Hacker News: mschnell

New comment by mschnell in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

mschnell — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:58:10 +0000

I remember it like this: If you squint the brackets around the link text make a rectangle and look almost like a button you can press. [Press here](to.go.there)

Lindley's Paradox

mschnell — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindley%27s_paradox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475002

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules

mschnell — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:55:52 +0000

Article URL: https://mlu-explain.github.io/decision-tree/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204964

Points: 558

# Comments: 82

New comment by mschnell in "Gauss's Weekday Algorithm, Visualized"

mschnell — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:55:18 +0000

I see only colored text, where is the visualization?

Sonofield Key Seeker – identify the key of a song by ear

mschnell — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:21:08 +0000

Article URL: https://sonofield.com/apps/key-seeker/songs/prog-metal-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806865

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience

mschnell — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:40:09 +0000

Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-silent-scientist-when-software-research-fails-to-reach-its-audience/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45781965

Points: 82

# Comments: 52

New comment by mschnell in "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (1956) [pdf]"

mschnell — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:25:29 +0000

Isn’t the consensus nowadays that the number of chunks you can hold in working memory more like four?

New comment by mschnell in "Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?"

mschnell — Tue, 13 May 2025 05:23:43 +0000

In the Finder it is translated to your system language. For example, „Programme“ in German. It is still Applications in the terminal.

New comment by mschnell in "The average college student today"

mschnell — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:39:43 +0000

We used to peruse the library back in the day.

New comment by mschnell in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

mschnell — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:05:33 +0000

Maybe we should introduce Mean Time Between Annoyance (MTBA).

Many of my appliances (dish washer, coffee maker, …) work just fine for weeks before an annoyance pops up („deep clean“, for example). Many of my applications do not. For most I could measure MBTA in minutes. Definitely with Spotlight.