<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: Grosvenor</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Grosvenor</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:53:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Grosvenor" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Three constraints before I build anything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>HTML 4.0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:19:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917373</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you value people who learnt to code in the 80's, 90's or 2000's today?<p>Will new developers know/understand what they don't know, or will the new state of things simply become normalized?</p>
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<p>Yes, if the SEC decides to they can trace it back to specific orders.<p>Will the SEC decide to?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:43:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812708</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Ask HN: What's your favourite business oriented movie?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Margin Call.<p>It's about a company that makes sausage that discovers their  meat supply is full of sawdust and rat feces. They decide to sell off all their inventory, and crash the market, before their competitors do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:50:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47782653</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47782653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47782653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sparse distributed memory is what you’re looking for.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_distributed_memory" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_distributed_memory</a></p>
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<p>Apple already experimented with this with the prototype Jonathan computer.
It's very late 80's in its aesthetic, and I love it.<p><a href="https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept/" rel="nofollow">https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:52:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617791</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks. My accountant doesn't like it, but I'm pretty content with my choices.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:49:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616902</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>206 points by whoishiring 11 hours ago | unvote | flag | hide | past | favorite | 169 comments<p>Is HN run on eventual consistency? My numbers don't match yours.</p>
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<p>So Pascal and Delphi are coming back? I'm actually cool with that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:14:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609237</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SEEKING WORK | Data Scientist / Consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide<p>I'm a data scientist with over 20 years of experience specializing in solving hair on fire problems.
I thrive on gnarly problems AI can't complete even if walked through the problem step-by-step. Often it involves getting hands on or talking with staff to find the data that's really needed.<p>My past work includes:<p><pre><code>   - Saving a German automaker from lemon law recalls.
   - Helping a major cloud vendor predict server failures to enable load shedding.
   - Real-time on demand routing logistics work .
   - Airline flight delay forecasting.
   - Oil & Gas forecasting.
   - Shipping piracy risk.
   - Wound identification and classification.
   - Revenue optimization, persona identification and dynamic "risk-on/risk-off" risk management for ARM.

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I'm currently working on (semi) automating the DS loop, building workflows on top of BMAD method AI workflows. I say semi, because some problems you simply must get out of the office and speak with people or find data the AI doesn't have access to. Many problems will have e2e solves in an automated fashion.<p>Things I'm unwilling to work on:<p><pre><code>   - Gambling.
   - Ads/Surveillance.
   - Payday loans/rent-to-own.
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Get in touch if you have a really difficult problem you're trying to solve. Email in profile.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:31:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603919</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SEEKING WORK | Data Scientist / Consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide<p>I'm a data scientist with over 20 years of experience specializing in consulting and fractional leadership. I do the data science
that AI's can't do. I thrive on gnarly problems where standard off-the-shelf solutions fall short, and recently where Ai just can't complete the task even if walked through the problem.  My track record includes saving a German automaker from lemon law recalls and helping a major cloud vendor predict server failures to enable load shedding.<p>I've tackled a wide range of challenges across various industries, including oil reservoir and well engineering forecasting, automotive part failure prediction, and shipping piracy risk to route ships away from danger. My technical work extends to realtime routing (CVRP-PD-TW) for on-demand delivery, legal entity and contract term extraction, and wound identification with tissue classification. I also work with the current wave of LLMs and agents, and make them do magic.<p>I've worked with the standard stacks you’d expect: Python, PyTorch, Spark/Ray, AWS, Agentic engineering, etc. But I believe the solution must be driven by the problem, not the tools. I bring years of experience helping companies plan, prototype, and productionize sane data science solutions.<p>Please reach out if you have a difficult problem to solve. I do love stuff in physical meat-space.<p>NB: Please do not contact me if you are working on ads, gambling, or "enshittification". I prefer to sleep at night.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:37:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221225</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You have two distinct products 1) An interpreter 2) a math language.
Don't write your math in some funny imperative computer language.<p>Keep the interpreters surface area as small as possible. Do some work to make sure you can accelerate numeric, and JIT/compile functions down to something as close to native as you can.<p>Wolfram, and Taliesin Beynon have both said Wolfram were working internally to get a JIT working in the interpreter loop. Keep the core small, and do that now while it's easy.<p>Also, it's just easier to write in Mathematica. It's probably 10x smaller than the rust code:<p><pre><code>    f[x_Integer]:=13*x;
    f::help:="Multiplies x by 13, in case you needed an easy function for that."
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EDIT: Another important thing to note is the people who really deeply know specific subjects in math won't be the best, or even good rust programmers. So letting them program in woxilang will give the an opportunity to contribute which they wouldn't have had otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:41:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199336</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My Bona fides: I've written my own Mathematica clone at least twice, maybe three times. Each time I get it parsing expressions and doing basic math, getting to basic calculus. Then I look up the sheer cliff face in front of me and think better of the whole thing.<p>There is an architectural flaw in Woxi that will sink it hard. Looking through the codebase things like polynomials are implemented in the rust code, not in  woxilang. This will kill you long term.<p>The right approach is to have a tiny core interpreter, maybe go to JIT at some point if you can figure that out. Then implement all the functionality in woxilang itself. That means addition and subtraction, calculus, etc are term rewriting rules written in woxilang, not rust code.<p>This frees you up in the interpreter. Any improvements you make there will immediately show up over the entire language. It's also a better language to implement symbolic math in than rust.<p>It also means contributors only need to know one language: woxilang.
No need to split between rust and woxilang.</p>
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<p>Can you give me your recruiters number?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:25:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173703</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Hetzner outage - UDP forwarding affected"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They sent out an email about raising their prices earlier today. 
Perhaps it was everyone running for the doors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:15:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157961</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "I’m joining OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>and a sausage fest.<p>Edit: picture is from a Vienna meet up. Not OpenAI.</p>
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<p>Nah. You seem like a crumpet man.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:30:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990824</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I heard back from them when I reached out to them in the past. 
We weren't the right fit, but Sam was professional and communicated well.<p>They're probably just busy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:07:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970267</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would have loved to have that paper when I was learning 3D and OpenGL.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:21:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954079</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Not a problem for me, but every SGI out there is fixed function only.<p>Is that true? I remember sgi had a shader library for modeling light aimed at the automotive market.
All the demos and examples were showing off car paint colours in different environments.</p>
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