<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: brudgers</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brudgers</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:04:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=brudgers" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Show HN: Nikon F100 Film Camera Repair Notes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I was fixing old cameras, the "Fix Old Cameras" Youtube Channel was a solid resource:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@FixOldCameras" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@FixOldCameras</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:07:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323688</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>I've looked at advice online from successful hard-tech entrepreneurs, but the answers are conflicting. Some say to work backwards from a problem, but others argue that problem-first approaches often don't work since deep tech is inherently different: you often can't force a scientific breakthrough for a predetermined problem. Instead, they argue that most hard-tech companies are only founded because somebody made a scientific breakthrough and realized afterwards that there might be a commercial application.</i><p>Hypothesis: This is because there is not a formula that solves the type of problems you are looking to solve.<p>Proof by contradiction:<p><pre><code>  + if there were a formula, then the problems 
    worth solving would already be solved.
    Simply by applying the formula.

  + But they aren't solved: ergo there is no formula.
</code></pre>
My advice:<p><pre><code>  + Pursue a Phd because a Phd is the most 
    important thing for you.
  + Pursue a startup because because a startup is the most important
    thing you can do.
  + distinguish between the attraction of the idea of doing a
    startup/Phd and your attraction to the work of doing a
    startup/Phd.
</code></pre>
Good luck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:56:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315066</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Ask HN: When you sell your company, do you receive the money with a normal wire?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My advice is to hire lawyers familiar with handling similar transactions and to follow their advice. Because what you imagine is not based on substantial experience and the matter is complex in ways you can't imagine. Good luck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:45:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314996</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314996</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have come to believe that any belief that "one is keeping up"  regarding the activities of other people is delusional.<p>I have also come to believe that knowing is the weakest form of doing.<p>So I don't try to keep up.<p>But of course, you should probably do you. Good luck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:40:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314959</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If it gets you paid, it's good data.<p>If it makes your clients happy, it's good data.<p>Business data is for business purposes, not for science purposes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:15:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314793</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Dangerous things should be difficult to do by accident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It depends on the expected application context.<p>It is easy to do "dangerous things" in C because the expected contexts benefit from easy access to low level operations without the  cognitive and computational overhead that high factors of safety would require.<p>All design is a matter of tradeoffs and programming language design is a matter of engineering tradeoffs in particular.<p>Designs capable of launching-the-missiles are entirely appropriate for missile  launching systems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:07:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314739</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>some recent comments, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253831">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253831</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:19:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304729</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I decided to back up my old gear, I dropped some dough on MidiQuest because commercial software with a long track record and active support is something for which I will exchange a moderate amount of money.<p><a href="https://squest.com/Products/MidiQuest13/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://squest.com/Products/MidiQuest13/index.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:10:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304638</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "'Every millimetre counts': Inside the beast tunnelling under Sydney Harbour"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://archive.ph/yDoLc" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/yDoLc</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:06:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266196</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "PON-Beam: Notification-Oriented Beam Erlang VM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a ShowHN, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185767">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185767</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:55:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250330</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One possible value in learning new things is developing a habit of learning.<p>In particular it might be valuable to be in the habit of learning things that one is bad at <i>doing.</i><p>Or not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:07:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235252</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the information is useful, leave it up because it is useful and the web needs useful information.<p>If it is useful and you sell it, it will become less useful.<p>If it is useful and the cost of keeping it online is onerous, perhaps ask for advice here in this thread.<p>If it isn’t useful, it doesn’t really matter what you do and there’s nothing wrong with taking a willing and informed buyer’s money for something useless.<p>Good luck.<p>[edit] I don’t think “wrapping it up” matters much to your readers. People are used to serial creative work dying if for nothing else but Youtube.<p>Write a wrap up if you want to write a wrap up. It is ok to just move on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:44:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234309</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s been tidal for awhile.<p>I miss the full page visually.<p>Intellectually, I don’t miss what typically sits in slots 11-30.<p>Like the removed |More| link, I only looked that far down the page from extreme boredom.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:55:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224148</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>earlier, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175067">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175067</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:03:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216770</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Purely functional digital circuit simulator (SICP 3.3)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>related, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070766">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070766</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:02:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216758</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216758</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some past comments, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053419">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053419</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:50:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216643</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Ask HN: What is a good advice for someone looking to fractional hire a team?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“A fractional team” sounds like newspeak for “consultants.”<p>Thus my advice would be to look at established consultancies.<p>Expect to be nickel and dimed because that is how consultancies stay in business and you want your consultants to stay in business.<p>As always make sure you are sufficiently capitalized before going into a business project…in this case sufficiently capitalized to afford consultants who make a profit.<p>Good luck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:31:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216473</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Ask HN: What would make you list your AI product on a new marketplace?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>It is not open yet, and before we go further we want to know what would actually make someone list on it.</i><p>Building based on what people say they might means is bout the same s building blind.<p>And shipping is often the best feature you can add.<p>Good luck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:44:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203009</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203009</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Ask HN: Developers–How Did You Get Your First Paying Customers?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One important part of getting paying customers is asking for money.<p>The most important part, however, is not making excuses for not doing so.<p>Good luck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:44:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189449</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brudgers in "Ask HN: Why mobile software infrastructure never belongs to its owner?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What are the economics of it for each stakeholder in the existing infrastructure?<p>How would changes to it comply with regulatory requirements?<p>Is it as reliable as the existing system?<p>Those answers are perhaps where the reasons lie.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:41:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189429</link><dc:creator>brudgers</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189429</guid></item></channel></rss>