<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>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:56:10 +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 "NixOS on a Cadillac Lyriq"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>This</i> is hacker news.<p>Good work.</p>
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SEEKING CONTRACT WORK | Forward Deployed Data scientist | Canada/Remote Worldwide<p>Forward-deployed data scientist. 15+ years shipping ML inside messy, regulated environments - automotive, mineral rights, health care, maritime security, logistics. I go on-site (or virtually), dig up the data nobody mapped, figure out what the right question is, then build and deploy. Part Archeologist, part anthropologist, and part data scientist.<p>What I've done:<p><pre><code>   - Deployed an AI validation pipeline for BIM/CAD against 400-page ESG standards, cutting review from days to minutes.
   - Built and integrated a part-failure prediction system into a German automaker's production workflow, avoiding lemon law recalls ($20M+ exposure)
   - Oil & gas well and lease production forecasting. 
   - Stood up real-time emissions detection on industrial smokestacks, preventing $75K-per-incident fines
   - Revenue optimization and persona identification for debt collections (15-20% net revenue lift)
   - Built an LLM-based legal document extraction system (land runsheets), collapsing 3-day DD cycles to 30 minutes.
   - Built vessel piracy risk engine that informed naval escort deployment, contributing to fewer hijackings.
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Things I won't work on:<p><pre><code>   - Gambling.
   - Ads/Surveillance.
   - Payday loans/rent-to-own.
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Email me (in bio) with a short description of your problem. I'll reply promptly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:40:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525227</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reminds me of William Gibson's "Burning Chrome", where the head of a syndicate is a Russian AI (Chrome) running things behind a smuggling front. Gibson basically predicted the AI CEO forty years early!<p>A warning: Don't burn Chrome.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:28:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49459705</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49459705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49459705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why bring the constitution in line with Estonia's? What's special about them?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:25:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49403525</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49403525</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49403525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Go build something in the wine import / distribution business. You have the domain knowledge no programmer or ai will.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:02:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288859</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288859</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  Imagine a cartridge with a physical model on it.<p>I can finally have my own Dixie flatline. Cool.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:42:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202994</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202994</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Taste Is All That's Left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:45:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201442</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201442</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Discovery Loop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it was a Neal Stephenson quote from cryptobimicon.<p>It certainly increases shareholder value.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:22:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188461</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188461</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry for the late reply.<p>Email in profile.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:31:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886782</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886782</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm learning to break 4-rotor Enigma encrypts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:04:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886624</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886624</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48886624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "FAANG Simulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Heavy drug wars vibe. I love it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:28:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838218</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My hypothesis is markets are fractally efficient and fractally competitive. Much like a strange attractor, they swing between states of efficiency and competitiveness.<p>The default regime is instability. Computational capacity is unstable through time, and the problem size itself changes (fractally) through time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:34:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781257</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SEEKING WORK | Data scientist consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide<p>Most of what people call "data science" is now doable with an LLM and a weekend. I focus on the messy, ambiguous, regulation-heavy gnarly problems where nobody is sure what the right question is.  Often it involves getting hands on to find the data and signal  that's really needed.<p>What I've done:<p><pre><code>   - AI verification of building and architectural BIM/CAD against 400 page ESG standards. (Days of work down to minutes)
   - Part failure prediciton, saving a German automaker from lemon law recalls. ($20M+ exposure avoided)
   - Oil & gas well and lease production forecasting. 
   - Real-time emissions detection for industrial smokestacks. ($75K fines per incident prevented)
   - Revenue optimization and persona identification for debt collections (15-20% net revenue lift)
   - LLM-based legal document extraction (land runsheet), reducing due diligence turnaround from 3 days to 30 minutes
   - Built vessel piracy risk engine that informed naval escort deployment, contributing to fewer hijackings
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Things I'm unwilling to work on:<p><pre><code>   - Gambling.
   - Ads/Surveillance.
   - Payday loans/rent-to-own.
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Email me with a short description of your problem. If it's hard enough, I'll reply within 24 hours.</p>
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<p>A major plot point in the Red Dwarf books is about Coca-Cola sending a fleet of space ships out to blow up stars so they can spell "Enjoy Coca-Cola" in the sky.<p>One of those ships crashes and the boys from the Dwarf find the service mechanoid, which is how they get Kryten.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:55:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722665</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "The case for physical media ownership"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Microsoft did this with its "Playsforsure" program.<p>Naturally it got shut down and your media no longer plays.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:33:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701501</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Ask HN: If we could remake Linux in 2026, what would you change?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Microkernel, and hard RT scheduler from the start.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:05:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692574</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How could I forget this! He also recommended the name.<p>Wolfram had come up with some normal techie names "computron", "math-o-matic" or whatever. SJ said No those suck, use something simple like Mathematica.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:23:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573590</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Steve Jobs and Stephen Wolfram were friends for years. Mathematica shipped preinstalled on early NeXT systems.<p>SJ recommended some of the UI bits of the notebook. Particularly the separators between cells.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:17:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564969</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm using AI to de-compile NeXTStep applications back to Objective-C source code.<p>The idea is decompile something like Wordperfect or Framemaker, then port the NeXTStep code to GNUStep and have WP on GNUStep/Linux.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:08:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530570</link><dc:creator>Grosvenor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Grosvenor in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fuuck. Did Spud use vim?<p>We know Sick Boy (Zero Cool) would be an emacs user.</p>
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