Hacker News: rory_h_r

New comment by rory_h_r in "Introducing OpenFatigue"

rory_h_r — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:45:27 +0000

Open Pro is the "Most Open". I love it!

New comment by rory_h_r in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

rory_h_r — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:48:58 +0000

Personal site: https://www.roryhr.com/

New comment by rory_h_r in "Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]"

rory_h_r — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:16:55 +0000

I like to imagine this is for the 80s AI hype and another one will come out in 40 years for ChatGPT.

New comment by rory_h_r in "[dead]"

rory_h_r — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 16:11:06 +0000

Learn about the life and death of the manufacturing startup Fast Radius, famous on reddit as "the holy grail of shit-SPACs".

Part One: The Story of Fast Radius

rory_h_r — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:42:57 +0000

Article URL: http://www.roryhr.com/part-one-the-story-of-fast-radius.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40989565

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

PyCharm Quickstart

rory_h_r — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:54:45 +0000

Article URL: http://www.roryhr.com/pycharm.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38254505

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Enums for a Data Scientist

rory_h_r — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:45:29 +0000

Article URL: http://www.roryhr.com/enumerations.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38052332

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by rory_h_r in "What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur"

rory_h_r — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:37:25 +0000

That $10M wasn't wasted for me as an Asana/Jira user because they forced Asana and Jira to get better.

New comment by rory_h_r in "Well, Actually – Physics Answers"

rory_h_r — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:21:01 +0000

Good physicists know what level of abstraction to use for any particular question. Too high and you gloss over what's interesting and too deep and you miss the forest for the trees. This is why the the Feynman Lectures are invaluable resources even if you already know the material.

New comment by rory_h_r in "Unlearn rotation matrices as rotations"

rory_h_r — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:55:29 +0000

There's nothing wrong with understanding rotation matrices as rotations, it's just that in their application it's not the right mental model. Ideally you'll understand both representations and switch between them as needed.

New comment by rory_h_r in "Windows98 Running in the Browser"

rory_h_r — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:26:23 +0000

Windows98 with the best version of Solitaire. Those were the days.

New comment by rory_h_r in "Have you ever asked yourself “how did research get done before LateX?”"

rory_h_r — Thu, 28 May 2020 18:00:29 +0000

A lot of the classic papers by Maxwell, Newton, Faraday etc. are available online. They look great but you can only imagine what a pain typesetting these used to be.

See, for example this paper by Maxwell from 1865: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstl.1865...

New comment by rory_h_r in "Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help"

rory_h_r — Tue, 05 May 2020 16:18:33 +0000

Bill Watterson, of Calvin and Hobbes fame, gave advice that I've found helpful over the years, "To create your own life's meaning is not easy but it's still allowed and I think you'll be happier for the trouble."

https://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonist...

New comment by rory_h_r in "Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use"

rory_h_r — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:05:48 +0000

Everyone is dunking on Disney but Twitter actually owns all your Content.

New comment by rory_h_r in "Google's Head of Quantum Computing Hardware Resigns"

rory_h_r — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:06:55 +0000

John Martinis taught me physics and analog electronics! He was a great teacher: friendly, smart, and a top notch scientist to boot. All the better for UCSB that he'll have more time to be on campus.

New comment by rory_h_r in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2019)"

rory_h_r — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:58:38 +0000

Location: California

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Spark, Hadoop

Website: roryhr.com

Email: rorhr + @ + gmail.com

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/roryhr/resume

Data scientist and engineer looking to move to Colorado. Open to remote but would prefer onsite.

You and Your Research

rory_h_r — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 04:14:07 +0000

Article URL: http://roryhr.github.io/you-and-your-research.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16807981

Points: 1

# Comments: 0