<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mcbrit</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mcbrit</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:51:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mcbrit" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "Nabokov's pale fire: the lost 'father of all hypertext demos'? (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shuffling zk (Zettelkasten) cards is just fine. [1] The meaning of a note is largely determined by its connections, and so approaching a note through a different set of connections gives it a different meaning. Finding new paths uncovers new meanings, which is at least one of the zk points. Shuffling cards is one way you might find new paths.<p>[1] If you have physical cards you are destroying the default hierarchical path if you shuffle them and that could be a pain in arse to reconstruct, and your ability to find a note with physical cards also depends on the hierarchy. Digital cards have different problems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:51:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384925</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A tax deferred is a tax avoided. (common wisdom)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:35:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175656</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175656</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're talking to a dude. (in my case.) I mentioned 8 books.<p>I won't tell you exactly what to do, but one way to do it is to measure your surprise with me choosing each of those 8 books when you provide a recommendation back to me of what I should read next. I think I get kind of that experience talking to someone about books.<p>The algorithm didn't do that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:30:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840684</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840684</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I provide that list, a (real) person doesn't ask me if I've read the Hobbit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:19:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840571</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know. I entered, trying to be popular but at least slightly? opiniated:<p>Tigana, Hyperion, A Fire Upon the Deep, Blindsight, Moby Dick<p>and I got a list. Sure, read all that or wasn't interested for reasons, I added (only Neuromancer on initial recommendations):<p>Neuromancer, VALIS, Quantum Thief, Towing Jehovah.<p>List did not get more interesting.<p>Book recommendations are still kind of difficult.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:15:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840520</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Other than capital does a lot of work in that argument. Companies will not pop up and optimize much less micro optimize the tradeoffs. This isn’t a stock exchange; it’s a real capital intensive product.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:39:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45689781</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45689781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45689781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "When private practices merge with hospital systems, costs go up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Counting in people rather than people-days is problematic, and then you get to qol-people-days. Saying murder is not helpful; see how folks have responded to you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:03:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474287</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Line:  The ADR of standard colonoscopy decreased significantly from 28·4% (226 of 795) before to 22·4% (145 of 648) after exposure to AI<p>Supprt: Statistically speaking, on average, for each 1% increase in ADR, there is a 3% decrease in the risk of CRC. (colorectal cancer)<p>My objection is all the decimal points without error bars. Freshman physics majors are beat on for not including reasonable error estimates during labs, which massively overstates how certain they should be; sophomores and juniors are beat on for propogating errors in dumb ways that massively understates how certain they should be.<p>This article is up strolls rando doctor (granted: with more certs than I will ever have) with a bunch of decimal points. One decimal point, but that still looks dumb to me. What is the precision of your measuring device? Do you have a model for your measuring device? Are you quite sure that your study, given error bars, which you don't even acknowledge the existence of, don't cancel out the study?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 02:26:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884090</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "France launches criminal probe of X over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>France is from the legal past that the US emerged from and it's a criminal prosecution so seems relevant.<p>Offering inconsistent defense has got to be thing in France, particularly during criminal prosecution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:07:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44638399</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44638399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44638399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "France launches criminal probe of X over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Louisiana is the only jurisdiction which does not adhere to the
general rule that a defendant may rely, in a criminal prosecution, upon inconsistent defenses.<p>(In other words: prove it. I get as many counterexamples as my lawyers can dream .)<p>Robert T. McGraw, Criminal Law: The Use of Inconsistent Defenses, 26 Marq. L. Rev. 167 (1942).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:04:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44638357</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44638357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44638357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "France launches criminal probe of X over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes? That is just obviously correct given the judicial system for hundreds of years.<p>I get why you are outraged, but also: inform yourself. This is exactly what even minimally competent defense does and should look like.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:09:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635295</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How far do cables generally move power now in terms of hours, meaning time zone offset? This might seem like an odd formulation, but.<p>I /think/ formulating the problem this way means that 12h=power is always relevant. So: where are we?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:30:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522132</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can drive several large trucks through that sentence while answering no, so: no. There are so many ways to create a no there is an important point.<p>Related: you are in an audit. The auditor asks you if you know what the time is. Correct answer: yes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:39:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473494</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "Odin, a pragmatic C alternative with a Go flavour"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To point out something that is a fail: I don't want to hear about how you simulated 10M particles on the GPU without acceleration forces.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 21:16:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940948</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "Odin, a pragmatic C alternative with a Go flavour"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am currently limiting myself to 500 lines of (particle engine) code while listening to visual artists talking about their workflow in UE5 or Houdini, and Odin+Raylib are lovely to work in.<p>GingerBill has shouted out Go, but Odin doesn't particularly feel like a Go flavo(u)r.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 21:14:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940927</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "Ask HN: How do you work with people who are "not quite smart"?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably you are missing sth because it’s so one sided.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:08:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42476033</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42476033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42476033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "Show HN: Run10K Trainer – Personalized Training Running Plans for Your 10K Race"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s always you are running too fast. Slow it down, walk more, figure it out. You simply shouldn’t feel bad or even breathe hard unless you want to when doing 2 walk/2 run. If you are: too fast! Slow down!<p>Most folks don’t slow down because they think they feel fine at the beginning of a run and feel that they should be going faster AND feel ridiculous running that slowly or…<p>Slow down. Solved.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:18:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42358395</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42358395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42358395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the hard things to do when building a game is to figure out why it's fun. It's hard enough that, in general, most folks just remake another game that's already figured out the fun.<p>You're doing a math game, math gamified. Let's throw a choice in there.<p>Since you replied, here's one idea:<p>(1) present five numbers. 
(2) You, the player, chose two numbers
(3) You perform an operation
(3.1) operation: add/subtract/multiply/divide, but perhaps exponentiation and modulo and lcm and factorize and whatever else. it's probably best to keep it simple.
(3.1.1) this can get random: what was the highest number last round? how many green letters are there on the screen? 
(3.2) operations are tied to the special attacks,eg tier 1 attacks are add/subtract, tier 2 mult/div, and so on.
(4) you type in your answer
(5) if you type in an answer that's the correct result of an operation applied to two of the numbers, then you do the corresponding attack.<p>So it's not add these two numbers pass/fail. It's you decide what math you want to do, and can do, and can do in a time limit, and that achieves the effect you're looking for.<p>Anyways, it's always fun to make a thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:49:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319307</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Assumption: wanted feedback, saying kid was not saying shibboleth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:12:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312735</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312735</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcbrit in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Games are a series of interesting decisions. That’s one formulation. Being asked what x+y is with some graphics is not an interesting decision. Perhaps an interesting decision comes later, but I wasn’t interested and bounced.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:11:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312723</link><dc:creator>mcbrit</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312723</guid></item></channel></rss>