Hacker News: nhumrich

New comment by nhumrich in "Python 3.15"

nhumrich — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:59:26 +0000

Yes, I'm talking about LLM performance. Not runtime of the code.

New comment by nhumrich in "Python 3.15"

nhumrich — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:58:54 +0000

"performs better" means the LLM does better. Takes less turns. Creates better quality. Has nothing to do with runtime performance.

New comment by nhumrich in "Python 3.15"

nhumrich — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:47:55 +0000

I've been running a bunch of benchmarks comparing typed python to untyped python, and untyped python actually performs better now. I don't think it's the case anymore that types improve clarity to the LLM.

My hunch: The LLM has already been trained on the library, already knows the types. The annotations are just wasted noise/tokens at this point. (Also, majority of python is untyped, so probably has better "training data")

New comment by nhumrich in "I Rewrote My Back End in Go in 72 Hours and Cut My AWS Bill by 94%"

nhumrich — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:47:39 +0000

The real cost savings was from realizing the infrastructure needing nuking. Probably could have gotten almost the same savings keeping it in node and refactoring. Go doesn't seem to be the real hero of this story.

New comment by nhumrich in "Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent?"

nhumrich — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:26:29 +0000

Actually, states can't legally pick permanent daylight, only permanent standard, which is what started this whole fiasco. A lot of states want permanent daylight time, not standard.

New comment by nhumrich in "Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent?"

nhumrich — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:21:47 +0000

Schools can _already_ decide for themselves when to start

New comment by nhumrich in "I got into YC Startup School by hacking it"

nhumrich — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:27:33 +0000

Except this was a computer hack. So technically wouldn't qualify.

New comment by nhumrich in "Firefox Containers Preview"

nhumrich — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:12:33 +0000

The only feature I need to make containers complete is setting a container as the current container for external links.

It's a real pain to click links in slack/etc open in the wrong account. I would be okay with some type of "links currently open in which container" setting, and changing that as needed. Or some selector when external.

New comment by nhumrich in "Do you need separate systems when you already have Postgres?"

nhumrich — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:20:19 +0000

For these specifically? Way easier than rabbitMQ. I love rabbitmq. It's an amazing technology, and if you need a high throughout message bus, it's still a better goto. But.. it does require quite a lot of expertise and know how to operate. Paged at 2am, you will likely get very frustrated. Pgmq though, is "just a bunch of tables". It's going to be a lot easier to figure out what's going on. You already understand transactional DBs.

Unless of course, you already know how to operate rabbitmq.

New comment by nhumrich in "Small Penis Rule"

nhumrich — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:11:35 +0000

South Park has been sued many times. A famous case vs Tom Cruise, in which their defense was that they make fun of everyone, so it's not libel.

New comment by nhumrich in "Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets"

nhumrich — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:07:03 +0000

Well sure. But not just kids get addicted to alcohol.

New comment by nhumrich in "Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets"

nhumrich — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:05:52 +0000

All stocks are incentivized to go a specific direction. You could consider Options more like gambling, but for that reason they are restricted to specific people. We also have things to prevent bad incentives, like insider trading laws, which prediction markets don't have.

So, I guess the answer is, regulatory control.

New comment by nhumrich in "Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets"

nhumrich — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:50:53 +0000

In Jesus' day, some Jews wanted to deport him. So ya, that fits.

New comment by nhumrich in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

nhumrich — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:36:26 +0000

> technically impossible

Not at all! Just very unlikely. It's about odds and statistics. Not physics.

New comment by nhumrich in "K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s"

nhumrich — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:07:24 +0000

K3s is so easy to install, that k3sup feels like an increase in complexity. Feels like an abstraction that provides negative value.

New comment by nhumrich in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

nhumrich — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:48:20 +0000

I don't think the difference between half the bottom and entire bottom would make a difference according to ifix it. It's more about: 1. Is it possible 2. Is it documented 3. Do you need proprietary parts 4. Without solder

New comment by nhumrich in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

nhumrich — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:59:45 +0000

Personally, I don't understand aluminum chassis. Sure, it feels more premium, but it comes with quite a bit more weight than plastic, and I much prefer less weight over "feel" when it comes to a laptop.

New comment by nhumrich in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

nhumrich — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:58:07 +0000

Dell Precision used to have track points. Now the only holdout is Thinkpad. I sometimes wonder how much the track point itself keeps that product line successful.

That being said, thinkpads are almost as upgradeable as frameworks. The latest t14 received a better score from ifixit than framework for repairability (first ever to get a 10).

New comment by nhumrich in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

nhumrich — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:53:56 +0000

Or, another way to think about this: "buy more ram when it becomes more affordable"

New comment by nhumrich in "I just want simple S3"

nhumrich — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:47:46 +0000

Well, OP, your requirements section is seriously lacking. You need "s3", but only local, non horizontally scalable?

You failed to answer why you even need s3... Why not a filesystem? Full stop. The entire point of s3 is distributed.