Hacker News: yannickt

New comment by yannickt in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

yannickt — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:23:07 +0000

For me, that skepticism began when Obama received the award. To his credit, he did not think he deserved it. But I have never viewed it in the same light since.

New comment by yannickt in "Black Mesa"

yannickt — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:23:05 +0000

Now I have seen everything! The people section there is particularly creepy.

New comment by yannickt in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)"

yannickt — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:55:57 +0000

Are you open to candidates located outside of Lisbon/Europe?

New comment by yannickt in "The man who killed Google Search?"

yannickt — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:59:27 +0000

I've been using Kagi for a while, and I find that it delivers better results in a cleaner presentation.

New comment by yannickt in "Uillem – an offline, containerized LLM interface"

yannickt — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 13:32:52 +0000

Paolo indeed is a great guy. Can’t wait to hang out with him next.

New comment by yannickt in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)"

yannickt — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:11:37 +0000

I am interested in learning more about the Sr. Software Engineer position. Is there any way I can contact you regarding this?

New comment by yannickt in "Ray Tracing for the TI-84 CE"

yannickt — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:59:27 +0000

Oh my god.

New comment by yannickt in "GitHub, fuck your name change"

yannickt — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:48:28 +0000

This is insane.

New comment by yannickt in "GitHub, fuck your name change"

yannickt — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:46:05 +0000

What's next? Are we going to rename master's as an academic degree? Are we going to start using words other than master or grandmaster to refer to experienced martial artists? What about chess?

New comment by yannickt in "Encountering Thomas Sowell"

yannickt — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:14:58 +0000

It's more complex than that because not every black person is equally likely to have an encounter with the police. There are studies that suggest that if you control for encounters with the police, blacks are just as likely as whites to be killed by the police. Half of violent crimes in the US are also committed by blacks. This is definitely one of the consequences of the history of slavery and segregation. Nevertheless, given that blacks commit 50% of violent crimes, it should be expected that the percentage of people killed by the police who are black, will be higher than their rate of representation in the general population.

There ARE also videos of whites getting killed in conditions just as tragic as e.g. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, etc. But they go largely unreported in comparison.

New comment by yannickt in "My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies"

yannickt — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:23:31 +0000

I salute you.

New comment by yannickt in "Nintendo and Microsoft team up to promote cross-play, while Sony remains silent"

yannickt — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:39:23 +0000

“Sony's primary focus every generation is to get everything else right: development tools, hardware storage and performance, consistent controller design, software medium, and so on.”

Has the PlayStation really done consistently better than the Xbox on all those fronts? Looking at development tools, online gaming, performance and storage, I could see a case for the PS4, but did Sony do a better job with the PS2 or PS3, than Microsoft with the Xbox/Xbox 360?

The perspective is interesting nonetheless.

New comment by yannickt in "Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how to invest and build wealth?"

yannickt — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:18:28 +0000

It is the best book on personal investing I've ever read, and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

New comment by yannickt in "James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google"

yannickt — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:19:08 +0000

I remember finishing that interview thinking that Cenk was the most intellectually dishonest host I had seen in a long time. Sam's patience from beginning to end was extremely impressive.

New comment by yannickt in "Ask HN: What is the best book you read on 2017?"

yannickt — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:37:13 +0000

Principles is my best non-fiction read of 2017. Superbly written.

New comment by yannickt in "Justin Trudeau explains why Canada really ‘gets’ AI and smart cities"

yannickt — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:28:43 +0000

I don't understand why these questions are being downvoted.

New comment by yannickt in "Justin Trudeau explains why Canada really ‘gets’ AI and smart cities"

yannickt — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:13:25 +0000

My thoughts exactly.

New comment by yannickt in "Justin Trudeau explains why Canada really ‘gets’ AI and smart cities"

yannickt — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:12:32 +0000

Are there that many Canadian companies (as opposed to US companies with satellite offices in Canada) capitalizing on AI? If not, does Canada really "get it?"

New comment by yannickt in "Michael K. Williams Is More Than Omar from ‘The Wire’"

yannickt — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:07:07 +0000

I would count both The Sopranos and Breaking Bad as contenders, personally.

New comment by yannickt in "Canada's Housing Bubble Will Burst"

yannickt — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 23:15:15 +0000

> There is a HUGE labour cost in housing such that housing prices track inflation (particularly wage inflation).

Prices have risen _way_ above inflation in Vancouver and Toronto the last 10-15 years. Incomes have been virtually flat, possibly even dropped in real terms after adjusting for inflation.