Hacker News: persedes

New comment by persedes in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

persedes — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:06:34 +0000

urgh of course it has to be private equity. Really liked the product and did not mind paying for it...but not ready for the PE enshittification.

New comment by persedes in "USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought"

persedes — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:25:43 +0000

It is...? H-mart + Wegmans has tofu at ~$2.5 for a 400g block. The cheapest bulk pork is at $2.6, but most portions / cuts sell at $4.

New comment by persedes in "DeepSeek v4"

persedes — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:21:38 +0000

not soooo much though. It's heavily subsidized for residential consumption, but industrial power rates are almost comparable to the US (depends on the state you go to etc).

New comment by persedes in "Workspace Agents in ChatGPT"

persedes — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:46:52 +0000

it's funny how adding AI to notion actually made it a lot more usable. Most products force it on you, but here I feel like it's actually a massive benefit. It was hard finding content and using the filters felt clunky. (And the whole UI either in a browser or their app feels buggy + slow). But with their notion AI / MCP it's gotten super easy to get information in and out.

New comment by persedes in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

persedes — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:56:48 +0000

Soo can I put this on top of e.g. grafana?

New comment by persedes in "Claude Opus 4.7"

persedes — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:08:15 +0000

Interesting that the MCP-Atlas score for 4.6 jumped to 75.8% compared to 59.5% https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6

There's other small single digit differences, but I doubt that the benchmark is that unreliable...?

New comment by persedes in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

persedes — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:39:54 +0000

huh neat, somehow completely missed out on the rules/ + path filters as a way to extend CLAUDE.md

New comment by persedes in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

persedes — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:27:28 +0000

there's probably a more precise way, but if you're on uv:

  rg litellm  --iglob='*.lock'

New comment by persedes in "If DSPy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?"

persedes — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:28:28 +0000

funnily enough the model switching is mostly thanks to litellm which dspy wraps around.

New comment by persedes in "If DSPy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?"

persedes — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:57:32 +0000

Hmm not quite what I meant. Sklearn has it's place in every ML toolbox, I'll use it to experiment and train my model. However for deploying it, I can e.g. just grab the weights of the model and run it with numpy in production without needing the heavy dependencies that sklearn adds.

New comment by persedes in "If DSPy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?"

persedes — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:13:22 +0000

Dspys advertising aside, imho it is a library only for optimizing an existing workflow/ prompt and not for the use cases described there. Similar to how I would not write "production" code with sklearn :)

They themselves are turning into wrapper code for other libraries (e.g. the LLM abstraction which litellm handles for them).

Can also add:

Option 3: Use instructor + litellm (probabyly pydantic AI, but have not tried that yet)

Edit: As others pointed out their optimizing algorithms are very good (GEPA is great and let's you easily visualize / track the changes it makes to the prompt)

New comment by persedes in "LLMs predict my coffee"

persedes — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:16:10 +0000

That initial drop reminds me of one of the things that stuck to me from my thermodynamic lectures / tests: If you want to drink coffee at a drinkable temperature in t=15min, will it be colder if you add the milk first or wait 15min and then add milk? (=waiting 15 min because the temperature differential is greater and causes a larger drop). Almost useless fact, but it always comes up when making coffee.

New comment by persedes in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

persedes — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:20:03 +0000

If it quacks like a duck...?

New comment by persedes in "Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance"

persedes — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:37:25 +0000

Article is a nice write up of https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/python/typ...

(glad they include ty now)

New comment by persedes in "Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs"

persedes — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:05:51 +0000

Agreed, I think it also acts as a hiring filter to scan for candidates that have been exposed to this kind of language and can speak it fluently. The bigger the cooperation, the more widespread that is though, don't see it as often in mid sized companies. Was looking into a director role at a large org and there were lots of very new words thrown at me very quickly.

New comment by persedes in "IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight"

persedes — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:22:16 +0000

One thing I'd love the US to do was something that happend in Germany ~2015, where they bought a lot of "Steuer-CD"s, with leaked info about people hiding money in offshore accounts. Then they allowed everyone to self report and applied more scrutiny to larger corporations which in total added several billions in revenue.

New comment by persedes in "GitHub is down again"

persedes — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:20:25 +0000

rumors I've heard was that github is mostly run by contractors? That might explain the chaos more than simple vibe coding (which probably aggravates this)

New comment by persedes in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

persedes — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:32:02 +0000

What would be cool if this somehow could do a comparison by provider. E.g. in the last outages anthropic models running on vertex were apparently less affected than those deployed elsewhere. (Not saying that one is better than the other, but would be a neat read out).

New comment by persedes in "Performance hacks for faster Python code"

persedes — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:37:48 +0000

Some helpful guidelines, but it's 2025 and people still use time.time and no stats with their benchmarks :(

In general I feel like these kind of benchmarks might change for each python version, so some caveats might apply.

New comment by persedes in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"

persedes — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:42:16 +0000

yes, the pocket operator is a great gift for 8-9+ year olds if you're not as talented as OP :D