<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: MichaelNolan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MichaelNolan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:57:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=MichaelNolan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But I keep wondering if they could integrate at a lower-level than the source code.<p>I’m sure they could, but targeting go source code has the benefit of giving early adopters an escape hatch. If it targeted LLVM directly, I would never consider using this at work since the risk of it being abandoned is too high. But since it targets go source, I would perhaps consider it for some low importance projects at work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:07:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665375</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665375</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How big of an install are you looking to do? I just did a ground mount install on my property. (4kw panels, 5kwh battery) If you are good with your hands, and can follow instructions then I would recommend you do the work your self. The actual installation of the panels and battery are close to plug n play. The cost of an electrician can easily double the project costs for small projects.<p>For the panels I did whatever was cheapest on signature solar. For batteries and inverter I did eco-worthy. (eBay for that, they run sales pretty often) in total is was $1000 for the panels (that included delivery) and around $1200 for the battery and inverter. If you have a truck then you might be able to find cheaper panels locally.<p>On YouTube check out DIY Solar Power with Will Prowse. He is a certified electrician and publishes part lists and plans that are easy to follow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:13:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47156322</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47156322</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47156322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kind of a weird headline. It makes it sound like this just happened. But it happened almost 2 years ago.  Reading the article is also a bit confusing. I finally figured out they are only referring to utility scale solar and not total solar (utility plus behind the meter)<p>My overlay of the data:
<a href="https://eia.languagelatte.com/" rel="nofollow">https://eia.languagelatte.com/</a><p>Raw data:
<a href="https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/0" rel="nofollow">https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/0</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:04:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47156197</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47156197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47156197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Waymo fatalities: 0<p>By some measures Waymo is actually at -1 fatalities. There has been one confirmed birth of a child in a Waymo. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/baby-born-waymo-san-francisco-6bdd0fb853330f806adf5a7ca225ec8e" rel="nofollow">https://apnews.com/article/baby-born-waymo-san-francisco-6bd...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:55:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123083</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Direct link instead of live view - <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ce9yydgmzdvt?post=asset%3Aaec7368e-3986-43fd-a11d-75572a0b7d33#post" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ce9yydgmzdvt?post=asset%3Aaec7...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:36:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732336</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Uber Faces Growing Pressure over Sexual Assault Record"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Uber does offer a similar setting in some markets. It took a while to roll out in the US because of legal  uncertainties. So Uber waited until the feds gave them a promise that no action would be taken related to offering a “women only” or “women preferred” feature.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://codebase.show/projects/realworld">https://codebase.show/projects/realworld</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679590">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679590</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:48:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://codebase.show/projects/realworld</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you’re using Alpine already, then is there a good reason to use HTMX over alpine Ajax? They both look quite similar to me, but I don’t do enough front end work to tell the difference.<p><a href="https://alpine-ajax.js.org/comparisons/" rel="nofollow">https://alpine-ajax.js.org/comparisons/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:38:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526830</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Was it a billion dollar mistake?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The real problem with Java in particular is you'd end up chaining calls ... and have no idea from the error or the logs what was broken from: a.b.c.d();<p>That’s been solved since Java 14. (5 years ago) Now the error will tell you exactly what was null.<p>And “soon” Java will have built in support for expressing nullability in the type system. Though with existing tools like NullAway it’s already (in my opinion) a solved problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:48:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502909</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502909</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "The Netflix Simian Army (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No one has used this code in years, and its kind of half baked, but here it is <a href="https://github.com/Michael-Nolan/Public/tree/main/SimpleChaos" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Michael-Nolan/Public/tree/main/SimpleChao...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:06:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469344</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469344</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "The Netflix Simian Army (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Chaos testing is such an interesting idea. At my last job we  didn’t have access to any of these tools. So I made a poor man’s chaos testing library for Java and spring services. At the application level we would inject random faults into method calls.<p>It doesn’t test nearly as much as the real tools can, but it did find some bugs in our workflow engine where it wouldn’t properly resume failed tasks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:52:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468042</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Per 1 billion vehicle-km the US has 6.9 deaths and the Netherlands has  4.7 deaths. That’s obviously better  much but I wouldn’t call it “problem solved”.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...</a><p>(Wikipedia links to itf-oecd.org/ where those numbers come
From)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 04:43:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342319</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most to least confident:<p>1. Bazel is still not widely used outside of massive monorepos. (because its such a pain to use)<p>2. Solar power will surpass wind power in the US to become the 4th largest source of electricity. <a href="https://eia.languagelatte.com/" rel="nofollow">https://eia.languagelatte.com/</a><p>3. Starship begins launching real payloads, achieves reusability of the upper stage, and successfully does a ship to ship fuel transfer.<p>4. Tesla stock has a major correction (>20%) as it becomes increasingly clear that Waymo, Zoox, AVRide, and various Chinese companies are significantly ahead in AV technology. And as it becomes clear that Optimus is a sham.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:27:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46321986</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46321986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46321986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am always intrigued by new SRS systems, though sadly most are just "simplified" Anki clones. I have always been tempted to throw my hat into the ring.<p>The biggest area for improvement is probably deck collaboration. Most SRS proponents often state that its bets to make cards yourself because the act of making the cards is a key part of the learning process. I don't disagree, but part of the reason that making cards your self is recommended is because the shared decks are, on average, terrible.<p>After that I would like to see more built in support for non front/back or cloze cards. There are a lot of other card types that you can make, but are difficult or impractical to do in anki. Things like "slow" cards, one sided cards, code/music/math/text cards. These can all be done in anki, but it's a pain.<p>Then support for card order/hierarchy/prerequisite an and encompassing graphs like what MathAcademy does.<p>And lastly, a web first experience. Anki is offline/local first. That has the benefit that you are always safe from being rug pulled. But there are a lot of places (like work) where local first does not work well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:13:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266970</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Know personally in real life? No. But there are plenty of examples of people using Anki/SRS tools for interesting things outside of school or 2nd language. I’m firmly in the camp that SRS is widely underrated and underused for working adults.<p>Some examples would be Michael Nielsen, Gwern Branwen, Andy Matuschak and u/SigmaX (reddit - not sure his real name)<p>* <a href="http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html" rel="nofollow">http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html</a>
* <a href="https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition" rel="nofollow">https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition</a>
* <a href="https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/" rel="nofollow">https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/</a>
* <a href="https://imgur.com/a/anki-examples-math-engineering-eACA7QM" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/anki-examples-math-engineering-eACA7QM</a>
* <a href="https://imgur.com/a/anki-practice-cards-language-music-mathematics-7dpMHhc" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/anki-practice-cards-language-music-mathe...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:50:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266760</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266760</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always had the impression that the propellant transfer was the harder question than the heat shield. They have done a transfer demo from one internal tank to another, but they still need to test from one ship to another ship.<p>I only casually follow the news from r/spacex, but prop transfer is what I see generate the most discussion. It’s a hard requirement for all deep space missions. Where the heat shield could be refurbished between launches.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:36:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46166219</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46166219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46166219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Uber and Avride launch robotaxi service in Dallas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Uber press release - <a href="https://www.uber.com/newsroom/avride-on-uber/" rel="nofollow">https://www.uber.com/newsroom/avride-on-uber/</a><p>AVRide press release - <a href="https://medium.com/avride/avride-and-uber-launch-robotaxi-rides-in-dallas-173db0ff6972" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/avride/avride-and-uber-launch-robotaxi-ri...</a><p>I’m excited to see this. Ideally we want as many successful (safe) AV companies as possible to avoid a monopoly/duopoly situation.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/uber-and-avride-launch-robotaxi-service-in-dallas/">https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/uber-and-avride-launch-robotaxi-service-in-dallas/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141174">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141174</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:32:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/uber-and-avride-launch-robotaxi-service-in-dallas/</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141174</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Once Sealand actually started angering people, the Royal Navy showed up and that was that.<p>What did the royal navy do? There is no mention of the UK using force against sealand in either the Wikipedia page or this BBC article about sealand. (Though obviously the royal navy could retake sealand if they wanted)<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand</a><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-41135081" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-41135081</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:15:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094011</link><dc:creator>MichaelNolan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MichaelNolan in "Writing Builds Resilience in Everyday Challenges by Changing Your Brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A well thought out question definitely counts. (Though the majority of my questions to chatGPT  certainly are below that threshold)<p>I’m reminded of this article about writing good Anki cards. The act of writing a good question is at least as important, if not more so, than the spaced repetition part.<p><a href="https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/" rel="nofollow">https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/</a></p>
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