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David Titarenco
Personal blog · dvt.name · on HN as dvtprogrammingmath
David Titarenco's personal blog at dvt.name covers programming and math. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 140 times, most often “RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for an interactive tutorial on Gödel's first incompleteness theorem and for posts criticising Microsoft Azure. The comments are bare links or unrelated remarks, with no judgment of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-02-24
- Hacking the Casio F-91W to Handle 1000 Psi2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-06-03
- Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem for Programmers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-03-12
- I Used Azure So You Don’t Have To2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-27
What Hacker News says?
What we need, imo, is: 1. A new UX/UI paradigm. Writing prompts is dumb, re-writing prompts is even dumber. Chat interfaces suck. 2. "Magic" in the same way that Google felt like magic 25 years ago: a widget/app/thing that knows what you want to do before even you know what you want to do. 3. Learned behavior. It's ironic how even something like ChatGPT (it has hundreds of chats with me) barely knows anything about…
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on “AI Horseless Carriages”Submitted RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps as a story · 220 points
HN discussionhttps://dvt.name
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Hacking the Casio F-91W to Handle 1000 Psi as a story · 198 points
HN discussionGreat piece. Last year, I forced myself to release something every two weeks -- even if it wasn't finished or was just a poorly-written blog post. I can proudly say it was one of the most productive years of my life[1]. Most of those projects won't see the light of day -- no one will care and no one will notice -- but releasing is far better than endless planning. And just to really hit it home: this year I built Lo…
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on “Daydreaming about the future instead of doing work today”Submitted Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem for Programmers as a story · 63 points
HN discussionI know people always want to discuss the merits of the memo -- whether he was right, wrong, or somewhere in between -- but I'd like to have a meta-discussion. I believe the memo is irrelevant not because of its content, but rather because it's embarrassingly reductive. In my opinion, anyone that takes it seriously validates Damore's ultra-reductive approach to social policy -- and this is, I think, unequivocally wro…
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on “Outraged about the Google diversity memo?”Submitted PEP 308 and why I still hate Python as a story · 37 points
HN discussionI can put you in touch with my dad (who knows a lot of people in Eastern Romania) to potentially help. We live in California, but are originally from Romania. Feel free to get in touch (email at the bottom of https://dvt.name/resume/ ).
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on “Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4”Submitted Frege’s Concept Horse Paradox in the Simply-Typed λ-calculus as a story · 25 points
HN discussionhttps://dvt.name/2018/03/12/godels-first-incompleteness-theo...
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on “Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem – an interactive tutorial”Submitted In 2021, I read 12 books and learned 30 words as a story · 10 points
HN discussionLocation: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Résumé/CV: https://dvt.name/resume/ Blog: https://dvt.name/ GitHub: https://github.com/dvx Email: david.titarenco AT Google's email service I'm an expert engineer and data professional interested in consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-tech product and my team bootstrapped a data pipeline using Spark,…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)”Submitted Hacking the Casio F-91W to Handle 1000 PSI (2019) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Los Angeles | Remote I'm an expert engineer and data professional interested in consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-tech product and my team bootstrapped a data pipeline using Spark, Databricks, and microservices built with Java, Python, and Scala. These days, I work for a "new media" company you probably heard of and, over the past year, I re…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)”Submitted Please Stop Writing So Much Code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI wrote about the F-91W last year in a post[1] that went viral-ish. Interestingly, it's probably the only article of clothing worn by both Obama[2], and Osama[3]. I wouldn't go as far as calling it a "terrorist icon" -- it just happens to be literally the cheapest mass-produced digital watch ever made. It's very sturdy, relatively waterproof, the battery should last around a decade, and it even has a (terrible) LED…
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on “How Did the Casio F91W Become a Terrorist Icon?”Submitted I Used Azure So You Don’t Have To as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAt the risk of getting downvoted, I'm just going to say that I really hate this book. First of all, it moves way, way, way too fast. I glossed over it, and chapter 3 is already the Curry-Howard isomorphism? That took us a semester of λ-calculus to come to grips with. These are big results. Second of all, it just seems like a mish-mash of like three or four different classes put into one: computability, type theory,…
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on “Teach Yourself Logic 2017: A Study Guide [pdf]”Submitted Random Redistribution of Wealth: Confusing Math with Morality as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Hundreds of times less accurate. Yikes! Everyone knows this; you're making it seem like it's some kind of conspiracy. Mechanical watches are awesome. I bought my first "semi-luxury" one (a Longines Diver for like $3,000) two years ago and I love everything about it: the style, the complication, the fact that I need to wind it if I want to wear it. Everything is so interesting and neat. Everything has so much histo…
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on “How Watches Work”Submitted Show HN: Finishing what Intel started – Building an Arduino-powered anti-cheat as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is a complicated and very interesting problem; we had some fantastic related discussion here[1][2] earlier this year. I like your angle of population size being the "input" of some n^2 "matching algorithm" -- it's probably a bit too game theoretic in practice, but I think it makes sense. I'm of the opinion that online dating has been creating some real market problems; as you mention, communities were small and…
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on “The stable marriage problem and modern dating”Submitted Retrospective: Stuff I built in 2018 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSomewhat related, I wrote a blog post about (P)RNGs a few years ago: http://dvt.name/2010/clock-drift-hardware-prng/ . It's interesting to se V8 favor accuracy over speed. I'd think that having a "secure" random number generator isn't that important of a deal given the fact that all code runs client-side anyway (so why the need for cryptographic security?).
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on “There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random()”Submitted Fonz.js – How do US phone numbers work? as a story · 3 points
HN discussion(From a couple of years ago: http://dvt.name/2010/ward-cunningham-on-simplicity/ ) Occasionally, I find myself “stuck” when writing code – the coder’s “writer’s block” I guess. This quote by Ward Cunningham is both inspiring and truthful: -- Once we had written it, we could look at it. And we’d say, “Oh yeah, now we know what’s going on,” because the mere act of writing it organized our thoughts. Maybe it worked. Ma…
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on “Too scared to write a line of code”Submitted How Spread Syntax Breaks JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case I'm an early-stage CTO, expert engineer, and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines or API-heavy backends. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-tech product and my team bootstrapped a data pipeline using Spark, Databricks, and microservices built with Java, Python, and Scala. At ATTN:, I re-bui…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)”Submitted Gödel’s Second Incompleteness Theorem for Programmers as a story · 2 points
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