<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: nick238</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nick238</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 22:38:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nick238" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nick238 in "Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I still don't understand why programmers seemed to get off on this sort of shit. Doing `while((<i>dest++ = </i>src++));` is great and all (maybe fine because it's kinda idiomatic now, but should you <i>really</i> be using that over `strncpy`?), but being clever like that in real code makes it harder to review, and harder to understand months down the line. I've mentally cussed out 'whoever wrote this confusing shit' to only `git blame` myself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 01:28:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143411</link><dc:creator>nick238</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nick238 in "Researchers are giving salmon cocaine. Don't worry, it's for science"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Cocaine and its metabolite can help fish swim farther, but it could put them in danger, report finds<p>Isn't this true for people as well?</p>
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<p>Why would this be any different from dropping a coin or other small metal object? If you're worried about ultrasonic noise pollution, nearly every SMPS operates there, and they're constantly running.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:45:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039154</link><dc:creator>nick238</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nick238 in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't know adding, but multiplication has diagram on the last page of the PDF.<p>xy = eml(eml(1, eml(eml(eml(eml(1, eml(eml(1, eml(1, x)), 1)), eml(1, eml(eml(1, eml(y, 1)), 1))), 1), 1)), 1)<p>From Table 4, I think addition is slightly more complicated?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:50:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747372</link><dc:creator>nick238</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nick238 in "Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_Post-Quantum_Cryptography_Standardization" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_Post-Quantum_Cryptography...</a> and search for "published attacks".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:19:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680074</link><dc:creator>nick238</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680074</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nick238 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ever play Doom (2016)? It's about renewable energy.<p>Pesky little--<i>very minor</i>--side effect that it's extracted from Hell, and using it causes the denizens of Hell to spill over to our side. One would say they are "unleashed".<p>By raising the price of oil so much, our dear leader is trying his level best to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:45:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596927</link><dc:creator>nick238</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nick238 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US military is extremely good at doing specific objectives. All militaries are garbage at changing hearts and minds.<p>That's what diplomacy is for.</p>
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<p>Nowadays it's about efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Sure, 99% of the time a Shahed-136 might "lose" against a Patriot, but a Patriot missile costs 200x what a Shahed does.<p>Laser and EWar approaches are going to be more successful long-term as the price per "shot" is dramatically less, but deployments are slow.</p>
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<p>Money analogy could better be put as one of:<p>1. Store your money in a 0% interest account—leave RAM totally unused—or put it in an account that actually generates some interest—fill the RAM with something, anything that might be useful.<p>2. Store your money buried in your backyard or put it in a bank account? If you want to actually use your money, it's already loaded into the bank.<p>Imperfect analogies because money is fungible. In either case though, money getting spent day-to-day (e.g. the memory being used by running programs) is separate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:04:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257412</link><dc:creator>nick238</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nick238 in "Osaka: Kansai Airport proud to have never lost single piece of luggage (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>US healthcare is a leader in administration fees (e.g. paying health system executives) compared to other countries around the world. High US healthcare cost isn't because of increased usage, but because of the higher admin fees and higher prescription drug prices. Prices are fixed high because law prevents the government from negotiating prices (o.b.o. Medicare/aid), and those provisions were inserted on behalf of pharmaceutical companies so <i>their</i> executives could make more money.<p>Paying individual workers more may have some benefits, but I think the key issue is usually overworking and burnout because the incremental cost of adding a whole new employee is way higher than just pressuring workers to do more work in the same time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:00:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142966</link><dc:creator>nick238</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nick238 in "PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unlike the PS3 which the US Air Force bought 1,760 and clustered into the 33rd most powerful** at the time.<p>(**Distributed computing is very cheat-y compared to a "real" supercomputer which has insane RDMA capabilities)</p>
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<p>Spotlight search is infinitely more useful than the Windows 10+ start menu. 99% of the time I'm just using it to open an app or a recent document/download.<p>In Windows, if I hit [Win], type "fusion" (to open Fusion 360, an app in the "Start Menu" folder, for what that's worth nowadays), there's a 70% chance it will do a Bing search for "fusion".</p>
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<p>The LLM model and version should be included as an author so there's useful information about where the content came from.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:55:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46728588</link><dc:creator>nick238</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46728588</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46728588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nick238 in "States Are Gunning to Ban 3D Printers and CNCs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While "The Liberator" (one of the first 3d printed guns) was interesting as a test of the technology and what it means for the law, I don't know if I'd trust using one to not blow up in my hands. Pretty sure you could assemble a zip gun in a Home Depot (they even sell cartridges for powder-actuated tools) that's less dangerous for you, more dangerous downrange.<p>It is a total mystery how the Washington bill's cited "blocking technology" is supposed to work. If you load a pipe-shaped object into your CAM software, how the hell is it supposed to know if it's an illegal firearm part or just a manifold? Maybe before each time it generates some G-code, you need to submit a signed affidavit to the government, and they'll conduct an investigation. Three months later you can print your fidget spinner.</p>
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<p>Didn't know this. It kind reminds me of MIME multipart messages (used in email attachments, MMS, etc.) where the header includes a "boundary" tag which the parser will look for to terminate the part. It feels strange, like it could be some injection risk where if the file knew what the boundary was going to be, it could desync the bounds and turn one malicious, inactive file into one or more bad files.</p>
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<p>I've noticed diskprices.com getting increasingly bad with filters, probably because the source data is garbage with Amazon sellers trying to jam all the keywords into titles or descriptions/features..."M.2 USB-C 3.2 PCIE NVME"</p>
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<p>This kinda reminds me of error correction, and where at some level you can have detectable <i>but not correctable</i> error conditions. Adding Bob is just like adding a parity bit: can give you a good indication someone lied, but won't fix anything. Adding Charlie gives you the crudest ECC form, a repetition code (though for storing <i>one</i> bit, I don't think you can do better?)</p>
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<p>I pulled out the data that I could see; strangely it seems to be the 16th question but the page shows "#736"<p>Data as JSON: <a href="https://gist.github.com/nicktimko/fb48810b448275a4d7817e2b65061065" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/nicktimko/fb48810b448275a4d7817e2b65...</a><p>Or if you want to download it yourself (yay for Gemini giving me a Node one-liner to parse a JS object to get JSON. Beware it uses `eval`!!!)<p><pre><code>    curl -sSL https://ripplegame.app/assets/index-B2aU9M_o.js | \
        grep -E -o -p "\[\{id:1\,.+\"}]}]" | \
        node -e "const vm=require('vm'); let b=''; process.stdin.on('data',d=>b+=d).on('end',()=> { try { const script=new vm.Script('('+b+')'); console.log(JSON.stringify(script.runInNewContext({}),null,2)) } catch(e) { console.error('Invalid JS') } })"</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 02:13:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494605</link><dc:creator>nick238</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nick238 in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Decades ago, there was less competition for eyeballs, much more high-quality content (vs. slop), and investors were a bit willing to just build an audience without seeking immediate returns. Early social media was aspirin: a useful drug, but not addictive. Now it's super-cocaine and hyper-meth trying to keep the user high.<p>Also, what's an 'ad' is an extreme spectrum nowadays with free stuff given out in exchange for a post, people trying to act like paid influencers to fake it until they make it, paid influencers, and listicle affiliate link slop.</p>
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<p>I get that Chernobyl is near the border of two countries at war, but why the everloving hell is anyone targeting anything within miles of the exclusion zone? Are there any military units anywhere near there, or is it intentionally being targeted as an oblique dirty-bomb threat?</p>
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