Hacker News: loughnane

Yale reinstates SAT, ACT requirement after six years of flexible policy

loughnane — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:14:33 +0000

Article URL: https://yaledailynews.com/articles/yale-reinstates-sat-act-requirement-after-six-years-of-flexible-policy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451213

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

Report of the Yale Committee on Trust in Higher Education [pdf]

loughnane — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:11:24 +0000

Article URL: https://president.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2026-04/Report-of-the-Committee-on-Trust-in-Higher-Education.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925150

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Don't fall for the rigged college game (2025)

loughnane — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:21:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/opinion/college-admissions-seniors-stats.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913889

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

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: 6

# Comments: 1

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

# Comments: 0

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

# Comments: 7

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

# Comments: 2

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

# Comments: 161

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.