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New comment by hypersoar in "A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives"

hypersoar — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:01:26 +0000

That's not what this is about. The bill explicitly defines "sexually oriented material" to include anything that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism".

New comment by hypersoar in "Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones"

hypersoar — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:49:12 +0000

This is what immediately popped into my mind. I remember using this back in the early 2000s.

New comment by hypersoar in "Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron"

hypersoar — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:15:55 +0000

Oh, I don't have much at all, yet. I decided to use a piece tree, which is what VS Code calls the data structure they used. I implemented part of that, then realized that VS Code does it that way partly because of limitations with V8. So now I don't even know if I want to go forward with using it or switch to something simpler.

New comment by hypersoar in "Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron"

hypersoar — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:22:49 +0000

I don't mean to tear down your project at all. If you want to make an editor, I think that's great. I'm actually working on a text editor of my own. But I think that you've fundamentally misunderstood the appeal of Emacs. It has little to do with the key-bindings, or even any particular part of the user interface. Many people don't even use them. Doom, a very popular Emacs distribution, enables Vim-like bindings by default. It's an old joke that Emacs is a great operating system in need of a good text editor.

The appeal of Emacs is that I can, at any time, with only a few keystrokes, dig in to how it does something and then modify it. The self-documenting and customizable behavior is extremely pervasive. Emacs Lisp is not just there for extensions. Every single layer of the application--save for core primitives--is implemented in it. All of it can be inspected, modified, swapped out, wrapped, hooked into, and basically do anything you want. There's absolutely nothing else like it.

New comment by hypersoar in "CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC"

hypersoar — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:22:41 +0000

Bari Weiss cut her teeth in college trying to get professors fired for criticizing Israel. She's hardly an advocate for free speech.

New comment by hypersoar in "America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital"

hypersoar — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:19:20 +0000

Using overall life expectancy here is misleading, as it includes the risk of childhood mortality. You have to look at life expectancy at a given age. According to the SSA's life tables[0], life expectancy for men at 65 in 1930 and 1940 was about 12 years. In 2020, it was about 17. A significant increase, but not nearly as extreme as you're saying.

[0] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/pdf_studies/study120.pdf

New comment by hypersoar in "The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]"

hypersoar — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:09:57 +0000

From the Wikipedia article on the Cray 1:

"The 160 MFLOPS Cray-1 was succeeded in 1982 by the 800 MFLOPS Cray X-MP, the first Cray multi-processing computer. In 1985, the very advanced Cray-2, capable of 1.9 GFLOPS peak performance

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By comparison, the processor in a typical 2013 smart device, such as a Google Nexus 10 or HTC One, performs at roughly 1 GFLOPS,[6] while the A13 processor in a 2019 iPhone 11 performs at 154.9 GFLOPS,[7] a mark supercomputers succeeding the Cray-1 would not reach until 1994."

New comment by hypersoar in "Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos"

hypersoar — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:56:45 +0000

Years ago, I installed the Facebook app on my phone. I immediately uninstalled it when I saw, horrified, that it had hoovered up all my photos and uploaded them to Facebook (there was no fine-grained storage permission at the time) "for my convenience". I never ran their app on my phone, again.

New comment by hypersoar in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)"

hypersoar — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:13:49 +0000

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Maybe to the SF Bay Area
  Technologies: Java, Spring, TypeScript, React, Node, SQL, Rust, Python, Clojure, Solid-JS, Nix
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NzYmjFItbxdlewYL_Lz--ZnE24_CqXvH/view?usp=drive_link
  Email: mail@requirenathan.com

I'm a mathematician-turned-programmer looking for my next software engineering role after being laid off. I have professional experience as a full-stack developer working on a Java/Spring backend with a React/Next.js frontend. My background has given me lots of practice working away at difficult abstract problems. I'm an information sponge and a ferocious, self-directed learner. My portfolio can be found at requirenathan.com.

New comment by hypersoar in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

hypersoar — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:49:52 +0000

I briefly worked on a product related to this. It was a chatbot meant to replace the human phonecall in just this situation. The user would get a text from the bank with a link to the chatbot. They ended up not being able to sell; the common complaint from the banks was that they'd been training their users to never click links like that.

New comment by hypersoar in "Edamagit: Magit for VSCode"

hypersoar — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:23:00 +0000

I've just started with jujutsu, as well. Jjui fills a little bit of the gap. Among other things, it allows for quick selecting and splitting of changes. But it's no Magit. I'm thinking of having a go at making an emacs interface for jj myself.

New comment by hypersoar in "Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?"

hypersoar — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 13:56:02 +0000

I haven't tried Cursor, but I've been messing around with Aider (aider.chat) with interesting results. With it, you add files to its context and then describe the edits you want. It then writes a commit with (hopefully) those changes. You can use it with pretty much any model, though only close-to-SOTA models work well. I've had pretty good results with Deepseek Coder, which is tens of times cheaper than Claude.

New comment by hypersoar in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)"

hypersoar — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 03:05:18 +0000

  Location: Seattle, WA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Maybe to the SF Bay Area
  Technologies: TypeScript, React, Node, SQL, Rust, Python, Clojure, Solid-JS, Nix
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fxsejocFHalsDcW4VXSeBSSbMdstCs6P/view?usp=sharing
  Email: mail@requirenathan.com

I'm a mathematician-turned-programmer looking for my first professional software engineering role. My background has given me lots of practice working away at difficult abstract problems. I'm an information sponge and a ferocious, self-directed learner. I'm returning to the workforce after time away dealing with (now under control) health issues. My portfolio can be found at requirenathan.com.

New comment by hypersoar in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)"

hypersoar — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:44:14 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up

New comment by hypersoar in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)"

hypersoar — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:45:56 +0000

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: To the Bay Area

Technologies: Typescript, React, Tailwind CSS, SolidJS, Node, Prisma, Python, Clojure, Rust

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F4U8nGQQAbkM6j8wljxxvlit0_W...

Email: nsaritzky@gmail.com

I'm looking for my first job in software development. My training is as a mathematician, so I have lots of practice working on tough, abstract problems. I'm a ferocious self-directed learner and have worked on a broad range of projects. Most of my recent work has been focused on frontend, with some smaller React/HTML/CSS projects, and a bigger full-stack one using SolidJS. I'm for you if you're willing to take on someone at the beginning of their career who's driven, knowledgable, and quick on the uptake.

New comment by hypersoar in "US lawyer who put Big Tobacco on trial takes aim at sports betting"

hypersoar — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:55:02 +0000

A solution that hits the happy middle for me is to ban, or at least restrict, advertising of sports betting. The way they've devoured sports coverage is what I find the most annoying.

New comment by hypersoar in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)"

hypersoar — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:27:49 +0000

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: To the Bay Area

Technologies: Typescript, React, Tailwind CSS, SolidJS, Node, Prisma, Python, Clojure, Rust

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P1MtUJjIbNnkRsP7YImocMzsmsb...

Email: nsaritzky@gmail.com

New comment by hypersoar in "Advent of Code 2023 is nigh"

hypersoar — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:12:19 +0000

I heard the question was difficult before solving it, and then I was surprised when I didn't hit any speed bumps. The overlapping case didn't even occur to me. It turns out I stumbled upon a simple solution: use two regexes. One to match the first digit, and one to match the last. Then the overlapping is a total non-issue.

New comment by hypersoar in "FTC Chair Lina Khan looks for allies and leads in Silicon Valley charm offensive"

hypersoar — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:27:21 +0000

Overturning Chevron will simply transfer that power to even more unfireable, unelected judges.

New comment by hypersoar in "US pay transparency laws result in worker discontent"

hypersoar — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 15:14:17 +0000

The transparency laws aren't the cause of the discontent. The cause is the fact that current employees are underpaid compared to new recruits. Businesses are just upset that they can't shaft their workers.