<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: mikrl</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikrl</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:59:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mikrl" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dwarf fortress is the “reading a book” of vidya for sure.<p>But sometimes I personally forget that it’s allowed and enjoyable to just read 20 mins here and there…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:53:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492293</link><dc:creator>mikrl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> we can find other sources or just do with less<p>That kind of rhetoric is typically only employed when you’re in some great struggle, and the sacrifices made are supposed to be offset by a greater good.<p>In this trade war the struggle was completely avoidable and you chose it for yourself. Now you’re deploying the belt tightening home front rhetoric.<p>I’m going to be a little naughty and stop the constructive discourse to say: HOLY MOTHER OF COPE!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:17:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457224</link><dc:creator>mikrl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> cyberpunk is NOW a playable game<p>I never had problems with cyberpunk but I think I know why: I built a new PC right around its release and it was good enough to play it smoothly on 4K medium or HD ultra.<p>When I checked to see what 4K ultra looked like, the graphics latency caused a bunch of scripting to fall apart and the game glitched really bad.<p>IIRC the console release was notorious for bugs, so I assume consoles were not performant enough to run the game buttery smooth nor could they be easily upgraded.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:49:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172321</link><dc:creator>mikrl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172321</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah yes, American Psycho was shot in Toronto wasn’t it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:49:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826047</link><dc:creator>mikrl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:00:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769379</link><dc:creator>mikrl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy is bleak, humane and fairly short. I enjoyed it like a good Charles Dickens</p>
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<p>On the other hand, after reading Ovid's Metamorphoses, you realize that as far as narratives go there’s nothing new. It’s all been done to death, remixed and rehashed for millennia. The great Ovid probably lifted ideas and tropes from somewhere else.<p>Yet all those stories in all their forms still sell today, and still impress people.<p>Not worrying about unoriginality frees you to just enjoy yourself… and just maybe do something original.</p>
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<p>>So one way to keep it from getting enshittified, again is to make the barrier to entry just a touch higher, or add friction.<p>We already had that, it was called crypto mining. Profit motive has taken care of that already</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 03:07:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231514</link><dc:creator>mikrl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "Local AI needs to be the norm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of my hobbyist workflows involved transcribing ETF prospecti into yaml for an optimizer to optimize over.<p>Used to take me maybe 10-20 minutes per sheet.<p>Then I got codex to whip up a script that sends each sheet to a fairly low parameter locally running LLM and I have the yaml in a couple seconds.<p>My dream is to bootstrap myself to local productivity with providers… I know I’ll never get there because hedonic treadmill etc, but I do feel there’s lots more juice to squeeze. I just need to invest more time into AI engineering…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 20:11:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087435</link><dc:creator>mikrl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How long until LLMs are prompting LLMs to write a response to their user query?<p>Actually, this happens already in a modular way AFAIK…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 12:28:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083452</link><dc:creator>mikrl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rockwell Automation has a facility in Katowice, Silesia which was/is a major centre of coal mining and locomotive manufacturing since the 1800s when it was part of Prussia, and continuing through the Polish Republic, WW2 era and beyond.<p>The industrial heritage is strong.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:55:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065736</link><dc:creator>mikrl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A family member told me they knew of someone who once visited Poland from Yugoslavia and found, in their opinion, that Polish was a Slavic language perfectly suited to the Latin script.<p>But yes, transliterated Russian doesn’t look quite right- rather cumbersome- and I assume the same would hold true for a Polish Cyrillic.</p>
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<p>Argh… I still can’t wrap my head around the esoteric humour. What is a feeduck and seeduck anyway?</p>
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<p>Superscaler sounds too much like superscalar…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:03:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808749</link><dc:creator>mikrl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty sure Duff was a heavily filtered macro beer.<p>Not saying engineered beer is necessarily bad- Sapporo and Asahi never disappoint- but I imagine you would want to stick to unfiltered and unpasteurized to retain some of the more… alive compounds.</p>
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<p>Posted previously:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626116">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626116</a></p>
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<p>Bet your shirt AND the farm from the comfort of your phone</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:11:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535112</link><dc:creator>mikrl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I started dressing nice at work, reasoning that looking sharp would buy me a few seconds or minutes of grace to allow my social deficiencies to catch up - just in case an executive decided to ask me a question.<p>Of course, that never happened for months, years until the one day I went in wearing cargo pants and a gothy synth band shirt and was greeted by a delegation of executives from out of town engaging everyone in small talk…</p>
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<p>And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist<p>Y’all MFs unable to address the replication crisis, and getting me pissed</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:16:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442703</link><dc:creator>mikrl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikrl in "The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great article. Personally I have been learning more about the mathematics of beyond-CLT scenarios (fat tails, infinite variance etc)<p>The great philosophical question is why CLT applies so universally. The article explains it well as a consequence of the averaging process.<p>Alternatively, I’ve read that natural processes tend to exhibit Gaussian behaviour because there is a tendency towards equilibrium: forces, homeostasis, central potentials and so on and this equilibrium drives the measurable into the central region.<p>For processes such as prices in financial markets, with complicated feedback loops and reflexivity (in the Soros sense) the probability mass tends to ends up in the non central region, where the CLT does not apply.</p>
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