Hacker News: akalin

Bid to name a street in San Francisco

akalin — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:38:00 +0000

Article URL: https://paintastreet.com/auction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631174

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Dwarf support for macOS and Linux · OCaml/OCaml

akalin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:15:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029206

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Stanford CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch I 2025

akalin — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 03:48:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOY23Y0BoGoBGgQ1zmU_MT_

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45164474

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Introduction to Real Analysis

akalin — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:01:14 +0000

Article URL: https://alexkontorovich.github.io/2025F311H/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45155282

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by akalin in "Multiplicative Infinitesimals"

akalin — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 06:23:43 +0000

I'm partial to Caratheodory's definition of the derivative, which avoid limits like the infinitesimal approach, but doesn't pull in all the extra baggage that come with infinitesimals (if you do it rigorously).

djb (yes, that one) has a pretty good primer on it: https://cr.yp.to/papers/calculus-19970403-retypeset20220326....

G, a Statistical Myth (2007)

akalin — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 04:05:43 +0000

Article URL: http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643572

Points: 22

# Comments: 4

Diophantine Fruit

akalin — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 19:38:44 +0000

Article URL: https://thehighergeometer.wordpress.com/2021/07/27/diophantine-fruit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41475939

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

NYC's Idling Complaint Law Can Earn You Six Figures

akalin — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:17:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-idling-law-citizen-air-complaint-program.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41463737

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Patio11 on Japan, hiring, and his long, odd road to fame [video]

akalin — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 05:51:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AutFcXgKIM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40796812

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Fast Crimes at Lambda School

akalin — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 04:48:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724940

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by akalin in "Getting the Lorentz transformations without requiring an invariant speed (2015)"

akalin — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 21:37:41 +0000

I think what's left unsaid in the paper is that if a Lorentz-invariant speed exists, then it is unique. (This is easy enough to show.)

Therefore, once you show that the speed of light in a vacuum is Lorentz-invariant, then it has to be the unique Lorentz-invariant speed (i.e., the universal speed limit).