Hacker News: prlin

New comment by prlin in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

prlin — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:55:20 +0000

If it can automate your time by more than that it's a good trade.

New comment by prlin in "A faster way to calculate the day of the week"

prlin — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:37:56 +0000

Some examples are easier than others, like the mentioned 12/25. 12/12 is Saturday -> 25-12 is 13 more days -> same day as 1 before 12/12 -> Friday.

New comment by prlin in "Running local models is good now"

prlin — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:26:06 +0000

If you wanted to do some research or learn about post training and agent harnesses, is that a good option with these local models? What hardware is recommended, or easiest to go with a Mac Studio with 64GB+ RAM?

New comment by prlin in "A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance"

prlin — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:19:54 +0000

That was interesting. I was hoping for him to dive deeper into specific cases but I suppose the essay was long enough. Any other recommendations (potentially from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/essays-and-articles.html#Laws)?

New comment by prlin in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"

prlin — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 05:29:30 +0000

just to be clear its a small piece like this https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Adaptor-Charger-Extender-Sams... which I feel like is much easier to bring around than another cable, but I can see how it's annoying to have another dongle

New comment by prlin in "Amazon refreshes its monochrome Kindle lineup, including a bigger Paperwhite"

prlin — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:41:58 +0000

A friend showed me usb adapters from usb-c to lightning and I found that very helpful for usb-c -> micro as well to charge the kindle.

What Does Banning Short-Term Rentals Accomplish?

prlin — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:01:40 +0000

Article URL: https://hbr.org/2024/02/what-does-banning-short-term-rentals-really-accomplish

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40968473

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by prlin in "Racket Language"

prlin — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 06:43:45 +0000

Any specific highlight from Bogdan? Nothing jumped out from a quick skim.

New comment by prlin in "Chronos: Learning the Language of Time Series"

prlin — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:26:33 +0000

> Text is actually numbers

Text can be represented by numbers but they aren't the same datatype. They don't support the same operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc).

New comment by prlin in "Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos"

prlin — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 17:35:36 +0000

There was a free tier of photos and videos under a certain resolution which didn't count towards your storage which they're removing.

New comment by prlin in "Studying the effects of interruption on motivation"

prlin — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 20:34:53 +0000

I was just reading about programmer's block / writer's block. This Quora answer https://www.quora.com/Do-programmers-suffer-from-Writers-Blo... gives a few helpful tips such as just write some functions to get you going and get the program to show output as quickly as possible (hello world, failing unit tests, whatever). Stopping when you've done the hard work of figuring out what to do next seems like a good technique as well. I don't think you should interrupt yourself mid-task though vs. pausing when you're ready for the next logical piece.

New comment by prlin in "The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius"

prlin — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 07:59:29 +0000

Wow that was a very interesting analogy and theory. Thanks for sharing! I've also never heard of SSC before. I saw the top 10 posts SSC lists in the about page, but do you have any other recommendations for articles relevant to the HN crowd?

Product vs. Feature-Teams

prlin — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:07:02 +0000

Article URL: https://svpg.com/product-vs-feature-teams/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20867191

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Computer Science Could Learn a Lot from Library and Information Science

prlin — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 03:15:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/08/05/computer-science-could-learn-a-lot-from-library-and-information-science/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20631720

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by prlin in "PatternFly – a web UI framework by RedHat"

prlin — Sat, 26 May 2018 16:12:41 +0000

What’s wrong with Redhat Linux?

New comment by prlin in "GUI development is broken"

prlin — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:38:42 +0000

I don't do any GUI programming but that doesn't sound like such a bad thing when the target platform (browser) is just about everywhere.

New comment by prlin in "GUI development is broken"

prlin — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:36:39 +0000

What are other suggestions? (I haven't done any searching but it sounds like you had some in mind.)

New comment by prlin in "Python 3.7: Introducing Data Classes"

prlin — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 18:05:59 +0000

After seeing the huge improvements that JavaScript has gone through over the years I'm all for language updates. Same with Java and C++ (although not as much for Java and I don't know C++ but I always hear C++11 is "new").

New comment by prlin in "How “Exit Traps” Can Make Bash Scripts More Robust and Reliable"

prlin — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 03:32:51 +0000

re: 1) any way to use a (named) pipe to replace a directory besides flattening out the dir?

Hacker News: prlin

New comment by prlin in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

New comment by prlin in "A faster way to calculate the day of the week"

New comment by prlin in "Running local models is good now"

New comment by prlin in "A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance"

New comment by prlin in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"

New comment by prlin in "Amazon refreshes its monochrome Kindle lineup, including a bigger Paperwhite"

What Does Banning Short-Term Rentals Accomplish?

New comment by prlin in "Racket Language"

New comment by prlin in "Chronos: Learning the Language of Time Series"

New comment by prlin in "Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos"

New comment by prlin in "Studying the effects of interruption on motivation"

New comment by prlin in "The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius"

Product vs. Feature-Teams

Computer Science Could Learn a Lot from Library and Information Science

New comment by prlin in "PatternFly – a web UI framework by RedHat"

New comment by prlin in "GUI development is broken"

New comment by prlin in "GUI development is broken"

New comment by prlin in "Python 3.7: Introducing Data Classes"

New comment by prlin in "How “Exit Traps” Can Make Bash Scripts More Robust and Reliable"

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