<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: thallada</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thallada</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:15:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thallada" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Making RSS More Fun"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You should try out <a href="https://scour.ing" rel="nofollow">https://scour.ing</a><p>It's not exactly a TikTok experience since it serves you a digest of multiple articles at once vs. one article at a time. But, you can tell it what topics you are interested in and it will find recent articles in thousands of RSS feeds that the algorithm thinks you are most interested in.<p>I found this post on Scour :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:18:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153218</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Row Your Boat: How I made a boat physics simulation inside Oblivion Remastered]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.hallada.net/2025/08/24/row-your-boat.html">https://www.hallada.net/2025/08/24/row-your-boat.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016160">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016160</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:12:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.hallada.net/2025/08/24/row-your-boat.html</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Why agents are bad pair programmers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everyone knows real programmers only need to use a butterfly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:06:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44232381</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44232381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44232381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you have a link to the recording?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 03:44:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874590</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>NCI has the current treatment guidelines for each cancer and is updated when new treatment options become available: <a href="https://www.nccn.org/guidelines/category_1" rel="nofollow">https://www.nccn.org/guidelines/category_1</a><p>Unfortunately, these are very clinician-focused and are very hard to understand without a medical background. They also don't usually cover experimental treatments that are still in trials, but in some cases can be extremely helpful. I work on an app at Outcomes4Me (<a href="https://outcomes4me.com/" rel="nofollow">https://outcomes4me.com/</a>) that is trying to convert the NCI guidelines into an algorithm so that we can tell patients in simpler terms what their treatment options are based on their specific diagnosis. We also try to find clinical trials recruiting for their specific diagnosis. We've done this for breast and lung cancer so far.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:06:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39432081</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39432081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39432081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "A rise in oral nicotine pouch use raises health concerns for high schoolers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is if you consume too much. Anything is poisonous in great enough quantities, including water. I'm assuming OP is asking about whether it's dangerous in normal dosages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:18:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982060</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No one has mentioned ShareMouse yet? (<a href="https://www.sharemouse.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sharemouse.com/</a>) In my experience it has worked way better than Synergy. I switched after getting fed up with the synergy developers not responding to various multi-year old bugs that made the software unworkable for me (e.g. <a href="https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/5992">https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/5992</a>).<p>The only downside is that you have to "renew maintenance" to continue receiving updates to ShareMouse after a year. But I haven't done that yet and it still works fine for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:35:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784988</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784988</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.hallada.net/blog/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.hallada.net/blog/</a><p>I post sporadically about side projects I'm working on. Some recent posts:<p>- <a href="https://www.hallada.net/2022/10/05/modmapper-putting-every-skyrim-mod-on-a-map-with-rust.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.hallada.net/2022/10/05/modmapper-putting-every-s...</a>: Modmapper: Putting every Skyrim mod on a map with Rust<p>-<a href="https://www.hallada.net/2020/02/01/generating-icosahedrons-and-hexspheres-in-rust.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.hallada.net/2020/02/01/generating-icosahedrons-a...</a>: Generating icosahedrons and hexspheres in Rust<p>- <a href="https://www.hallada.net/2017/08/07/proximity-structures.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.hallada.net/2017/08/07/proximity-structures.html</a>: Proximity Structures: Playing around with PixiJS<p>I'm trying to get into the habit of posting more so hopefully updates will be more frequent in the future.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:28:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36595848</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36595848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36595848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How are we sure that pulsars are 100% consistent? How do we know the timing discrepancies are due to gravitational waves and not just tiny wobbles in the pulsar itself?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 21:06:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36526706</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36526706</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36526706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Why use Rust on the back end?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It really sucks when you are the only one on your team that knows Rust. I whole-heartedly think that I'd be more productive and write better backend code in Rust than JavaScript/TypeScript/Python/Ruby from my experiences of using Rust in side-projects. But I have to suffer because I cannot make the case of rewriting our backend and teaching all the devs Rust.<p>So my only choice if I want to use Rust is to leave the company, but it's really hard to find other companies that primarily use Rust. The majority of the ones that do are crypto/blockchain related or doing something extremely low-level or out of my wheelhouse since they assume you're also comfortable with writing C++. I'm primarily a web developer and I hardly see any web startups choosing Rust.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 21:36:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35239112</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35239112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35239112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Atom was archived today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can run vim and emacs in a gui app. I run neovim in neovide which imo is the best experience for vim these days. Vim's builtin terminal is good enough now that you can ditch running it inside tmux/terminal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 06:34:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34011276</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34011276</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34011276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modmapper: Putting every Skyrim mod on a map with Rust]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.hallada.net/2022/10/05/modmapper-putting-every-skyrim-mod-on-a-map-with-rust.html">https://www.hallada.net/2022/10/05/modmapper-putting-every-skyrim-mod-on-a-map-with-rust.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33103732">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33103732</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:44:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.hallada.net/2022/10/05/modmapper-putting-every-skyrim-mod-on-a-map-with-rust.html</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33103732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33103732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Garmin has an integration with Strava to automatically sync activities: <a href="https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918057-Garmin-and-Strava" rel="nofollow">https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918057-Garmi...</a><p>This is how I record all of my activities to Strava. There's no need for an external sync service.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 21:46:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31241352</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31241352</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31241352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Alcohol linked to more cancers than thought, study finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Except the middle man can actually serve a purpose here. I would actually like someone to distill highly academic articles full of technical jargon into layman's terms that I can skim in a few minutes. The fact they don't link the original paper is just bad journalism.<p>It's also bad journalism when newspapers frequently misunderstand the original source completely or sensationalize one piece of the source completely out of context for extra clicks. But, there's not much we can do about that.<p>I hope we get more alternative media sources like Two Minute Papers (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg</a>), who actually understand the subject matter, summarizing the latest research in various fields.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:02:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28077290</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28077290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28077290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Show HN: Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why use something slower when an equivalent faster tool is available?<p>There's definitely a noticeable delay on my machine with starting up the python interpreter. Enough that it dominates most actual request times to fast servers. (`http get www.google.com` is ~460ms while `ht get www.google.com` is ~130ms)<p>For a tool I'm constantly using to check APIs I'm developing, I really appreciate snappy commands that give me results that feel instantaneous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2021 01:55:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26043433</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26043433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26043433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Bevy 0.2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bevy is very new so there isn't a whole lot yet. But, there's a list of projects built with bevy being assembled at <a href="https://github.com/bevyengine/awesome-bevy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bevyengine/awesome-bevy</a><p>You could also checkout the #showcase channel in the bevy discord <a href="https://discord.gg/gMUk5Ph" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/gMUk5Ph</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2020 02:13:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24531513</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24531513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24531513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "An update on our security incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Twitter is not an average company. As one of the top 40 internet companies, they are in the position of setting industry standards. I think it's fair to expect more than what the average company does from Twitter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2020 05:05:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23879120</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23879120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23879120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "A tiny static full-text search engine using Rust and WebAssembly (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But that requires a network request after typing to get results, which is about the same user experience of a search bar that requests some search API.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2020 04:38:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23473966</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23473966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23473966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are referring to this backup restore process? <a href="https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Backup-and-Restore-Messages" rel="nofollow">https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...</a><p>It involves a 6 step (with multiple sub-steps) process of navigating the sdcard contents and then transferring some obscure file over USB to a computer and then from that computer to the new phone. I doubt this is something that "the masses" will be able or willing to accomplish.<p>Also, iOS has about 48% market share in the US, so it's at least half the masses there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 22:31:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22331051</link><dc:creator>thallada</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22331051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22331051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thallada in "Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I currently have three around the apartment attached to the network:<p>One running Seafile (<a href="https://www.seafile.com/en/home/" rel="nofollow">https://www.seafile.com/en/home/</a>) with an old laptop hard-drive connected via USB enclosure. It acts as my own Dropbox. I mainly store notes and photos on it and sync them to a few other devices for redundancy. It also has a Samba share with all of my music and has an open vpn server so I can connect to it from anywhere.<p>One with a HiFiBerrry Digi+ hat (<a href="https://www.hifiberry.com/products/digiplus/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hifiberry.com/products/digiplus/</a>) connected to my sound system via toslink running an MPD (<a href="https://www.musicpd.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.musicpd.org/</a>) server. I can control it with M.A.L.P. (<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.gateshipone.malp&hl=en_US" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.gateshipon...</a>) on my phone. This one also has a 7" touch screen (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Pi-7-Touchscreen-Display/dp/B0153R2A9I" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Pi-7-Touchscreen-Display/dp...</a>) which I use to sometimes display ncmpcpp (<a href="https://github.com/arybczak/ncmpcpp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/arybczak/ncmpcpp</a>) inside edex-ui (<a href="https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui</a>). This one also acts as the living room clock with an USB LED message board (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/818-Dream-Cheeky-Message-Board/dp/B001KU43WK/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/818-Dream-Cheeky-Message-Board/dp/B00...</a>) controlled by dcled (<a href="https://github.com/Conservatory/dcled" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Conservatory/dcled</a>).<p>Another with a GPIO breakout and breadboard with an individually addressable LED light strip attached. I got the idea from this Adafruit tutorial (<a href="https://learn.adafruit.com/light-painting-with-raspberry-pi/overview" rel="nofollow">https://learn.adafruit.com/light-painting-with-raspberry-pi/...</a>). I wrote a program in Python to make it softly glow between random colors and sync to any beats-per-minute.</p>
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