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sspehron Does creatine make you smarter?

> Available short and long-term studies in healthy and diseased populations, from > infants to the elderly, at dosages ranging from 0.3 to 0.8 g/kg/day for up to 5 > years have consistently shown that creatine supplementation poses no adverse > health risks and may provide a number of health and performance benefits.

They missed a zero behind the comma, didn't they?

sspehron Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?

Both options excite me for different reasons - so what now? :)

sspehron Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?

The thing is I don't have a strong preference since intellectually I would be more interested in Cambridge, but would prefer living in the location for which I've got the Amazon offer - and in addition to that I'm confident that I will be happy with either choice, so for me it's really just about taking the rational choice career-wise

sspehron AutoKernel: Autoresearch for GPU Kernels

Have you benchmarked this against autoscheduling like with TVMs Ansor?

sspehron Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other

There are some surprises like the word 'r'

sspehron Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door

Cool site, I think the fact that bots WILL try to get access to your server as soon as it's publicly available should be mentioned more in basic tutorials etc... I remember panicing when I had set up my first webserver as a teenager and was checking the nginx logs out of curiosity, I thought this was a real threat to the security of the server and almost shut it down lol.

sspehron Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

Google Maps is definitely one of the technically coolest big tech products imo. It's fascinating what kind of non-obvious insights you can get from the combined user data (E.g. Crowdedness of public places, insights like in the article etc.)

sspehron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

Location:Berlin Remote:Appreciated, no requirement Willing to relocate: Depending on role Technologies: AWS, Python, JS, Java, C, Docker, SQL, LLVM, Infra as Code, CI/CD, AI compilers (TVM etc.), Agentic systems Résumé/CV: Currently SDE intern at Amazon building BE systems and working on agentic ai, previously founding eng at startup leading freelancer teams and doing aws architecture and implementation. Also interested in compiler research and work, published paper at Acm sigplan CC '26 incl. experience with LLVM Email:spehr.sv@gmail.com

(Typed on phone, sorry about typos)