Hacker News: pvorb

New comment by pvorb in "LLMs reward expertise"

pvorb — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:05:49 +0000

I'm wondering: What did she tell you that made you build the website? Did she ask the same thing from the AI? Did you bridge any gaps the AI didn't do for you? I don't know the answer, but I suspect that she treated the AI differently and would've gotten better results if she had asked what she told you. At least if it's an agentic coding assistant like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot. Of course a simple chat will leave manual tasks for you.

New comment by pvorb in "Qwen 3.8"

pvorb — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:20:51 +0000

Now you can be sure they write their announcements by hand. Doesn't really matter, does it?

New comment by pvorb in "Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room"

pvorb — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:34:46 +0000

I had long discussions over whether we could just not use tons on npm libraries and use the native browser feature for things like that. I typically lose these discussions because I'm considered the backend guy. My knowledge about HTML, JS and CSS dates back to times when there was no npm...

New comment by pvorb in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

pvorb — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:55:32 +0000

They're not, but all of their colleagues are.

New comment by pvorb in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

pvorb — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:21:27 +0000

I really like this paragraph about management caring about AI:

> What makes this worse, is our bosses have bought into it this time too. My managers never cared much about database technologies, IDE’s or javascript frameworks; they just wanted the feature so they could sell it. Management seems to have stepped firmly and somewhat haphazardly into the implementation detail now. I reckon most of us have got some sort of company initiative to ‘use more AI’ in our objectives this year.

New comment by pvorb in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

pvorb — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:58:34 +0000

At least you got a mug!

New comment by pvorb in "I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)"

pvorb — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:10:59 +0000

But I/O being the bottleneck never was about sequential reads, was it? I get the point of the article, though.

New comment by pvorb in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

pvorb — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:24:29 +0000

I'm wondering what exact issue you are referring to with Databricks? I can't remember a time I had to change a line I wrote during the past 2.5 years I've been using it. Or are you talking about non-breaking changes?

New comment by pvorb in "Log by time, not by count"

pvorb — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:34:58 +0000

At least in the Java world it is common to let the logging framework handle parameter evaluation for you.

New comment by pvorb in "Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas"

pvorb — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 22:56:07 +0000

But lack of water will become a huge problem when your city is growing that fast in a heating climate.

Edit: And cooling only works inside buildings or cars. Part of a comfortable city is being able to go outside and have a social life outside of a casino.

New comment by pvorb in "Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas"

pvorb — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 22:46:30 +0000

Not building your city in the desert is also a good idea when it comes to being a comfortable city.

New comment by pvorb in "A new PNG spec"

pvorb — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 06:49:38 +0000

Extending the format just because you can – and breaking backwards compatibility along the way – is even more pointless.

If you've created an extensible file format, but you never need to extend it, you've done everything right, I'd say.

New comment by pvorb in "A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers"

pvorb — Thu, 01 May 2025 11:55:05 +0000

How long does this procedure take in comparison to the network transfer?

My first try would've been to copy the db file first, gzip it and then transfer it but I can't tell whether compression will be that useful in binary format.

New comment by pvorb in "A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics"

pvorb — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 19:13:42 +0000

There's an industrial robot arm built out of LEGO Technic bricks by OrangeApps, a small company related to German robot manufacturer KUKA. [1] It's primarily used for educational purposes.

Disclaimer: I work for a subsidiary of KUKA.

[1]: https://www.orangeapps.de/?lng=en&page=apps%2Fers3

Grand Central Message Broker

pvorb — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:26:44 +0000

Article URL: https://gcmb.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224393

Points: 4

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New comment by pvorb in "Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders"

pvorb — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:07:46 +0000

Your parent comment just seems to make their point and it's technically correct, but might have missed the nuance. All people in this conversation seemed fine.

Are you sure that the following doesn't apply to your own comment?

> It's this type of comment that makes people be needlessly careful on this site more than any other.

New comment by pvorb in "Wuppertal's suspended monorail proved its doubters wrong [video]"

pvorb — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 08:46:25 +0000

If you learn about the Wuppertal suspended monorail, you should also read about Tuffi, the elephant that jumped off of it in 1950.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi

New comment by pvorb in "Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners"

pvorb — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:32:58 +0000

The question is whether roads are a good thing.

New comment by pvorb in "Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners"

pvorb — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:27:49 +0000

Yep. Just tax the rich and by that I mean actually rich like people worth more than 10 million dollars. Nobody will ever need more than that. Increasing tax on every day things will only make inequality worse.

New comment by pvorb in "Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners"

pvorb — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:18:28 +0000

Just no. Funding road infrastructure will just bring more cars on roads. That money should be spent on public transportation so it actually benefits the society.