Tempo and the Real Fintech Use of Blockchain
Parsing the Signal from the Noise When Stripe announced Tempo, its new blockchain for payments, Hacker News erupted in a 1,000-comment storm of crypto skeptics versus true believers. The debate matt…
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“Insight Porn”
The only reason I bother trawling through HN is for the occasional gem like this: (Source) Hacker News is just a part of the larger web. It's the same reason you see so many people arguing over…
An internet of spam
Filing this under "seen on Hacker News today" Clearly we didn't think this through back then. It should have been obvious to us that it is easier to create noise than it is to create s…
Computing with Water
TIL (thanks to a HackerNews comment) about this very early (1936 !) model of a "water integrator". Link here…
Layers
From this HN thread: So you have LLM-based English prompts as an interop layer to Python + PySpark, which is itself an interop layer onto the Spark core. Also, the generated Spark SQL strings inside…
Spend your code wisely
An insightful opinion 1. The code I write is a response to what I currently understand of problem I currently have, using my current understanding of current tools. Expertise improves how big the &qu…
On over-planning
A comment I can agree with (from this HN thread) So many threads discussing with an engineering mind if 40 is half your life, a third, blah blah blah. Truth is you don’t have tomorrow for granted. W…
Cycles of threading
From this HN thread I gotta say, as a programmer "of a certain age", a lot of recent advances have an everything-old-is-new-again feel to me. When I first heard of "threads" in th…