Hacker News: stathibus

New comment by stathibus in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

stathibus — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:25:07 +0000

its a device for reading text ffs

New comment by stathibus in "Five Years of Tinygrad"

stathibus — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:59:28 +0000

There are also other bad interview processes, yes.

New comment by stathibus in "Five Years of Tinygrad"

stathibus — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:43:08 +0000

It’s hard to argue against hiring contributors, but a bounty system that pays pennies vs. market value for skilled developers shouldn’t be the only interview path, it’s borderline exploitative.

New comment by stathibus in "The Principles of Diffusion Models"

stathibus — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:19:14 +0000

in other words - "it is lol, also go pound sand"

New comment by stathibus in "1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order"

stathibus — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:49:15 +0000

The leap is not really there yet and it's cheap because you are the product. The robot will be a massive headache, will work poorly for most tasks, frequently break and require maintenance. In exchange for $500/mo and providing those test hours in a novel environment and the data that goes with it, you get to have a robot in your house that occasionally does something right. The bet being made here is that they can turn that data hose into a useful robot before this poor customer experience tanks their brand.

New comment by stathibus in "1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order"

stathibus — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:43:06 +0000

how far we've fallen where the concept of owning something that you bought seems preposterous to some people

New comment by stathibus in "Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup"

stathibus — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:43:34 +0000

Makes sense, lack of editors is why all my essays in high school weren’t any good either

New comment by stathibus in "Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of numerical linear algebra?"

stathibus — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:39:59 +0000

If you are unwilling to teach through python's warts you should use Matlab, not fortran.

New comment by stathibus in "SWE-Bench Pro"

stathibus — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:38:50 +0000

its the new YOLOv*

New comment by stathibus in "PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin"

stathibus — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:07:34 +0000

Why is a centralized service provider for crypto useful? It doesn't solve any of the problems that banks and credit card companies solve for cash. Those problems are already solved in the decentralized use case.

New comment by stathibus in "PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin"

stathibus — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:48:25 +0000

Okay and the key difference between crypto and cash/credit/whatever is supposedly that it is decentralized. Or have we abandoned that false premise now?

New comment by stathibus in "Many Hard LeetCode Problems Are Easy Constraint Problems"

stathibus — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:47:56 +0000

Dynamic programming problems are trivialized by using a library that implements dynamic programming algorithms. So?

New comment by stathibus in "Has Google ended support for plain HTML search?"

stathibus — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:44:36 +0000

Embrace…

New comment by stathibus in "Tufts Offers Free Tuition for Families Making Under $150k a Year"

stathibus — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:43:32 +0000

Why do you have to invent things to be mad about in advance? Aren’t there enough real things to be mad about?

New comment by stathibus in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

stathibus — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:52:38 +0000

A common refrain here seems to be that there is no good std lib, which makes sense for something like "chalk" (used for pretty printing?)

That being said, let's take color printing in terminal as an example. In any sane environment how complicated would that package have to be, and how much work would you expect it to take to maintain? To me the answer is "not much" and "basically never." There are pretty-print libraries for OS terminals written in compiled languages from 25 years ago that still work just fine.

So, what else is wrong with javascript dev where something as simple as coloring console text has 32 releases and 58 github contributors?

New comment by stathibus in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

stathibus — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:00:32 +0000

As an outsider to the npm ecosystem, reading this list of packages is astonishing. Why do js people import someone else's npm module for every little trivial thing?

New comment by stathibus in "Ask HN: Why does Seattle feel so risk-averse compared to the Bay Area?"

stathibus — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 03:22:58 +0000

There are no zoomer coders drinking YC koolaid and moving to seattle with a backpack and a dream. Seattle is where you go to live a regular american upper-middle class life.

New comment by stathibus in "I Was Wrong About Data Center Water Consumption"

stathibus — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:39:51 +0000

People actually interested in environmental responsibility have been screaming about golf courses for decades and have succeeded at slowly improving regulations over the years. This kind of whataboutism comes off as very tired and unserious in 2025.

New comment by stathibus in "PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming"

stathibus — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:26:51 +0000

The viable alternative is not PHP, its almost any sane compiled language.

New comment by stathibus in "PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming"

stathibus — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:12:25 +0000

There are still some backend people who care about performance, or so I’ve been told