Hacker News: mhartzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mhartzHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:02:51 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mhartz in "In the belly of the MrBeast"]]>> The ideal creator has no distance between themselves and their persona. They have been interpellated by audience metrics; their subjective experience already takes audience reactions into account.

Isn't this sort of one of the themes from The Prestige(2006)? That certain magicians were so dedicated to their craft that they became inseparable from it. The performance never actually stopped

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:44:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697793mhartzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697793https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697793<![CDATA[New comment by mhartz in "PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024"]]>Obviously there's some level of subjectiveness here, but how many years could they realistically have gotten his award?

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:14:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697432mhartzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697432https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697432<![CDATA[New comment by mhartz in "Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things"]]>great recommendation

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:40:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697059mhartzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697059https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697059<![CDATA[Writing About Writing]]>Article URL: https://www.matthartz.me/p/writing-about-writing

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]]>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:37:51 +0000https://www.matthartz.me/p/writing-about-writingmhartzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42590692https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42590692<![CDATA[New comment by mhartz in "Visualizing 13M Bluesky users"]]>Wasn't this also sort of a feature with Twitter? iirc the retweet and other now popular features were originally hacked together by users

]]>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:44:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118919mhartzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118919https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118919<![CDATA[New comment by mhartz in "Ask HN: What breakthrough helped you build and maintain better relationships?"]]>The thing I always remind myself on this topic is from Dale Carengie's How to Win Friends and Influence People which is essentially you will make an order of magnitude more friends by being interested in other people than you will in trying to make them interested in you

]]>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 17:25:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41811435mhartzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41811435https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41811435<![CDATA[New comment by mhartz in "No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development, well-being"]]>Absence of evidence != Evidence of Absence

]]>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:26:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365781mhartzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365781<![CDATA[New comment by mhartz in "Mistral 7B"]]>Thanks, so does that mean position within the buffer is irrelevant?

]]>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:14:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37847281mhartzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37847281https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37847281<![CDATA[New comment by mhartz in "Mistral 7B"]]>Can someone help me understand Figure 2? Why does the newest token appear at the beginning of the sequence rather than next to its neighboring token?

]]>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:30:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37846595mhartzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37846595https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37846595