Hacker News: yablak

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

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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?

New comment by yablak in "Gtasks-terminal – Google Tasks power-tool for the terminal"

yablak — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:34:36 +0000

Does this have the same gtasks API limitations as the rest, namely that it can't set or retrieve task deadline *time*?

New comment by yablak in "Show HN: I built a universal clipboard that syncs realtime on multiple devices"

yablak — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:56:27 +0000

... works with Pushbullet apps.

New comment by yablak in "Huge Binaries"

yablak — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:24:44 +0000

Yes, but it can be more of a pain keeping track of pairs. In production though, this is what's done. And given a fault, the debug binary can be found in a database and used to gdb the issue given the core. You do have to limit certain online optimizations in order to have useful tracebacks.

This also requires careful tracking of prod builds and their symbol files... A kind of symbol db.

New comment by yablak in "Huge Binaries"

yablak — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:20:36 +0000

FAANGs we're deeply involved in designing LTO. See, e.g.,

https://research.google/pubs/thinlto-scalable-and-incrementa...

And other refs.

And yet...

New comment by yablak in "Huge Binaries"

yablak — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:17:44 +0000

> We would like to keep our small code-model. What other strategies can we pursue?

Move all the hot BBs near each other, right?

Facebook's solution: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/bolt%2FREADME...

Google's:

https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-September/135...

New comment by yablak in "Formally Verifying Peephole Optimisations in Lean"

yablak — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:51:11 +0000

iiic the model assumes no flow control, only select.

New comment by yablak in "AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos"

yablak — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:05:53 +0000

Happy user of kagi for several years. This is the opposite of my experience. Your comment strikes me as dishonest.

New comment by yablak in "GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust"

yablak — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:32:21 +0000

Hope tailscale adopts this

New comment by yablak in "String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof"

yablak — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:20:56 +0000

I thought that what constitutes a measurement is well understood; it's just the entanglement between the experiment and the observer, and the process is called decoherence - and the collapse itself is a probabilistic process as a result.

AFAIK an EoT is not required to design experiments to determine if it's a real physical phenomenon vs. a mathematical trick; people are trying to think up those experiments now (at least for hidden variable models of QM).

New comment by yablak in "String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof"

yablak — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:08:36 +0000

What's the "quantum measurement problem"? And why is it a problem? I get the wave function collapses when you measure bit. But which part of this do you want to resolve in a testable way?

New comment by yablak in "Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong"

yablak — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:29:13 +0000

It literally gives you google results (+ additional search providers, usually not in top results)... without the added spam. It's therefore superior to "peak google results".

What are you talking about LLM services? default search behavior does not use any LLMs (except any Google might use to reorder their top 10 results internally).

New comment by yablak in "Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?"

yablak — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 06:26:23 +0000

You can set up the terminal+tmux to forward all the important keys to console emacs. I like iterm2 for its extreme configurability. Others say kitty terminal with the kitty term emacs library is great. I never got that working with tmux.

New comment by yablak in "Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)"

yablak — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:12:26 +0000

"you're the worst serialization/config format I've ever heard of"

New comment by yablak in "U.S. guided-missile cruiser crosses Panama Canal, warships deployed to Venezuela"

yablak — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 20:45:23 +0000

Afghanistan will do that to you

New comment by yablak in "A tiny (1000 lines), fastish, embeddable scripting language can be AOT compiled"

yablak — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:18:23 +0000

Microcontrollers?