Hacker News: mpenick

New comment by mpenick in "From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery"

mpenick — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:33:25 +0000

Now the remaining problem is to make Magnetoencephalography devices affordable and not insanely huge.

New comment by mpenick in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

mpenick — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:52:12 +0000

He’s from the EU. I think that Google can’t terminate him immediately.

New comment by mpenick in "How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)"

mpenick — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:02:38 +0000

You’re risking bike shedding “bike shedding”.

New comment by mpenick in "When is causal broadcast not enough for causal memory?"

mpenick — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 23:21:14 +0000

It made to the front page this time.

New comment by mpenick in "Language and shell in Go with 92% test coverage and instant CI/CD [video]"

mpenick — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:17:50 +0000

Thanks for the reply. You may have a new user. :)

New comment by mpenick in "Language and shell in Go with 92% test coverage and instant CI/CD [video]"

mpenick — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:18:12 +0000

Does elvish have a command history limit? Or is it configurable? I like a nearly infinite history.

New comment by mpenick in "Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia"

mpenick — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 01:06:23 +0000

Saunas, hot baths, and excercise improve blood flow.

New comment by mpenick in "Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia"

mpenick — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 01:04:30 +0000

Simple solutions to hard problems seem to be falling out of favor.

New comment by mpenick in "AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can't Get Smarter"

mpenick — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 01:01:02 +0000

What’s wrong with being excited and working hard towards something? Hoping for nearly anyone’s demoralization is not good. I wish you a spirit of adventure that takes you many exciting places!

Also, what specific safety problems do you think need to be solved?

New comment by mpenick in "YouTube seems to once again be rolling out its widely hated new web redesign"

mpenick — Wed, 22 May 2024 23:16:37 +0000

I like it too. Bigger video, more visual information without scrolling

New comment by mpenick in "GPT-4o"

mpenick — Mon, 13 May 2024 21:47:14 +0000

This is a good question! I think in the short-term fake can work for a lot of people.

New comment by mpenick in "Submarine expert tried to dissuade OceanGate CEO, from taking customers in Titan"

mpenick — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:21:40 +0000

I also wonder what changed between the Cyclops 2 and the Titan.

New comment by mpenick in "Submarine expert tried to dissuade OceanGate CEO, from taking customers in Titan"

mpenick — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:20:35 +0000

Interesting find! Lots of information about the winding and the materials used. I wish there was more information about the epoxy used to adhere the titanium endcaps to the hull.

I also wonder what changed between the Cyclops 2 and the Titan.

New comment by mpenick in "Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser"

mpenick — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:01 +0000

Do you have a link for that claim?

New comment by mpenick in "Faster CPython at PyCon, part one"

mpenick — Thu, 11 May 2023 16:49:51 +0000

I hope you feel better. This is a neat project and I’m looking forward to trying it out.

New comment by mpenick in "Is it time to replace TCP in data centers?"

mpenick — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:59:54 +0000

I think you mean system call bound which is really another way of saying CPU bound. The hardware underneath is incredibly capable, but the interfaces to it are inefficient. I’m skeptical that JSON payloads over HTTP based applications are saturating 10gig+ network interfaces.

New comment by mpenick in "All programming philosophies are about state"

mpenick — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 11:58:47 +0000

Can you explain more what you mean by controlling dispatch?

New comment by mpenick in "Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years"

mpenick — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:27:45 +0000

I love annual plans when they can offer savings over paying monthly.

New comment by mpenick in "Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said"

mpenick — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:01:39 +0000

I hope this is parody. I agree with being pragmatic and not being arbitrarily constrained, but this comes off as fanatical.

New comment by mpenick in "MBS: A volatile millennial wields absolute power in Saudi Arabia"

mpenick — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:31:48 +0000

The Abe assassin did not use a 3d printer to create his gun. This is false information.