<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: RickHull</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RickHull</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:36:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RickHull" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "No Taco: This Is Complete US Strategic Failure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TACO is misleading.  TASAD: Trump Always Seeks A Deal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:29:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699619</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699619</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reminds me of the various visualizations in WinAmp, and there was no shortage of creativity there!  Geiss (sp?) anyone?  It really whips the llama's ass!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:27:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699602</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there a gentler intro to this topic?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:18:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699555</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "The Importance of Being Idle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The jargon term, <i>slack</i>, comes to mind, in the concept-cluster of the old Google 20%-time, Slackware Linux, and Church of the SubGenius.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:17:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699548</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very interesting perspective.  I will be reviewing in depth.  Much appreciated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:57:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698491</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698491</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recently (~6 mo ago) made it a goal to understand and implement a useful Kalman filter, but I realized that they are very tightly coupled to their domain and application.  I got about half as far as I wanted, and took a pause.  I expect your work here will get me to the finish line, so I am psyched!  Thank you!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:56:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698481</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698481</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Git commands I run before reading any code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for this.  My updated relevant portion of ~/.gitconfig:<p><pre><code>    [alias]
        st = status
        ci = commit
        co = checkout
        br = branch
        df = diff
        dfs = diff --stat
        dfc = diff --cached
        dfh = diff --histogram
        dfn = diff --name-status
        rs = restore
        rsc = restore --staged
        last = log -1 HEAD
        lg = log --graph --decorate --oneline --abbrev-commit
        cm = commit -m
        ca = commit --amend
        cane = commit --amend --no-edit
        who = shortlog -sn --no-merges HEAD
        dmg = log --oneline -i -E --grep='(incident|outage|downtime|rollback|revert|mitigate|mitigation|hotfix|broke|prod)' --since='1 year ago'
        bugs = log --oneline -i -E --grep='(bug|bugfix|fix|fixed|fixes|defect|regression|hotfix|broke)' --since='1 year ago'
        bugfiles = !git log --name-only --format='' -i -E --grep='(bug|bugfix|fix|fixed|fixes|defect|regression|hotfix|broke)' --since='1 year ago' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
        monthly = !git log --since='1 year ago' --format='%ad' --date=format:'%Y-%m' | sort | uniq -c
        churn = !git log --format='' --name-only --diff-filter=AM --since='1 year ago' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:39:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698366</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in ""The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Plucked betwixt mine cheeks</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:51:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678887</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678887</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am on their "Coding Lite" plan, which I got a lot of use out of for a few months, but it has been seriously gimped now.  Obvious quantization issues, going in circles, flipping from X to !X, injecting chinese characters.  It is useless now for any serious coding work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:17:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678480</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678480</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have been very disappointed in the Lite plan over the last few months.  It started great, but they are obviously quantizing and cutting costs on the low end plans.  The agents go into bad loops and contradict themselves, inject chinese characters, etc.   There is obvious compression happening which makes it unreliable and unsuitable for serious work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:04:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641589</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Super cool, I was not aware of novasolver.com.  You can reach me via HN username at the midpoint between fmail and hmail.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:03:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940759</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm working on a poker (NLHE) trainer app that includes a web poker room for multiplayer, with bots available and fake chips.  Using Event Sourcing with some CQRS in Elixir and Phoenix.  The player view is a projection of House Events, suitable for hand history, for feeding to solvers or LLMs for real time advice or post hoc analysis.<p>The idea is to get tons of reps in, across varied situations, with excellent advice to build good intuitions and decision making abilities.  Or to stop making bad or terrible decisions.  Or just play poker for free.<p>I'd like to monetize with at least the hand history format open sourced.  Ping me if you would like to get involved with GTM and the revenue side of things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:45:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939360</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Some C habits I employ for the modern day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think that D meets Walter Bright's requirements.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 04:44:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46741134</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46741134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46741134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "GLM-4.7-Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same, I got 12 months of subscription for $28 total (promo offer), with 5x the usage limits of the $20/month Claude Pro plan.  I have only used it with claude code so far.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:41:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682799</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682799</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://ghostty.org/docs/about" rel="nofollow">https://ghostty.org/docs/about</a><p>> Ghostty is a terminal emulator that differentiates itself by being fast, feature-rich, and native. While there are many excellent terminal emulators available, they all force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs. Ghostty provides all three.<p>> In all categories, I am not trying to claim that Ghostty is the best (i.e. the fastest, most feature-rich, or most native). But when I set out to create Ghostty, I felt all terminals made you choose at most two of these categories. I wanted to create a terminal that was competitive in all three categories and I believe Ghostty achieves that goal.<p>> Before diving into the details, I also want to note that Ghostty is a passion project started by Mitchell Hashimoto (that's me!). It's something I work on in my free time and is a labor of love. Please don't forget this when interacting with the project. I'm doing my best to make something great along with the lovely contributors, but it's not a full-time job for any of us.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:13:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571762</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like: "In Ether words" and "Example Given"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:52:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501217</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Claude Haiku 4.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Super helpful, thanks!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:15:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601407</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601407</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45601407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "Claude Haiku 4.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I'm close to weekly limits on Claude Code with Anthropic Pro, does that go away or stretch out if I switch to Haiku?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:26:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595834</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had never picked up on the nuance of the V-K test.  Somehow I missed the salience of the animal extinction.  The questions all seemed strange to me, but in a very Dickian sort of way.  This discussion was very enlightening.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:26:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843032</link><dc:creator>RickHull</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44843032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RickHull in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My understanding is that insults are illegal as well as certain expressions of Naziism.</p>
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