Hacker News: pagade

I wish I’d written more. This site is almost 20 years old now. I bought the domain using a friend’s credit card because I didn’t have one back then and there was no other way to purchase online.

Tsinghua Uni Breaks 65-Year Limit: A Faster Alternative to Dijkstra's Algorithm

pagade — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:36:33 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@vverma4313/tsinghua-university-breaks-a-65-year-limit-a-faster-alternative-to-dijkstras-algorithm-e2f42a608369

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44969359

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by pagade in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

pagade — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:35:50 +0000

Currently working on to auto sync Notion events to Google Calendars based on Project property. I needed this desparately so decided to do it myself.

Project Sid: 1000 autonomous agents collaborating in a virtual world

pagade — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:20:38 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/GuangyuRobert/status/1831006762184646829

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057703

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pagade in "ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials"

pagade — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:29:17 +0000

Antisemitic. Every time I hear this word, I can’t help but think of its irony—a term used exclusively for describing discrimination against one community, as if prejudice against them carries more weight than against any other. Perhaps, though, it serves as the best reflection of our hypocrisy.

New comment by pagade in "Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction"

pagade — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:31:38 +0000

Prediction: Demis Hasabis will win second Nobel.

New comment by pagade in "Ideas to make money as solo dev"

pagade — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:14:10 +0000

Could you share some ideas or pointers on how to monetize an extension?

Also, probably a dumb question but what stops other developers to reverse engineer your extension and release a clone?

New comment by pagade in "Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data"

pagade — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:54:14 +0000

To a layperson like me, could you explain how these balloons will be cleaned up / collected after their life? What material are they made up of?

New comment by pagade in "Are people too flawed, ignorant, and tribal for open societies?"

pagade — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 22:21:27 +0000

I mean I mark my vote as same as XYZ's vote in the system. XYZ doesn't have to know about it.

New comment by pagade in "Are people too flawed, ignorant, and tribal for open societies?"

pagade — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:40:20 +0000

> On the one hand, the costs of becoming politically informed—learning about politicians, issues, policies, and relevant social science—are very high for individual voters. It takes a lot of time and energy, which could be spent on other important—or simply more fun—activities. On the other hand, the negligible impact of individual votes means that being informed has little benefit. Given this, political ignorance is rational.

I have been toying with the idea of a system that allows voluntarily delegating my vote to someone who I think is rational, more informed than me, and cares about things important to me, more than me. I would love to know the flaws in such a system.

New comment by pagade in "Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement"

pagade — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:26:34 +0000

I recently watched these 3 episodes of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Highly recommended.

Opioids III: The Sacklers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCaIhfETsM)

Opioids II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qCKR6wy94U)

Opioids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o)

The One Billion Row Challenge

pagade — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 11:43:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38840624

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pagade in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

pagade — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 20:06:23 +0000

http://www.rockoder.com/ Few tech blogs, some opinions, some suggestions.

Sample: https://www.rockoder.com/2020/04/26/passformula/ (Passformula: Create Complex, Unique Passwords and Remember Them All)

New comment by pagade in "How did the chess pieces get their names?"

pagade — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 09:41:22 +0000

> While it may seem logical that the king has a queen by his side, that’s not how things started out. In the Indian original, this piece was the king’s “counselor” (mantri in Sanskrit). The Arabs used wazir (“vizier,” i.e., the ruler’s minister/secretary), which was Latinized to farzia, which became the French vierge (“virgin”).

Just the other day I was wondering what a stupid name for the Queen's piece. Not at all logical. It's battlefield and not wedding/ceremony for queen to be by-his-side. Vazir is popular piece name in India as well.

How we found about Black Holes by Isaac Asimov [pdf]

pagade — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 16:07:03 +0000

Article URL: http://arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/blackholespix.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34925930

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Passformula: Create Complex, Unique Passwords and Remember Them All

pagade — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:42:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rockoder.com/2020/04/26/passformula/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34151278

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pagade in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

pagade — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 12:47:50 +0000

- The one who was laid off/fired will form a to-be-billon-dollar company.

- Suddenly there will be high quality, eloquent and verbose written form of English everywhere (emails, books, movie scripts, blogs, news, poems, school/college essays).

- Climate change protests turns fatal.

- Twitter will be on the path to profitability (don't know what it will have to pay for it though).