joshdavham

The author Paul McCann (polm) is one of my favourite programmers out there!

He’s done awesome work in the Japanese NLP space over the last decade which has really helped me in my language learning projects.

He maintains a mecab (Japanese tokenizer) wrapper for Python [0], has a book on Japanese NLP written for English speakers [1] and also worked on Spacy at one point [2].

[0] https://github.com/polm/fugashi [1] https://www.japanesenlp.com/ [2] https://spacy.io/

I do wonder if language change might start to slow down, however.

Now that we have so much written language from the past, won't that have a sort of fossilizing effect on the language? For example, prior to writing systems, people had no idea how their ancestors communicated. Now with written text and audio recordings, we know in great detail how our language used to be used.

Before seeing this page, I had always assumed that PIE was a lot older. It’s amazing how much linguistic development has occurred in ~6,500 years!

Cool article! But, as the article is in English, it really should include romaaji. If readers were able to read the names, the article wouldn’t need to be in English :)

> It's equally dubious to believe that some sort of body (ostensibly run by practicing software developers) would be able to come up with a means to certify proficiency.

I very much mostly agree with you, but I did take the Google Cloud Associate exam a year and a half ago and honestly it felt like a pretty rigorous exam. I definitely could not have passed that exam if I was incompetent in my knowledge of cloud and IT. Exams like these, I think, might become more mainstream in certifying developers in my opinion. (Though whether this is desirable is another question.)

> people lack the right skills today to wrangle agents into writing good code.

It's actually this that leaves me feeling optimistic. We're definitely bad at this today, but will we always be bad at this into the foreseeable future? I'd like to think not. I'd like to think that we'll get better at working with agents in the future and eventually develop better practices around this new weird technology once it's better understood.

> dealing with scaling pains

That’s a great problem to have! Keep going!

I guess I really should download the iOS app when browsing LinkedIn on my phone then! Thanks for the tip.

There's another way to get this exact same effect without a chrome extension and requires two steps:

1. Change your "Preferred feed view" to "Most recent posts" here: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/preferred-...

2. Unfollow every connection (N.B., this doesn't mean remove connection, just that you won't see their posts).

If you do this, it wipes your feed clean and will literally display "Something went wrong" where your feed used to be.

This has made LinkedIn truly blissful for me, but this only seems to work on the LinkedIn web app on my PC. Doesn't work on the mobile web app for some reason...

Maintaining abs doesn’t necessarily require a ton of work time-wise, but does require you exercise consistently and closely watch what you eat. I used to have very visible abs and honestly it didn’t feel worth it. I like bread too much!

Old articles frequently reach the top of HN. There are many great articles that people only discover now rather than when they were originally posted.

I love seeing these types of articles on HN! I love it when someone smart actually does the math on some silly topic :D

Perhaps age might also be a factor? Female fertility peaks in a woman's 20's.

(And yes, I realize we're all being a little shallow and tongue-and-cheek here)

So I'm an actual "6/6/6"... and I also have a statistics degree. This was absolutely hilarious to read!

I will say that I've seen multiple definitions of the 666 rule where the last 6 represents either penis length or a 6-pack. From personal experience, I will say that maintaining a 6 pack makes you much more desirable in the eyes of women than, uh, the other option.

I'm also not much of a dater, but my friends always freak out at me when I tell them I've never been on a dating app. They seem to think I'd do well. ...Maybe this is my sign that I should try a dating app?

I’m curious, are many people using Zed as their daily driver in their professional work? (Not just in side projects)

Any meetups in Vancouver, Canada?

It's interesting reading the comments criticising this page's scroll behaviour. I didn't realize how many people scroll webpages without a mouse... This is good to know!

Interesting! I didn't know about the 'pool' section of HN.

Would you mind explaining to us how it works?

What implications might an AI crash have on the software developer job market? It’s likely that many AI software companies would fold and thus have to layoff their employees, but what would be the implications for the rest of the tech job market?

I often see developers giddy about the idea of AI being a bubble and waiting for the crash, but I suspect this event could actually be particularly terrible for us.

Makes sense. You can also iterate faster without the hassle of getting your extension approved on the chrome store, etc.

I think the amount of upvotes you’re getting here suggests that it might be worth building a proper browser extension for this!

Would you be interested in making one?

Whether I watch anything while eating usually depends on how mentally-spent I feel.

For example, if I'm eating breakfast alone in the morning, I'm usually feeling pretty energetic and have a bigger appetite for stimulation. I might watch a podcast interview.

Now if I'm eating lunch in the middle of my workday and I'm alone, I usually don't watch anything. My brain usually feels way too saturated and overstimulated so I might just eat and stare out the window.

After the workday is done and I'm eating dinner, it can be a toss-up haha. If I'm super exhausted, I won't watch anything, but if I'm feeling energetic, I might watch something similar to when I eat breakfast.

What made you realize you'd never amount to a decent mathematician?

For me, it was a course in Real Analysis haha

I actually like Docker Desktop a lot, but then again, I've never tried any alternatives. Perhaps I'll give Podman a shot one of these days!

OP is asking about “blogs not about AI”.

Cool to learn that the founders also had a hand in developing Docker Desktop in the past!

It's funny, I was curious about a past SO survey and then just so happened to notice that their 2026 was live.

I thought it'd be worth sharing :)

The site doesn't appear to be working for me.

When I click "Founders" for example, it says "Showing Founders posts" but doesn't ultimately render anything.

I guess a more concise question might be "what would a Claude Code for non-technical users look like?"

Do you have any ideas for what that could look like? It's interesting to think about.

Where did you pull this data from?