Hacker News: cgh

New comment by cgh in "Sarah's Wager"

cgh — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:22:54 +0000

I recall reading similar articles in 1998.

New comment by cgh in "Grok Build is open source"

cgh — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:54:25 +0000

He’s a fast-talking dingbat.

New comment by cgh in "Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church"

cgh — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:09:22 +0000

Any well-travelled guy is familiar with women who ask them to pretend to be married to allow them to escape constant, occasionally dangerous male pestering. In Turkey, I even met a woman who carried fake wedding bands for this purpose. We hung out for a few days as a “married” couple so she could get relief from the constant harassment.

New comment by cgh in "Resetting Xbox"

cgh — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:52:30 +0000

Elden Ring sold 30 million copies. Even Bloodborne, a PS4 exclusive, sold over 9 million copies.

New comment by cgh in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

cgh — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:32:42 +0000

This is the founder: https://xonaly.com/about-the-founder/

I guess he’s psyched about being Canadian? Anyway, nothing about funding. The privacy-first stance is certainly welcome.

New comment by cgh in "The case for physical media ownership"

cgh — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:52:23 +0000

Maybe not mentioned in the comments, but it gets a full entry in the article.

New comment by cgh in "The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring"

cgh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:45:12 +0000

Yeah, I’ve been playing these games since DS1 (currently on my umpteenth DS3 run as I recover from surgery). The quests never fail to make me laugh.

New comment by cgh in "The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring"

cgh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:09:11 +0000

Perhaps this explains why Fromsoft npc quests are easily the most inscrutable in all of gaming. Like, okay Hyetta, have another “grape”, aka eyeball, oh now you’ve moved to the bridge in Liurnia, cool. I’ve exhausted your dialogue but you’re stuck. Oh I have to reload the area and exhaust it again to advance your quest. Okay, cool. Now you’re in a random church and you want a “fingerprint grape”. What?

It’s all part of the Fromsoft experience but man, who writes these things?

New comment by cgh in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

cgh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:37:46 +0000

The phrase “financial nihilism” is explicitly mentioned and discussed in the article.

New comment by cgh in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

cgh — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:08:52 +0000

“Paints the back of the cabinet” is a great analogy. LLM-driven production is so far away from this mindset.

New comment by cgh in "Fox to buy Roku"

cgh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:18:22 +0000

We use a PlayStation 5. It has all the streaming service apps you’d expect, including YouTube, and the UX is great.

New comment by cgh in "The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair"

cgh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:01:37 +0000

Unpopular opinion I imagine, but this is an awesomely Bureau of Sabotage thing to do. Jorj X. McKie would approve.

New comment by cgh in "Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?"

cgh — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:29:33 +0000

These guys are run by Bloomtech, one of those scammy coding bootcamp things.

New comment by cgh in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

cgh — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:24:17 +0000

I’ve long thought frontend web developers are the ones most threatened by LLM-assisted programming for a bunch of reasons and now I can add “many don’t understand web fundamentals” to the list.

New comment by cgh in "Zig by Example"

cgh — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:10:46 +0000

That guy’s entire post and submission history appears to be listicles and slop.

New comment by cgh in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

cgh — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:31:03 +0000

“It’s different this time”

New comment by cgh in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

cgh — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:10:20 +0000

> even living in a country with far better healthcare.

FYI I’m not American. Your medical misogyny comment is dead on, in my opinion. This sort of thing can happen anywhere.

New comment by cgh in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

cgh — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:05:44 +0000

My wife has a cardiac autoimmune disease that was similarly misdiagnosed (including an appalling “it’s all in your head” from her family MD at the time). We underwent a year of immense stress. Just days before her probable death, she had a pacemaker and defibrillator installed, which saved her life.

I’m not entirely sure why I’m mentioning this, other than I sympathize deeply with your wife. What an absolute ordeal.

New comment by cgh in "The dead economy theory"

cgh — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:40:16 +0000

I suppose Neuromancer/Count Zero/Mona Lisa Overdrive are a good start.

New comment by cgh in "Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

cgh — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:24:19 +0000

Re fertilizer, it’s already happening. Potash exports from Canada, the world’s largest producer, have surged. In another US own goal, I believe potash demand will offer serious Canadian leverage in CUSMA negotiations.