<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: nanofortnight</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nanofortnight</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:40:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nanofortnight" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "How to learn chess as an adult (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Computers are better than humans at poker (DeepStack) and backgammon (eXtreme Gammon). XG for example is commonly used by expert backgammon players to analyse play, much like how engines are used in chess.<p>There is no reason why computers wouldn't eventually beat a human in the others, if someone writes a narrow AI for them. Consider for example, AlphaStar for StarCraft.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 07:54:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38692999</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38692999</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38692999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because it’s a completely misleading headline.<p>The number of cores in the heuristic used to calculate task switch frequency was capped to 8.<p>This is a reasonable thing to do as a heuristic, because you don’t want your time slice to grow indefinitely with core count on an interactive system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:49:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38261184</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38261184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38261184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dynarmic – An ARM dynamic recompiler (AArch32/64 to x86-64/AArch64)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/merryhime/dynarmic">https://github.com/merryhime/dynarmic</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37335792">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37335792</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:56:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/merryhime/dynarmic</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37335792</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37335792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Vitamin D is fat soluble, and thus you can overdose on it. High dose frequently is not recommended, and most high dose supplements will have warning labels about vitaminosis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2023 16:38:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35876937</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35876937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35876937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Plain C API design, the real world Kobayashi Maru test"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems perfect for _Generic.<p><a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/generic" rel="nofollow">https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/generic</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2023 18:40:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592986</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Top-Down LR Parsing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This involves a manual left corner transform, so I would probably call this a variant of a left corner parser (LC parser)?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:40:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35152258</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35152258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35152258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Perfluorocubane is (as you would expect) weird"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>C₈F₈⁻<p>The extra electron makes it negatively charged by -1 (thus an anion).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:53:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32572066</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32572066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32572066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "A Story About ‘Magic' (1983)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The original was posted to USENET by Ed Nather (utastro!nather) on May 21, 1983.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 06:30:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32422246</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32422246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32422246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Communication costs are 35-fold computational costs in the human brain (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Communication in the human cortex" seems pretty clear. The abstract is there for an extended summary if one doesn't wish to read the whole article.<p>One cannot possibly understand the nuances of something without reading it; I do not feel knowledge gained through reading titles of articles is usable knowledge. Perhaps one should consider changing the habits of the reader rather than the author?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2022 11:23:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31386872</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31386872</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31386872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Federated/Decentralised identity/authentication is a solved problem.
For example, this is essentially OpenID.
Unfortunately this entire concept failed to gain traction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 21:42:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29800961</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29800961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29800961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vita3K – 3 Years Progress Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://vita3k.org/2021/07/31/3-years-Progress-Report.html">https://vita3k.org/2021/07/31/3-years-Progress-Report.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28026844">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28026844</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:14:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://vita3k.org/2021/07/31/3-years-Progress-Report.html</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28026844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28026844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Apple Confirms iMac Pro Will Be Discontinued, Recommends 27-Inch iMac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Clickbait.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2021 15:54:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26368196</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26368196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26368196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Little is a statically typed, C-like scripting language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is Little embeddable? This seems like a perfect scripting language for embedding into a larger C application.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 21:14:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26208050</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26208050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26208050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Scientists are transplanting faeces into obese people with type 2 diabetes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> into the nose<p>It's not going into the nose, it's going into the jejunum (the intestines) via a nasojejunal tube, which is placed up your nose.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:39:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19006702</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19006702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19006702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Whether to Use Anki or SuperMemo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Medicine is a field I'm in where learning large bodies of unrelated facts is helpful, since it's a field where having a generalist's shallow understanding of a wide variety of fields is useful.<p>Take biochemistry, for example, wherein one can see it as a series of mechanisms and is mostly memory work. Anatomy is similarly mostly memory work; one doesn't simply "reproduce" an understanding of the course of the vagus nerve from scratch.<p>Not every field is maths or physics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:49:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18528200</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18528200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18528200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_algebra" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_algebra</a><p>Less ambiguously called "Clifford algebras", though Clifford himself prefered the term geometric algebra.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2018 16:23:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370981</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, it does, because it is an identical representation to quaternions. Except it actually explains all the weirdness in quaternions without resorting to 4-space.<p>This is because quaternions are a subalgebra of geometric algebra in 3-space.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 21:50:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18367054</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18367054</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18367054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Cancer is solved: by PD-1/PDL-1 inhibitors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Improper title.<p>1. This is specifically about non-SCLC.<p>2. This article is entirely about a <i>downside</i> to receiving PD-1/PDL-1 inhibitor biologics as immunotherapy; that approximately a third of patients develop HPD and should be switched to salvage chemotherapy as soon as this is noted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2018 12:06:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18207577</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18207577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18207577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "Introduction to Differential Equations (2008)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes? Very common in Engineering disciplines, for example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:41:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18183081</link><dc:creator>nanofortnight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18183081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18183081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nanofortnight in "After century of removing appendixes, doctors find antibiotics can be enough"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"If you don't put your finger in it, you'll put your foot in it" is still a common aphorism. Enjoy your time on surgical assessment when you get to your clinical years!</p>
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