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by necubi 9d ago
I've similarly spent a decade in the streaming space, started a stream processing startup, built three streaming platforms at various large companies... and I basically agree. Streaming always felt like it was about to happen, and it k
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by necubi 2mo ago
The forest scenes in shogun were filmed in Squamish, around some very popular climbing areas. You can even see chalk on some of the boulders.
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by necubi 3mo ago
ABC was originally designed for European folk music [0], not church music. The corpora as a result is largely fiddle tunes, particularly Irish (see for example https://thesession.org ). ABC started very simple, because most of th
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by necubi 3mo ago
MIPS is increasingly common in rock helmets. Black Diamond (anecdotally the most common brand I see in the US) now has it in their higher end models, and Mammut as well.
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by necubi 3mo ago
You do not need perfect pitch to quickly learn fiddle tunes by ear (source: I play fiddle, can quickly learn by ear, do not have perfect pitch). You learn tunes primarily by relative pitch, which most people can develop. There's also a
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by necubi 4mo ago
It's 5B active params in MoE, not 5B total params (total is 137B).
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by necubi 4mo ago
Better this than the Bot Company, which has been apparently renting out AirBnBs for robot testing and leaving them trashed: https://sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/sf-startup-secretly-testin...
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by necubi 4mo ago
This isn't at all how YC companies operate (source: I did YC), but also... Plaid is not YC.
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by necubi 5mo ago
CloudFront may sound like Cloudflare, but it is an unrelated AWS service ( https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ ) (Disclaimer: I work for Cloudflare)
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by necubi 5mo ago
GitHub launched in 2008, so that seems unlikely?
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by necubi 5mo ago
Humans are also famously bad at drawing bicycles from memory https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/
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by necubi 5mo ago
Those would be angels, not VCs. VCs manage outside money.
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by necubi 6mo ago
I’m someone who is not a python developer but has to use python tools and run other people’s python code. I have suffered through learning about anaconda, virtualenv, pip, and more. Uv is the first time there’s a tool that just runs the sof
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by necubi 7mo ago
It would be pretty shocking for Amazon to break the S3 API at this point. There is a huge 3rd party ecosystem that would be affected. For example, in Rust land the object_store crate is at least as popular as the official SDK.
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by necubi 7mo ago
Matt Levine has a take: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-02-24/ai-... > Look, I am sorry. But if you go to Jump Trading and Jane Street and say “hello, I have an unregulated poorly design
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by necubi 7mo ago
Would love to see this for Rust!
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by necubi 7mo ago
Or if you’re a newish startup who they hope will eventually spend enough to justify it.
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by necubi 8mo ago
I don't think this is meaningfully HTAP, it's gluing together two completely different databases under a single interface. As far as I can tell, it doesn't provide transactional or consistency guarantees different than what y
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by necubi 8mo ago
Sorry for the ambiguity and confusing mix of abbreviations and airport codes! It's San Francisco/Austin/Seattle/New York City/London/Lisbon
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by necubi 8mo ago
Cloudflare | Rust/DB engineers | SF/Austin/Seattle/NYC/London/Lisbon (Onsite) | Full-time Hey HN, I'm hiring engineers for the new Cloudflare Data Platform ( https://blog.cloudflare.com/clou
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by necubi 8mo ago
Expressing your first amendment right to protest is not “almost anything.” Historically, courts have taken very dim view of government retaliation for first-amendment protected activities.
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by necubi 8mo ago
In the same boat, I try it every few months but give up because the emacs mode still isn't good enough. It's been getting slowly, slowly better though.
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by necubi 9mo ago
I moved my startup’s marketing site and blog from NextJS to Astro, and I’m happy with it. It’s in that middle ground—focused on primarily static sites but with the ability to still write bits of backend logic as needed. I found it hard to g
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by necubi 9mo ago
One downside is that you're paying for the GPU whether you're fully using it or not. It takes big queries to saturate a GH200, and if you're only using 10% of the capacity of the GPU it doesn't really matter that it&#x27
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by necubi 9mo ago
You can now paste markdown directly into Google docs (Edit -> Paste From Markdown) (I have the same workflow, via Obsidian)
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by necubi 9mo ago
I'm sorry, this comment [0] was clearly written (or rewritten) by an LLM. Sections are titled, constant m dash usages, and "Thanks again for the thoughtful look! We can zoom into any other area of your choice." [0] https:&#
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by necubi 9mo ago
The docs and the comments here are clearly LLM generated. Please don't submit AI slop to HN, or at the very least talk about it in your own words! The commit history is legitimately insane though: https://github.com/lin
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by necubi 10mo ago
I feel like I'm on another planet here. Basically every new piece of software in my space (DB/query engines/streaming engines) is being written in Rust these days. There are like three production projects, total, written in Z
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by necubi 10mo ago
If by "exceptions" you're talking about stack unwinding (as opposed to the language-level control flow constructs like throw/catch) then Rust has always had that with panics and panic=unwind.
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by necubi 10mo ago
This doesn't have anything to do with exceptions, and the context appears to be Zig, not Rust. The article is about how we represent errors not their control flow (i.e., exceptions).

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