Hacker News: superfish

New comment by superfish in "SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image"

superfish — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:43:44 +0000

"Unsplash > Gen3C > The fly video" is nightmare fuel. View at your own risk: https://apple.github.io/ml-sharp/video_selections/Unsplash/g...

New comment by superfish in "Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks"

superfish — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:58:26 +0000

> the sidewalk is in the front yard, stupid.

> So there’s a little live reporting on the situation in the streets.

> I offered no aid.

I just want to say I find this writing style refreshing as it’s a bit out of distribution for typical HN comments. Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience.

New comment by superfish in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

superfish — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:08:37 +0000

Why not just ytd=“uvx yt-dlp”?

New comment by superfish in "The value of hitting the HN front page"

superfish — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 07:00:36 +0000

This post is pretty meta now that it's on the front page. A nice follow-up post would be:

The Value of 'The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page' Hitting the HN Front Page

I guess the value would be people might be more likely to prepare with CDNs or engage with comments etc. I wonder if that's measurable.

New comment by superfish in "AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents"

superfish — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:51:29 +0000

Do you mind sharing a specific concrete example? I'm curious.

New comment by superfish in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"

superfish — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 05:43:12 +0000

> The term references an Internet meme depicting the fallacy using Goombas, which was first posted to Twitter by @supersylvie_ on January 29, 2024.

The history of this term goes back… one year? (from a rather unpopular meme) I’m all for introducing new vocab in english but it feels like there should already be a term for this.

Maybe “population fallacy”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy ?

New comment by superfish in "New study casts doubt on the likelihood of Milky Way collision with Andromeda"

superfish — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:39:22 +0000

Wikipedia has a nice size analogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...

> […] if the Sun were a ping-pong ball, […] the average distance between stars […] is analogous to one ping-pong ball every 3.2 km (2 mi).

Intuitively this visualization actually makes it seem like stars are pretty close? Usually with galactic dimensions it’s hard for our mere monkey minds to grasp the scales but this is actually pretty easy to imagine.

New comment by superfish in "Reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies"

superfish — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:44:26 +0000

I went searching for more info on this and found https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/faked-beta-amyloid... which was an interesting read.

New comment by superfish in "Show HN: A simple Hackernews client for iOS and Android"

superfish — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:31:20 +0000

I’m going to try it out. My first feedback is that links in text posts (like this very post) aren’t clickable and the

New comment by superfish in "Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent"

superfish — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:27:47 +0000

I’m surprised this is the only comment mentioning devicepixelratio. Most of the roasts from deepseek seem to involve roasting the window size but that’s misleading without DPR

New comment by superfish in "Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'"

superfish — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:46:15 +0000

I ended looking for the link then clicking the apparently first link “Via Jason Snell”. In that page the link to the tournament is also the header (which I did not notice). The last paragraph on that page had a link to the tournament and that’s what I ended up clicking. I’m glad I’m not the only one

New comment by superfish in "The English Esoteric Programming Language"

superfish — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:40:13 +0000

It'd be fun to play code golf too. It's probably highly dependent on the niceness of the "English compiler".

New comment by superfish in "Costco’s butter recall, explained"

superfish — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:11:35 +0000

Butter is actually quite low in lactose content (like 9x less than milk) and the serving size is relatively small: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance#:~:text=Ty...

So generally butter is not a problem for people with lactose intolerance anyway.

New comment by superfish in "Cargo Cult Science (1974)"

superfish — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:44:57 +0000

Thanks for the link.

> It's a trick I learned from pg for keeping the focus on content rather than personalities.

IMO none of us would’ve bothered reading this if it were just some random person’s commencement address. I personally would’ve been bummed if I skipped this post just because I didn’t find the nonsense title (nonsense unless you read the article) interesting enough.

New comment by superfish in "Cargo Cult Science (1974)"

superfish — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:02:57 +0000

We should add “- Richard Feynman” to the title. I was pleasantly surprised to notice that only after clicking the link

New comment by superfish in "A Git story: Not so fun this time"

superfish — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 21:30:37 +0000

Great read!

I’m sure I’m not the first to point out that Junio (the appointed git “shepherd”) works at Google where mercurial is the “recommend local vcs” internally instead of git.

New comment by superfish in "Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative"

superfish — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:43:11 +0000

I super duper highly recommend iterm2 (macos) + its integrated tmux support. It was relatively popular in my circles at google when I was there.

It comes with this tool’s benefit of native scrolling/cp paste PLUS the huge benefit of “right click to split vertical/horizontal”.

New comment by superfish in "I think I kind of hate lazy loading"

superfish — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 03:39:26 +0000

I feel this comment in my very core. I have an unusually hard time remembering “yt-dlp”. Glad I’m not the only one

New comment by superfish in "AI Art Panic"

superfish — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 02:54:53 +0000

In case you’re genuinely curious about the referenced law:

“conversely, as the price of a good decreases (↓), quantity demanded will increase (↑)”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_demand

New comment by superfish in "Renaissance Technologies"

superfish — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:52:52 +0000

It blows my mind how much RenTech does with some ~300 employees. I recently had a phone screen with them (no offer otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this) and all of my communication was with this MIT math PhD. No HR, just the PhD.

Compare them with a Big N that has 10,000s of SWE’s. It’s a safe assumption that each engineer is individually less talented but even so, how do they iterate/experiment with such few employees?