Hacker News: breck

New comment by breck in "The Theory of Interstellar Trade [pdf] (1978)"

breck — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713770

The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978) [pdf]

breck — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:50:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713770

Points: 1

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Arvin Ash Interview – Science, Philosophy, and His YouTube Success

breck — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:44:05 +0000

Article URL: https://engineeringness.com/arvin-ash-interview-insights-into-science-philosophy-and-the-success-of-his-youtube-channel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44224460

Points: 1

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Historical Tech Tree

breck — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:42:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.historicaltechtree.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44200281

Points: 1

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Forge: An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js

breck — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:42:29 +0000

Article URL: https://forge.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44170049

Points: 1

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New comment by breck in "Civil War in 3D: Stereographs from the New-York Historical Society (2015)"

breck — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:48:04 +0000

On the topic of stereographs, this 1859 Oliver Wendell Holmes essay in the Atlantic is one of my favorite all time essays:

https://www.nhag.org/uploads/2/4/9/1/24914531/holmes_-_stere...

New comment by breck in "Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site"

breck — Fri, 23 May 2025 12:02:41 +0000

> This complexity must be job security for somebody. Maybe multiple somebodies.

This. The 90 day certs of LE are terrible (I hit 1-2 sites a week broken b/c of expired LE certs) and unnecessary, and all part of a bigger trend by big business to control more of the web. LE could be a voice for the user, but the "non-profit" pays their team ~$250K/year so they tread carefully about doing things in the average user's interests.

New comment by breck in "Mitochondria as you've never seen them"

breck — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:47:07 +0000

There are shockingly few images of mitochondria available online.

I started a project to increase that number by 1,000,000x: https://powerhouse.breckyunits.com/

I'm currently mastering the same confocal fluorescence technique used in this image (but borrowing microscope time, as the scope costs >$250K), but also developing an at-home protocol using Janus Green that should cost less than $200.

New comment by breck in "Show HN: GitRoasted - Automating the web to roast your GitHub profile"

breck — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:19:46 +0000

The loading jokes make me lol. Browser Base looks interesting.

The actual roast wasn't so great, but I had fun trying. Nice job.

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.youtube.com/embed/a5A2sEB4...

New comment by breck in "ChatGPT Search"

breck — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:59:32 +0000

This is such a good rant, and I think you should develop it into an essay and I think there is an important catchy natural equation to mine here.

New comment by breck in "ChatGPT Search"

breck — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:22:10 +0000

Why would they ever want to sell ads?

They did not get addicted to selling ads, have billions in revenue from paying subscribers, and don't have to wean themselves off of ads (as Google and Meta would love to do).

New comment by breck in "ChatGPT Search"

breck — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:05:42 +0000

If they are making billions from subscriptions, why on earth would they want to switch to an ads business?

New comment by breck in "Microsoft Earnings Release FY25 Q1"

breck — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:52:12 +0000

· Revenue was $65.6 billion and increased 16%

· Operating income was $30.6 billion and increased 14%

· Net income was $24.7 billion and increased 11%

Impressive

New comment by breck in "GLP-1 for Everything"

breck — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:08:27 +0000

And what biological test can one conduct that proves this, and is unchangeable over time?

New comment by breck in "GLP-1 for Everything"

breck — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:01:48 +0000

> much like other "chemical imbalances" such as ADHD or depression

Interesting that the examples you bring up are also things that turned out to be misunderstood and were not actually chemical imbalances.

> you appear to assume

Where do I appear to assume this?

New comment by breck in "GLP-1 for Everything"

breck — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:59:37 +0000

> a type 1 diabetic patient

Are you sure there is such a thing?

Ask HN: Would you be interested in a course on PPS?

breck — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:59:16 +0000

I'm launching a new 10 week course to teach the PPS stack. It's a radically simple new language stack designed for humans and AIs.

- master the PPS stack

- become one of the fastest programmers in the world

- 10 week program

- includes 10 hours of 1 on 1 instruction

- 100% satisfaction guarantee

- $1,000.

- limit 10 participants. Just launched an hour ago. 9 spots left.

Using Coinbase for registration: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/ed82e219-06d1-42ce-8e16-78e47162671e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41990706

Points: 2

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New comment by breck in "GLP-1 for Everything"

breck — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:33:23 +0000

Yes. Turns out everyone should have just been eating fats all along.

New comment by breck in "How do you deploy in 10 seconds?"

breck — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:13:16 +0000

Let's take a conservative estimate of 200MB/s write speed on a Digital Ocean Droplet.

If your site is 100MB, write the new site to disk and read it into memory, kill the old server and bind to port on new server, in 1 second.

New comment by breck in "How do you deploy in 10 seconds?"

breck — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:27:16 +0000

10 seconds, why not 1s?

We deploy in <1s. New sites, mods, small sites, large.