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Avy Faingezicht
Personal blog · faingezicht.com/articles · on HN as avyfainaieconomicsprogramming
Avy Faingezicht's personal blog at faingezicht.com covers ai, economics and programming. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “The Descriptor Protocol and Python Black Magic”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Technology essays and photography by Avy Faingezicht, mostly about software engineering, AI, startups, economics, cities, books, and travel.
Most-linked posts?
- The Descriptor Protocol and Python Black Magic2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-26
- Making Python run faster: a case study2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-25
- The Bots Always Find Something2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-14
What Hacker News says?
+1 on DFW's book. It's odd, and really it's more a discussion on the history of modern mathematics than an in depth explanation of the concepts themselves, but it is a great read. I wrote a short review after reading it, which you might be interested in checking out: https://faingezicht.com/articles/2017/10/27/infinity/
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on “Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?”Submitted How to Evaluate Startup Offers as a story · 140 points
HN discussionVouch is building an insurance company that can keep up with the rapid change that characterizes the startup lifecycle. We're doing this by making insurance fast, responsive, and focused on our customer - startups. Our team is currently 200+ people, and we're growing. The engineering team (currently ~60 people) moves fast, and we see each person as crucial to the success of the company. We've raised over $160M from…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)”Submitted The Descriptor Protocol and Python Black Magic as a story · 64 points
HN discussionVouch | Various Engineering Roles | US Remote, or San Francisco/Chicago | FTE, Interns | Visa ok Vouch is building an insurance company that can keep up with the rapid change that characterizes the startup lifecycle. We're doing this by making insurance fast, responsive, and focused on our customer - startups. Our team is currently 150+ people and we're planning on doubling over the next year. The engineering team (…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)”Submitted Finding Communities of Collaborators in Paul Graham's Essays as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI wrote about this a few months ago, right before OpenAI released ther Plugin feature: https://faingezicht.com/articles/2023/03/02/federated-langua... TLDR, the essay explores how LLM could evolve into front-end routers that connect users with specialized tools, leading to a future where federated models determine the best-suited system to answer specific queries. Not too different from today's federated search appr…
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on “Outperforming LLMs with less training data and smaller model sizes”Submitted The Whole World is your Antilibrary as a story · 5 points
HN discussionRecently I wrote a blog post[0] expanding on a similar idea from the angle of ancient Greek philosophy, particularly Parmenides: to think is to compress. [0]: https://faingezicht.com/articles/2026/05/28/shape-of-what-we...
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on “Compression Is Prediction”Submitted San Francisco is awesome. It could be much better as a story · 3 points
HN discussionJust finished reading Bonfire of the Vanities. I tend to read multiple things at once, and am currently working through The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier and Inside Out (A personal history of Pink Floyd) by Nick Mason. More info and recommendations/reviews: https://faingezicht.com/book_pipe/
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Reading?”Submitted Effective Code Reviews: Align your team and ship better code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://faingezicht.com I write very little these days, but you can find a mix of tech and economics, as well as a selection of my photography (mostly travel and street photo). For the HN crowd, I’d highlight my piece on evaluating startup offers: https://faingezicht.com/articles/2021/09/20/evaluating-start...
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Betting Against the Everything Company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Bots Always Find Something as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Bots Always Find Something as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted After AI, Coordination as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tools Take Power Away as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Roughly Everything You Need to Know About Entity Resolution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on my first startup attempt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wolfram's automata, a simple implementation with Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Python run faster: a case study as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Descriptor Protocol, and Python Black Magic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Descriptor Protocol and Python Black Magic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Wikitropolis: The Link Structure of Wikipedia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Young Are Richer Than You Think as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emergent Inequality, and Random Handouts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted User-side software, and adversarial marketplaces as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Risk, in Perspective as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Company Building Through the Search Lens as a story · 1 points
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