Hacker News: kxcrossing

New comment by kxcrossing in "Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing"

kxcrossing — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:40:25 +0000

For someone who says they are overcome by scope creep, they sure do seem to get a lot done — so many linked articles on all sorts of topics at the end of the post.

I think the author is indeed someone who just really enjoys learning and doing all sorts of things, so the rabbitholing is part of the fun that tickles their brain.

New comment by kxcrossing in "The Perils of ISBN"

kxcrossing — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:08:08 +0000

I like the bait-and-switch here. “Let’s make my own app” which almost made me tab out, followed by an interesting dive into the perils of uniqueness in ISBN. I would still say overspecifying is better than under!

New comment by kxcrossing in "Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall"

kxcrossing — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:23:20 +0000

Looks like 2007 shows a 404, so maybe there are a few tiny gaps. Still, over 23 years of constant blogging is pretty awesome indeed. It’s in stark contrast to blogspot pages I’ve found that stopped in 2011

New comment by kxcrossing in "Cracking the Scheduling Code in Hay Day"

kxcrossing — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:07:59 +0000

Is there a typo in here?

“ Given a set of orders, find a schedule that maximize the makespan of the orders.”

Shouldn't the target be to minimize the makespan?

New comment by kxcrossing in "Machine Unlearning Challenge"

kxcrossing — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 06:37:08 +0000

Well, isn't this challenge about altering a model after-the-fact? I.e. we are stuck with this data in the training set and must figure out a way to clean up the model