Hacker News: mjs

The Bitter Lesson (2019)

mjs — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:41:33 +0000

Article URL: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745556

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

I Asked 100 Agents to Hack Me

mjs — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:15:35 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.sshh.io/p/i-asked-100-agents-to-hack-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683143

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Terry Tao's General Exam: "My harmonic analysis was far from satisfactory"

mjs — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:36:41 +0000

Article URL: https://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/students/tao_terence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028947

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants

mjs — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:39:08 +0000

Article URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/perlsecret/view/lib/perlsecret.pod

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46519839

Points: 77

# Comments: 29

New comment by mjs in "Smallest particulate matter air quality sensor for ultra-compact IoT devices"

mjs — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:20:13 +0000

Re price, there's links to retailers from https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/products/environmental-senso...

New comment by mjs in "Smallest particulate matter air quality sensor for ultra-compact IoT devices"

mjs — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 06:50:17 +0000

Might need to wait a few generations. It costs ~30€ for a single unit (maybe half that at volume?). And not waterproof.

Year of the Challenge (Or, the Tyranny of Friendship)

mjs — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:51:01 +0000

Article URL: https://moxie.org/stories/year-of-the-challenge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292318

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Letters of Last Resort

mjs — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:06:47 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42811619

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mjs in "MIT Aluminum Bicycle Project 1974 (2016)"

mjs — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 17:13:01 +0000

> She did spend another year in France, but not until 1988/1989 with her husband, Sheldon Brown…

It's his wife! Harriet is Sheldon's wife!

New comment by mjs in "Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities"

mjs — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:33:47 +0000

Does `open` give focus? It used to, but since a few releases ago the app opens in the background, which is pretty annoying.

My poor workaround is to use osascript: `tell application "System Events" to set frontmost of process "Finder" to true`

New comment by mjs in "FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers"

mjs — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:11:44 +0000

The Yubico FAQ explains some of the history fairly well: https://www.yubico.com/blog/a-yubico-faq-about-passkeys/

In particular, they distinguish between "copyable" and "hardware-bound" passkeys. They're both passkeys, and can be used wherever passkeys are supported, but only the "hardware-bound" passkeys support attestation.

Heart of dark mode: done, and still in progress

mjs — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:28:58 +0000

Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/heart-of-dark-mode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41458177

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mjs in "Pitcairn Island Immigration"

mjs — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:51:06 +0000

> … Olive Christian, wife of the accused mayor, daughter of Len Brown and mother of Randy Christian, both of whom were also among those accused, called a meeting of thirteen of the island's women, representing three generations at her home, Big Fence…

"Live Like a Local When you Stay at Big Fence with Steve & Olive Christian":

https://www.visitpitcairn.pn/accommodation/big-fence