Hacker News: egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=egl2020Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:53:37 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base"]]>Origins of the 1918 flu are unclear, but there is evidence that it started in Haskell County, Kansas, and spread to Camp Funston, Kansas. As a consequence, many of the trainees became non-functional.

]]>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:12:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681234egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681234https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681234<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "Stealing Is a Skill"]]>This also works in drawing and painting. One of my painting teachers used to admonish us: "copy, copy, copy".

]]>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:20:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662152egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662152https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662152<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs: Chapter 4/part 2"]]>Article title should be "Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs...".

]]>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:41:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625761egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625761https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625761<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "Semiconductor Lifeline Keeps Fighter Jets in the Air"]]>Nothing new under the sun: Strobe Data did this decades years ago for things like PDP-11s (http://www.strobedata.com/home/pioneer10.html) and DG Novas.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:39:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614151egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614151https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614151<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"]]>I'm a pretty conservative emacs user, partly because I don't want to spend time tinkering to get things to work consistently across Windows, ubuntu, and mac os -- all of which I use daily. My most "modern" adoption is probably using lsp and eglot with various language modes, notably golang and rust.

Should I consider adding tree-sitter into the mix?

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:48:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588133egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588133https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588133<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "All about the IBM 1130 Computing System"]]>The port in 1977 of Unix to an Interdata architecture was one of the singular accomplishments of the Unix operating system.

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:50:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583961egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583961https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583961<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "All about the IBM 1130 Computing System"]]>My first computing experience: Fortran on an 1130 in about 1967.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:59:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566789egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566789https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566789<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes"]]>Love this kind of fearless DIY. Keep at it.

]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:21:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549359egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549359https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549359<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch"]]>Similar thoughts here. That was when I realized the potential of the Internet: I didn't have to be a grad student at a tier 1 research university to learn about the frontier.

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:30:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359083egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359083https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359083<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "The Pack That Killed the Pack Mule"]]>I have a Kelty BB5 that I purchased in 1972, and I used it as recently as 2025. On family trips where you end up carrying odd loads like two sleeping bags or outsized tents, it beats the internal frame packs I use for fast and light trips.

]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 04:44:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319147egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319147https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319147<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library"]]>When I was a wee lad, a conference speaker announced that "portability" meant "runs on anything that supports OS/360".

]]>Sat, 23 May 2026 20:59:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251457egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251457https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251457<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build"]]>Huge privacy minefield.

]]>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:20:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137575egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137575https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137575<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15"]]>Libraries. I use both languages, and a survey of what libraries are available is part of picking an implementation language when starting a greenfield project.

]]>Thu, 14 May 2026 01:20:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129989egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129989https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129989<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"]]>I went the other way: from a Pixelbook to a Macbook Air. I mostly do SW development in the CLI, so the Linux subsystem on the chromebook was fine, as is macports/homebrew/etc. on the mac. I would still be using the Pixelbook if I could have replaced its battery. The low-end Air had good price-performance tradeoff, and the Neo would probably be today's choice.

]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:46:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051614egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051614https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051614<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"]]>When I did a small concrete project at home, I was advised not to over do the vibrator.

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:24:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682118egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682118https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682118<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)"]]>The Greenland shark appears, if I remember correctly, in her book "Golden Mole", which is about many interesting creatures. This is published as Vanishing Treasures in some countries. Her "Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne" is interesting and also not a children's book.

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:11:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604438egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604438https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604438<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"]]>Accounts receivable, revenue, and cash are related, but separate, accounting items.

]]>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:43:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408733egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408733https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408733<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "Notes on Baking at the South Pole"]]>I enjoyed Werner Herzog's "Encounters at the End of the World" at many levels, not the least of which was how different it was from "Aguirre, the Wrath of God".

]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:47:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319170egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319170https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319170<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package"]]>I used to ask myself the same question, but then I realized that for these people it doesn't matter how much they spend. When you are worth billions of dollars, the difference between spending $10M or $50M on your home Does Not Matter. You still have many other $M to spend on other things. It's perfectly rational for them to spend what seems like a large amount of money for an apparently small marginal improvement.

]]>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:22:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300272egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300272https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300272<![CDATA[New comment by egl2020 in "We might all be AI engineers now"]]>"You can learn anything now. I mean anything." This was true before before LLMs. What's changed is how much work it is to get an "answer". If the LLM hands you that answer, you've foregone learning that you might otherwise have gotten by (painfully) working out the answer yourself. There is a trade-off: getting an answer now versus learning for the future. I recently used an LLM to translate a Linux program to Windows because I wanted the program Right Now and decided that was more important than learning those Windows APIs. But I did give up a learning opportunity.

]]>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:28:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279009egl2020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279009https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279009