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aaronblohowiak

7,734 karma · joined April 12, 2008

Building an AS/RS for TCGs

Personal: aaron.blohowiak@gmail.com

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aaronblohowiak··on Modern Font Stacks
Accusing the person you are replying to of not understanding css after the knowledge built in to their argument doesn’t paint you in a good light. I don’t have horse in this race, but I’d encourage you to take a beat.
aaronblohowiak··on No Figma, I won't fit in your little box
with flash, it was more prevalent iirc
aaronblohowiak··on How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator
I feel you. Disconnect for a while, touch grass, be the change you want to see, maybe explore parts of the internet that are less “startup” focused and more hacker focused?
aaronblohowiak··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
Neat! Any links?
aaronblohowiak··on Ultra efficient vector extension for SQLite
finding similar things quickly, where the "shape" of a thing can be defined by a vector (like embeddings for instance). this can be used in lots of machine learning applications
aaronblohowiak··on Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres
Even so 35ms+ latency for Redis reads is very very high I’d want to understand what is happening there
aaronblohowiak··on Credit scores drop at fastest pace since the Great Recession
Collapse of dollar value means you need more dollars to buy things.
aaronblohowiak··on EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections
What about EU
aaronblohowiak··on Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
import z3
aaronblohowiak··on Randomly selecting points inside a triangle
ah, excellent point. thanks. this works if they are transforming the triangle to be a right triangle to make a rectangle but if they are making it half a square, that could not be accomplished solely with affine transformations (if I figure correctly...)
aaronblohowiak··on Nano Banana image examples
oh just close your eyes and imagine an apple for a few moments, then open your eyes, look at the wikipedia article about aphantasia and pick the one that best fits the level of detail you imagined.
aaronblohowiak··on Randomly selecting points inside a triangle
no, this person is not suggesting a parallelogram but rather performing an affine transformation on the triangle to make it a right triangle so they can pick a random point in a square instead. as another commenter mentioned, I believe this distorts the distribution and won't do the right thing.
aaronblohowiak··on Anthropic raises $13B Series F
alphabet is "worth" 2.45 trillion on the public market, is anthropic worth a bit less than 10% of google going forward? I don't think that's entirely unreasonable...
aaronblohowiak··on Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space
I’d rather farm food where plants grow well and put up panels where they don’t..
aaronblohowiak··on Code formatting comes to uv experimentally
I will give it another look, thanks!
aaronblohowiak··on Code formatting comes to uv experimentally
>Rust has effectively made writing with the performance of C++ feel like writing Ruby, but with unparalleled low defect rates and safety on account of the type system.

This is a little overblown.. speaking VERY HAND-WAVILY, sea_orm < active record by a factor of about 10x more mental overhead but is at least that much more performant...

but yea, vibe-coding rust micro services is pretty amazing lately, almost no interactions with borrow checker, and I'm even using cucumber specs...

aaronblohowiak··on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
There are a few "hints" that suggest to me algorithms will bear a lot more fruit than compute (in terms of flops):

1) there already exist very efficient algorithms for rigorous problems that LLMs perform terribly at! 2) learning is too slow and is largely offline 3) "llms aren't world models"

aaronblohowiak··on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
We are either limited by compute, available training data, or algorithms. You seem to believe we are limited by compute. I've seen other people argue that we are limited by training data. It is my totally inexpert belief that we are substantially limited by algorithms at this point.
aaronblohowiak··on U.S. drinking rate at new low as alcohol concerns surge
The claim that "any amount may have negative effects" (in the article) is NOT the same as the claim that "you can detect if I had a single drop 20 years ago" (the claim you were arguing against.)
aaronblohowiak··on U.S. drinking rate at new low as alcohol concerns surge
Your rebuttal is to a claim that wasn’t made
aaronblohowiak··on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong
Used to work at nflx, biiiiig headaches
aaronblohowiak··on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong
as long as your VPCs aren't too big, yea.
aaronblohowiak··on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong
>VPC peering used to be annoying; now there are better options like Transit Gateway, VPC sharing between accounts, resource sharing between accounts, and Cloud WAN.

TGW is... twice as expensive as vpc peering?

aaronblohowiak··on I used to know how to write in Japanese
It’s time to update your self concept. The Wikipedia article is pretty good on it and the apple scale is illustrative of the spectrum.
aaronblohowiak··on Tell HN: I'm tired of formulaic, "LLM house style" show HN submissions
Hackaday > HN for the kind of stuff I used to love discovering here
aaronblohowiak··on USB-C for Lightning iPhones
Oops, saw he upgraded to a big boy unit at end of video
aaronblohowiak··on USB-C for Lightning iPhones
Is that an open source opulo? You could get one for 2k
aaronblohowiak··on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event
If only the rest of our society held this level of introspection and reflection we’d be so much better off.
aaronblohowiak··on Show HN: Compass CNC – Open-source handheld CNC router
Have you seen the opulo yt video on this?
aaronblohowiak··on Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting
The content of your post made me think you’re a real one and I wanted to reach out as I’m thinking of hiring a freelancer to help me build some stuff I am working on, but the site in your profile is not responding.
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