<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: mikhailfranco</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikhailfranco</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:47:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mikhailfranco" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "From Chirality to the Standard Model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The process and presentation are also noteworthy.<p>The web page has a dynamic explanation based on sophistication of the reader.<p>The physics problem was cast as a question exploring consistent mathematical algebras, symmetries and relations.<p>AI was used to search a large space of possible solutions under physical constraints. AI results are cross-checked using several different methods. All AI notebooks and results are published for others to check independently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:44:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841405</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "From Chirality to the Standard Model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The actual paper is here:<p><a href="https://emad-ii.github.io/chirality-standard-model/paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://emad-ii.github.io/chirality-standard-model/paper.pdf</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://emad-ii.github.io/chirality-standard-model/">https://emad-ii.github.io/chirality-standard-model/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778080">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778080</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:43:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://emad-ii.github.io/chirality-standard-model/</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "After Math"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The blog post was not written by Terry Tao :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684532</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "The World Is Going Grayscale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Similar argument expanded to all product design:<p><i>Why Nothing Looks Cool Anymore | Design Theory</i><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgjXjPP_p3s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgjXjPP_p3s</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:25:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654730</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "The weekend is 100 years old"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Saudi Arabia changed the weekend from Thursday-Friday to Friday-Saturday about 10 years ago. The existing week only had 3 days' overlap with western businesses, and the smaller Gulf states had already changed.<p>The weekend discussion had been percolating quietly inside the Shura Council (royal advisors) for several years, but when the King decided, it was only announced with about 10 days advance notice!<p>Now UAE has now moved to Saturday-Sunday weekend, but practically it is 2.5 days, starting at noon prayers on Friday.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:48:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327256</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "Lake Mead hits historic low water level as Colorado River struggles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lake Mead (1,040ft) is 5ft above 70% power impairment (1,035ft).<p>But if you look at the last 2 years, this date is typically the minimum for the year. So it seems unlikely to hit zombie power pool this year.<p><a href="https://mead.uslakes.info/Level/" rel="nofollow">https://mead.uslakes.info/Level/</a><p>Now we have a Super El Nino starting, which should bring higher than usual rainfall to the Colorado Basin in the fall and winter. So, in principle, next year might not be as bad as this year, and power pool limits are postponed for 2 or more years out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:53:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231449</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Multi-year web traffic statistics for HN?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:21:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221615</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221615</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>English people learning Chinese are told that <i>goodbye</i> is <i>zài jiàn</i> ('again see'), only to find that most Chinese informally say <i>bái bái</i> ('bye-bye').</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:47:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194161</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "Working from home? That will be extra. Renters rage over new fee"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the basis of this is the same as WFH,
which has not been mentioned in the article or the comments:
insurance, mostly on probabilities of fire and injury.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:08:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122661</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "Europe's fires are just the start"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their infamous editorial <i>Drowning in oil</i> (4 March 1999) bottom-ticked the oil price.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:17:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120014</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120014</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "Europe's fires are just the start"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Counter argument from Matt Ridley:<p><i>Why the flames of Britain's wildfires have been fanned by the Green agenda as much as the weather</i><p><a href="https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-16017973/Britains-wildfires-Green-agenda-weather-MATT-RIDLEY.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-16017973/Britains-w...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:13:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119984</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "Aschenbrenner's hedge fund forced to unwind all public stock positions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good inside analysis from Martin Shkreli:<p><i>Martin Shkreli Breaks Down the Collapse of Situational Awareness</i><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJdgh9eEZvw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJdgh9eEZvw</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:06:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119942</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "How real are real numbers? (2004)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also Nicolas Gisin on Curt's podcast:<p><i>Nicolas Gisin: Time, Superdeterminism, & Quantum Gravity
</i><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcHzgy0I6gk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcHzgy0I6gk</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:37:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097358</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "How real are real numbers? (2004)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We should also mention Nicolas Gisin.<p>One of his mantras is <i>Time is real; Real numbers are not.</i> He conceives of real numbers resulting from processes (approximations, relaxations, computable calculations) that unfold over time. So there is a Heisenbergish uncertainty principle of observable precision and elapsed time.<p>Selected papers:<p><i>Indeterminism in Physics, Classical Chaos and Bohmian Mechanics. Are Real Numbers Really Real?</i><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.06824" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.06824</a><p><i>Real Numbers are the Hidden Variables of Classical Mechanics</i><p><a href="https://philarchive.org/rec/GISRNA" rel="nofollow">https://philarchive.org/rec/GISRNA</a><p><i>Time Really Passes, Science Can’t Deny That</i><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.01497v1" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.01497v1</a><p>Popular articles:<p><i>Real numbers don’t cut it in the real world, this physicist argues
</i><p><a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/real-numbers-physics-free-will" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencenews.org/article/real-numbers-physics-fre...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:32:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097301</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097301</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "How real are real numbers? (2004)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>All integers are happy; each real is unhappy in its own way.</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:15:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097103</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097103</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "Would you choose £50k over the chance of £1M?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lotteries are pay-to-play and always have a negative expected return (like the fairground). Participation (like second marriages), is always the triumph of hope over experience and rationality. People are just willingly paying a tax to have a hopeful thought, or in the fairground, to have a fun experience (allegedly).<p>National lotteries are generally trustworthy, but the mechanism for you to get a real ticket might not be (street hawkers, fake web sites).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:24:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49069387</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49069387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49069387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "Would you choose £50k over the chance of £1M?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem is believing the fairness of the toss.<p>The odds with a fair toss are obviously stacked to prefer taking the gamble, hence inducing all credulous rationalists to take the bet.<p>It is rare for anyone to give away £50k, and even rarer to give away £1m. There is no realistic scenario where such a bet would be offered ... Almost all of us have been to the fairground (yes, the analysis is very different when you have to pay to play).<p>Most people instinctively reason that the <i>actual</i> probability of a win is close to 0: exactly zero in a one shot game, but perhaps some epsilon in a repeated trial in the fairground, so as to advertise a verified previous winner.<p>[I am willing to bet that fairground stalls give a giant cuddly toy to an employee to walk around the ground, or perhaps throw a game to an employee in front of a crowd of onlookers, to suggest that there is an epsilon of hope, even when there is none in reality].<p>Everyone's prior instincts should be conditioned to take the smaller 'sure' reward, since that requires strictly fewer trustworthy steps to success (one payout, compared to both a non-zero toss <i>and</i> a payout).<p>The irony is that in a thought experiment, no game is actually played, so the expected return is always what the wise fair-goer assumed - <i>precisely zero.</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:38:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068811</link><dc:creator>mikhailfranco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhailfranco in "So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How many are available on Safari? ($43/month)</p>
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<p>and the Earth's orbital diameter is 10^3 light seconds<p>so the Earth's orbital velocity is 10^-4 c</p>
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