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Seb Insua
Personal blog · sebinsua.com · on HN as lhnzprogrammingai
Seb Insua writes @sebinsua, a personal blog at sebinsua.com about programming and ai. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Type-safe tensors”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Seb Insua's personal site. The comments only link the homepage as a profile, and one unrelated comment about PyTorch and TypeScript does not refer to the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The homepage and blog of Seb Insua
Most-linked posts?
- Type-safe tensors2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-12
- A software engineer’s guide to understanding neural networks and transformers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-25
What Hacker News says?
Whether this will be useful all rests on the quality and differentiation of the haptic feedback. For example, imagine walking down the street towards your destination and feeling the right side of the watch vibrate to signal that you should turn right. If your watch can communicate contextual information related to your intention and local then it will be superior to (1) wearing a socially inappropriate device like…
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on “The Apple Watch”Submitted Avoiding False Cause as a story · 6 points
HN discussionlhnz's profile > http://sebinsua.com/
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on “Ask HN: what was the best life/programming choice you ever made?”Submitted Interfaces as Loops as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | LONDON, UK / REMOTE WORLDWIDE Take a read of my blog or GitHub if you wish to quickly gauge my skillset: https://sebinsua.com I'm a full-stack product engineer. I usually program in TypeScript, Python and Rust but have hundreds of hours of experience using a wide range of languages and technologies. I am an expert within the Node.js and React ecosystems, where I have 12 and 9 years of experience respe…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023)”Submitted Making technology choices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm excited about this for probably different reasons than most: I think Typescript could be a more ergonomic way to develop ML models than Python because you can automatically infer and check tensor types while you are writing code! Compare this to the mess of comments you usually see writing pytorch telling you that x is of shape [x, y, z]. // An empty 3x4 matrix const tensorA = tensor([3, 4]) // An empty 4x5 matr…
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on “PyTorch Primitives in WebGPU for the Browser”Submitted A software engineer’s guide to understanding neural networks and transformers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | LONDON, UK / REMOTE WORLDWIDE Take a read of my blog or GitHub if you wish to quickly gauge my skillset: https://sebinsua.com I'm a full-stack product engineer. I usually program in TypeScript, Python and Rust but have hundreds of hours of experience using a wide range of languages and technologies. I am an expert within the Node.js and React ecosystems, where I have 12 and 9 years of experience respe…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)”Submitted Type-safe tensors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | LONDON, UK / REMOTE WORLDWIDE Take a read of my blog or GitHub if you wish to quickly gauge my skillset: https://sebinsua.com I'm a full-stack product engineer. I usually program in TypeScript, Python and Rust but have hundreds of hours of experience using a wide range of languages and technologies. I am an expert within the Node.js and React ecosystems, where I have 12 and 9 years of experience respe…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2023)”Submitted On Facial Expressions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | LONDON, UK / REMOTE WORLDWIDE Take a read of my blog or GitHub if you wish to quickly gauge my skillset: https://sebinsua.com I'm a full-stack product engineer. I usually program in TypeScript, Python and Rust but have hundreds of hours of experience using a wide range of languages and technologies. I am an expert within the Node.js and React ecosystems, where I have 12 and 9 years of experience respe…
Comment linking /resume.pdf
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)”Submitted Hiring Tech Talent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTake a read of my blog if you wish to quickly gauge my skillset: https://sebinsua.com Location: London, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Rust, React, SQL, PostgreSQL, HTML, CSS, Docker, Git, Kubernetes, FastAPI, Pandas, Numpy, Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), Résumé/CV: https://sebinsua.com/resume.pdf Email: me@sebinsua.com
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)”SEEKING WORK | LONDON, UK / REMOTE WORLDWIDE Take a read of my blog or GitHub if you wish to quickly gauge my skillset: https://sebinsua.com I'm a full-stack product engineer. I usually program in TypeScript, Python and Rust but have hundreds of hours of experience using a wide range of languages and technologies. I am an expert within the Node.js and React ecosystems, where I have 12 and 9 years of experience respe…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)”Hm, I don't think that's quite it. I went through my own process of learning how neural networks work recently and wrote this based on my learning: https://sebinsua.com/bridging-the-gap As far as my understanding goes, you can represent practically any function as layers of linear transformations followed by non-linear functions (e.g. `ReLU(x) = max(0, x)`). It's this sprinkling of non-linearity that allows the netw…
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on “A Completely Non-Technical Explanation of Deep Learning”SEEKING WORK | REMOTE WORLDWIDE, LONDON, UK Take a read of my blog if you wish to quickly gauge my skillset: https://sebinsua.com I'm a full-stack product engineer. I usually program in TypeScript, Python and Rust but have hundreds of hours of experience using a wide range of languages and technologies. I am an expert within the Node.js and React ecosystems, where I have 12 and 9 years of experience respectively. Te…
Comment linking /resume.pdf
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2023)”http://sebinsua.com I started to do short blogs on algorithmic problems and also neural networks for a beginner-but-tenacious audience.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”I wrote something sort of adjacent to what you're talking about. It wasn't about applications persay but instead it was a guide / decision tree that took everything I learnt on how to make choices on what datastructure or algorithmic approaches applied to different problems (from doing the Blind 75 problem set). It's not authoritative as I am not an expert yet but might still be of interest: https://sebinsua.com/alg…
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on “Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures”