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New comment by MattGrommes in "Nebula Sans"

MattGrommes — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:27:27 +0000

I would absolutely love to subscribe to Nebula but they don't have an Xbox app which is where I watch almost all my TV/Youtube/streaming. I hope they have the resources to do it at some point.

New comment by MattGrommes in "Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown"

MattGrommes — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:16:58 +0000

Beyond the fact that there's absolutely no reason for you to post this, I'm not sure what you're looking at. I'm not a pro but I've been building sheds and things for decades and based on the pictures here I don't see low quality. Maybe I'd put more joists in the roof but Portland doesn't get a ton of snow so I'm sure it's fine. $2k is a fine price for that slab, especially compared to the pain of lifting 80lb bags of concrete yourself all day. People shouldn't be afraid of spending the money on a pro if they've got the money to spend.

Maybe he could have saved a few thousand with different subs (maybe) but your comments are nonsensical. I see tons of janky builds people post on Reddit and this is not one of them. You should spend your commenting time over there.

New comment by MattGrommes in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

MattGrommes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:23:22 +0000

Something in my work's SSO / auth mechanism does this and if you click No it silently screws up the internal website you're visiting. It doesn't block you from logging in, just parts of the site don't load/work. I haven't been able to get a good answer on what the heck is going on but it's extremely annoying.

New comment by MattGrommes in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

MattGrommes — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:24:53 +0000

I've definitely seen this. One of my least favorite parts of developing with AI is when I add print statements or small changes and the LLM removes them in the process of doing the next thing. I want to work _with_ the AI, not have it stomp all over my code.

New comment by MattGrommes in "Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles"

MattGrommes — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:28:10 +0000

They send over-the-air updates all the time. If they project that it'll be profitable, they'll switch everybody over as soon as you can say the words.

New comment by MattGrommes in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

MattGrommes — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:02:10 +0000

When you're headed into retirement, one possibility is to shift to saving more in cash-like options instead of a 401k (or whatever). It's should just be part of your retirement plan to account for possibilities like this.

New comment by MattGrommes in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

MattGrommes — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:09:29 +0000

One of the big issues with this is sequence of returns risk. If you retire and rely on your portfolio but the market dives for a year or two right after you leave the workforce, your total portfolio value is screwed because you were selling at a low point.

New comment by MattGrommes in "Which streaming service was that on again?"

MattGrommes — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:14:49 +0000

Justwatch for me is just showing "Stream this or pirate it?"

New comment by MattGrommes in "Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)"

MattGrommes — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:01:26 +0000

I'm genuinely curious about even a hypothetical more detailed example of how some group would go about preserving a problem like homelessness, even unintentionally. I can't wrap my mind about how it would actually happen beyond simplistic sayings.

I live in Portland, OR where we have a large homeless problem and I continually hear that the groups being given money to help are incentivized to keep homelessness high for their own purposes. Like, obviously people who are paid like to keep getting paid but how would they go about making this happen when their job is the opposite?

New comment by MattGrommes in "Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web"

MattGrommes — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:15:20 +0000

This is the big thing for me as well. Just having a source for code to show me how to do certain things was absolutely huge. I don't think I even used his code as-is hardly at all. It was part of the View Source way a lot of us learned to code.

New comment by MattGrommes in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

MattGrommes — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:04:49 +0000

> It's so weird. I don't know what it is about AI that causes people to throw all thought and caution to the wind and charge forward blind.

My favorite theory about this is that we're all used to "speech == intelligence" and now that we have something that can produce coherent speech, it seems like it must be intelligent to people who don't know how it works. Even people who know how it works still anthropomorphize it to a weird degree. So a business person sees this thing that's both intelligent (to them) and superhumanly fast and it seems like the ultimate silver bullet.

New comment by MattGrommes in "Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs"

MattGrommes — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:43:50 +0000

The real difficulty is deciding what caring means. Some people decide caring means getting onto your adult child's job interview call because you think they need help. For others, caring means giving them a safety net but letting them learn and possibly fail on their own.

The 24-year-old AI Wiz who counts Jane Street as an investor

MattGrommes — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:07:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-24-year-old-ai-wiz-who-counts-jane-street-as-an-investor/ar-AA256QfS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468444

Points: 2

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New comment by MattGrommes in "French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56"

MattGrommes — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:51:27 +0000

That's always a possibility but I've seen my Grandpa die of a broken heart after my Grandma died. The night of her funeral he asked his children if they thought someone could die of a broken heart and after that it took him less than a year to go himself. I'd never considered that saying to be true until then but I watched it happen.

New comment by MattGrommes in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

MattGrommes — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:30:22 +0000

I've always thought we should get rid of grades altogether. There should be curricula that builds upward but if a kid masters 4th grade math, they should move on up right then, not wait for half a year to join 5th grade or have to retake 4th grade. Obviously there are operational challenges with this but it's got to be better than having bored advanced kids, the shame of being "left behind", etc. The kid with dyscalculia should be able to move at their own pace.

New comment by MattGrommes in "The worst job interview I ever had"

MattGrommes — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:22:46 +0000

> Ha, I don't think anyone who asks these questions expects that you'll respond in a fully unfiltered way.

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. :)

New comment by MattGrommes in "Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens"

MattGrommes — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:26:36 +0000

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.

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.

New comment by MattGrommes in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

MattGrommes — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:32:40 +0000

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.

Seems like there might be a good lesson in there.

New comment by MattGrommes in "Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing"

MattGrommes — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:03:31 +0000

I've been waiting for a Global from Earth Final Conflict for nearly 2 decades.

https://community.ultimaker.com/topic/15743-global-link-prop...

New comment by MattGrommes in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

MattGrommes — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:48:22 +0000

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.

I'm not sure some people understand how "normal" racism is.