<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: mtrimpe</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mtrimpe</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:17:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mtrimpe" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All you need is to mandate real-time API access for users... Unfortunately even the EU doesn't seem prepared to do that though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:41:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590089</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you doing it to get money/success/fame? Stop. Data says no.<p>Are you doing it because you want to bring something new into the world? Acknowledge that and keep going as long as it's healthy for you overall.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:39:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760584</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760584</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Show HN: CEL by Example"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>CEL is much more computationally limited as it aims to keep evaluations in the microsecond range.<p>With OPA you can easily create policies that take tens, hundreds or even thousands of millisecond.<p>That comes at the expense of a lot of power though, so much of the complex logic that you can write in OPA simply isn't achievable in CEL.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:21:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061963</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061963</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
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]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:50:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759475</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most tech startups create a monopoly by hiding real-time access to user data behind closed down apps which can force-include ads in your feeds.<p>A simple EU regulation that requires offering real-time distribution of user data to third parties would massively level the playing field.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:04:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157327</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "LLMs can't do probability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or you can just add some randomness to the prompt by adding “Your random seed is mciifjrbdifnf.”<p>I just tested that and got 4 left and 2 right so it works pretty well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 21:18:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40229589</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40229589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40229589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Superlinear Returns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As they say... every exponential is a sigmoid in reality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2023 19:43:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37920555</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37920555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37920555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’d guess that they have a rating system and prefer assigning request to helpers who reliably perform well… which might be why I didn’t get repeat requests after my initial fumbling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:10:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37676833</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37676833</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37676833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Human assistants might also just be worse than AI assistants.<p>When I received my first (and only) BeMyEyes request I spent the first minute or  so figuring out how to work the app and the video delay.<p>“Let me turn the volume up” “Oh wait it’s on my AirPods” “Could you move it more to the left?” “No your left.” “No; not that far”<p>I’m quite confident that I was a less than optimal assistant and an AI might’ve well done better than me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:15:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37674986</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37674986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37674986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Electrolyzer efficiently converts CO2 into renewable propane fuel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hydrogen is very difficult to use as a direct fuel source. This recent video gives a good overview of all the challenges a hydrogen engine has to overcome: <a href="https://youtu.be/DGL5g91KwLA" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/DGL5g91KwLA</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2023 06:57:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37219535</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37219535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37219535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree that it's a great book; but I wouldn't recommend it as an entry point into understanding purely functional data structures.<p>Okasaki fleshes out a couple of examples and explains his thought processes and heuristics for developing such data structures quite well; but they're very much still notes on the early-stage exploration of the concept.<p>From a historical perspective it's still a fascinating read though and definitely recommend it if you want to read up on the origins of immutable data structures.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2023 18:38:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128725</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128725</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a long time RSI-sufferer that has tried everything I can confirm the KeyboardIO was also very nice... but nothing beats Kinesis Advantage. I think it's the domed arrangement as I did feel the thumb arrangement on the KeyboardIO was superior.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:01:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35438944</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35438944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35438944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "The electric vehicles we need now are e-bikes (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree that I'd like to see more LiFePO4 battery packs; but compared to an EV I'd much rather have this happen on an e-bike/monowheel I can just step off.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2023 07:44:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35436371</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35436371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35436371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "I'm a very slow thinker (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I once had I colleague that I had lots and lots of trouble engaging with. Over and over again I would try to get my point across but fail.<p>That was until I noticed that if I picked up the discussion again the next day he had internalized yesterday's conversation. From then on I worked perfectly fine with him building up shared understanding one point at a time.<p>I really wish for him, and me, that there was a word he could've used to describe his style of thinking. I'm sure it would save everyone many a frustration.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:23:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35039759</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35039759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35039759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Magic Sand: augmented reality sandbox/playground"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I once played with one of these where if you built the sand high enough the top would turn blue again and water would start flowing down from the top.<p>So... an overflow bug caused the mountain to overflow.<p>Still one of my favourite real-life bugs of all time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:47:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34723776</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34723776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34723776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Structuring Clojure applications"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The same applies to most Scala projects from the early days. It attracted many developers who just wanted to have a go at writing their own custom half-baked versions of their favorite parts of category theory for a simple line-of-business CRUD app.<p>I think both eventually found their niche and now have plenty of developers that stuck around write appropriate code in it. But when they were shiny and new they indeed both created their fair share of failures.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 20:56:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057579</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think we should start thinking in battery cargo trailers. When do you want extra range and battery? When you're going on holiday. What do you want apart from extra range when you're going on holiday? Extra storage space!<p>So why not just start selling battery cargo trailers which can provide your main car with extended range when needed?<p>It's also much easier to swap and rent out physically, financially and emotionally than your main car.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2022 13:02:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32213072</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32213072</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32213072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile [1]<p>It's one of the biggest longitudinal qualitative studies on work life and company succes. It has given me by far the most valuable insight into what really matters in building happy and effective workspace.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11721498-the-progress-principle" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11721498-the-progress-pr...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:59:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30242076</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30242076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30242076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Ask HN: Is there any work being done in speech-to-code with deep learning?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you tried VoiceCode? <a href="https://voicecode.io/" rel="nofollow">https://voicecode.io/</a><p>That in combination with switching to a Lisp (Clojure) almost made it feasible for me to code with RSI.<p>I just became a manager instead because I couldn’t work from home and talking like that in the office was a no-go for me.<p>If that’s your cup of tea you’d be surprised at how happy upper
management is to have someone who’s actually good at technology be willing to engage with them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2020 05:13:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23506992</link><dc:creator>mtrimpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23506992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23506992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mtrimpe in "Hard negotiations: why a softer approach yields better outcomes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the review actually says that for people who are naturally manipulative the book doesn’t necessarily add much; which I can imagine.<p>The book actually explains quite well which negotiation tactics don’t work when faced with life and death situations (hostage negotiation) and goes on to explain which ones do and why they actually work better in everyday negotiations as well.</p>
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