Hacker News: egl2020

New comment by egl2020 in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

egl2020 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:27:28 +0000

Setting aside the use of "an internal research model", how would one go about prompting an LLM to do this?

New comment by egl2020 in "Non-Astronomer on Reddit discovers Exo-Planet in NASA TESS Data via Claude Code"

egl2020 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:29:01 +0000

This is pretty cool. I just discovered the TESS data set yesterday and was wondering what I could do with it. Good on him.

New comment by egl2020 in "What Meta got right with Muse"

egl2020 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:15:54 +0000

The privacy issue blocks me from adopting this or other personal assistants: do I want to give muse my identity data and access to my mail, calendar, and phone so it can do even basic tasks like make appointments or pay bills?

It will be interesting to see if muse's privacy features can get users over this.

New comment by egl2020 in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

egl2020 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:13:03 +0000

...and less variety. Growers are not going to stay in business by lowering their prices.

New comment by egl2020 in "How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments"

egl2020 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:19:01 +0000

This seems much better than hand-wringing and woe-is-me that we usually see. Good job.

New comment by egl2020 in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

egl2020 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:48:00 +0000

The lesson I take away from Tesla is going for the extremum: if you're going to be BEV, don't compromise. Toyota is ignoring that with a "platform that supports all powertrains, including pure electric".

New comment by egl2020 in "AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator"

egl2020 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:57:35 +0000

Google tries a lot of stuff. It doesn't always work out for them, and sometimes they give up on it. I don't think that's a complete loss for the rest of us. We get to see what didn't work in the real world, and if it's really valuable, someone else can pick up the idea and build on that knowledge. I say this as someone who misses Google Reader.

New comment by egl2020 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

egl2020 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:08:25 +0000

I was working on solving Navier-Stokes, but now I'll have to find something else to do. Maybe P=NP?

New comment by egl2020 in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

egl2020 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:21:14 +0000

Maybe we need "de Moura complexity": the shortest Lean proof of a theorem.

New comment by egl2020 in "Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma"

egl2020 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:06:03 +0000

Spike proteints: new production or residual fragments?

New comment by egl2020 in "Old and new apps, via modern coding agents"

egl2020 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:21:20 +0000

Ferran Adrià published a recipe for an omelette using potato chips.

New comment by egl2020 in "Ditching Zotero for a Text File"

egl2020 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:09:33 +0000

I find most of my references while browsing, and capture from the browser is Zotero's winning feature for me: automatically save the pdf and extract the bibliographic data. And while reading a paper, I get a search engine to look up its references and repeat.

The rest of the interface is ok.

New comment by egl2020 in "Rebuilding the Computer Room"

egl2020 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:58:12 +0000

Come back when your computer is in a room with a raised floor (for cabling), tremendous AC, and windows in walls so a passer-by can look in and see the tapes rotating. Geezer here.

New comment by egl2020 in "Doing a masters while working in Spain"

egl2020 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:53:34 +0000

What about language was used in the masters program? Spanish? I'm guessing that German is your first language.

New comment by egl2020 in "Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base"

egl2020 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:12:51 +0000

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.

New comment by egl2020 in "Stealing Is a Skill"

egl2020 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:20:44 +0000

This also works in drawing and painting. One of my painting teachers used to admonish us: "copy, copy, copy".

New comment by egl2020 in "Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs: Chapter 4/part 2"

egl2020 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:41:55 +0000

Article title should be "Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs...".

New comment by egl2020 in "Semiconductor Lifeline Keeps Fighter Jets in the Air"

egl2020 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:39:10 +0000

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.

New comment by egl2020 in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

egl2020 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:48:46 +0000

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?

New comment by egl2020 in "All about the IBM 1130 Computing System"

egl2020 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:50:57 +0000

The port in 1977 of Unix to an Interdata architecture was one of the singular accomplishments of the Unix operating system.