Hacker News: Horffupolde

New comment by Horffupolde in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

Horffupolde — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:24:30 +0000

The theater on fire has a small exit door.

New comment by Horffupolde in "Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood"

Horffupolde — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:49:31 +0000

Poor man’s method is working right next to an open Bunsen burner. It actually works remarkably well.

New comment by Horffupolde in "The Factory Timezone"

Horffupolde — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:24:48 +0000

OS have millisecond uptime counters.

New comment by Horffupolde in "$83B Wasted: Showing up at the airport 3 hours before your flight"

Horffupolde — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:26:05 +0000

That sounds awful. Have you tried thinking what’s the worst thing that could happen? It’s no so bad.

New comment by Horffupolde in "NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant"

Horffupolde — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:13:08 +0000

What does “recognizing Palestine” even mean?

New comment by Horffupolde in "How to increase your surface area for luck"

Horffupolde — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:39:18 +0000

It’s better not to lose than to win. Life is non-Ergodic.

New comment by Horffupolde in "At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says"

Horffupolde — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:27:37 +0000

Suicide is a verb and result by itself. Would the author also say “he died by murder”?

New comment by Horffupolde in "Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566 million"

Horffupolde — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:01:43 +0000

You are not assisting. If anything you are making it less profitable.

New comment by Horffupolde in "Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566 million"

Horffupolde — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 21:38:12 +0000

The other firms are not manipulating the market. They are just riding along the manipulator.

New comment by Horffupolde in "Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M"

Horffupolde — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 21:11:16 +0000

So why can’t other players detect this behavior and trade with JS, removing their edge?

New comment by Horffupolde in "Show HN: I built the tool I wished existed for moving Stripe between countries"

Horffupolde — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 22:23:38 +0000

Does Stripe even allow this?

New comment by Horffupolde in "Sequence and first differences together list all positive numbers exactly once"

Horffupolde — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 15:14:29 +0000

The sequence union the differences span all integer values.

New comment by Horffupolde in "Benzene at 200"

Horffupolde — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:02:40 +0000

Yes.

New comment by Horffupolde in "A receipt printer cured my procrastination"

Horffupolde — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:20:11 +0000

So she turned herself into an automaton.

New comment by Horffupolde in "Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading"

Horffupolde — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:58:25 +0000

That’s yield over what base?

New comment by Horffupolde in "The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017)"

Horffupolde — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:59:57 +0000

Perhaps what’s inside or outside is the intrinsic concept of private versus public, and cities without such a wire are incomplete?

New comment by Horffupolde in "Plutonium Powered Pacemaker (From 1974)"

Horffupolde — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:54:07 +0000

Possibly Pu-239 or other impurities.

New comment by Horffupolde in "Wrench Attacks: Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency users (2024) [pdf]"

Horffupolde — Sun, 25 May 2025 15:25:52 +0000

Because the public doesn’t relate to these victims.

New comment by Horffupolde in "CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)"

Horffupolde — Sun, 25 May 2025 01:59:30 +0000

That results in unbounded offers.

New comment by Horffupolde in "Claude 4"

Horffupolde — Fri, 23 May 2025 02:43:14 +0000

So you abandon university because you don’t make order of magnitude progress between semesters. It’s only clear in hindsight. Progress is logarithmic.