<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: bhollan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bhollan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:32:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bhollan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhollan in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I cannot express to you how much fun this simple little game is! I'm really enjoying it!<p>If I got to work on this game for 90 seconds, I would move the "bonus text" down to the bottom. It gets in the way of tviewing the literal most important thing SO MUCH!!!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731228</link><dc:creator>bhollan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhollan in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been looking for a game from the "flash era" that's incredibly similar to this one! It was "fling-this-wad-of-duct-tape-to-clog-the-black-hole" as a metaphor, but I forget the name. It had similar "orbit" dynamics, but the entire game was setting the initial angle/velocity and then the orbits just 'did their thing' from there.
This looks really cool! I'm already up to 11 as my best!<p>If you like this, you will for sure love the game "12 Orbits"!</p>
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<p>I used MATLAB last year while I was re-learning it for work.  It did okay, but we didn't have a license for the Image Processing Toolbox, which has a boatload of tools for the grid based problems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:37:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096975</link><dc:creator>bhollan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhollan in "Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the subscription fee(s) like after the course's access ends?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:56:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599326</link><dc:creator>bhollan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhollan in "Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool tool. I think I'm seasick now from all the scrolling. But cool tool.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:37:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599161</link><dc:creator>bhollan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhollan in "Show HN: Brainstorm.gg – Get ideas out of your head fast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Love this! 
UX nit: I love that I can 'lock' good ideas in and ask for a fresh batch, but I want a way to say 'I reject this idea and don't want to see it again.'<p>I kept getting the same 'wrong flavor' ideas even after 2-3 rounds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:29:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43753069</link><dc:creator>bhollan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43753069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43753069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhollan in "Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Niche meta deep cut quip</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:56:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43463068</link><dc:creator>bhollan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43463068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43463068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhollan in "Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I cannot even tell you how many glorious memories this brings up! Thanks for a walk down memory lane.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 02:57:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044284</link><dc:creator>bhollan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhollan in "Ask HN: How can I realistically change careers?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I actually just finished my second career pivot. I was in hardware, then in software, now I'm in government.<p>I'd take careful stock of your support network behind you, and of who you're supporting. But keep in mind, there's no "wrong answer". Live your life out loud and you do you. If your situation makes that untenable, do some soul searching and find peace without the shakeup.  Lots of good advice on this thread, but you know you better than anyone (and if not, start there).<p>Know the risks though. My wife and I have changed our religious and political beliefs over the past decade or so and as a result have lost contact/intimacy with much of our families/friends. Losing community takes a much steeper toll than I would ever have guessed.</p>
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<p>Craps?</p>
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<p>1) I think it depends on how you define all parts of "escaping evil regimes". But it's a fair point.<p>2) I studied electrical engineering and I just hadn't run the numbers. The numbers I had seen in most of the other articles didn't impress me in terms of national scale.<p>I have long-envisioned a "solar-miner-in-a-container" that could help impoverished nations. It would be a shipping container with 40-50 solar panels, a satellite internet kit, as well as a small server rack for mining. It could generate electricity, revenue, (shade) and if the mining part fails, it's a power source and an internet cafe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 01:38:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39353247</link><dc:creator>bhollan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39353247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39353247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhollan in "Bitcoin Breaks $50K for First Time Since Hitting All-Time High in 2021"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A friend of mine escaped the Myanmar coup via bitcoin, so I don't think it's a purely zero-value enterprise. I agree, and there are many economists who also agree, that there is a strong odor of "tulips". But that's literally been the line from the haters for over a decade.<p>That said, I was laughing off environmental concerns over it until I read that, electrically, it's effectively a 'ghost state' in the US.<p><a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364" rel="nofollow">https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364</a></p>
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<p>I feel 100% qualified to do the job I'm interviewing for this week, but I'm mostly just looking for any tips on how to study for a non-coding interview w/ them. Any horror stories? I've checked Glassdoor (and googling) and coming up with mostly small odds/ends here and there. Any tips appreciated!</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36475470">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36475470</a></p>
<p>Points: 19</p>
<p># Comments: 38</p>
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<p>Bandwidth is a real concern, yes. Also, the intent is both for the school and open to the public.<p>But it's really not to build web dev skills, but literally to learn to read and write.</p>
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<p>End user operations will be 100% Windows based and I won't be involved in the operation long term. Also, whoever is, probably won't know Linux at all, let alone at a sys admin level.<p>But I like the idea of having one machine to maintain. What's the best mechanic for that on Windows?</p>
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<p>I've been asked to help with the construction and opening of a computer lab in Belize. The plan is to have it used by the remedial school that will host it[1], but also available for use by the public. The target audience/content is more literacy-oriented than tech-oriented (think GED, not SWE).<p>I'm sure this is not the first one of these in existence, so I'd love to hear any tips/tricks or recommendations/precautions (both for the "developing nation" side and general "public computer lab" side). My personal background is more EE/SWE than IT.<p>[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/740055676147398/</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967119">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967119</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 5</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 20:11:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967119</link><dc:creator>bhollan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: LLM for “talking to” a code repo? (like chatpdf.com, but for a codebase)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there a way (yet?) to add a chat layer to a codebase?  Basically a layer that would take it's best guess at the ERD and functions after reading the code, then be able to articulate about it and respond to questions?<p>One of my biggest struggles is "getting to know" a codebase when I first walk up to it.  I'm trying my best to get better, but I have to balance that with actually producing deliverables. It would help radically if a teammate (or better yet, the author!) could spend a few hours with me answering questions, but who has that kind of time!  So an LLM wading through a codebase and then being able to sufficiently answer my questions about how modules relate, "what's [thisFunction] for?" and "where's the file that [doesThing]?" and the like would be absolutely something I would pay for.<p>Anything out there already?  Is this an unmet market need, now that we know the tech is up to the challenge?</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225603">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225603</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:41:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225603</link><dc:creator>bhollan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bhollan in "A suspiciously criminal portfolio website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do people build things like this?  Is there a package that helps at all, or is it really just fighting with CSS for a few months to get it how you want it?</p>
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<p>What else is in that folder?</p>
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<p>Location: Washington, DC<p>Remote: hybrid or fully remote (can negotiate on-prem with master's classes)<p>Willing to relocate: Nope<p>Technologies: Python, R, JavaScript, Ruby, Linux, (...loads of others, but in small doses)<p>email: beehollander AT gmail DOT com<p>Resume:<p>WORK
Karat (conducted 1600 Interviews)
Independent Contractor (freelance)
Lockheed Martin (RF Engineer)
GBA Ships (Electrical Officer)<p>EDUCATION
Georgetown (Data Science for Public Policy) May '24
Auburn     (Electrical Engineering) Dec '07
Auburn     (Wireless Engineering) May '05</p>
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