Hi, I'm Jakub ;)
Mostly doing the part of text I/O aficionado @ HN, studying History and Philosophy part-time while working in tech in London.
FP, history, linguistics, anthropology and philosophy enthusiast.
DM me -> hn (at) jakub (dot) cc
A large-ish list of interesting users:
abledon (naive rationalism) | adamnemecek | adrianhoward | ahelwer (quantum computing) | Animats (code) | AnthonyMouse | antirez (C) | antognini | apaprocki (bloomberg, finance) | arcfide | atdrummond (altruism) | argonaut | ArtWomb | awakeasleep (comments) | bane | barrkel | bitL | Blahah | buro9 | chollida1 (algo trading) | ChuckMcM | coffeemug | cperciva | cryptoz | danso | derefr (code) | dbaupp (rust) | dom96 (Nim) | dredmorbius (mankind) | dsacco | dwohnitmok (PLT) | evrydayhustling | franciscop | gaius | graeme (business) | graycat (music, math, academia) | gatsby | gdb (OpenAI) | gwern | harlanji | idlewords | iamacyborg | jandrewrogers | jasonlbaptiste | jedberg (SRE) | jessriedel (physics) | joe_the_user | Kell (law) | jstewartmobile | JumpCrisscross | k__ | ketonv (protocols) | KirinDave (code) | kragen (chemistry) | lionhearted | lisper | lkrubner (smashcompany) | lobster_johnson | Locke1689 (C# compiler) | logfromblammo | lordnacho | LoSboccacc (math) | mabbo | malux85 (deep learning) | mindcrime (startups) | mjg59 (kernel) | mlthoughts2018 | motohagiography | nkurz | nostrademons | PakG1 | patio11 (startups) | pdog (finance) | plinkplonk | pmjordan | pmoriarty | pron | proverbialbunny (C++, algos) | psyc | pvg | raffi | raiph (perl) | ralphlinus | SirLJ (algo trading) | sivers | soVeryTired | stcredzero | stupidcar | TeMPOraL | tokenadult | Tomte | trishume |
tw1010 | veyron | yummyfajitas
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jxub; my proof: https://keybase.io/jxub/sigs/d-uZ44hw0k6jC0SLgZ55L-gbnQLlfShGa_L5c7UacFs ]
- Problem Solving vs. Problem Picking
by jxub on 10/31/24, 12:04 PM, with comments
- Shanghai Before the Foreigners
by jxub on 10/19/24, 8:42 PM, with comments
- Eating Through the Chinese Far North East
by jxub on 10/14/24, 4:36 PM, with comments
- I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs
by jxub on 7/5/24, 12:23 PM, with comments
- Taking a Look at (Some) Tokenizers
by jxub on 6/18/24, 11:06 AM, with comments
- How to Do the Jhanas
by jxub on 6/17/24, 2:12 PM, with comments
- Pu Erh Tea Market Crash: The Boom and Bust Revisited (2017)
by jxub on 6/8/24, 3:47 PM, with comments
- China's tiered city system explained (2016)
by jxub on 1/18/24, 4:00 PM, with comments
- In China, what you eat tells who you are (2011)
by jxub on 1/3/24, 1:58 PM, with comments
- The Strange Survival of Guinness World Records
by jxub on 6/20/23, 1:20 PM, with comments
- Notes on Nigeria
by jxub on 5/11/23, 7:20 AM, with comments
- Accent Addition: Prosody and Perception Facilitate Second Language Learning
by jxub on 7/24/22, 8:27 PM, with comments
- Wages and Prices in the Soviet Union (1936)
by jxub on 6/23/22, 10:05 PM, with comments
- English Is Not Normal
by jxub on 6/6/22, 5:22 PM, with comments
- Explaining the Brilliance and Insanity of the Russian Language
by jxub on 4/10/22, 10:07 AM, with comments
- Turkish Bird Language
by jxub on 2/20/22, 1:28 PM, with comments
- Black People of Yarmouk Basin
by jxub on 2/20/22, 9:53 AM, with comments
- English Island Seeks a Landlord-King Who Likes Solitude, Seals and Beer
by jxub on 1/29/22, 4:57 PM, with comments
- Jaxa (State)
by jxub on 1/29/22, 4:21 PM, with comments
- Polonezköy
by jxub on 1/29/22, 4:20 PM, with comments
- Cimbrian Language
by jxub on 9/25/21, 8:19 AM, with comments
- China 2030: Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society [pdf]
by jxub on 9/20/21, 12:54 PM, with comments
- Desertification in Romania (2020)
by jxub on 6/11/21, 9:21 PM, with comments
- ITIL and BUREAUCRACY are NOT synonyms
by jxub on 5/25/21, 6:25 PM, with comments
- Simple Factory vs Factory Method vs Abstract Factory by Example
by jxub on 5/23/21, 9:46 AM, with comments
- Missing Middle Housing
by jxub on 5/21/21, 11:24 AM, with comments
- A real account of a day in Xinjiang from a foreigners perspective (2017)
by jxub on 4/8/21, 1:02 PM, with comments
- Herzberg’s Motivation Theory
by jxub on 2/24/21, 11:42 AM, with comments
- Living Conditions in Europe (2018)
by jxub on 2/4/21, 11:03 PM, with comments
- Demystifying the Spanish ID Numbers
by jxub on 2/4/21, 6:31 PM, with comments
- Persistent Login Cookie Best Practice (2004)
by jxub on 2/1/21, 4:30 PM, with comments
- Why we oppose to an Universal Basic Income
by jxub on 11/17/20, 5:56 PM, with comments
- A Tcpdump Tutorial with Examples – 50 Ways to Isolate Traffic
by jxub on 11/13/20, 10:54 PM, with comments
- In Search of Poland’s Post-Communist Pizza Baguette
by jxub on 11/8/20, 7:04 PM, with comments
- The Devil's Hair Dryer: Hell is other people, with leaf blowers
by jxub on 11/2/20, 4:28 PM, with comments
- What’s to Be Done About China?
by jxub on 10/19/20, 11:17 AM, with comments
- Trabucco
by jxub on 10/1/20, 6:52 PM, with comments
- Reimagining financial services with modular banking [pdf]
by jxub on 9/28/20, 4:31 PM, with comments