Hacker News: martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=martinky24Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:28:24 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "EFF is leaving X"]]>From a throwaway...

]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:38:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706739martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706739https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706739<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance"]]>I've been using ty on some previously untyped codebases at work. It does a good job of being fast and easy to use while catching many issues without being overly draconian.

My teammates who were writing untyped Python previously don't seem to mind it. It's a good addition to the ecosystem!

]]>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:57:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399907martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399907https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399907<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "The $14 Burrito: Why San Francisco Inflation Feels Higher Than 2.5%"]]>Paying people a livable wage is a good thing.

]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:37:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529477martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529477https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529477<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "The $14 Burrito: Why San Francisco Inflation Feels Higher Than 2.5%"]]>Which is a good thing!

]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:32:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529398martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529398https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529398<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python"]]>This is an excellent resource. I'm not a DSP expert, but I work in the field, and this is usually the first resource I go to when I need to re-familiarize myself with some basics.

]]>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:01:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414954martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414954https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414954<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "30 years of <br> tags"]]>I really enjoyed reading this, especially as someone who hasn’t done much web front end work!

]]>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:25:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46263698martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46263698https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46263698<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source"]]>It's telling that Wolfram / Mathemetica doesn't even come up in a blog post like this, as the inventors of "the notebook". Jupyter took the concept to a whole new level, but the concept did originate in Mathematica 30 years ago!

]]>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:50:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815196martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815196https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815196<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"]]>That website has never once paid out a bounty? hmm...

]]>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:26:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739440martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739440https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739440<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support"]]>Many people have more than 1 server that need to generate coherent identifiers amongst one another. That's not a "Google scale" thing.

]]>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:08:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622095martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622095https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622095<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support"]]>You don’t scale horizontally, do you?

]]>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:42:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45621815martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45621815https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45621815<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal"]]>What suggests SAR over downlink...?

]]>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:36:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45617280martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45617280https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45617280<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "An open-source maintainer's guide to saying “no”"]]>“What if we added a GUI based web browser to CURL?”

]]>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:42:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45235572martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45235572https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45235572<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "I don't buy Macs anymore"]]>OP lost me when he said the edges of his Mac were “painfully sharp”…

]]>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:46:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991814martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991814https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991814<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"]]>Lmao at that probably

]]>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 01:10:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907584martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907584https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907584<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "So You Bought a Fancy Vintage Car. Now Who's Going to Restore It?"]]>“Go to waste” is such a weird way to think about a 5 decade career.

]]>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 03:45:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884475martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884475https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884475<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "AirPods succeed by not selling you a new pair"]]>The article is specifically (in the first sentence) about wireless earbuds. Comparing AirPods to traditional over-the-ear headphones is like comparing the longevity of a smartphone to that of a laptop.

]]>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:37:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606742martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606742https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606742<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting"]]>They said "hard proof". Can you point to openly available "hard proof"? Otherwise your reply is just snark that doesn't add much.

]]>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:15:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314078martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314078https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314078<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "Cloud Repatriation Is Getting Complicated"]]>Did you read the article? He pretty plainly talks about smart companies who did the analysis and never moved to the cloud in it.

]]>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:38:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44262245martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44262245https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44262245<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "Show HN: Wetlands – a lightweight Python library for managing Conda environments"]]>Because conda has been around for years and uv is more or less brand new. It's pretty much as simple as that.

]]>Wed, 28 May 2025 15:19:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44116956martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44116956https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44116956<![CDATA[New comment by martinky24 in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"]]>Ahh, it's the fault of the brown folk with a funny accent. I see.

]]>Mon, 26 May 2025 21:00:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101633martinky24https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101633https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101633