Hacker News: yablak

New comment by yablak in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

yablak — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:57:34 +0000

Click, clack, Emdash.

New comment by yablak in "Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services"

yablak — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:43:43 +0000

Responsibility

New comment by yablak in "Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges"

yablak — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:39:35 +0000

Way to bury the lede..

New comment by yablak in "k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number"

yablak — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:06:17 +0000

Is it faster to start by doubling?

New comment by yablak in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

yablak — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:55:58 +0000

Barf

New comment by yablak in "Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn"

yablak — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:21:03 +0000

the kind of changes that were required to avoid massive famines also rely on chemical fertilizer. aaand.... "the production of chemical fertilizers, particularly synthetic nitrogen-based ones, is a highly energy-intensive process that creates significant amounts of carbon dioxide"

New comment by yablak in "Uv 0.12.0"

yablak — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:12:10 +0000

thoughts on worm safety w.r.t. `exclude-newer`, and the right way to handle unpinned git repo deps?

New comment by yablak in "Fields Medals 2026"

yablak — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:43:25 +0000

if you took an engineering course that covered fourier transform, z transform, or laplace transform, then you have seen an introduction to harmonic analysis on the circle and the real number line.

typically when I see mentions of harmonic analysis together with differential geometry I start thinking of fourier transform on more fancy shapes (on the sphere, for example, the replacements for complex exponentials are called spherical harmonics)

my PhD was EE in signal processing and I took some extra math classes at the graduate level, and continue to read some of this for fun and profit.

I still cant understand most of the terminology in the fields medal citations. that probably requires a more thorough couple of years of graduate education in mathematics.

math is by far the furthest of the sciences in terms of depth of human discovery.

New comment by yablak in "Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?"

yablak — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:36:10 +0000

if the goal is simply money, the cs masters is probably still the better long-term bet.

New comment by yablak in "The C to Rust migration book"

yablak — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:16:02 +0000

One link deeper is the actual content; can we link there instead?

https://mainmatter.com/c-to-rust-migration-book/course/

New comment by yablak in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

yablak — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:47:30 +0000

That's not really Noam's style

New comment by yablak in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

yablak — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:51:17 +0000

does anyone have a proper comparison of binary control systems like lore, xet, etc? i'd love to see how it handles mixed case workloads.

The Bright Side of ADHD: Dr. Ned Hallowell on Embracing and Succeeding with Add

yablak — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:50:09 +0000

Article URL: https://additudemag.libsyn.com/the-bright-side-of-adhd-dr-ned-hallowell-on-embracing-and-succeeding-with-attention-deficit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543069

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yablak in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

yablak — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:06:25 +0000

Yup. Uses browser automation to download originals (well, whatever storage setting you used)

New comment by yablak in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

yablak — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:11:08 +0000

A tool for backing up Google photos more incrementally than Google takeout:

https://github.com/ebrevdo/gphoto-pull

A version of the IFTTT linter that I missed after leaving Google:

https://github.com/ebrevdo/ifttt-lint

New comment by yablak in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

yablak — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:04:22 +0000

They also keep their own inboxes; emails downloaded to or sent from the old version are not visible on the new version.

New comment by yablak in "Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package"

yablak — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:20:02 +0000

I forgot how to count that low...

Fast Emery Upgrades With pebble-scalable

yablak — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:59:30 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.chrislewis.me.uk/?post=2026-02-01-Fast-Emery-Upgrades-With-Pebble-Scalable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107681

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by yablak in "Why poor countries stopped catching up"

yablak — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:34:19 +0000

Couldn't help myself and ran a quick analysis:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1tstVoKkVP_8B7dTOofa...

nice plot at the bottom.

rank correlation between GDP and life expectancy (child mortality would have been maybe a bit better). uses a 20 year window in both directions per year. bootstraps for 5% and 95% quantiles of the rank correlation.

there looks to be a max around 1992, and steady downhill in correlation since then.

this seems unlikely to be an artifact of the analysis, though 1992 is eerily close to 20 years from the last date. 2013 is the last year where we have at least 15 years total symmetriclaly around the given year to include in the correlation for that year.

New comment by yablak in "Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility"

yablak — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:43:18 +0000

Proving Trolls... wrong?