Hacker News: piqufoh

New comment by piqufoh in "I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs"

piqufoh — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:19:32 +0000

> weight update during eval: this is a form of test time training and not really cheating.

Possibly "not really cheating", but it does make benchmark comparisons unfair - especially as the other models are unlikely to have their weights updated during the eval.

New comment by piqufoh in "Plotnine"

piqufoh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:36:00 +0000

`from plotnine import *`

... I love the idea of a new python plotting library, but why is this anti-pattern so common with plotting libs?

New comment by piqufoh in "White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s"

piqufoh — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:39:54 +0000

> Trump administration says restrictions could impose ‘disproportionate’ burden on US tech companies

Placing the onus firmly on US tech companies and not the well-being of children.

The tech firms (like cigarette manufacturers) have long known about the harms of social media on the young, and what steps or measures have they taken to reduce or limit damage (...crickets).

Oppose a "blunt regulatory instrument" if you like, but if you don't implement safety measures that's what you're going to get.

White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s

piqufoh — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:38:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/09/white-house-urges-uk-not-ban-social-media-under-16s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458782

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Agents-CLI CLI and skills for building agents on Google Cloud

piqufoh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:35:37 +0000

Article URL: https://google.github.io/agents-cli/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873459

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Onion launches new effort to turn InfoWars into parody website

piqufoh — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:40:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgr7dw55lwo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847002

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Pixel Agents: AI agents animated as pixel art characters in a virtual office

piqufoh — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:40:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pablodelucca/pixel-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167543

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios

piqufoh — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:29:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6200g826d2o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721452

Points: 115

# Comments: 115

New comment by piqufoh in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

piqufoh — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:14:31 +0000

I'm working on something very similar, but I've found that if I'm not doing the work - I forget what has been set up and how its running a lot faster.

For example - I have ZFS running with a 5-bay HDD enclosure, and I honestly can't remember any of the rules about import-ing / export-ing to stop / start / add / remove pools etc.

I have to write many clear notes, and store them in a place where future me will find them - otherwise the system gets very flaky through my inability to remember what's active and what isn't. Running the service and having total control is fun, but it's a responsibility too

Taxpayers miss out on millions after 'phoenixism' at UK recruitment firms

piqufoh — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:27:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/recruitment-firms-phoenixism-liquidation-avoid-taxes-analysis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510704

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

2025: That's a Wrap and Here Are the Stats

piqufoh — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:19:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2025-thats-a-wrap-and-here-are-the-stats/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46418546

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by piqufoh in "Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine"

piqufoh — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:16:54 +0000

I love atuin -- the shared shell command memory function solves a problem that I had (recalling obscure CLI commands)

I'll try atuin desktop and I hope it succeeds, but I can't say that it solves any particular problem that I have and am aware of.

New comment by piqufoh in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

piqufoh — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:32:18 +0000

Apparently if a light-bulb blows at a station, two different contractors need to be called - one company has a contract for replacing consumables while another has a contract for repairing faults.

https://youtu.be/bNEEJX0VM6k?si=1hGCnYx826ffGOPj

Bridge or Bust (From Turing Tumble Inventors)

piqufoh — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:14:56 +0000

Article URL: https://upperstory.com/en/bridgeorbust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891502

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A Philosophy of Software Design vs. Clean Code

piqufoh — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:13:47 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822020

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by piqufoh in "URL in children's books redirects to porn site"

piqufoh — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:35:42 +0000

Hijacked? no. For me this demonstrates the temporal differences between the web and the real world.

Books are solid things that will be here for a long time. Websites are transitory, ethereal and likely to change. It's clearly ok to reference a book from a website, but books that reference websites - yeuch. It reminds me of those stacks of hard-copy programming manuals targeting specific versions of a language now obsolete.

When you don't understand this you end up in this kind of situation. If you don't renew your domain, you might lose it (as the author and publisher are now finding out). I expect legal proceedings will fail miserably, and that a nice fat bung will probably solve the problem immediately.

URL in children's books redirects to porn site

piqufoh — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:19:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/oct/08/publisher-libraries-website-childrens-book-porn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524165

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by piqufoh in "I only use Google Sheets"

piqufoh — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:02:29 +0000

> Doing the smallest and easiest solution to a problem as a way to get to know the full scope and then iterating after that if needs be is by far the best solution (for me).

100% -- this is YAGNI (or you-aint-gonna-need-it) and should be among the first things you think about when starting a new project.

New comment by piqufoh in "What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?"

piqufoh — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:00:03 +0000

Not patronising, this was exactly my first (and off-topic) thought as well.

We have lived in our house for +15 years and we still regularly find small fluorescent yellow ball bearings in the garden soil from the previous owners family. These things are here to stay

New comment by piqufoh in "Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edition (2013) [pdf]"

piqufoh — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:10:18 +0000

While we're here - I've gained a lot from "Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial" by DS Sivia and J Skilling. It's a graduate level text, and I found the chapters very concise and the subject well-laid out. It was one of those books that gave me continuous insight and fresh inspiration - even though it's more than 10 years old.