Hacker News: mac3n

New comment by mac3n in "Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash"

mac3n — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:24:06 +0000

"SBF and the Effective Altruists" could make a good punk band name

New comment by mac3n in "Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash"

mac3n — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:53:57 +0000

Did this all begin with SBF and Effective Altruism? Looks like here's a lot of overlap in the cast of characters.

New comment by mac3n in "One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed"

mac3n — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:46:34 +0000

wait until you find about the Yana River people!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yana_Rhinoceros_Horn_Site

New comment by mac3n in "Komar and Melamid: The Most Wanted Paintings"

mac3n — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:24:29 +0000

see also their Most Unwanted Music (revised 2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCWuRJOaltY

their Most Wanted Music is unlistenable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGOvA20kiBg

New comment by mac3n in "Wayland, Pipewire, Open Source Slowly Closing?"

mac3n — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:21:10 +0000

> I am a composer with a prolithic output

Rock music, you say?

New comment by mac3n in "The punched card tabulator"

mac3n — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:24:09 +0000

In the "Hollerith Tabulator/Sorter, 1890", the machine counts and chooses an output tray. The operator acts solely as card transport.

New comment by mac3n in "Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma"

mac3n — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:35:15 +0000

> predicting the electronic ground-state energies of FLiBe molecular clusters

this looks like a problem for quantum annealing, rather than digital qbits. Maybe D-wave can help.

New comment by mac3n in "Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma"

mac3n — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:29:59 +0000

but, are they pear-shaped boffins?

New comment by mac3n in "Organic Maps"

mac3n — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:00:29 +0000

search greatly improved in the past couple years. try it again?

New comment by mac3n in "Pi square is nearly 10"

mac3n — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:52:02 +0000

pi^2 ~ 10, well known to anyone who used slide rules.

New comment by mac3n in "It Is Back"

mac3n — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:46:15 +0000

It: the McRib? cuteoverload.com? Ska? Art Deco? VB6? that Heisenbug? $3 gasoline? Nixon?

New comment by mac3n in "Why I like snake_case"

mac3n — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:59:49 +0000

I've always disliked snake-case. Maybe it's because the teletype backarrow would have been a more useful character than underscore, but it got replaced by underscore sometime in the 1960s.

New comment by mac3n in "How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?"

mac3n — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:17:18 +0000

going in the opposite direction, as few as two

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preon

New comment by mac3n in "The AI LinkedIn Post Generator That Grows Your Professional Brand"

mac3n — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:30:48 +0000

the AI app we knew we didn't need

New comment by mac3n in "What are peoples' biggest issues with Crypto?"

mac3n — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:27:55 +0000

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

New comment by mac3n in "Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”"

mac3n — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:03:02 +0000

Guess it went pear-shaped!

> Majorana particles, subatomic particles that scientists have not observed directly.

i expect they're looking for Majorana quasiparticles

New comment by mac3n in "Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source"

mac3n — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:24:57 +0000

As a graduate student, I used to rent my body to Science, by participating in medical school experiments. Nothing injected, but blood drawn.

I spent an afternoon in an iron lung, and a couple nights in the hospital, trying to sleep while med students messed with my air supply.

New comment by mac3n in "Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source"

mac3n — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:21:46 +0000

of course, you're also harvesting credentials from these laptops

New comment by mac3n in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

mac3n — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:01:09 +0000

"cattle, not pets"

New comment by mac3n in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

mac3n — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:49:14 +0000

Nothing beats coming home from work, chopping something into pieces, and setting it on fire.