Hacker News: loughnane

New vehicles now sell for an average of nearly $50k

loughnane — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:17:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/new-vehicles-now-sell-for-an-average-of-nearly-50000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743317

Points: 5

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New comment by loughnane in "The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text"

loughnane — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:04:22 +0000

Sounds like MIT's missing semester https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273762

Sycophantic AI is changing the world of romance and dating

loughnane — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:14:54 +0000

Article URL: https://economist.com/culture/2026/03/05/who-wants-a-partner-to-toady-to-them-quite-a-lot-of-people

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267381

Points: 4

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New comment by loughnane in "The View from RSS"

loughnane — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:15:16 +0000

Self-hosted miniflux is great.

Consumers and businesses paid nearly 90% of Trump tariffs in 2025

loughnane — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:19:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tariffs-consumers-business-nearly-90-percent-new-york-federal-reserve/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003048

Points: 19

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Analytical Chemistry 2.0

loughnane — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:04:11 +0000

Article URL: https://asdlib.org/onlineArticles/ecourseware/Text_Files.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826908

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by loughnane in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

loughnane — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:26:38 +0000

well said.

New comment by loughnane in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

loughnane — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:43:58 +0000

https://chrisl.co

Monero retakes privacy crown as Zcash turmoil rattles rally

loughnane — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:43:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theblock.co/post/384785/monero-retakes-privacy-crown-as-zcash-turmoil-rattles-rally

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594048

Points: 3

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New comment by loughnane in "Xfce is great"

loughnane — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:53:39 +0000

This is precisely my point of view as well.

Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium

loughnane — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:23:23 +0000

Article URL: https://dailynous.com/2026/01/06/texas-am-bans-plato/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529257

Points: 207

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Coase's Penguin, Or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm [pdf]

loughnane — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:12:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.PDF

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438642

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

New comment by loughnane in "Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts"

loughnane — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:22:17 +0000

Fyi since your account is new. It’s a faux pas here to have a “company” account.

New comment by loughnane in "Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations"

loughnane — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:30:05 +0000

900k USD via monero (xmr). Love to see the big donation and its cool that it's private.

New comment by loughnane in "MIT Missing Semester 2026"

loughnane — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:48:40 +0000

Anyone know how/if this differs from the 2020 one?

Edit: Nvm, they comment on it. https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/development-environment/

New comment by loughnane in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

loughnane — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:46:29 +0000

I get that the crypto world right now is a casino, but the unfulfilled need is still there:

I want to be able to buy over the internet as anonymously as when I use cash in the real world.

New comment by loughnane in "Making RSS More Fun"

loughnane — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:11:12 +0000

I use miniflux and like it. Still, this post got me thinking.

I’d like to try out a feature where by self-hosted instance learns what I like and highlights relevant posts in my feed. Then I can go through the other ones later.

Main things are that I would control what feeds go in and there is no monetization incentive since it’s self-hosted.

Nvidia Holoscan: Platform for Real-Time Edge Computing

loughnane — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:13:19 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46135411

Points: 1

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New comment by loughnane in "Where do the children play?"

loughnane — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:31:32 +0000

> Inner city, especially in the oldest and most established, is an outlier experience.

Totally right. I called out the south explicitly, but the same stuff is true in suburbs. We lived in Nashua for 5y and it was just as you describe.

I'd submit though that the lack of sidewalks and dangerous drivers aren't really a cause, rather a symptom of the same cause: towns laid out in such a way where things are too far to walk and so everyone must drive to everything.

New comment by loughnane in "Where do the children play?"

loughnane — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:51:18 +0000

> Consider some statistics on the American childhood, drawn from children aged 8-12: 62% have not walked/biked somewhere (a store, park, school) without an adult

At least in the US, my guess for the cause of this is goes something like:

1. Housing is expensive.

2. People move to where housing is cheap (ie plenty of land, easy to build). In the last few decades that's more often than not been in the south.

3. Big population changes in those areas demand more schools.

4. Big school is built on the edge of town, because that's where the land is and one school has better economies of scale than multiple neighborhood schools

5. No one lives close to the school anymore, so everyone has to drive.

Throw in the sprawl that often accompanies new development in areas with wide open land and its easy to see how we end up here.

I live in Brookline, MA (in the North, next to Boston) and it's very much a walk-to-school town. The structural reason for that is our schools are in the neighborhoods, have been around for a long time, and there's nowhere "on the edge of town" to build a new one. Our town has financial pressures like everyone else and I few government's are able to resist the temptation of cost savings---we just don't have the option to build that way. Thank goodness.