Hacker News: TheGrassyKnoll

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

TheGrassyKnoll — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:02:38 +0000

The shovel sellers are ringing the cash register.

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "Ted Turner has died"

TheGrassyKnoll — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:12:33 +0000

Our illustrious president doesn't want any bison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/politics/trump-buffalo...

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

TheGrassyKnoll — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:12:22 +0000

Some say the LA aqueduct saved Owens Valley from development. (I’m sure the old timers out there would have a different opinion)

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video]"

TheGrassyKnoll — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:28:50 +0000

If an AI model thinks it's alive, isn't it just another hallucination ?

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "Proof of Corn"

TheGrassyKnoll — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:55:46 +0000

> "...a vastly understated feature of AI: It makes people confident."

  Good point. AI is already making regular Joes into software engineers.

Management is so confident in this, they are axing developers/not hiring new ones.

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe"

TheGrassyKnoll — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:01:24 +0000

Reminds me of the Starboard/Larboard nautical terminology. That must have created many disasters over the years. It took the British navy hundreds of years to rectify that one.

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "Boltzmann brain"

TheGrassyKnoll — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:46:38 +0000

Eternity is a LOT of time...

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "Ask HN: Next best to incorporate other than Delaware?"

TheGrassyKnoll — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 18:54:19 +0000

It was significantly larger than a mere $billion. That's pocket change for Elon.

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "History of rat control in Alberta"

TheGrassyKnoll — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 04:43:06 +0000

It was probably poisoned & couldn't give a damn about anything else.

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "Resolving a mysterious problem with find"

TheGrassyKnoll — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:03:41 +0000

I recommend giving ripgrep a try. (it's been around awhile now) https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "A life that added up to something (Obituary of Paul Erdòs)"

TheGrassyKnoll — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 03:41:40 +0000

N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös (1993)

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125425/

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "Emacs Speaks Statistics"

TheGrassyKnoll — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:53:51 +0000

Lol. Geez, we gotta do something about key sequences getting 'molested'...

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory"

TheGrassyKnoll — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 20:35:44 +0000

Don't forget the OPM hack (2015)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "The story in pictures of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, 1945-1947"

TheGrassyKnoll — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 19:24:18 +0000

Hoover Dam 1931-1936 $49 million

Golden Gate Bridge 1933-1937 $35 million

Spruce Goose 1942-1947 $23 million

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "Gordon Moore has died"

TheGrassyKnoll — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 21:26:07 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Fosbury

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout"

TheGrassyKnoll — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 21:36:40 +0000

Mike Tyson, the epitome of sound fiscal management. ($300 million lifetime earnings, had to declare bankruptcy)

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "🥺: the best sudo replacement"

TheGrassyKnoll — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:13:12 +0000

I had to:

  $sudo apt-get install -y systemd-container

to get machinectl

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "Notes against note-taking systems"

TheGrassyKnoll — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 04:22:50 +0000

I've got an 80,000 line text file full of notes (probably half blank lines). Would never work without the Emacs 'occur' command.

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "Ask HN: In what ways is programming more difficult today than it was years ago?"

TheGrassyKnoll — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 23:30:29 +0000

Turbo Pascal was a GREAT tool; it was like a breath of fresh air. It was 'fast' even on an 8086.

New comment by TheGrassyKnoll in "Why Rust strings seem hard"

TheGrassyKnoll — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 01:21:29 +0000

COW == Copy on Write

  Its interesting that certain file systems use COW schemes:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs