Hacker News: p33p

New comment by p33p in "GitHub Is Down"

p33p — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:17:01 +0000

One of the most satisfying (and sad that it’s needed) GH CLI extensions I’ve (publicly) vibe coded has been https://github.com/Houstonwp/gh-down

Although I think I still ironically end up finding out about the outages on HN first.

Ask HN: What are your top reads and listens of 2025?

p33p — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:30:28 +0000

To get the ball rolling, here are mine:

Fiction: Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu — I’m late to the party, but this was an enjoyable read. I’m looking forward to reading the next two in the series.

Nonfiction: Designing Games by Tynan Sylvester — I’m not a game developer, but I thought the book was really thought provoking about designing products in general. Plus, I love Rim World.

Fiction Audiobook: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman — I can’t recommend enough.

Nonfiction Audiobook: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams — read by the author, a first hand account of the early days of Facebook, Zuck and Sandberg.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351020

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by p33p in "Polylaminin promotes regeneration after spinal cord injury (2010)"

p33p — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:56:49 +0000

This paper is from 2010. Can the OP discuss why this is relevant today.

New comment by p33p in "Amazon Workdocs End of Life"

p33p — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:29:52 +0000

Yes. It is awful. Good riddance.

New comment by p33p in "Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python"

p33p — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:02:42 +0000

Odd to me that you don’t let poetry create the venv? Why do this separately?

Our flow is similar: pyenv (windows and linux), pipx, poetry.

We’ve also defaulted poetry to utilize the current global version of Python and build the venv within the project folder.

New comment by p33p in "Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board"

p33p — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:30:38 +0000

Not sure why you put climate change in quotes, but it would be helpful to provide the prompt and the response. Without doing so and by using "The Woke Police" and "Thought Taliban", you, too, sound like you are coming directly from a political action group.

New comment by p33p in "Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips"

p33p — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:34:33 +0000

I figure it's part marketing and also part targeting the individuals most likely to upgrade. With an M2 I'm far less likely to pull the trigger.

New comment by p33p in "Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips"

p33p — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:33:26 +0000

M3 is absolutely impressive, but the event overall was... short? Uneventful? Underwhelming?

Ask HN: How to use $5k "self improvement" stipend?

p33p — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:43:45 +0000

My employer provides a five thousand dollar self improvement stipend that we are able to spend on anything that will improve our wellbeing or make us better. What classes, courses, programs would you take to utilize such a benefit?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37924634

Points: 4

# Comments: 8

New comment by p33p in "Apple TV 4k"

p33p — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:37:43 +0000

Biggest things for me are Thread support and ethernet in the larger model, and more importantly USB-C in the Siri Remote.

Still no built in AirTag though???

Ask HN: What do you want to see in a data scientist job description?

p33p — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 17:16:41 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32388310

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by p33p in "Build Unix, Not Uber"

p33p — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 02:33:40 +0000

These are called mutual companies in the US — at least insurance — New York Life, Northwestern Mutual, MassMutual, etc

New comment by p33p in "How to create a Python package in 2022"

p33p — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:49:26 +0000

Didn't they also endorse PipEnv and that turned into a flop?

New comment by p33p in "Equals Raises $6.6M from David Sacks at Craft Ventures to Replace Excel"

p33p — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 21:30:13 +0000

Copy excel shortcuts is smart, but no, this will not replace Excel. Transpile VBA into something like python, automagically open and translate Excel files, and then maybe, MAYBE you'd find a niche of other startups that don't want to integrate with the Microsoft stack. Otherwise, good luck.

New comment by p33p in "Ask HN: Venv, virtualwrapper, pipenv, poetry, pdm, oh my"

p33p — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 19:53:10 +0000

I should have mentioned that we have developers on Windows, MacOS, and Linux -- which is possibly where my frustration comes from with the struggles of integrating Windows as a development environment.

Ask HN: Venv, virtualwrapper, pipenv, poetry, pdm, oh my

p33p — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 15:07:10 +0000

Dependency and package management has seen a lot growth and attention in the Python community even in the last couple years. Everyone has their opinions on what to use, but for enterprise code bases, what is the recommended approach?

Ideally responses would include size of user base, number of package dependencies, any issues arisen, etc.

Thanks y’all. Needless to say, the most recent pipenv post on the front page has led to more confusion than I’d like to admit.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32118850

Points: 19

# Comments: 15

New comment by p33p in "Former PM Abe Shinzo dies after being shot"

p33p — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 11:41:27 +0000

I read elsewhere that authorities think the gun was homebuilt as guns are so rare and hard to get in Japan.

New comment by p33p in "US life insurance company paid out 163% more for deaths of workers 18-64 in 2021"

p33p — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 05:09:22 +0000

This is pretty absurd conclusions.

A few things: reporting lag for death claims are typically 3-18 months. Covid claims are obviously still occurring in 2021. It has been widely reported that non covid related deaths during the pandemic, specifically related to heart disease and diabetes, were much higher likely due to delayed medical consultation.

I didn’t take the time to read more of who this is but I question their understanding of how financials for life insurance work. “$6 billion increase in expenses is hard to weather.” Actually, no, it’s called reserves and you are statutorily required to hold them.

This seems like a puff piece of intellectual dishonesty to push an unsubstantiated claim that the covid vaccine is causing deaths, and there is some sort of conspiracy around it.

Evaluating the Design of R (2012) [pdf]

p33p — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:26:21 +0000

Article URL: http://janvitek.org/pubs/ecoop12.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31940582

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by p33p in "Show HN: PRQL 0.2 – a better SQL"

p33p — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:50:09 +0000

This looks great. I've thought about something similar to this for quite a while now. Column autocomplete is key for me from a quality of life perspective and to make it truly usable.

I'd absolutely love to see the next level of this pipeline be continued where something like Observable Plot or ggplot2 like functionality where you can take your pipeline data analysis and directly plot it to visualize it.