Hacker News: nython

New comment by nython in "Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language"

nython — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 07:51:32 +0000

I thought that was maison d'errorier

New comment by nython in "Navy SEALs reportedly killed North Korean fishermen to hide a failed mission"

nython — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 03:47:56 +0000

> The plan called for the Navy to sneak a nuclear-powered submarine, nearly two football fields long, into the waters off North Korea and then deploy a small team of SEALs in two mini-subs, each about the size of a killer whale

The lengths some people willing to go just not to use the metric system

New comment by nython in "Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system"

nython — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:23:36 +0000

Store your food in PLA containers and you can too

New comment by nython in "What are the best online activities to do with friends remotely?"

nython — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:53:16 +0000

Coop portal2

New comment by nython in "Working from home is powering productivity"

nython — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 07:49:13 +0000

Any tips or reading you would recommend about organizing the workspace to improve focus? I recently switched from a self-imposed 5 days in the office (obscenely short commute, homeschooled kids) to a mostly WFH arrangement (the commute to the new office is two hours each way) and despite having an office with a door lock at home, my productivity could be better.

New comment by nython in "Battlestar Galactica: Technical Manual (2005)"

nython — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 12:09:25 +0000

The deconstruction of falling stars.. the jailbreak plot device was implausible to me when I was younger, somewhat plausible when I was introduced to VMs, and now with LLMs we're probably already there.

New comment by nython in "Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects"

nython — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:08:02 +0000

There were various internal Quality of Life modules during my time at amzn, but nothing public. I suspect that given enough time working with Lua, each team will create an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of python.

New comment by nython in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

nython — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 13:22:11 +0000

Sounds like doing inventory but with an extra step.

New comment by nython in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

nython — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 11:48:46 +0000

Well, a good opportunity to say that I don't post here much but I do enjoy your stories.

New comment by nython in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

nython — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 10:58:33 +0000

My reading of what laeri wrote is "you seem to be proud of the work you did on that project so I'm not sure what is hindering you from talking about it". Not "you seem to be proud of not talking about it".

New comment by nython in "'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture"

nython — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 10:05:12 +0000

Thank you dang. There is a lot to debug/refactor for me on a personal level now.

New comment by nython in "'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture"

nython — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 18:40:16 +0000

Thank you for the reply. I did learn a few new words such as "normative ethics" and consequentialism. I'll start with googling them and see where it leads me.

New comment by nython in "'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture"

nython — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:18:24 +0000

Slightly tangential to the discussion, but are there any readings you would recommend on moral decision making? Background: I am(was?) a left-leaning israeli jew, and Oct7 and the subsequent IDF response make me feel as if I can hang up my moral compass on the wall as a non-functional vintage decoration.

New comment by nython in "Middle class homebuyers taking $7k mortgages planning to later refinance down"

nython — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 08:41:26 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to write this out. Where I am, rising interest rates have at best slowed the rate at which prices were increasing and dried up the market. I felt like there were other factors that will keep housing prices high and supply low, and you laid them out in a very clear way.

New comment by nython in "I stopped buying new laptops (2020)"

nython — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 18:02:04 +0000

On aliexpress, there is an usbc adapter for the t420 power cable that will allow it to take charge from a 65w powerbank (maybe even 20w). No need to search for battery replacements anymore and can also throw away the original power brick.

New comment by nython in "A complete guide to getting what you want (2018)"

nython — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 16:56:44 +0000

That's the evolutionary leetcode portion of the interview.

New comment by nython in "A complete guide to getting what you want (2018)"

nython — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:49:40 +0000

It took me several frustrating years to figure it out, but eventually getting visibly fit and well groomed gave me enough leeway to bisect the bugs in my interpersonal communication protocols and algorithms.

New comment by nython in "Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs"

nython — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 08:38:25 +0000

Graduated into the 08 recession. Knowing what I know now , I would have drawn out my graduation date as much as possible until the market started to improve. See if there's a way you can work for/affiliate yourself with some lab and in 2024 you will be able to pretend as if you're fresh out of academia and have never looked for a job yet.

Change three lines of code, save 760 server hours per month

nython — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:19:55 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.backslasher.net/3-loc-760h.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35350162

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by nython in "Former Ubiquiti employee charged with stealing data and extorting company"

nython — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:40:42 +0000

Thisstory about ebay's attempted takeover of craigslist might interest you.

Even before Omidyar stepped down from Craigslist’s board, his appointed agent, Garrett Price, started bullying Craigslist’s owners. In an email to Buckmaster, Price wrote that Craiglist was “driving [eBay’s] execs (especially Meg) to distraction.” He told Buckmaster that eBay’s takeover was “inevitable” and that Craigslist needed to accept their fate, telling “Buckmaster that he and Newmark were mortal, but eBay was not, and eBay would acquire 100 percent of craigslist whether it took decades and, if necessary, over Newmark’s and Buckmaster’s dead bodies.”

Buckmaster replied by reminding Price that when they negotiated the sale of their stake, eBay had agreed to abide by a three-year “courtship period” during which time, if Craigslist felt their two cultures were incompatible, eBay had agreed it would sell back its shares.

Price’s response to Buckmaster:

    “that was then, this is now.”

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