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New comment by harveynick in "1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)"

harveynick — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:17:24 +0000

You probably already know about this video series, in just in case you don’t: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK-Wicsj5rAasS2g7e-Z9eFUd...

One of the most joyful things I’ve seen on YouTube.

New comment by harveynick in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

harveynick — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:38:25 +0000

It is just for the harness. Using a Mac Mini gives you direct access to Apple services, but also means you can use AppleScript / Apple Events for automation. Being able to run a real (as in not-headless) browser unlocks a bunch of things which otherwise be blocked.

New comment by harveynick in "Claude Code is powerful. Pilot makes it reliable"

harveynick — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:32:52 +0000

I didn’t create this, but on the surface it looks like a reasonable median between “Superpowers”[1] and “Gas Town”[2]. Posting as I don’t see any discussion on it here yet.

[1] https://github.com/obra/superpowers [2] https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown

Claude Code is powerful. Pilot makes it reliable

harveynick — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:32:52 +0000

Article URL: https://claude-pilot.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066741

Points: 1

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New comment by harveynick in "The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)"

harveynick — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 14:32:16 +0000

Looks like the slack invite expired?

New comment by harveynick in "Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16"

harveynick — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 15:31:39 +0000

Lack of scalability. It’s a person checking your transactions for possible fraud, not just an algorithm.

New comment by harveynick in "FinRL: The first open-source project for financial reinforcement learning"

harveynick — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 18:16:34 +0000

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quantitative-Equity-Portfolio-Manag...

Caveat: it’s not exactly “easy reading”, and you might want to have the “three blue one brown” YouTube channel on standby.

New comment by harveynick in "The Hacker's Diet"

harveynick — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 10:58:51 +0000

Your logic seems to be “he doesn’t look like a fitness influencer, therefore he’s not fit and healthy”, and I’m not sure that stacks up. Maybe his goals are not the same as yours, and you shouldn’t conflate them?

New comment by harveynick in "Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home"

harveynick — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:32:21 +0000

Good for them, and good for everyone else here who's happy about the switch to remote working. That said: I think I'd almost rather quit than "work from home" indefinitely.

For me I'm not "working from home", I'm "living at the office". I deeply resent that my work has taken over a part of my home. For the record: I love my job. I also really miss working from the same physical space as my colleagues. Meetings which I used to enjoy are now awkward and draining. Lastly: I even miss my commute home in the evening (not so much my morning commute, to be fair). It used to give my 30 minutes in which to decompress and switch my brain out of work mode.

New comment by harveynick in "The Animal Is Tired"

harveynick — Mon, 10 May 2021 12:19:39 +0000

If there's a Robin Hobb trilogy you need a break before starting it's this one. It left me a sobbing mess on more than one occasion.

New comment by harveynick in "The Animal Is Tired"

harveynick — Mon, 10 May 2021 12:15:10 +0000

The Emperor's Soul is set on the same world as Elantris, though is more or less completely unconnected to it.

New comment by harveynick in "The Animal Is Tired"

harveynick — Mon, 10 May 2021 12:13:31 +0000

There's another Sanderson Cosmere book called Warbreaker which crosses over with Stormlight pretty heavily from book 2 onwards (it's also very possibly there are references in book 1 which totally passed me by). You'll definitely have a better handle on why a particular object which shows up in the Stormlight books is so scary if you read Warbreaker first.

Book 4 of Stormlight does have some pretty big references to the original Mistborn trilogy, too.

On the whole I try to read books in the order I bought them (ish), but Sanderson is one of the authors I'll just drop everything for when a new book comes out. Disclaimer: he does have some bad habits (mainly inserting "wise ass" characters who don't fit the tone or setting, and who I strongly suspect carry the author's voice a little _too_ directly). But he does epic world building incredibly well, and very different to just about any other author I've read. He also writes action exceptionally well.

New comment by harveynick in "The 'Great Wave' has mystified art lovers for generations (2019)"

harveynick — Sun, 02 May 2021 22:24:11 +0000

This might be the best YouTube rabbit hole I've ever fallen down. Thank you for posting it!

New comment by harveynick in "A Beginner's Guide to NFTs"

harveynick — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:29:57 +0000

The thing that seems missing from this explanation is that without the physical goods the virtual goods are worthless.

New comment by harveynick in "Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?"

harveynick — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:30:12 +0000

And feature creep.

New comment by harveynick in "Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost"

harveynick — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:16:17 +0000

The engineering lab I did my PhD in (the Ocean System's Lab at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh) fit this description.

One example: Myself and two colleagues took two weeks out of our studies to build an autonomous boat after we realised there was enough spare parts lying around the lab to do so. The idea originally came up over beers with the lab supervisor. I think he bet us £10 we couldn't do it in that amount of time.

I'm sure it varies a lot between labs and Universities, but it measures up to my experience.