<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: MattGrommes</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MattGrommes</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:14:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=MattGrommes" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "The worst job interview I ever had"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Ha, I don't think anyone who asks these questions expects that you'll respond in a fully unfiltered way.<p>Cut to the interviewer telling his friends about the weirdest interview he ever conducted, with a guy who unloaded all his life issues on him instead of focusing on work. :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 18:22:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298315</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298315</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The point of that comment is not that the talking is happening, it's that the hope of action isn't going to be blocked by industry-captured and plain moronic countries like Saudia Arabia and US, respectively.<p>Even if these countries are a smaller part of the climate affecting processes, any forward motion is good at this point. They can also help build economies of scale, and take advantage of the myriad economic benefits of renewables that other countries are leaving on the table.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:26:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039763</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039763</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The specific decline in happiness in English speaking countries is very interesting. My first guess is that non-English speakers have to use their own news sources and don't fall prey to the same doom and gloom, everything is terrible, "news" sources on cable and the internet.<p>Seems like there might be a good lesson in there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:32:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878681</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been waiting for a Global from Earth Final Conflict for nearly 2 decades.<p><a href="https://community.ultimaker.com/topic/15743-global-link-prop-reproduction-from-earth-final-conflict/" rel="nofollow">https://community.ultimaker.com/topic/15743-global-link-prop...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:03:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696856</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would you think Occam's Razor would not determine that racism is the reason? It's just as simple of an explanation as anxiety.<p>I'm not sure some people understand how "normal" racism is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:48:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681169</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681169</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been increasingly confident in my thought that these VCs and tech leaders are basically people who used other people's money to pull the arm on a hundred slot machines.<p>After they win a few times they start to think they're experts at slot machines, not just lucky.<p>Over time, they start to think they're also experts at other things, and because they have money people start to listen to them.<p>Unfortunately they just keep proving me right on this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:09:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629977</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's silly to say there's no innovation here. These aren't legos that you just snap together. I'm sure there are innovations up and down the whole thing, using the old technology they have easily available to them.<p>No, it's not the most modern Rocket Lab or SpaceX project but they have immense drag on their process that those companies don't have and they still got the dang thing up and headed toward the moon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:13:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608390</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "'Five Nights at Epstein's' Game Goes Viral at US School Campuses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="http://archive.today/CzUzB" rel="nofollow">http://archive.today/CzUzB</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:37:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534701</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534701</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Five Nights at Epstein's' Game Goes Viral at US School Campuses]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/-five-nights-at-epstein-s-game-goes-viral-at-us-school-campuses">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/-five-nights-at-epstein-s-game-goes-viral-at-us-school-campuses</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534698">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534698</a></p>
<p>Points: 8</p>
<p># Comments: 4</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:37:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/-five-nights-at-epstein-s-game-goes-viral-at-us-school-campuses</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If only somebody had a lifehack for making me remember all these awesome commands.<p>If I do something the slow way it's usually because I don't do the operation enough to burn it into my memory, or I got burned by accidentally hitting something close but incorrect once and closed the tab or something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:46:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534172</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534172</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "What came after the 486?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'll always have a fond spot in my heart for my cheap Cyrix CPU. Once I was near finishing an important project in the middle of the night and my CPU fan died. The cyrix chip would overheat in no time and shut down so I ended up filling a coffee mug with ice and jamming it up against the chip, giving me more precious minutes before it got hot enough to shut down again. I would swap out the ice in the mug and give it another go. I got that project done. :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:11:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533821</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In a world where copyright only lasts 10 years, what happens to the musician whose song from 20 years ago is used in a movie and becomes super popular? Do they get royalties or are there no royalties involved?<p>I want a system that doesn't syphon money to the corporations over the individual creator and the corporations can't tell me I can't use the song.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:38:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521408</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This isn't really on you but the problem I have with comments like this is that I think most people write poorly so I can't tell if those are LLM artifacts or LinkedIn-speak artifacts. I need better heuristics for these things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:21:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507743</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Look at the history of art. Lots of people used the same paint that had always been used and the same brushes, and came up with wildly different uses for those tools. Until there are literally no people involved, we'll always be using the tools in new ways.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:55:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493639</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just watched this great mini-documentary about a local landline system in Bellingham WA. Well worth a couple of minutes.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/UhVi3smmvTs?si=ow6zw_xTKo22WpLZ" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/UhVi3smmvTs?si=ow6zw_xTKo22WpLZ</a><p>People can call each other but also businesses have 4-digit phone numbers that are shortened versions of the business name, like GUIT for the guitar shop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:32:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493373</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: New idea for automatically teaching your agent new skills]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi everybody. I came up with something I think is new and could be helpful around LLM agent skills.<p>The project is called Skillstore: <a href="https://github.com/mattgrommes/skillstore" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mattgrommes/skillstore</a><p>It's an idea for a standardized way of getting skills and providing skills to operate on websites.<p>There's a core Skillstore skill that teaches your agent to access a /skillstore API endpoint provided by a website. This endpoint gives your agent a list of skills which it can then download to do tasks on the site. The example skills call an API but also provide contact info or anything you can think of that you want to show an agent how to do.<p>There are more details and a small example endpoint that just shows the responses in the repo.<p>Like I said, it's a new idea and something that I think could be useful. My test cases have made me very excited and I'm going to be building it into websites I build from here on. It definitely needs more thinking about though and more use cases to play with. I'd love to hear what you think.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407982">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407982</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:48:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407982</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probable Futures: What futures can humanity still hope for?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://probablefutures.org/perspective/directors-letter-2026-the-long-work-ahead/">https://probablefutures.org/perspective/directors-letter-2026-the-long-work-ahead/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342826">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342826</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:08:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://probablefutures.org/perspective/directors-letter-2026-the-long-work-ahead/</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm also seeing companies looking at only hiring juniors from overseas because they're using the same generative tools as US-based juniors but cost even less.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:28:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283414</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A related book I've been thinking about in terms of LLMs is "Working Effectively With Legacy Code". I'd love to be able to work a lot of that advice into some kind of Skill or customized agent to help with big refactors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:15:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254715</link><dc:creator>MattGrommes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MattGrommes in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's already BMAD - Breakthrough Method of Agile Agent Driven Development<p>Basically, it's Waterfall for Agents. Lots of Capitalized Words to signify something.<p>Also they constantly call it the BMAD Method, even though the M already stands for method.</p>
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