Hacker News: mgnn

New comment by mgnn in "Steam Controller"

mgnn — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:54:50 +0000

Xbox-type controllers have the left stick where the dpads are. PS-type controllers are symmetric.

I, too, agree that the symmetric layout is the correct one.

New comment by mgnn in "Coursera’s Preview Mode"

mgnn — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:54:04 +0000

When did Udacity fell off the MOOC discourse? That's my first experience with MOOCs; have fond memories learning robotics with Sebastian Thrun there. I used to prefer its short lesson and frequent quiz too.

New comment by mgnn in "Every American Is Bilingual"

mgnn — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 04:09:38 +0000

American is in the title, but really, it's saying every English-speaker is at least bilingual.

If you're already n-lingual with English as one of them, you can bump it to n+1 :)

New comment by mgnn in "Google's Reverse Acquihire of Windsurf and the Future of AI Developer Tools"

mgnn — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:34:06 +0000

Who came up with this term? There's no reverse in that definition. I'd expect a reverse acquihire to be something like windsurf getting Google people and absorbing google. Maybe something like Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.

It's actually just doing the hire but omitting the acqui. Maybe truncated acquihire if they had to have acquihire in the term.

New comment by mgnn in "Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog"

mgnn — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:11:13 +0000

What nostalgia!I haven't played any since one of the early 3DS ones. And there's an incoming one for the switch too!

New comment by mgnn in "Kawasaki Reveals Four-Legged Robot You Can Ride Like a Horse"

mgnn — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 02:55:13 +0000

The Chevaline! It's probably possible to build The Primer, and the John Zaibatsu doesn't seem very outlandish too.

But guys, that book wasn't a manual.

New comment by mgnn in "Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator"

mgnn — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:47:11 +0000

This article from half a year ago has photos and diagrams https://spectrum.ieee.org/euv-fel

New comment by mgnn in "BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank"

mgnn — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:58:46 +0000

This is the first time I hear about "metric mega", and I hang out a lot here, where Americans use their units without explanation.

New comment by mgnn in "Microsoft is Getting Rusty [video]"

mgnn — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:04:56 +0000

Rust-sharp? That's tetanus.

New comment by mgnn in "Mistral's Le Chat tops 1M downloads in just 14 days"

mgnn — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:15:03 +0000

It's funny. Le Chat's gaslighting me in French. Claims Mistral develops ChatGPT when answering in French, but OpenAI when in English.

For your amusement too: https://imgur.com/EgmQ0Ph

New comment by mgnn in "What if Eye...?"

mgnn — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 02:20:50 +0000

Tangential, but the visuals reminded me of the book Vehicles by Braitenberg (https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/5b1c7c36-4582-4962-a89d-...). Although, it's less about evolution and more about complex behaviours from simple systems.

New comment by mgnn in "Veo 2: Our video generation model"

mgnn — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 03:05:15 +0000

Video without the id. You pick which definition of id.

New comment by mgnn in "Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors"

mgnn — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 04:16:59 +0000

It's the cycle of life. Intel was founded by people leaving Fairchild, and that in turn was founded by the Traitorous Eight from Shockley.

The ecosystem is healing.

New comment by mgnn in "Show HN: A simple and powerful RSS reader for the web"

mgnn — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:46:24 +0000

Can you add Youtube channels to the feed?

New comment by mgnn in "Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years"

mgnn — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 03:17:07 +0000

> Currently, Firefox users can create different user profiles to segregate workflows and open tab sets, but more granular tab organization is on the way. Mozilla says it will roll out an improved profiles system and new tab management capabilities later in 2024.

Panorama was there. It was beautiful.

Simple Tab Groups works OK.

New comment by mgnn in "Lego ISS"

mgnn — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:46:33 +0000

In absence of a tower, how about this display solution: https://old.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/eo2ufs/my_attempt_at_...

New comment by mgnn in "Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube"

mgnn — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:36:54 +0000

> Oh, and no notifications when new kid-friendly content is posted, so if you want notifications 'Support me on Patreon'

How about RSS? Each channel has RSS, and iirc it has only failed once (as in, a few days with no updates even though there were new videos) in the last 4-5 years. I don't use Youtube's system for following channels anymore, I just have a YouTube 'subscriptions' category on my feedly.

New comment by mgnn in "Kill Sticky Headers (2013)"

mgnn — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 03:54:46 +0000

I use a more simplistic solution: I bind a keyboard shortcut to uBO's element zapper so I can just zap sticky headers as I find them. I have to zap for every repeat visit, but the same shortcut works for zapping sticky sidebar videos or other undesirable elements too.

New comment by mgnn in "Germany's Vanishing Monasteries"

mgnn — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 08:30:52 +0000

The Concent of Saunt Leibniz.

We can try turning old monasteries into concents à la Neal Stephenson's Anathem. People can go for a year in a unarian math to just study. Maybe a four consecutive years in such a math get equivalent recognition to a university degree. Whether it is the traditional monastic discipline or the Cartasian discipline, the required basic infrastructure is probably similar. Jeejahs stay outside, of course.

Particularly determined professors can populate a decennarian, maybe even a centenarian. Also, isn't there only about 9 years before our scheduled visit by the Icosahedron?

New comment by mgnn in "Pourquoi-Pas (1908)"

mgnn — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 02:34:48 +0000

There are a few more photos of the ship in the French page.