Hacker News: mkprc

New comment by mkprc in "Ti-84 Evo"

mkprc — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:40:57 +0000

They're most definitely trying to ride on the recent anti-technology in school push.

New comment by mkprc in "Ti-84 Evo"

mkprc — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:17:12 +0000

It's about ensuring "academic honesty" on exams. Also, it's nice to have buttons rather than a touchscreen. Also, there is something to be said about using a device with a different form-factor than the one on which a student also scrolls TikTok/IG and distracts themselves otherwise.

New comment by mkprc in "447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane"

mkprc — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:29:50 +0000

Sniff test: a paper with a single author and 53 revisions, listing a gmail address as contact information despite the author, after a brief internet search, appearing to have affiliations with CSU Global, (maybe) the University of Central Florida, and the San Jose State University Department of Aerospace.

New comment by mkprc in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

mkprc — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:09:39 +0000

It appears Apple/iTunes has already responded. He's no longer on the Top 100: USA list:

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/top-100-usa/pl.606afcbb7...

New comment by mkprc in "The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep"

mkprc — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:40:28 +0000

https://archive.ph/adPYr

New comment by mkprc in "You can now buy a DIY quantum computer"

mkprc — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:38:50 +0000

> Putting it all together isn’t a trivial task, […] the team offers training from its researchers and support throughout the building process. The training would take up to three months, […] with the whole system being ready to run after at least 10 months of work.

> The EduQit quantum computer comes with five qubits, which makes it less than a tenth of the size of cutting-edge devices, but it also only costs around €1 million, making it much cheaper.

New comment by mkprc in "You can now buy a DIY quantum computer"

mkprc — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:35:52 +0000

https://archive.ph/Uxv00

New comment by mkprc in "A case against currying"

mkprc — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:31:30 +0000

Prior to this article, I didn't think of currying as being something a person could be "for" or "against." It just is. The fact that a function of multiple inputs can be equivalently thought of as a function of a tuple can be equivalently thought of as a composite of single-input functions that return functions is about cognition, and understanding structure, not code syntax.

New comment by mkprc in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

mkprc — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:20:55 +0000

Hosting and nicely typesetting some of the essays/speeches of Alfred North Whitehead on education and the role of Universities, now in the public domain. Most are from Project Gutenberg, but I've been manually transcribing a couple others.

https://mkprc.xyz/public-domain/whitehead/

New comment by mkprc in "Quantitativity on the number of rational points in the Mordell conjecture"

mkprc — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:16:16 +0000

Here's a direct link to the 178 page preprint:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01820

New comment by mkprc in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

mkprc — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:09:17 +0000

A counter comment: I'll bet many folks didn't know what an em-dash was until the whole "you can tell it's AI because of the em-dashes" thing. Then everyone learned what an em-dash is, and every pause in every sentence thereafter suddenly deserves an em-dash. While I suspect it's mostly bots, the number of sincere (human) new em-dashers isn't negligible.

New comment by mkprc in "Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station"

mkprc — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:33:25 +0000

Do you have a direct link to the audio stream? I'd probably add it to my go-to list of stations.

New comment by mkprc in "Why High-Performers Restart Instead of Compound"

mkprc — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:06:31 +0000

I've noticed this too. It might be a chicken-or-the-egg thing though. I think LLMs learned this sort of "punchy" writing style from the blogs of software developer who blog and from Linkedin posts.