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Re:Magit Is Amazing on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @03:34PM (#45660585)
Second this. Put off trying it for years because "why not just use a GUI" if I'm going to leave the console anyway. Turns out lazygit is kind of a happy middle ground and using it actually feels better than it looks.
Re:Climbing trees 1: what are decision trees? on Sunday May 18, 2025 @06:10PM (#44024671)
I've been liking Explainable Boosting Machines lately (kind of a cross between a GAM and a tree). They also have decision trees. Haven't tested them in production yet but they're pretty to look at.

[0] https://interpret.ml/docs/ebm.html [1] https://interpret.ml/docs/dt.html

Re:Ask HN: What is your default notes app? on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:53PM (#42731400)
Seconding Obsidian for notes. Really happy with the editor, it's got nice formatting and all notes synced on desktop/laptop/phone. I just use their paid syncing though. I also ignore all the graph and mindmapping stuff.
Re:Autopay Is Making Us Worse at Managing Credit-Card Bills on Monday October 09, 2023 @01:42PM (#37823079)
With higher interest rates, I stopped paying the full balance and instead try squeezing a little extra interest out of the money (I buy USFR, which is giving around 5.3% right now). I still pay the statement balance of course.
Re:Ask HN: Holy grails of free, online courses? on Thursday September 21, 2023 @04:09PM (#37603558)
Very fun watching this guy chat about probability.

Statistics 110 Probability: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/youtube

And this guy (Erik Demaine) is an absolute gem for introductory algorithms.

Introduction to Algorithms: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms...

Re:Ask HN: Why is on-device search terrible? on Thursday January 19, 2023 @04:56PM (#34446202)
Haven't tried this one, thanks. There's also Everything [0] which is usually my favorite search for Windows. Fast and supports regex.

[0] https://www.voidtools.com/

Re:SpeedCrunch on Thursday December 23, 2021 @02:12PM (#29665314)
I love SpeedCrunch, especially for dealing with different bases. For back-of-the-napkin type math, OpalCalc is my favorite.

https://skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/

Re:E. B. White’s “Plain Style” at 75 on Monday October 19, 2020 @06:33PM (#24831772)
Nothing has impacted my writing more than that book. There are several versions now, the one I have is titled "Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace".

I chose it over White's book because of this passage from Clear and Simple as the Truth:

> The best-known teachers of practical style are Strunk and White, in their ubiquitous Elements of Style. The best teachers of practical style are Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb, in Williams’s Style: Toward Clarity and Grace and a series of academic articles and technical reports. Williams and Colomb present an incomparably deeper and more orderly treatment of practical style. The style they present is consistent and mature; it makes decisions about all the major questions that define a style, and is fully developed.

I almost can’t overstate how much it’s changed how I read and write. Before that book, some writing just felt “clear” and other writing didn’t, but I couldn’t explain why. Now it’s much easier to see how that sense of clarity is created. Even though I don't write for a living and mainly do technical write ups, it was easily worth the time investment.

This video is also good. It has a ton of interesting points, but the part about creating instability in your writing I found particularly useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM&ab_channel=UChic...