Hacker News: braedonwatkinshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=braedonwatkinsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:45:36 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by braedonwatkins in "Computational Physics (2nd Edition) (2025)"]]>lol. lmao even.

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:25:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661350braedonwatkinshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661350https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661350<![CDATA[New comment by braedonwatkins in "Computational Physics (2nd Edition) (2025)"]]>I read most of the 1st edition (busy), I'm sure it hasn't changed much to the 2nd. I would say it's rather good at an introductory level to the subject!

It definitely targets physics undergrads who have never programmed so if that's not you then you may feel friction during some chapters. If, like me, you are much more developed in programming than physics you might just want to do the exercises in the first few chapters to check your knowledge and move on to the good bits.

If you're looking for something more rigorous I would bet [Numerical Recipes](https://numerical.recipes/) is better (I haven't read it but I want to; see "busy").

]]>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:00:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654336braedonwatkinshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654336https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654336<![CDATA[New comment by braedonwatkins in "Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)"]]>I remember a friend and I in college were looking into ways to do this in the US but major grocery chains here are pretty sensitive about their product data being accessible by open APIs and web scraping...

It would have been a cool project!

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:23:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599388braedonwatkinshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599388https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599388<![CDATA[New comment by braedonwatkins in "Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models"]]>tetris effect! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:08:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816604braedonwatkinshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816604https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816604<![CDATA[New comment by braedonwatkins in "Put a data center on the moon?"]]>solar radiation immediately feels like a huge problem... the more i think about the scenario the more problems i come up with

]]>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:46:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43190086braedonwatkinshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43190086https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43190086