Hacker News: rootcage

New comment by rootcage in "Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal"

rootcage — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:50:50 +0000

How can we extend this to NFL or NBA?

New comment by rootcage in "Ask HN: What are you actually using LLMs for in production?"

rootcage — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:01:55 +0000

The most common use case - coding assistant to get more done in less time.

Used it to deeper understand complex code base, create system design architecture diagrams and help onboard new engineers.

Summarizing large data dumps that users were frustrated with.

New comment by rootcage in "Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs"

rootcage — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 08:35:21 +0000

I used to work at Microsoft and was on the other side, unfortunately I had the exact opposite experience. I interviewed and rejected a candidate (due to poor technical performance) then had the hiring manager contact me asking if I would reconsider as he needed to "increase DEI" footprint of his team. He wanted me to lower the bar for DEI reasons.

New comment by rootcage in "Make America Date Again"

rootcage — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:09:31 +0000

This response seems to indicate you don't have or want children. There's the emotional and human aspect to having children. Love, family, respect, etc. I'm throwing words around but if these things mean something to you then you'd understand.

I feel western society has lost many of these but you see these concepts upheld in immigrant families in the US.

New comment by rootcage in "It's OK to abandon your side-project"

rootcage — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 04:11:34 +0000

Grit and perseverance are often talked about as critical qualities in building something successful but knowing when to quit and start over is equally as important.

Food for thought, that most "startup" gurus don't preach.

New comment by rootcage in "Car Manufacturing Process Overview [video]"

rootcage — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 06:06:45 +0000

I'm always surprised by the amount of human labor involved, I tend to think of manufacturing as mostly robots but there are numerous manual steps.

New comment by rootcage in "Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone"

rootcage — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:40:50 +0000

ATM the biggest problem for LRAD is cost, you fire a $12K Patriot missile to intercept what is either a $40 million jet or a $300 drone. This is revolutionary.

New comment by rootcage in "Tesla cancels all right-hand drive orders for Model S and X"

rootcage — Sun, 14 May 2023 08:19:58 +0000

I wonder if this is an immediate cost cutting measure to focus on manufacturing for their primary market. Seems like it would be to satisfy shareholders.

New comment by rootcage in "Ask HN: How do you measure the real quality of undergrad education in CS major?"

rootcage — Sun, 14 May 2023 08:17:41 +0000

Rather than measuring quality of the college or the university evaluate each person independently. I've worked with great people from "unknown" universities and vice versa. Everybody is unique.

New comment by rootcage in "Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales"

rootcage — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:56:53 +0000

I just bought a Mac Pro M2 in January after using a 2013 Macbook air for ~10 years. It lasted me through college and more, still runs smoothly to this day. Apple's build quality cannot be understated.

New comment by rootcage in "Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch"

rootcage — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:25:15 +0000

Does it matter? If external software is accessing data within the game client, that itself is a breach of contract.

New comment by rootcage in "Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds"

rootcage — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 22:59:35 +0000

Mazda makes cars that are aimed at maximizing performance/comfort/usability/etc for the driver and nobody else in the car.

With this in mind it makes sense to not have a touch screen, but what happens when the front seat passenger is controlling the music? It's not a great setup if you tend to have multiple people in your car often.

If most of the time you're a solo driver (perhaps like Uber?) then Mazda's focus on building everything with driver in mind makes sense.

New comment by rootcage in "A 100x Investment (2019)"

rootcage — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 18:25:32 +0000

You mention that tesla and comma have similar technical infrastructure. Tesla is doing or has done many of the caveats you describe about other companies, can you dig deeper into Tesla as a competitor?

New comment by rootcage in "Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points"

rootcage — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 01:25:44 +0000

That sounds like The Office Tech version

New comment by rootcage in "Producing a Music Video in the Browser"

rootcage — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:13:31 +0000

You mention Wavve, is that powering your backend?

New comment by rootcage in "San Francisco most intensely gentrified city in new rankings"

rootcage — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 20:28:45 +0000

In SF's case it's probably a good mix of asian and white tbh

New comment by rootcage in "Show HN: Model Zoo: Deploy your machine learning model in a single line of code"

rootcage — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:32:13 +0000

This is very interesting. Do you support Azure or even custom hosting? Once the model is deployed do you monitor things besides performance? Such as I/O to the model, data drift, etc?

New comment by rootcage in "Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere"

rootcage — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 19:42:24 +0000

Out of curiosity how is this better than current Grid/Table implementations?