Hacker News: sghazhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sghazHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:59:40 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by sghaz in "Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)"]]>The pricing page says, "This page doesn’t seem to exist. It looks like the link pointing here was faulty. Maybe try searching?"

]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:58:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425231sghazhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425231https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425231<![CDATA[New comment by sghaz in "Put the zip code first"]]>The ZIP-first approach assumes a postal code can deterministically resolve the rest of the address, which is rarely true in practice since many codes map to multiple cities or large geographic areas. Making it reliable requires maintaining comprehensive, frequently updated postal datasets or integrating with external geocoding services, which introduces non-trivial operational complexity. Additionally, deviating from standard address field ordering can work against established user expectations and may degrade usability rather than improve it.

]]>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:39:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293087sghazhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293087https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293087<![CDATA[New comment by sghaz in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"]]>In larger systems, what looks like “overengineering” can be deliberate risk management. In my experience, senior engineers do get promoted for simplicity but only when they can articulate the trade-offs and the future costs they are avoiding.

]]>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:38:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247232sghazhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247232https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247232<![CDATA[New comment by sghaz in "The war against PDFs is heating up"]]>This looks like an sponsored article. Very poor quality.

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:39:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202305sghazhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202305https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202305<![CDATA[New comment by sghaz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]>This is very useful given that children today are increasingly exposed to and navigating online environments.

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:45:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943462sghazhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943462https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943462<![CDATA[New comment by sghaz in "How uv got so fast"]]>Liked the focus on standards and ecosystem decisions rather than just “it’s fast because Rust.”

One small timeline nit: the article mentions PEP 517 as being from 2017, but the PEP itself was created in 2015. From the PEP header:

Created: 30-Sep-2015 [1]

It did see important revisions and wider adoption around 2017, so I assume that’s what was meant.

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0517/

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