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New comment by toppy in "Ask HN: Advice for a CTO Visiting Silicon Valley"

toppy — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:13:43 +0000

Noted, thanks.

Ask HN: Advice for a CTO Visiting Silicon Valley

toppy — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:02:28 +0000

As the CTO of a small European startup, I will have the opportunity to fly to Silicon Valley (San Mateo) next week. I have a free day, and I’d love to immerse myself in the tech/startup atmosphere—not for business networking, but rather to fulfill a childhood dream.

Could you recommend any must-see places? Where can I find information about open tech events? Are there any startups where you can just walk in from the street and drop by for a coffee?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42887748

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by toppy in "Automotive Grade Linux Launches New Expert Group Led by Toyota"

toppy — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:59:24 +0000

F-16 aircraft is doing it already: https://thenewstack.io/how-the-u-s-air-force-deployed-kubern...

New comment by toppy in "Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls"

toppy — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:12:43 +0000

Such a link could be created automatically when you register for a car plate.

New comment by toppy in "The secret inside One Million Checkboxes"

toppy — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:47:07 +0000

You comment deserves at least two upvotes.

New comment by toppy in "Diffusion models are real-time game engines"

toppy — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 06:48:23 +0000

I think you've just encoded the title of the paper

New comment by toppy in "GPUDrive: Data-driven, multi-agent driving simulation at 1M FPS"

toppy — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 10:10:42 +0000

I don't know this field of research thus my question: why such a high framerate is consider as a feature at all? Does it help with learning rate?

New comment by toppy in "The Endless Maze algorithm (Atari 2600)"

toppy — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:34:07 +0000

For Commodore there is this classic recipe [1] for infinite maze:

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

[1] https://10print.org/

New comment by toppy in "Here's a puzzle game. I call it Reverse the List of Integers"

toppy — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:52:47 +0000

The broader contexts could be this: look at this puzzle as a way for reinvent sorting as a delegation of operations (split + combine) instead of traditional "swapping" of values. As CPU arithmetic is faster then memory operations some real treasure may be hidden in this new approach.

New comment by toppy in "Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub"

toppy — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:47:19 +0000

Where's GitHub Fraud Detection Team?

New comment by toppy in "Game Programming Patterns (2014)"

toppy — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 09:00:02 +0000

Are you referring to this one? https://www.gameenginebook.com/

New comment by toppy in "RR – Railroad Diagram Generator"

toppy — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 13:01:10 +0000

SQLite diagrams: https://www.sqlite.org/syntaxdiagrams.html

New comment by toppy in "Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers"

toppy — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:33:51 +0000

Absolutely love it! I've been looking for such a tool for a long time. Just a looooong text file when I can write my snippets. I like UI, icon and even the name :) One suggestion - make it collapsable.

New comment by toppy in "All code is technical debt"

toppy — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:26:39 +0000

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode

New comment by toppy in "2nd Batch of the A16Z Open Source AI Grant"

toppy — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:07:39 +0000

Is it only me or this webpage hangs on mobile?

New comment by toppy in "Need a PRNG? Use a CSPRNG"

toppy — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 23:20:05 +0000

Welcome on HN, your reputation precedes you :)

New comment by toppy in "Machine intelligence (2015)"

toppy — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:44:09 +0000

"Most machine intelligence development involves a “fitness function”—something the program tries to optimize. At some point, someone will probably try to give a program the fitness function of “survive and reproduce”. Even if not, it will likely be a useful subgoal of many other fitness functions. It worked well for biological life."

Interesting, how this correlates with this Bible passage from Genesis: "God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it' ".

New comment by toppy in "Show HN: Dlt – Python library to automate the creation of datasets"

toppy — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:05:25 +0000

Potential conflict with other quite popular Python library: https://dlthub.com/docs/intro

New comment by toppy in "What every developer should know about GPU computing"

toppy — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 23:48:28 +0000

Touche!

New comment by toppy in "Locked and Loaded with New Cosmic DE Updates"

toppy — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 23:46:44 +0000

Probably I am paranoid but showing battery and network status together with the rest of widgets (even configuration icon) seems like a security thread, no?