Hacker News: mayank

New comment by mayank in "Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)"

mayank — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 05:42:48 +0000

Indeed! It’s a form of a branch table: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_table

New comment by mayank in "Technical debt vs. technical assets: What's the difference?"

mayank — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 04:25:08 +0000

Got a source for this? Because it’s brilliant.

New comment by mayank in "Comparison of Claude Sonnet 3.5, GPT-4o, o1, and Gemini 1.5 Pro for coding"

mayank — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:49:39 +0000

Agreed and flagged, this almost seems LLM written, not a bit of data.

New comment by mayank in "Launch HN: Fresco (YC F24) – AI Copilot for Construction Superintendents"

mayank — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:57:22 +0000

This seems odd. If your scribe can lie in complex and sometimes hard to detect ways, how do you not see some form of risk? What happens when (not if) your scribe misses something and real world damages ensue as a result? Are you expecting your users to cross check every report? And if so, what’s the benefit of your product?

New comment by mayank in "Slack AI Training with Customer Data"

mayank — Fri, 17 May 2024 00:25:28 +0000

> They need to reword this. Whoever wrote it is a liability

Sounds like it’s been written specifically to avoid liability.

New comment by mayank in "The lifecycle of a code AI completion"

mayank — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 20:19:59 +0000

Very interesting! I wonder to what extent this assumption is true in tying completions to traditional code autocomplete.

> One of the biggest constraints on the retrieval implementation is latency

If I’m getting a multi line block of code written automagically for me based on comments and the like, I’d personally value quality over latency and be more than happy to wait on a spinner. And I’d also be happy to map separate shortcuts for when I’m prepared to do so (avoiding the need to detect my intent).

New comment by mayank in "How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket"

mayank — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:45:12 +0000

> aws s3 bucket needs to match the domain for website hosting.

This is outdated information, and not required anymore when using CloudFront.

And even in the past, you could use the S3 API to implement a reverse proxy without matching bucket and domain names.

New comment by mayank in "The One Billion Row Challenge"

mayank — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 09:17:22 +0000

> the minimal runtime is typically the best estimator

Depends what you’re estimating. The minimum is usually not representative of “real world” performance, which is why we use measures of central tendency over many runs for performance benchmarks.

New comment by mayank in "The One Billion Row Challenge"

mayank — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:35:38 +0000

This is a pretty standard measure called the Trimmed Mean: https://statisticsbyjim.com/basics/trimmed-mean/

New comment by mayank in "UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts"

mayank — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:07:56 +0000

Very debatable, if both are done right.

New comment by mayank in "Vector Search with OpenAI Embeddings: Lucene Is All You Need"

mayank — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 20:14:13 +0000

It is in industry, but you may be shocked if you read “research code”

New comment by mayank in "Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI"

mayank — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 17:02:50 +0000

> You don't actually write code with e2b. You write technical specs and then collaborate with an AI agent.

If I want to change 1 character of a generated source file, can I just go do that or will I have to figure out how to prompt the change in natural language?

New comment by mayank in "Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs"

mayank — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:58:19 +0000

> Because there are many services (each with their own readiness criteria), a cold boot takes a long time until all services stabilize (worst case I've seen was over 30 minutes). With hibernation they can resume where they started off within a couple of minutes.

This is exactly what we use hibernation for in conjunction with EC2 Warm Pools -- fast autoscaling of services that have long boot times. There's an argument to be made that fixing slow boots should be the "correct" solution, but in large enough organizations, hibernated instances are a convenient workaround to buy you some time to navigate the organizational dynamics (and technical debt) that lead to the slow boot times in the first place.

New comment by mayank in "Building ClickHouse Cloud from scratch in a year"

mayank — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:02:33 +0000

This is a wonderful article, architecture, and project. Can anyone from Clickhouse comment on any non-technical factors that allowed such a rapid pace of development, e.g. team size, structure, etc.?

New comment by mayank in "JDK 20 and JDK 21: What we know so far"

mayank — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 19:15:31 +0000

All modern languages heavily borrow from each other’s latest iterations. In the case of Java though, playing catch up is by design since it’s intended to be a conservative/stable language.

New comment by mayank in "Tell HN: Twitter Is Down"

mayank — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:23:36 +0000

Wow....confirmed!

`{"errors":[{"message":"Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information","code":467}]}`

New comment by mayank in "Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850"

mayank — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 03:01:17 +0000

Can you comment on a reply below that claims there was promotional pricing in 2019 at launch?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33929132

New comment by mayank in "Ask HN: How would software look if hardware had stopped improving long ago?"

mayank — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 02:43:00 +0000

Exactly! Hashcash was proposed in 1997: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash similar mechanics for a different use case

New comment by mayank in "Ask HN: Nested Resources in REST/HTTP API URLs?"

mayank — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 03:30:17 +0000

> - /organizations/:id

> - /blogs/:id

The pragmatic, large-company-only counterpoint is the narrow edge case where:

- :id must be human-readable for "SEO reasons"

- there are many competing organizations and blogs to the point where there may be a name collision.

Although in that case, I'd still suggest:

/:organization-name/:blog-name

New comment by mayank in "Programming breakthroughs we need"

mayank — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 20:00:59 +0000

There's a hierarchical modeling paradigm/tools called C4 that (while being boxes and lines) helps with the zoom-in/zoom-out nature of understanding systems: https://c4model.com/