pedrozieg

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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
“In a library on a burner laptop” - but I’ll narrow it down to people who have handed in their notice on a specific day.
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
A useful way to frame this isn’t “is it worth tens of hours to avoid a future reinstall” but “where do I want my entropy to live”. You’re going to invest time somewhere: either in a slowly-accumulating pile of invisible state (brew, manual
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Every shopping result is already an ad(2zuz.com)
5 points by pedrozieg 9mo ago|1 comments
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
What I like about this writeup is that it quietly demolishes the idea that you need DeepMind-scale resources to get “superhuman” RL. The headline result is less about 2048 and Tetris and more about treating the data pipeline as the main pro
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
Nice tool. Some of the text boxes, such as sitemap text, are not legible in dark mode - the text is light grey on a white background.
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
What I like about this approach is that it quietly reframes the problem from “detect AI” to “make abusive access patterns uneconomical”. A simple JS+cookie gate is basically saying: if you want to hammer my instance, you now have to spin up
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
Postgres’s extensible index AM story doesn’t get enough love, so it’s nice to see someone really lean into it for LIKE. Biscuit is basically saying: “what if we precompute an aggressive amount of bitmap structure (forward/backward char
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
Investors talk about HN like it’s a growth lever, but the site mostly behaves like a long-running reading habit with spam defenses. A tiny slice of users on /new decide whether you even get a shot, gravity slowly pushes old stuff down,
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
I buy the economics argument, but I’m not sure “mainstream formal verification” looks like everyone suddenly using Lean or Isabelle. The more likely path is that AI smuggles formal-ish checks into workflows people already accept: property c
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
We’ve had variations of “JSON describes the screen, clients render it” for years; the hard parts weren’t the wire format, they were versioning components, debugging state when something breaks on a specific client, and not painting yourself
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
I’m not worried about “can I, personally, keep this thing running?” so much as “what is the long-term story for the kind of person who buys a turnkey appliance”. Yes, Umbrel OS is on GitHub and you can already run it on generic NUCs /
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
A decade of “personal cloud box” attempts has shown that the hard part isn’t the hardware, it’s the long-term social contract. Synology/WD/My Cloud/etc all eventually hit the same wall: once the company pivots or dies, you’re
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
I’m working on 2zuz, a product search engine that optimizes for the users rather than the advertizers. The goal is simple: if you search for something specific, you shouldn’t have to scroll through ads, “inspired by your search”, or complet
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Show HN: 2zuz – Shopping search with no irrelevant or promoted results(2zuz.com)
1 points by pedrozieg 9mo ago|0 comments
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
The interesting thing here isn’t “spreadsheet, but backwards” so much as “spreadsheet as a constraint system”. Classic spreadsheets are basically DAGs: data flows one way and a lot of UX assumptions (and people’s intuition) rely on that. As
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
The interesting bit in the blog isn’t the 72.2% SWE-Bench Verified number, it’s their own human eval: Devstral 2 beats DeepSeek V3.2 in Cline-style workflows but still loses clearly to Claude Sonnet 4.5. That’s a nice reminder that “open SO
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
There’s something refreshing about explicitly saying “this editor exists to delight me, and that’s enough”. The default script now is that every side project should either be open-sourced or turned into a SaaS, even if that pressure is exac
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
A lot of this “startups commit suicide, not homicide” framing feels like it pathologizes what is often a rational choice. Most founders don’t “give up” in some moral sense, they just run out of personal runway before the company produces en
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
Most teams don’t fail because they picked the wrong framework; they fail because they never ship enough iterations for it to matter. Anything that reliably shortens that loop is “good tech,” even if it’s ugly, uncool, or built on last decad
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
The most interesting bit here is not the “2.4x faster than Lambda” part, it is the constraints they quietly codify to make snapshots safe. The post describes how they run your top-level Python code once at deploy, snapshot the entire Pyodid
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
The wild part is that this isn’t really a pricing mistake, it’s the business model. That $65 Canon isn’t “a printer”, it’s a subsidized acquisition channel for a customer who will buy OEM ink at a huge margin or sign up for some kind of rec
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
What I like about this writeup is that it surfaces a tension most “let’s build a compiler” tutorials skip: the AST is both a data structure and a UX boundary. Super-flat layouts are fantastic for cache and memory, but they’re hostile to all
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
CVE counts are such a good example of “what’s easy to measure becomes the metric”. The moment Linux became a CNA and started issuing its own CVEs at scale, it was inevitable that dashboards would start showing “Linux #1 in vulnerabilities”
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by pedrozieg 9mo ago
It’s easy to forget how awful TLS was before Let’s Encrypt: you’d pay per-hostname, file tickets, manually validate domains, and then babysit a 1-year cert renewal calendar. Today it’s basically “install an ACME client once and forget it” a
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Ask HN: Has ChatGPT-5.1 Regressed?
1 points by pedrozieg 9mo ago|2 comments
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by pedrozieg 10mo ago
People fear that which they don’t understand.
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by pedrozieg 10mo ago
What WhatsApp really needs to do is allow people to store their chats in the cloud. WhatsApp is the only communication tool that forces people to keep everything on their phones - or delete information. This causes WhatsApp to take up a lar