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fnands commented on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work   simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw
dfxm12 · a day ago
there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of LLM tool, who deposits giant, untested PRs on their coworkers—or open source maintainers—and expects the “code review” process to handle the rest.

Is anyone else seeing this in their orgs? I'm not...

fnands · a day ago
A friend of mine is working for a small-ish startup (11 people) and he gets to work and sees the CTO push 10k loc changes straight to main at 3 am.

Probs fine when you are still in the exploration phase of a startup, scary once you get to some kind of stability

fnands commented on Ask HN: ArXiv Endorsement as Independent Researcher    · Posted by u/7777777phil
7777777phil · 4 days ago
Thanks a lot for this hint, I'll definitely look into it. Seems to be the only option. I was able to "publish" it to SSRN [1] but not sure it has the credibility I'm looking for.

[1]https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5910263

fnands · 4 days ago
ArXiv doesn't give your paper any credibility either.

If you want credibility, submit it to a journal. Journals don't require that the paper be on ArXiv.

The reason I submitted our paper to ArXiv was that it was accepted at a workshop that was peer-reviewed, but non-archival, so just wanted to be able to point people at something a little easier to reference than the workshop github page.

fnands commented on Ask HN: ArXiv Endorsement as Independent Researcher    · Posted by u/7777777phil
fnands · 5 days ago
Recently went through this. Not exactly an independent researcher, but my current field (ML) is different from my educational field (physics), so needed to get someone to endorse me so I could upload a paper to cs.CV

I asked someone who organised a workshop I had spoken at. If you haven't met anyone in the field, then look at the papers you cite, see if any of the authors of those papers can endorse you (you can see it at the bottom of a paper's ArXiv abstract page), and ask them.

fnands commented on I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop   dnhkng.github.io/posts/ho... · Posted by u/dnhkng
fnands · 8 days ago
Man, you're living some crazy CyberPunk fever-dream.

Nice find, and I admire your courage for even attempting this!

fnands commented on Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void   askmike.org/articles/blog... · Posted by u/askmike
Pacers31Colts18 · 15 days ago
I've been getting Singapore traffic like crazy
fnands · 15 days ago
Same. Not Wordpress, but Cloudflare tells me my main traffic (by far) is from Singapore and the US, and in numbers that are clearly bots.
fnands commented on Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years   topspeed.com/reliable-jap... · Posted by u/teleforce
leeoniya · 15 days ago
fnands · 15 days ago
Eh, I think the Lada is more of a "you can't polish a turd" situation.
fnands commented on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm   theverge.com/report/82065... · Posted by u/evolve2k
zallarak · 16 days ago
This may be a naive question: why ARM and not RISC-V?
fnands · 16 days ago
How many people do you know with RISC-V computers?
fnands commented on Anthropic acquires Bun   bun.com/blog/bun-joins-an... · Posted by u/ryanvogel
hinkley · 17 days ago
I wonder if this is a sign of AI companies trying to pivot?

> Bun will ship faster.

That'll last until FY 2027. This is an old lie that acquirers encourage the old owner to say because they have no power to enforce it, and they didn't actually say it so they're not on the hook. It's practically a cheesy pickup line, and given the context, it kinda is.

fnands · 16 days ago
On your first point: It doesn't read like that to me. It seems like they built one of their key products (Claude Code) on top of Bun, and want to have a say in it's development.
fnands commented on Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil   scienceclock.com/microbe-... · Posted by u/ashishgupta2209
vinni2 · 17 days ago
“Researchers tested this by using soil that mimics Martian regolith. “

Would this hold for real Martian regolith?

fnands · 16 days ago
Once the Mars Sample Return brings some back we can test that...
fnands commented on Advent of Code 2025   adventofcode.com/2025/abo... · Posted by u/vismit2000
fnands · 18 days ago
Doing it in Mojo this year.

Much easier so far than it was in 2023 when just basic string wrangling was basically nonexistent.

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