Hacker News: claytonwramsey

Against the State: A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency, and Protest

claytonwramsey — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:20:26 +0000

Article URL: https://acoup.blog/2026/02/13/collections-against-the-state-a-primer-on-terrorism-insurgency-and-protest/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011205

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by claytonwramsey in "Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”"

claytonwramsey — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:50:54 +0000

I wasn't very impressed by the reporting quality in this article, but it seems as though there are some other reviewers of the book were much more thorough in their critique. Emi Nietfeld writing for Mother Jones has more detail and actually contacted some experts for comment: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/12/trauma-body-keeps-...

New comment by claytonwramsey in "Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life in Cycles"

claytonwramsey — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:34:04 +0000

This is covered in a previous article: https://acoup.blog/2025/09/12/collections-life-work-death-an...

In short, most peasant farmers must sharecrop at least some of their land, and on sharecropped land, extraction rates are on the order of 50% (for basically nothing in return).

Life, Work, Death, and the Peasant: Spinning Plates

claytonwramsey — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:44:08 +0000

Article URL: https://acoup.blog/2025/09/26/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivd-spinning-plates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45389094

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by claytonwramsey in "Setsum – order agnostic, additive, subtractive checksum"

claytonwramsey — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:24:59 +0000

This reminds me of Zobrist hashing [1] in chess engines. In fact, if you split the sum into 256 columns (instead of 8) and set the prime to 2 for each column, I think it's essentially the same. I'd be curious to see some quantitative benchmarks and their results on performance + collision rates.

[1]: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Zobrist_Hashing

I'd rather read the prompt

claytonwramsey — Sun, 04 May 2025 19:17:28 +0000

Article URL: https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888803

Points: 1444

# Comments: 839

New comment by claytonwramsey in "Models of Ice Skating for the Development of Robotic Ice Skating Gaits [pdf] (2020)"

claytonwramsey — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:11:47 +0000

hey, a fellow figure skater!

You can still draw arcs without sideways slipping. If you do out the math, you’ll see that a skater traveling in a circle has no sideways velocity, but does have sideways acceleration.

New comment by claytonwramsey in "Paged Out #6 [pdf]"

claytonwramsey — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 03:41:09 +0000

Thanks for making this! I got an invite to contribute some time ago but didn't have the time to put something together - it looks amazing though; I'll have to figure out something good next time.

New comment by claytonwramsey in "No longer writing my own damn HTML"

claytonwramsey — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:25:48 +0000

I did think about that! However, I didn't like the idea of making the client side do work to make up for my own poorly-managed website. Forcing users to run code just to render some boring text seems like a waste.

No longer writing my own damn HTML

claytonwramsey — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:45:06 +0000

Article URL: https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/no-html/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021643

Points: 86

# Comments: 93

New comment by claytonwramsey in "Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies"

claytonwramsey — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:31:12 +0000

Cargo currently has `cargo tree`, which prints out a dependency tree. There's an extension to cargo which also shows how many people have the ability to push to your dependencies, titled `cargo-supply-chain`.

https://github.com/rust-secure-code/cargo-supply-chain/

New comment by claytonwramsey in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"

claytonwramsey — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:36:25 +0000

The problem is not YouTube, but the law. The DMCA requires that online service providers (YouTube, Reddit, etc.) comply immediately with any takedown request and without question, so long as it meets sufficient conditions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_...

Game dev in Rust: a year later

claytonwramsey — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 06:44:33 +0000

Article URL: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/game-dev-in-rust-a-year-later/123522

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42600192

Points: 96

# Comments: 68

New comment by claytonwramsey in "Savoy Style vs. Hollywood Style: A Fight to the Death (Hopefully?) (2011)"

claytonwramsey — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:44:40 +0000

> dancing really connected people. I hope it becomes a thing again.

Social dancing’s demise has been greatly exaggerated! If you live in any moderately large city, there is almost certainly a swing dance scene, and you can find people doing social Latin (salsa, bachata) pretty much everywhere. My city’s swing dance club has a social every Sunday, with events on most Saturday evenings too.

New comment by claytonwramsey in "Arnis: Generate cities in Minecraft from OpenStreetMap"

claytonwramsey — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 21:52:37 +0000

Is it just me, or does the README have the ChatGPT accent? For instance:

  Whether you're looking to replicate your hometown, explore urban environments, or simply build something unique and realistic, Arnis offers a comprehensive toolset to achieve your vision.

I don’t have a lot of issues with people using LLMs to generate documentation, but it does seem to have a lot of nothing-sentences.

New comment by claytonwramsey in "How much memory do you need in 2024 to run 1M concurrent tasks?"

claytonwramsey — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 04:29:54 +0000

The implementation of `sleep` [1] decides the wake up time by when `sleep` is called, rather than when its future is polled. So the first task waits one second, then the remaining tasks see that they have already passed the wake-up time and so return instantly.

[1]: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/time/fn.sleep.html

Solving 20B Wordle problems per second

claytonwramsey — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:59:32 +0000

Article URL: https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/simd-wordle

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42238425

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Effect polymorphism fixes dependency inversion

claytonwramsey — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 18:28:33 +0000

Article URL: https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/effect-polymorphism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41759021

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by claytonwramsey in "Atkinson Hyperlegible Font"

claytonwramsey — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:23:34 +0000

In Firefox, you can the advanced font settings and uncheck “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above” to force websites to use the default font.

New comment by claytonwramsey in "300μs typo detection for 1.3M words"

claytonwramsey — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:26:31 +0000

It's a little odd that they're using `lazy_static` now that OnceCell and LazyLock are in the standard library.