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Re:How Big Are Factorials? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:30AM (#49727624)
Reminds me of: Professor asked us to find the biggest factorial using C programming language. And then using LISP. You can imagine our surprise.
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:22PM (#49631136)
Was there a reference to using AI to decide where to place the hinges?
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Friday January 16, 2026 @07:26AM (#46645757)
https://www.rockoder.com/

I wish I’d written more. This site is almost 20 years old now. I bought the domain using a friend’s credit card because I didn’t have one back then and there was no other way to purchase online.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) on Monday February 24, 2025 @09:35AM (#43160027)
Currently working on to auto sync Notion events to Google Calendars based on Project property. I needed this desparately so decided to do it myself.
Re:ICC issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant on Thursday November 21, 2024 @01:29PM (#42207168)
Antisemitic. Every time I hear this word, I can’t help but think of its irony—a term used exclusively for describing discrimination against one community, as if prejudice against them carries more weight than against any other. Perhaps, though, it serves as the best reflection of our hypocrisy.
Re:Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure... on Thursday October 10, 2024 @01:31PM (#41801162)
Prediction: Demis Hasabis will win second Nobel.
Re:Ideas to make money as solo dev on Friday September 13, 2024 @01:14PM (#41533135)
Could you share some ideas or pointers on how to monetize an extension?

Also, probably a dumb question but what stops other developers to reverse engineer your extension and release a clone?

Re:Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data on Monday August 19, 2024 @01:54PM (#41293127)
To a layperson like me, could you explain how these balloons will be cleaned up / collected after their life? What material are they made up of?
Re:Are people too flawed, ignorant, and tribal for open societies? on Saturday July 20, 2024 @06:21PM (#41020554)
I mean I mark my vote as same as XYZ's vote in the system. XYZ doesn't have to know about it.
Re:Are people too flawed, ignorant, and tribal for open societies? on Saturday July 20, 2024 @05:40PM (#41020204)
> On the one hand, the costs of becoming politically informed—learning about politicians, issues, policies, and relevant social science—are very high for individual voters. It takes a lot of time and energy, which could be spent on other important—or simply more fun—activities. On the other hand, the negligible impact of individual votes means that being informed has little benefit. Given this, political ignorance is rational.

I have been toying with the idea of a system that allows voluntarily delegating my vote to someone who I think is rational, more informed than me, and cares about things important to me, more than me. I would love to know the flaws in such a system.

Re:Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement on Sunday June 30, 2024 @08:26PM (#40841557)
I recently watched these 3 episodes of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Highly recommended.

Opioids III: The Sacklers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCaIhfETsM)

Opioids II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qCKR6wy94U)

Opioids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o)

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:06PM (#36606303)
http://www.rockoder.com/ Few tech blogs, some opinions, some suggestions.

Sample: https://www.rockoder.com/2020/04/26/passformula/ (Passformula: Create Complex, Unique Passwords and Remember Them All)

Re:How Did the Chess Pieces Get Their Names? on Sunday April 23, 2023 @05:41AM (#35674792)
> While it may seem logical that the king has a queen by his side, that’s not how things started out. In the Indian original, this piece was the king’s “counselor” (mantri in Sanskrit). The Arabs used wazir (“vizier,” i.e., the ruler’s minister/secretary), which was Latinized to farzia, which became the French vierge (“virgin”).

Just the other day I was wondering what a stupid name for the Queen's piece. Not at all logical. It's battlefield and not wedding/ceremony for queen to be by-his-side. Vazir is popular piece name in India as well.

Re:Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2023? on Sunday December 25, 2022 @07:47AM (#34126785)
- The one who was laid off/fired will form a to-be-billon-dollar company.

- Suddenly there will be high quality, eloquent and verbose written form of English everywhere (emails, books, movie scripts, blogs, news, poems, school/college essays).

- Climate change protests turns fatal.

- Twitter will be on the path to profitability (don't know what it will have to pay for it though).

Re:Ask HN: An advice that changed your life? on Saturday October 29, 2022 @12:33PM (#33385600)
- Compare yourself with your previous version and not with others. (Taught in school to us to not compare grades with other students but with yourself. This stuck with me for life.)

- Knowledge is not power. Knowledge is potential of power. (Brought me out of the false sense of comfort that reading book or completing course/training will automatically benefit me or is progress towards actual work. You need to apply the knowledge else it is useless.)

- You don't have to complete the book you are currently reading. (First heard from Naval)

- Arrange documents alphabetically and cross reference if required. Any other system will fall apart.(From GTD)

Re:Hyundai suspending two US suppliers because of child labor on Saturday October 22, 2022 @01:49PM (#33300427)
Reminds me of this: https://twitter.com/chaitex/status/1583118970089263104
Re:Ask HN: How to Learn to Sell? on Sunday October 16, 2022 @01:31PM (#33225440)
No substitute to getting out and actually doing the sell but this book will get you tons of ammunition to make your offer bullet proof. Don't go by the title. It has very actionable advise:

$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No

https://www.amazon.com/100M-Offers-People-Stupid-Saying-eboo...

Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS on Sunday October 16, 2022 @09:11AM (#33223348)
It doesn't scale. Also we intuitively identify a tab by its location in our browser. Opening a different window and then locating that tab there is slow.
Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS on Sunday October 16, 2022 @09:01AM (#33223283)
After few dozen tabs the tab width becomes so small that it is difficult to click on them or figure out which tab is which. Multiline helps in maintaining the tab width.
Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS on Sunday October 16, 2022 @08:58AM (#33223260)
I finally got time to try https://github.com/onemen/TabMixPlus and it worked! Thank you for the suggestion.
Re:Apple bought out all of Newsweek's 1984 Election issue ad space for... on Sunday October 16, 2022 @05:53AM (#33222446)
User manual turned into ad. Amazing.
Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS on Monday October 10, 2022 @05:34PM (#33156658)
I have pretty much used all possible Firefox addons for this.

No it is not fine. Using vertical tab navigation was painful and slowed me down.

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