Minneapolis, was a dream, so good in fact that I didn't know FB marketplace existed until I moved to LA and had to look elsewhere after seeing how bad the CL market for used stuff was.