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New comment by yauneyz in "Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts"

yauneyz — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:22:03 +0000

I'm sure astronomy solves much harder "needle in a haystack" problems and we could probably use their methods

New comment by yauneyz in "zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32"

yauneyz — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:00:15 +0000

Genuinely curious - did you use a coding agent for most of this or does this level if performance take hand written code?

New comment by yauneyz in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

yauneyz — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:26:03 +0000

I think part of the problem is a temptation to believe that we can have out cake and eat it too.

If the people on charge of deciding when to use the cameras were morally perfect, we have all the upside and none of the downside.

The problem is we live in a fallen world and that will simply never work.

Nevertheless it is a siren song that causes us to repeatedly make the wrong trade

New comment by yauneyz in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

yauneyz — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:19:16 +0000

Something fluffer. Sankey diagrams will never live that down lol

New comment by yauneyz in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

yauneyz — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:21:51 +0000

Depends how you configure it. If you like things like tiling window managers and keyboard driven computing, Linux is in a category of its own.

New comment by yauneyz in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)"

yauneyz — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 06:09:56 +0000

Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Numpy/Pandas/sk-learn, SQL, JS, React, Clojure, ClojureScript, NodeJS Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Innj32msgL2BBg6NH-gEzGAa... Email: zac [dot] yauney [at] gmail [dot] com Interesting Project: https://www.thinky.dev

When I was young I wanted to be a theoretical physicist, but then I learned that computers let you use math to model and impact the "real" world, and I was turned towards data science. Masters in Applied Math, experience with Python and its data science stack and deep learning.

Full stack JS experience as well, using React. I also have built a fairly sophisticated Electron app using ClojureScript and what is essentially React.

Looking for roles in data science or otherwise general software engineering

New comment by yauneyz in "Show HN: I'm building an app to replace Overleaf and Notion"

yauneyz — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:15:38 +0000

Check out thinky.dev - it is primarily focused on 2 right now, but I think it is really good at it.

It was also built because of academia, my masters thesis

New comment by yauneyz in "Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust"

yauneyz — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:38:42 +0000

If this is Electron, try pdf.js - really good rendering, you can create a text layer (for text selection, etc). Probably the best result per effort you can get

New comment by yauneyz in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024)"

yauneyz — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:04:22 +0000

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python data stack, SQL (w/ dbt), Pytorch, MERN stack, intermediate Clojure, some Rust, Linux

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jy37umFhfek96_-MAwSgxJYG...

Email: In CV

New comment by yauneyz in "Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch"

yauneyz — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 06:29:59 +0000

I'm actually part of a research team working on using a wrist mounted spectrometer to actually measure glucose continuously and non-invasively. Turns out it's a really really hard problem.

New comment by yauneyz in "Differentiable Programming – A Simple Introduction"

yauneyz — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:37:14 +0000

My professor has talked about this. He thinks that the real gem of the deep learning revolution is the ability to take the derivative of arbitrary code and use that to optimize. Deep learning is just one application of that, but there are tons more.