Hacker News: Renevith

New comment by Renevith in "Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?"

Renevith — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:37:15 +0000

Yes! And you don't need to see Hayden Christensen's ghost at the Ewok party in episode 6, etc. They are a true gift.

New comment by Renevith in "Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”"

Renevith — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:40:46 +0000

This is getting to be the norm rather than a unique feature. I can dispute a credit card transaction through the app for my Citi, X1, or Fidelity cards.

New comment by Renevith in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

Renevith — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:54:36 +0000

Nice! I've been looking for a reliable book ranking site. The main rankings skew to the "classics" that don't always hold up (looking at you Moby Dick) but the books in the genre filters look more interesting.

A couple questions:

* Is this primarily intended for discovering new reads, or for people who've already read the books to debate which is greatest? I found the book descriptions sometimes give away too much, to the point where I stopped reading them for any book I might be interested in reading for pleasure. Examples include The Great Gatsby and Madame Bovary. Perhaps you could have a concise description that stays far away from plot points, and a more expanded description behind a "more" link.

* What dictates whether a series has one place on the list or separate places? Narnia has one for the whole series but Harry Potter has individual listings per book.

* Are ratings and reviews from your own site taken into account in the rankings?

New comment by Renevith in "The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (2003)"

Renevith — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:08:11 +0000

If you're looking for some good quality "expert reviews their field as represented in movies" videos without too much clickbait, Vanity Fair has a long playlist of them that I enjoyed: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ2lDrDpOLrusAYQFq2yVHf...

New comment by Renevith in "An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes"

Renevith — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 16:08:10 +0000

The parent is assuming that you can always sell your option to someone else for its fair value. If that's the case, there would never be a time where it's optimal to exercise a call option, because the optionality will always make the option value higher that the value of owning the stock.

This is shown in the article: the curved lines representing the option value are always above the straight lines of the final option payoff (the value if exercised).

This is not necessarily true for put options or for call options if the stock pays dividends. In those cases the option value can be below the payoff line and early exercise would be better than selling the option.

The Minneapolis Street Grid: Explained

Renevith — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:53:44 +0000

Article URL: https://streets.mn/2024/09/11/streets-and-avenues-in-minneapolis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41516627

Points: 139

# Comments: 62

New comment by Renevith in "Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections"

Renevith — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 03:50:01 +0000

This is covered at the very end of the article, in the "Comparison with Doom and Quake" section. And yes, that's exactly the comparison and distinction the author draws, and they explain why Serious Sam would have opted for Doom-style networking (the notoriously high scene complexity).

Minneapolis at Forefront of Alternatives to Policing

Renevith — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:41:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/03/27/minneapolis-at-forefront-of-alternatives-to-policing-mental-health-crisis-response

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851308

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Renevith in "High Interest Savings Leaderboard"

Renevith — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:32:58 +0000

For what it's worth, Wealthfront's HYSA offers free same-day transfers, at least to major banks (they just need to support RTP transfers, which many do). But I agree with your point that an emergency fund is fine as long as you can access it within a few days.

New comment by Renevith in "Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers"

Renevith — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:27:03 +0000

Not sure about "most," but I have this exact restriction at work. I don't think it's extremely rare.

New comment by Renevith in "Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?"

Renevith — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 03:44:40 +0000

I've used Input Sans for years. I was expecting to have to deal with alignment issues but in my Java codebase there were almost none. (YMMV depending on language and coding style.) The only alignment we use is with leading spaces only, so everything still aligns as expected. The readability is great and I can fit substantially more characters horizontally than I could with a fixed-width font.

It definitely felt weird at first, like I was reading code that somebody had pasted into Microsoft Word. But that passed and now it's all upside.

I screen-share my IDE from time to time and I've never had anyone comment on it.

New comment by Renevith in "Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?"

Renevith — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:05:19 +0000

I'm surprised that this made the front page. This is the investing equivalent of someone new to programming writing a single benchmark of some if statements versus a switch and blogging about which one was faster. The results are far more likely to be random noise than anything meaningful.

I think this type of calculation is valuable exploration for anyone to try out if they are interested in investing, and is a great way to get some hands-on learning with real data. I'm glad for the author and for anyone who reads this and decides to replicate it or extend it for their own practice and leaning. It's just that the results are not notable in the slightest.

Though it's a rare counterexample to Betteridge's Law of Headlines!

New comment by Renevith in "Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women over past 250k years"

Renevith — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:50:44 +0000

It's linked right below the image: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/christian-rudder-datacl...

New comment by Renevith in "The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter"

Renevith — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 06:11:58 +0000

When I left for the second drive, the car's navigation app estimated I'd have 13% left when I arrived, and the estimates have been impressively good so I just went for it.

But I also was in a good sized metro area with a couple Tesla superchargers not far off my route, so my backup plan was to stop at one for 15 minutes if it ever looked like I might not make it.

New comment by Renevith in "The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter"

Renevith — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 03:37:20 +0000

Just yesterday I drove 75km in -22C, parked outside all day, then back home the same distance in -19C. Took my Model Y from 80% to 12%. No problem with heat either (that's part of why it used so much charge). I was a lot more worried about sliding off the road than running out of battery...

I believe you that it's no problem for a diesel. But it's no problem for electric either.

New comment by Renevith in "A Yubico FAQ about passkeys"

Renevith — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:14:30 +0000

"A random password stored in a password manager is literally what a passkey is."

This is not quite true; a passkey is still somewhat more secure than a password in this scenario.

With passwords, the password itself is sent to the website and a hashed version is stored in their database. If someone can intercept your connection to the site (MitM) or can access their database (hacker), they might be able to get your password and log in as you, especially if the website doesn't implement their hashing very well.

These attack vectors don't apply to passkeys, even generated and synced by a software password manager: the private key never leaves your computer, only the corresponding pubic key. The website generates a unique challenge on each login that can only be solved by your private key, so intercepting a particular challenge or stealing the public key from the website database doesn't let anyone log in as you later.

New comment by Renevith in "The mid in fake midcentury modern"

Renevith — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:36:30 +0000

"Natural materials such as wood or stone feel so much nicer than concrete or glass."

To you. But not to me, which is why I choose to live in a house with glass and metal as the primary aesthetic. But stating opinions as fact is a nice way to generate engagement, especially if they are unpopular, hence the article we're all discussing.

New comment by Renevith in "The mid in fake midcentury modern"

Renevith — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:28:54 +0000

I think it's hideous and I wouldn't want to live there. There's nothing "wrong" (nor "right") about the idea that lots of bold colors will tend to clash and be unpleasant. It's just subjective and different people hold different opinions about it.

New comment by Renevith in "Bright flash is a black hole jet pointing at Earth, astronomers say"

Renevith — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:16:11 +0000

That was my first thought too. But even at that speed, we have quite a bit of time. Since the particles are 0.01% slower than the light that just reached us, the particles would arrive in: 8,500,000,000 light years away * 0.01% speed of light = 850,000 years. Humanity will be unrecognizable by that point.

New comment by Renevith in "AWS and Blockchain"

Renevith — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 07:15:35 +0000

Can you help me understand how this would help? The way I see it: if the government were on board with recording property boundaries in a public ledger, it could do it without a blockchain. And if it's not on board, then I don't see how a random third-party ledger would help, since the government wouldn't defer to it.