<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: thrtythreeforty</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thrtythreeforty</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:24:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thrtythreeforty" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thrtythreeforty in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you planning to release any of this? Fuji cameras are so nice but need some opening up</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:01:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083513</link><dc:creator>thrtythreeforty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thrtythreeforty in "Flip Fluid on Flip Dots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the first time I've seen this mechanism described! I had to reverse engineer my oven control board because the transistor in this scheme died and after staring at the capacitor and diode for a minute it finally clicked, metaphorically, and literally, after I changed that transistor.<p>What's this circuit called?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:02:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867234</link><dc:creator>thrtythreeforty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thrtythreeforty in "λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel like HN shouldn't auto-capitalize "λ" in this instance. An anonymous function is a λ, not a Λ.</p>
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<p>I love to see the community putting in the work to keep these old machines working with new Apple products! Just wish Apple would be willing to step up their support; I suspect most Apple customers will simply buy a new machine to ensure compatibility with their Polishing Cloth rather than tinkering with community-supported workflows.</p>
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<p>I had forgotten that section. Time to reread, I guess!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:05:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378063</link><dc:creator>thrtythreeforty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378063</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thrtythreeforty in "I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The lake?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:13:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377399</link><dc:creator>thrtythreeforty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thrtythreeforty in "Turns are Better than Radians (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's another good reason to think in turns: it turns Euler's formula from this Eldritch Terror:<p><pre><code>    e^(i*x) = cos(x) + i*sin(x)
</code></pre>
into something you can kinda understand by staring at the complex plane:<p><pre><code>    -1^(2x) = cost(x) + i*sint(x)
</code></pre>
Credit to justinpombrio for this: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32986869">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32986869</a></p>
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<p>It is well known that forcing a sudden drop in chronically high average blood glucose (like, from 200+ to a normal ish range) with insulin can cause vision loss. I wonder if it's the same mechanism?</p>
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<p>I read this story in 4th grade. It felt like the future. Now, it feels like most of the technology is within reach - at least, it <i>could</i> be built. The automated stove being the main exception.<p>But the most unrealistic part of this story is how all the IoT automation continues to work in the absence of the Internet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:15:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169336</link><dc:creator>thrtythreeforty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thrtythreeforty in "The diabolical world of convincing AI thirst traps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://archive.ph/nXHNq" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/nXHNq</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:43:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149537</link><dc:creator>thrtythreeforty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thrtythreeforty in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing stops embedded work faster than running out of code space on a microcontroller!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:46:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974137</link><dc:creator>thrtythreeforty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thrtythreeforty in "The lost joy of music piracy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I knew it!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:25:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947122</link><dc:creator>thrtythreeforty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947122</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thrtythreeforty in "The lost joy of music piracy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I refuse to believe there's not a database backup somewhere. Such careful curators would surely hate to destroy it!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:32:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931014</link><dc:creator>thrtythreeforty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931014</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thrtythreeforty in "Show HN: One More Letter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More feedback:<p>- I was intently staring at letters and didn't notice you get a definition as a hint! Maybe the hint UI needs a tweak.<p>- it needs to allow permutations that are also words, or at least provide an additional reward for finding those (maybe an extra half point).<p>- there should be a "clear" button next to shuffle.<p>- there should be a "pause" button which hides everything and stops the timer. My waitress came by as I was playing and I lost.</p>
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<p>It reminds me of Wordflower. I like this! With one caveat:<p>The word games that have been posted in the last few days feature a timer component, and it's game over when you miss the timer. I think they'd be more rewarding if it weren't sudden death. Instead it should just let you play through and give you a score out of 5. Especially if it is going to pick obscure words (as another commenter says - arguably one word isn't English and that feels like a bad reason to "lose").</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:06:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928871</link><dc:creator>thrtythreeforty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thrtythreeforty in "NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know JAX, but can this trick be applied as a higher-level function to autodiff-capable languages like JAX?</p>
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<p>Surely SIMD <i>combined</i> with multiple streams would beat both approaches. (This would be separate streams in each SIMD lane <i>and</i> separate streams in different SIMD variables.) There are multiple SIMD execution units, just like the 6 scalar units you mention. The latency of SIMD ops will be similar to scalar, except in cases you mention like shifts.</p>
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<p>Cyclists doing whatever they feel like is status quo everywhere. Now I'm most important sidewalk user! Now I'm a car! Now the traffic rules don't apply to me!<p>(Not all cyclists do this. But the rude ones are common enough that "cyclists" have gotten this reputation.)</p>
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<p>For reticle-limit chips, it's on the order of 100. And less than that once you filter out bad dies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:11:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663610</link><dc:creator>thrtythreeforty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thrtythreeforty in "Riot's Vanguard update reportedly disables DMA cheat hardware via IOMMU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reports indicate that cheaters need a full Windows reinstall to recover?<p>> installs malware<p>> malware does malware stuff<p>surprised_pikachu.jpg<p>Of course it's hard to write sympathetically about cheaters, but this is exactly the sort of nonsense you'd expect from installing a hostile kernel extension.</p>
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