<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nimrody</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nimrody</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 02:39:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nimrody" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They have an entire youtube channel. For example, see this: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-GSj-Exms" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-GSj-Exms</a><p>Some of their stuff for handling data and versioned pipelines seem very well done.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:36:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026724</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Won't work for SSL encrypted connections (but, yes, this does add some latency)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:24:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012728</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's beautiful and the demo video shows how someone with music background can make even such a limited tool sound so amazing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:51:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953532</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "Strings Just Got Faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No. String.hashCode() was already memoized. So after the first call to hashCode(), future calls just retrieved the data from the hash field of the string object.<p>This optimization is about avoiding even calling the method because the jvm knows that the value returned will be the same.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 19:11:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881352</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881352</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "Strings Just Got Faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No. The string hash is stored as part of the String object. It is initialized to 0 but gets set to the real hash of the string on first call to hashCode()<p>(which is why it will be computed over and over again if your special string happens to hash to 0)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 18:28:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881048</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "A peek at Intel's future foundry tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The biggest problem Intel had was that their process was optimized for their high end processors. Everything else (within the company) suffered.<p>For Intel to succeed as a foundry it needs customers that target the same "high end, power hungry" market segment. I don't see how Qualcomm (low power) fits that niche. More likely big AI accelerators (like, perhaps, Microsoft is planning).<p>As long as Intel depends on its high end processors for most of its profits, it will be difficult to develop a low power process for other, less profitable, customers.</p>
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<p>How can it tie requests arriving at a service and generating additional downstream requests?<p>Distributed tracing needs some common token all requests share to identify all RPCs that should be associated with a specific incoming request.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:25:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38932324</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38932324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38932324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this similar to MySQL's InnoDB? (which is also MVCC and does not require vacuum)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 11:39:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36745867</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36745867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36745867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "Show HN: Open-source background removal in the browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unrelated: anything similar for increasing photo resolution? I frequently encounter cases where users upload low resolution images (transferred using Whatsapp or similar) and need to increase the resolution to get something suitable for printing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:05:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36509336</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36509336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36509336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "The growing pains of database architecture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My take: have a few database instances (machines) each holding the data for a group of customers. With postgres you can even put different customers on the same database instances but in different schemas.<p>This way you get all the benefits of the relational model (you can use foreign keys, transactions consisting of multiple tables, etc.) and the performance benefits of additional machines that are not just read-replicas.<p>Centralized shared tables can be in a separate database which can also hold the mapping between customer-ids and database instances.<p>Only drawback is that management is more difficult -- backup, migrations, etc. Specifically, you need to handle the case where some customers have migrated their database and others had not yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:09:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36227793</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36227793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36227793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "Ask HN: What are some of the best papers on AI, ML, DL and their applications?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This one is about compression, reliable communication. While interesting and well-written, I don't think it matches the original request for "papers on AI, ML, ...".</p>
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<p>Can you explain what's non-deterministic about swagger/open-api?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 03:45:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35971030</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35971030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35971030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "Westinghouse AP300 Small Module Reactor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is small:
<a href="https://www.radiantnuclear.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.radiantnuclear.com/</a><p>Yes, I understand it isn't comparable (1.2MW). But portable doesn't require construction. Surely something in-between can be built?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 03:58:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35825055</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35825055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35825055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>May I suggest joining some sort of sports activity where you can meet and train with others? For example, an amateur running team or cycling. Search for a mixed group - not an elite team full of testosterone loaded men.<p>That had helped me improve self confidence (and I'm _terrible_ at sports), find friends and ultimately find my wife.<p>People doing sports are typically in good mood and the activity naturally gives one something to talk about.</p>
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<p>Your dad has a beautiful street gallery. Thanks for sharing!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:14:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526313</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure what's your use case, but for me photopea.com made paint.net redundant. Definitely worth checking out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:37:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35072948</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35072948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35072948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "Python One-Liners"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everything that requires a loop and is not expressible using list comprehensions.<p>Really for one liners, Ruby (or even Perl) are much better. Python with its significant whitespace is a lot less convenient.<p>The only advantage of Python is that it exists in the default installation usually - unlike Ruby.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2023 18:52:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34667658</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34667658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34667658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "tcpdump is amazing (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there a way to place the BPF filter <i>after</i> IP packet reassembly?<p>Otherwise, matching for TCP port, etc. fails to capture fragments which do not have the TCP header and the resulting file is missing some data.</p>
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<p>Beautiful! Thanks for doing this work.<p>Can you explain a bit on the process that was used to create this? How do you determine your position inside the pyramid precisely?<p>(would make for a great dungeon-style game :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 14:29:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33358004</link><dc:creator>nimrody</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33358004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33358004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimrody in "Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps yet?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think companies don't like these. Businesses prefer when users download their app. They now have some real-estate on the user's phone.<p>For instant-apps you invest all the effort but they don't remain on the device (and are limited in size to begin with)<p>Also - it doesn't take long to download apps today (games - now that's a different thing)</p>
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