Hacker News: s_Hogg

New comment by s_Hogg in "Build your own decision model"

s_Hogg — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:19:01 +0000

Yeah is this webpage that spells out how to do it worth $7.5b

New comment by s_Hogg in "Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed"

s_Hogg — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:51:33 +0000

No-one ever got fired for using Jev

New comment by s_Hogg in "Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam"

s_Hogg — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:50:42 +0000

What happens if you make a wanking motion

New comment by s_Hogg in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

s_Hogg — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:21:37 +0000

As long as you don't look at it or breathe too hard near it at any time

Source: me

New comment by s_Hogg in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

s_Hogg — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:15:42 +0000

Yeah I went through hell migrating everything from ADO to GH Actions a year or so ago and even after all this I'm not even slightly close to wanting to go back

New comment by s_Hogg in "Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls"

s_Hogg — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:41:22 +0000

Four is right out

New comment by s_Hogg in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

s_Hogg — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:25:28 +0000

I don't know why, but when I saw the source of this particular headline it reminded me of the album title 26 Mixes for Cash

New comment by s_Hogg in "The history of Indian science fiction"

s_Hogg — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:06:30 +0000

And yet people do haha

I was just bringing up something I thought was tangentially related without expressing an opinion on it

New comment by s_Hogg in "The history of Indian science fiction"

s_Hogg — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:50:41 +0000

Probably worth drawing this thread's attention to the debate over whether ancient Hindu texts mention nuclear weapons and atomic war. Up to the beholder whether that makes those texts sci-fi or not, I guess.

New comment by s_Hogg in "Writing code is easy, reading it isn't"

s_Hogg — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:21:33 +0000

You need to be twice as smart to debug code as you need to be to write it. So if you write the smartest code you can, then you by definition are too dumb to debug it

Just write simple code

New comment by s_Hogg in "Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)"

s_Hogg — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:13:14 +0000

Holy shit you don't get anything for _free_ as a result of adopting Kubernetes dude. The cost is in fact quite high in many cases - you adopt Kubernetes and all of the associated idiosyncrasies, which can be a lot more than what you left behind.

New comment by s_Hogg in "Idiocracy"

s_Hogg — Sat, 24 May 2025 09:27:57 +0000

Or why Hacker News comments on this one are quiet as the graveyard...

New comment by s_Hogg in "[dead]"

s_Hogg — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:38:46 +0000

Is that good

New comment by s_Hogg in "I sped up serde_json strings by 20%"

s_Hogg — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 12:17:23 +0000

Very strong jart feel about this person's blog, that was a nice read

> We would need to reinvent the wheel, but this is quite neat if you think about it.

Is this real or ironic though? I read it and started laughing at the writer but the rest of the page seems quite heavy on self-deprecation

New comment by s_Hogg in "Researchers develop the fastest possible flow algorithm"

s_Hogg — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 10:39:50 +0000

From that page:

> Available computational power may catch up to the crossover point, so that a previously impractical algorithm becomes practical.

Are there examples of Galactic Algorithms that now aren't Galactic Algorithms?

edit: turns out some matmul algorithms are?

New comment by s_Hogg in "LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs"

s_Hogg — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 22:27:36 +0000

To carry on, this is because they're both very interested in "knowledge in depth", rather than because of what they actually work on day-to-day. They've both made careers out of knowing what's going on with the thing they're building down to the most basic level possible.

New comment by s_Hogg in "LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs"

s_Hogg — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:02:21 +0000

I'd pay good money to watch jart in conversation with Carmack

New comment by s_Hogg in "XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams"

s_Hogg — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 01:03:27 +0000

Saying "Eastern Europe" as opposed to "Moscow" is a little coy, isn't it? They're in the same time zone and one seems likelier than the other, to put it one way.

Edit: speaking of, these guys might also have some time pressure at the moment with regards to hacking stuff lol. Kind of fits the bill with what we know about the hack

New comment by s_Hogg in "FOSDEM 2024 Live Streams"

s_Hogg — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 11:53:38 +0000

kind of miss n-gate coverage of FOSDEM to be honest, it was great for putting stuff in (sarcastic) perspective. More conferences should have a treatment like that.

Does anyone know what happened to them?

New comment by s_Hogg in "The art of high performance computing"

s_Hogg — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:07:38 +0000

I was working in a company that had been spun out of a university until recently and it was shocking how hopeless the researchers were. I've always been critical of how poor the job security in academia is but you'd think it's still too much given how slapdash some of the crap you see is. We basically had to reinvent their product from the ground up, awful.