Hacker News: mixmix

New comment by mixmix in "Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0"

mixmix — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:31:15 +0000

Never thought I'd say it but I really miss UCS-2.

New comment by mixmix in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

mixmix — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:53:52 +0000

Funnily enough, I don't consider the iPhone 12/13 mini miniature at all. Granted, my hands are quite small even for someone of my height (5'7"), but remember those times people made fun of the iPhone 5 and of how gigantic it felt compared to 4S? I don't think human hands have grown that much since then. And I still believe the 1st generation SE is the best smartphone Apple has ever released: a rectangular screen, no camera bumps, a fingerprint sensor (that is still faster than Face ID), a mini jack, light, affordable, etc.

New comment by mixmix in "An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips"

mixmix — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 11:14:54 +0000

If I may ask, what's your absolute favorite ISA? Is it ARM64 or something less common/practical?

New comment by mixmix in "I still like Sublime Text"

mixmix — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:06:59 +0000

Not really a question, but please do not deprecate mini_auto_complete! It is one of the most useful (despite being hidden/undocumented) features of ST to me.

New comment by mixmix in "Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff"

mixmix — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:21:47 +0000

"[...] we hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we're now facing, and I take responsibility for that."

And yet I don't see anything about him stepping down. I never do.

New comment by mixmix in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

mixmix — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 02:45:58 +0000

The iPhone SE 2016 remains to be the best smartphone Apple has ever released. This year, my wife made me replace it with a 13 mini, and it feels nothing but a downgrade: too large, too heavy, camera bumps, no headphone jack, no touch ID, atrocious PWM, etc.

Sure, I understand people have different needs from mine and appreciate they have a choice, but it saddens me that I don't anymore, and all I want is a modern (read: not discontinued), compact device that can do what a 10-year-old smartphone could do and gets out the way.

New comment by mixmix in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)"

mixmix — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 01:47:14 +0000

  Location: Japan (comfortable with a 4-hour overlap with PT)
  Remote: only
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: distributed systems, database engines, knowledge graphs, search engines, recommendation systems, large language models, AI accelerators, compilers
  Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/39kmk5q4iii3hw9kelbhf/resume.pdf?rlkey=lud04lbyo4jjxy91zwivtgjbk&dl=0
  Email: yndi@me.com

Hi! I am a tech lead with 15 years of industry experience, ex-Google, ex-my own startup. I specialize in information retrieval and (somewhat ML-oriented) systems engineering. I can do pretty much anything from front-end to hardware design but really shine in mentoring and data science research (live experiments, human evals, product metrics etc.) I will help you build great engineering culture, state-of-the-art technology, and happy teams.

GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines [video]

mixmix — Mon, 01 May 2023 23:24:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae9EKCyI1xU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35780718

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by mixmix in "Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction?"

mixmix — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 01:50:22 +0000

I don’t have kids yet but I’ve been thinking about this problem a lot. I personally don’t consider a no screen policy a very good idea, especially in the Information Age. After all, the technology is not a problem here. Instead, I’m building an intranet with an in-house search engine and a video streaming service which I’m going to populate with Wikipedia articles, my fairly decent collection of non-fiction books, some of world best fiction, movies, music etc. Besides that, no internet access for minors in my house. My fight is not with profanity or obscenity but with tasteless garbage like all that clickbaity ad-filled batshit YouTube is pushing onto me.

New comment by mixmix in "Odroid-H3"

mixmix — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 23:43:18 +0000

Hardkernel folks make some pretty amazing products. My home server is built on top of Odroid-HC2 coupled with a 3.5” HDD, and I feel that was some of the best $70 I ever spent. The whole thing is tiny, fanless, and it only consumes 2 Wh on average. I only wish it had hardware video encoding capabilities.

New comment by mixmix in "Smolnes: A NES emulator in less than 5000 significant bytes of C++"

mixmix — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 23:26:57 +0000

If you want to understand how a NES emulator works, I highly recommend javidx9’s videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOv9FMX8xJHqMvSGB_9G9nZZ... I personally got more joy watching that series than out of HBO shows.

New comment by mixmix in "'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm"

mixmix — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 01:56:23 +0000

Your comment upsets and disappoints me. In large part because it's true: at my previous workplace, I was casually told that CME is a polite fiction and all employees are expected to exceed expectations.

New comment by mixmix in "SQLite-HTML: A SQLite extension for querying, manipulating, and creating HTML"

mixmix — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 04:55:33 +0000

I see a million use cases: no-code data scraping, analytics, feeds, notifications etc. Just think of the web as a giant database with URLs as table names and CSS selectors as column names. I started to work on it about half a year ago after I got tired of writing Python scripts every time I needed to join subsets of various online databases.

New comment by mixmix in "SQLite-HTML: A SQLite extension for querying, manipulating, and creating HTML"

mixmix — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:38:52 +0000

I'm working full-time on exactly that, hope to launch soon.

New comment by mixmix in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

mixmix — Wed, 18 May 2022 04:45:03 +0000

I've been using my iPhone SE since 2016 and man do I wish there was something to switch to by now. I don't think I can stand PWM on newer OLED iPhones (that includes 12/13 mini) and I will dearly miss the headphone jack. If there were a modern (un-Googled) Android phone like the 1st-gen iPhone SE, I'd be ready to spend $800 on it, I don't even care about cameras, fingerprint sensors, or NFC.

New comment by mixmix in "Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [video]"

mixmix — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 23:56:27 +0000

Thanks a lot everyone for your recommendations, really appreciate them!

New comment by mixmix in "Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [video]"

mixmix — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:18:54 +0000

Tom's really mastered his skill of casual misleading, he adds these "wait, what?" moments to every video. A more notorious example will be his explanation of how optical reflection works, check out his "30 Weird Chess Algorithms" (https://youtu.be/DpXy041BIlA) around 10:20.

Edit: spelling.

New comment by mixmix in "Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [video]"

mixmix — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 04:00:15 +0000

Can anyone recommend other hidden gems like Tom's channel? I've been following him for years and still have not seen a merrier hacker. George Hotz's livestreams (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzFUMGbVxlQs5s-LNAyKgcq5S...) were as good perhaps, but the format is quite different, and he doesn't do them anymore.