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old_bayeson How does Shazam work?

Ayyy I used DTW to track bots on a certain social media site. They tend to act in herds so DTW helps smooth out delayed, repeat actions.

old_bayeson Banned in California

When you read a paragraph you have to read all the sentences in that paragraph.

old_bayeson Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

So how did they get the Greenland shark eyeballs to dissect for the research paper?

old_bayeson Days since last GitHub incident

How can we add AI to this perfectly functional product?

old_bayeson Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

I also enjoyed this, great work!

old_bayeson DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS

"A spokesperson for Comcast responded, 'Currently our network is not experiencing impacts and we are able to handle the traffic.'"

In other words, attacks coming from our own IP's are not our problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

old_bayeson Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging

It may sound obvious to folks who already use a debugger, but in my experience a decent chunk of people don't use them because they just don't know about them.

Spread the good word!

old_bayeson I miss using em dashes

well thats embarrsing

old_bayeson Android 16 is here

I love the detailed security features. Exactly what I want in my OS.

old_bayeson Show HN: A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is faster than Redis

As of 12 months ago, sure, but before that Redis was open source for 15 years.

old_bayeson Getting the World Record in Hatetris (2022)

oh god I've never hated a game so quickly

old_bayeson Vigorous Exercise, Cognitive Decline, and High Blood Pressure

Jesus, you manage stress by doing chores?

old_bayeson U.S. students will take the SAT online

oh shit that is a good idea

old_bayeson Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]

Right, but what I think they're trying to do is to confirm that the larger, more comprehensive study also applies to Dartmouth. But the fact that they didn't also run the test against other metrics might suggest they didn't want to publish that data publicly.

Or if you're more cynical, they failed to produce those results.

old_bayeson Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]

I believe they do look at other things (EDIT: or at least the study this paper was based on did):

"Using detailed admissions data from IvyPlus institutions, Chetty, Deming, and Friedman (2023) show that SAT and ACT scores also predict career success, including high levels of earnings and attendance at elite graduate schools, holding family income constant."

old_bayeson A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting

Fraction of the cost, way more interpretable.

Still, I suppose we gotta keep an eye on this kind of work in case there's a tipping point.

old_bayeson Problems on the Galaxy Store

I agree, one of Spotify's big early successes was embracing a Freemium model before other apps did. Really helped establish a userbase.