<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: eigenrick</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eigenrick</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:42:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=eigenrick" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is an amazing achievement for someone of any age, but to publish a book with this much research at 18 is phenomenal.  I heartily congratulate you.<p>I've hopped through the book and it seems carefully laid out and organized. I may come back at you with questions once I've read further. Cheers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:31:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226293</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So we're re-creating the Apollo 8 Mission 60 years later.  60 years after swinging around the moon, we are going to attempt the feat again. I'm having a hard time getting excited...  Especially when some say it may not survive reentry because of politics (<a href="https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm" rel="nofollow">https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly....</a>)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:22:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621485</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One added benefit of knowing how to do this stuff is even when you hire it out, you typically get much better work out of contractors for a better price.  If for no other reason than you can more effectively communicate requirements and handle potential surprises/changes (which is guaranteed to happen when renovating)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:58:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492109</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the project is a great idea.  Really a structured framework around local, persistent memory with semantic search is the most important bit, IMO. (The SOUL feature already exists for most LLMs in the form of persistent markdown files.)<p>I also think it'd be a great starting point for building a private pub/sub network of autonomous agents (e.g. a company that doesn't want to exfil its password files via OpenClaw)<p>The name, however, is a problem.  LocalGPT is misleading in 2 ways.  
1. It is not Local, it relies on external LLM providers. 
2. It is not a Generative Pretrained Transformer.<p>I'd highly recommend changing the name to something that more accurately portrays the intent and the method.</p>
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<p>That whole album is an absolute banger.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:13:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962684</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962684</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "Dookie Demastered"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm on Firefox with ublock origin and it works just fine.<p>Either way... the site is a store.. of sorts... for Greenday's "Dookie" album, where the songs are mixed down into various bizarre formats.   They said de-mastered, and I was hoping that they were actually releasing the individual tracks. Sad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 20:22:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41792224</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41792224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41792224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, but how much did that actually change? I mean, the media sensationalized every little thing that happened, to make people feel as if the world was ending (or being saved, depending on the news outlet). However, Corporations still ran the country through their bought-and-paid-for U.S. and state representatives, just as in administrations before and after.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:11:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41580714</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41580714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41580714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "I was asked to leave an event for female founders because I had my baby with me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><jest>
Well the baby was neither a founder nor a female, sooo...
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]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:45:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41437813</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41437813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41437813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "Parasites are everywhere. Why do so few researchers study them?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Why do so few researchers study them?<p>Because they're the ones funding medical research!  nyuk nyuk!<p>Seriously though, as a health nut who tries to stay on the science side of things,  I still see a lot of "It's Parasites!" stuff from the pseudo-science health community. As well as bizarre cures.  Walnuts, Cloves and electric shock seem to come up the most.<p>I have tried to find any practical advice regarding detection, symptoms and such, and beyond tapeworms, heartworms and hookworms, there isn't much information.</p>
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<p>In other news, guns don't kill people. People do. etc etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 20:46:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40291258</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40291258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40291258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "Hyperbridge: Fast multi-producer, multi-consumer unbounded channel in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious what the motivation was for linking this now. This repo hasn't been updated in two years.  Meanwhile, there are at least five other Rust MPMC queues in use that have been recently updated.<p>Is there something unique about its algorithm? I'm afraid the repo is low on documentation.</p>
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<p>Is this effected by Microsoft's patent on various rAns coding and decoding?<p>If not, how does it avoid the (rather vague) claims?<p><a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US11234023B2/en" rel="nofollow">https://patents.google.com/patent/US11234023B2/en</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:09:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36154167</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36154167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36154167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Anyone got any other experiences with things that cause brain fog?<p>Allergies and Food sensitivities.<p>These are often incredibly hard to diagnose because there are foods that we eat so commonly, we don't have a good control/variable separation for experimentation.  In addition, allergies and food sensitivities don't develop all at once.  They increase over time. This makes discovery even more difficult.<p>But it's almost always this.<p>As for myself,  I had severe brain fog and fatigue. It turns out I was allergic to coffee. Looking back, I now see that it was something that became more and more severe over about 10 years.<p>It took me quitting coffee for several weeks for an unrelated reason to discover that it was the problem. When I started again, the stark difference in how I was felt made it much easier to diagnose. I got lucky really.</p>
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<p>I'm a bit concerned that they don't mention a particular strain of B. Subtilis.<p>There are hundreds of documented strains, and they don't all eat/produce the same things (at least not in the same ratios)<p>Some have been documented to reduce inflammation and restore tight-junction function in epithelial walls (where other strains did not).<p>Others have been shown to reverse the accumulation of α-synuclein.  That has been implicated as a cause or symptom of Parkinson's disease.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 23:52:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34717518</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34717518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34717518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "Show HN: Groundhog-day.com – structured groundhog data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm going to need to see success rating for each groundhog.  
How often do they correctly predict the weather?<p>Also how often did their right or wrong predictions contradict the majority?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:55:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34632854</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34632854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34632854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "PRQL: a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To my untrained eyes, SQL did not appear to have things like windowing, hierarchical relationships, (trees, graphs) in mind when initially designing the language.<p>Support for these things have been wedged into the language by numerous additions, and I think the fundamental syntactical framework of SQL is cracking under the pressure. Granted, it's been a while since I've had to traverse a tree using SQL, but I do recall that the query was very painful to write, and even more painful to execute efficiently.<p>Also, these things only work if you've wedged your data model into rows and columns.  (or you use non-standard language extensions like jsonb)<p>PRQL, on the other hand, rearranges the syntactical structure to be more extensible, and also agnostic over the underlying shape of the data model.  It works the same regardless of whether you're using an RDBMS or a graph/document database.<p>Is the result more complicated? IMO, only in the simplest examples.  PRQL shines vs SQL when you have multiple stages of aggregation,  like pre and post aggregation filtering, or referencing synthesized data, etc.</p>
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<p>The U.S. factory farm system has killed 120+ million pigs and over 7 million sheep this year (hopefully not many monkeys).  
I am quite sure most of those pigs were subjected to torturous conditions before they were put out of their misery.<p>TBH, I think any outrage is hypocritical from anyone one who is not already outraged and boycotting the global meat industry.</p>
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<p>boingboing used to be amazing,  now it's mostly clickbait ads ):</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:19:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818358</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The origin of the name comes from the fact that it started as a Lua project.  In Lua (Portuguese for moon), everyone loves any "moon" related names or puns for their project. As such, "Lunatic" fits right in.<p>As someone who has family members with mental health issues, I don't find the term offensive at all.<p>I, for one, by default think more of someone who's obsessed with the moon,  I guess it's because I never read that article, so I've never been told to be offended by it.<p>All that said, I do hope that the authors understand that they might be fighting an uphill battle with regards to adoption.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:01:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33802615</link><dc:creator>eigenrick</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33802615</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33802615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eigenrick in "Ask HN: How do you navigate Seasonal Affective Disorder?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am a software developer who works in his basement in WA state.  Not a lot of natural light during the winters.<p>* Force myself to exercise. This is by far has the largest impact on my well being. (team sports makes that easier)
* Take 10,000 IU of vitamin D a week
* Try to get outside for walks in the late morning or early afternoon</p>
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