Hacker News: mredigonda

New comment by mredigonda in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

mredigonda — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:15:58 +0000

Using API billing would be a bummer because, as far as I know, there's no way to set up a spend cap or pre-pay the API key, correct?

New comment by mredigonda in "Show HN: Free web app to read YouTube transcripts and highlight them"

mredigonda — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:54:10 +0000

This is absolutely amazing, the fact that you can click on text and it takes you immediately to the part of the audio where that text is being said is great.

I wish the video was shown as well, but other than that, excellent work!

New comment by mredigonda in "Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?"

mredigonda — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 19:09:35 +0000

Thanks for recommending this, I just browsed some files online and it's looking indeed amazing.

P.S. It's now easy to check a repo file by replace .com with .dev: https://github.dev/desktop/desktop

Make It Easy for People to Share Feedback with You

mredigonda — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:30:26 +0000

Article URL: https://mredigonda.github.io/blog/make-it-easy-for-people-to-share-feedback-with-you/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35656190

Points: 3

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New comment by mredigonda in "Google stopping coding competitions"

mredigonda — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 23:48:27 +0000

Google Graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/

New comment by mredigonda in "Google stopping coding competitions"

mredigonda — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 23:47:59 +0000

I believe they do help, but certainly hiring doesn't seem to be a priority for them at the moment.

It's strange that they decided to discontinue the entire competition instead of just cancelling this year's one, though.

New comment by mredigonda in "Google stopping coding competitions"

mredigonda — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 23:46:13 +0000

They did, indeed, lay off the group in charge of organizing these competitions (or at least the Google Code Jam Program Manager).

https://twitter.com/jonathanirvings/status/16220755214872084...

New comment by mredigonda in "Beat the $5 wrench: multi-passphrase multi-content in a single encrypted file"

mredigonda — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:18:08 +0000

The $5 wrench: https://xkcd.com/538/ You would still be vulnerable to a $10 wrench though, so don't use this.

Beat the $5 wrench: multi-passphrase multi-content in a single encrypted file

mredigonda — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:18:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mredigonda/hexaguard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34788826

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by mredigonda in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)"

mredigonda — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:14:33 +0000

Hey Tomas, I just send an email with my application, but I've got "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)". Is the email posted correct?

New comment by mredigonda in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)"

mredigonda — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:19:23 +0000

Location: Rosario, Argentina

Remote: Yes! (EST/PST timezones OK)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Typescript, React/Svelte + Redux, Python, PHP, C++, interested in Rust, SQL.

Résumé/CV: overview at https://github.com/mredigonda

Email: maxiredigonda@gmail.com

I'm a Software Engineer from Argentina, strongly experienced in algorithms and data structures (from programming competitions like IOI and ICPC), and web development in general.

I'm open to chat in general about your company to see if there is a good match. In the worst case, having an extra connection is always beneficial for both.

New comment by mredigonda in "Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow"

mredigonda — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 13:55:16 +0000

Indeed this overflows too! Still don't have the rights here to edit or delete the comment, sorry for the confusion! It needs a couple of extra conditions: x and y need to be uint, and y needs to be >= x (you can swap them if they are not).

New comment by mredigonda in "Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow"

mredigonda — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 11:35:26 +0000

You can also do x + (y - x) / 2 (starting point + distance halved), that doesn't overflow, is easy to remember, and the compiler would probably optimize it further.

New comment by mredigonda in "Fast midpoint between two integers without overflow"

mredigonda — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 11:33:54 +0000

Because the division is truncated twice, which increases the error. Take x=y=1, or x=y=3 for example.

New comment by mredigonda in "Ask HN: How to Ask a Question Properly?"

mredigonda — Fri, 27 May 2022 22:29:28 +0000

You just did it, and it was perfectly well-received by the community.

You approached a topic you are interested in, without causing any problem or offending anyone, and the question was not misunderstood.

Using this evidence, chances are you are already _sufficiently good_ at asking questions properly.

New comment by mredigonda in "Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?"

mredigonda — Sun, 22 May 2022 20:43:49 +0000

This video [0] is from February 2012, but as far as I know this tool is not yet implemented (or at least it is not widely used).

Basically as you are writing a function, you can write sample input for it, and it tells you the intermediate value of each variable inside this function, which lets you reason about the code, makes it trivial to know you've done something wrong, and would make developing a much more interactive experience overall.

In my experience, this is done by hand when writing a function, but a tool like this would make it automatic.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII

When reinventing the wheel makes sense

mredigonda — Wed, 18 May 2022 21:58:28 +0000

Article URL: https://mredigonda.github.io/blog/when-reinventing-the-wheel-makes-sense/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31428160

Points: 20

# Comments: 6