Hacker News: rhyperior

New comment by rhyperior in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"

rhyperior — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:03:16 +0000

And, technically, west of Seattle.

New comment by rhyperior in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

rhyperior — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:48:44 +0000

Why $100? Why not $80 or $5 or $134?

New comment by rhyperior in "Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI"

rhyperior — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:23:44 +0000

Is censorship not an issue with Chinese models?

New comment by rhyperior in "Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works"

rhyperior — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:02:52 +0000

To me, not just grey but an ever shifting speckled rainbow colored static with a heavy bias towards grey.

New comment by rhyperior in "As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers"

rhyperior — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:13:40 +0000

Could be Seattle tax/revenue policy. Bellevue WA, the only nearby comparable but smaller tech hub city, has 25% vacancy and expected to drop below 20% - according to Fable.

New comment by rhyperior in "The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)"

rhyperior — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:39:45 +0000

A family member took the same calculus class that I did, from the same teacher. They passed, per their own account, only by memorizing the rules. I memorized what I needed to but the concepts clicked intuitively. So sure, some people “get it” and some people just pass a subject like CS.

New comment by rhyperior in "The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)"

rhyperior — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:07:30 +0000

Exactly! I used this question regularly. It wasn’t a gotcha question or even an impossible-without-experience question as the author thinks. It was a show me HOW you think through something question. There are a lot of ways to solve it, from scanline to sin/cos to using the circle equation, but you can _progress_ from naive to advanced solutions, and all solutions above plus the DDA or Bresenham solutions have symmetries (hint: more than four quadrants are symmetrical) that you can use to optimize it. A practiced interviewer can learn a lot about the candidate with this question.

New comment by rhyperior in "GitHub Actions down again today"

rhyperior — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:06:33 +0000

You only do this when you’re trying to use incident management as a hammer to make a point to somebody whom you have otherwise failed to convince to fix something through persuasive argument. Ie, it’s punitive.

New comment by rhyperior in "Childhood Computing"

rhyperior — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:52:28 +0000

I don’t know… if the top of line PC cost $3000 30 years ago, it seems like we’re pretty close to that today for class-equivalent hardware (without going absurd - 32GB of DDR5, game playing video card, 4TB SSD…)

New comment by rhyperior in "Childhood Computing"

rhyperior — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:47:17 +0000

Your post just clicked something from of a deep memory into place.

In the early 80s when the IBM PC hit the scene, Hercules had a graphics card that was amazing and offered better than CGA graphics. I was plinking on it at my dad’s friend’s house, drawing circles and stuff, and on HIS computer the graphics were retained. I had to figure out how to clear the screen, whereas on mine, not having the Hercules card, it wasn’t retained. Never understood what was happening until now.

New comment by rhyperior in "Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study"

rhyperior — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:48:38 +0000

Episode #103, @FoundMyFitness on Spotify podcasts. All about coffee’s benefits, including for exercise.

New comment by rhyperior in "Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study"

rhyperior — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:44:55 +0000

Many coffee distribution sites (like drink trade dot com) tell you the process. I’m a fan of the Swiss water method.

New comment by rhyperior in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

rhyperior — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:29:36 +0000

Same. I measure at home and my relaxed systolic is 30-40 lower than the first measurement in their office.

New comment by rhyperior in "I quit drinking for a year"

rhyperior — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:02:49 +0000

I agree, I actually prefer them now because there’s no ill effects AND they’re generally lower calorie, too.

New comment by rhyperior in "Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations"

rhyperior — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:01:55 +0000

“Ran out” and grabbed two more Majestouch 3 with silent red switches. Should keep me going for the rest of my life!

New comment by rhyperior in "Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees"

rhyperior — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:08:24 +0000

They did not. They had already done this thinking with the 55/15 retirement option, where if you’re aged 55 or older and 15 years continuous service you could leave and keep most of your equity. And you signed a suite of “non” agreements including non-litigation.

New comment by rhyperior in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

rhyperior — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:25:25 +0000

That seems… misguided.

Sources?

New comment by rhyperior in "A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)"

rhyperior — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:55:39 +0000

The raw electromagnetic emissions of uncountable atoms jostling through space and time.

New comment by rhyperior in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

rhyperior — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:14:07 +0000

I’d say they’re writing as if they expect everyone to share their ideals, and they’re responding to violations of those ideals in a naive and disempowered way. That doesn’t mean they’re wrong in those ideals, but the way they tried to fix things… they interacted with Cutler, why didn’t they try to influence him to fix things? Or any other senior technical leaders?

New comment by rhyperior in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

rhyperior — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:27:17 +0000

A overly reductionist argument. They described any commercial software company because in the end, you sell or you die. Microsoft has incredible software people and incredible software that coexists with the shitty software people and shitty software.